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52 I Ramnath
The text listed three ways to obtain arms:
1. By preparing weapons silently in some secret place.
In this way, the Russian nihilists prepare the bombs.
Indians will be sent to fo reign countries to learn the
art of making weapons. On their return to India they
will manufacture cannon, guns, etc., with the help of
enthusiastic youths.
2. By importing weapons of all kinds from foreign
countries.
3. Through the assistance of native soldiers.
In August 1907, the Yugantar suggested that "much
work can be done by the revolutionists very cautiously
spreading the gospel of independence among the native
troops:' thereby at once gaining both weapons and mutineers.
The textbook assured the revolutionist that soldiers
too were human beings, despite their role as mercenaries
to a tyrant, and would therefore surely join their arms with
the revolution once the situation was fully explained to
them by "the clever Bengali."
The Yugantar often published on the justification
and need for violence in resisting the systemic violence of
colonial oppression. In other words, it was not the revolutionists
who had introduced force into the dialogue. "The
laws of the English are based on brute force. If we want
to liberate ourselves from those laws, it is brute force that
is necessary .... There is no other door of admission into
life but death."lo An article headed "Away with Fear" declared
that British supremacy was an illusion, which if once