Real Revolution — Page 10
• 10. Revolution. " This is what is meant by Inqilab, which implies, in the case of the Indian National Congress politics, that the difference between this political organisation and the Government of India is so basic, and so acute, that for the Congress there can be no question of any compromise; that the Congress needs must break the present system of government and create a new one, along original lines of its own. . It has, however, to be mentioned in passing that the claim of the Congress to a policy of Revolution is only an empty claim, since, for all practical purposes, this political body seems to have come to a satisfactory arrangement with the Government, for it has accepted office in many provinces, and revolutionary slogans are now uttere l as little more than a parrot cry. (The subsequent course of events too has belied the Congress claim to be a Revolutionary movement for it has so far made no radical change in the system of government. All that it has done is to change the personnel controlling the administration; the machinery of government has been left entirely intact. ). A Revolution, in any case, means that an existing system will no longer be acceptable even if certain adjustments were made in it: that it will have to be totally thrown aside, broken to pieces and destroyed, and a new order created to take its place. . Some other Names for a Revolution. When a Revolution occurs in religious sphere, in. Islamic terminology it is called Qiyamah(). Another