Maia Ramnath - Decolonizing Anarchism.pdf - Libcom

Echoes and Intersections I 53
challenged, must crumble away. If Indians would conquer
their own fear and take initiative, victory and liberation
would be easy.
What we want now is a number of men who will
take the lead in giving a push and thus encourage
the masses and infuse hope in the minds of those
who are almost dead with fear and dread .... They
must be shown by deeds done before their eyes that
the work is not impossible exactly to the extent that
they think it to be. 11
Hence, the Yugantar strengthened the perception
of anarchism by its emphasis on taking a complete
antigovernment stance, as opposed to collaboration or
participation of any kind. Bande Matararn too came under
frequent attack for its "seditious" content as well as
plain "intention of bringing the Government into hatred
and contempt."I2 This was a misreading, though, of such
statements as this one:
[Indian secretary of state] Mr. Morley has said
that we (Indians 1 cannot work the machinery
of our Government for a week if England generously
walks out of our country ....(But 1 did it not
strike Mr. Morley that i£ instead of walking out
the English were by force driven out of India, the
Government will go on perhaps better than before,
for the simple reason that the exercise of power and
organisation necessary to drive out so organised an