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Echoes and Intersections I 83
Dayal began systematically to articulate the principles of
"Hardayalism," a program for change based on the idea of
three successive stages through which "an enslaved people
must pass ... before it can again establish itself as a member
of the community of nations": education, revolution, and
reconstruction (shorthanded in the phrase "after Mazzini,
Garibaldi; after Garibaldi, Cavour;' alluding to key figures
in the Italian unification). The first was "moral and intellectual
preparation. During this period the workers must
elevate the character of the people and instruct them in the
principles that govern an efficient social organization." The
people must be purged of all cowardice, selfishness, and
greed; "the spirit of the slave must disappear before slavery
can be ended." He continued, "The second stage is that of
war. The way must be declared for the establishment of a
free and sovereign state managed by the people. The debris
of the old regime must be removed. And the only agent
that can accomplish this work is the sword. No subject nation
can bring freedom without war ... with its alien rulers."
And finally, ''After the war the work of reconstruction
and consolidation commences."10 It's clear that he was still
thinking in classically nationalist terms. Ye t even here he
was starting to suggest that not just a transfer of political
power but also a comprehensive social, psychological, and
cultural transformation was the goal.
Less than a year later, in July 1910, Har Dayal decided
to leave Paris. He tapered offhis writing fo r the Bande
Ma taram, ceasing after 1911. Various writers have speculated
about his motivations: despair at Savarkar's arrest
perhaps, mingled with general philosophical/political