Real Revolution — Page 14
14 etc. , but the Babylonian influence was never completely destroyed. . What is called the Western type of culture now stands dominant in the world everywhere. Asia and Africa are trying hard to throw off its yoke, while the two Americas made a similar effort earlier and succeeded to a large extent. Japan on one side of Asia and Turkey on the other are two more countries which have become independent. But when we come to study the present state of their political institutions and their machinery of administration, we find that only the personnel of government has changed-nothing more. In fact the Turks and the Japanese, since independence, have become all the more enamoured of Western culture. . India is very restless for freedom these days. . Its youngmen are carrying their lives on the plams of their brands, fully determined to liberate their country. But their struggle amounts to no more than this that instead of the British running the machinery of Administration, the Indians themselves should sit at the helm: that is all the meaning of the struggle. By taking to Khadi, Gandhiji has tried to give the impression that he has freed himself from the. Western influence; but those who can see the reality behind the outward look of things know perfectly well that the inner frame remains the same that all that has happened amounts only to this