The autobiography of an unknown Indian by Chaudhuri, Nirad C

the memory of the British empire in India which conferred subjecthood
To
us but withheld citizenship; to which yet every one of us threw out the
on
“Civis Britannicus Sum” because all that was good and living
challenge:
us was made, shaped, and quickened by the same British rule
within

“Here lies the happy man who was an islet of sensibility surrounded by the
cool sense of his wife, friends, and children.”

Here shill he see
“
enemy “No
“But winter and rough weather”

introduce any goodness of their own to correct its badness; that is to
they
until a new movement of equal power and greatness bursts on them,
say,
folk remain in possession of the good of the movement of which
common
are the products together with its defects. Our existence, too, in that
they
and semi-primitive corner of the modern world bore all the
secluded
of its origins.
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