Real Revolution — Page 33
33 day by day, throwing out shoots and branches on everyside. This is especially the case with the educated classes which have fallen into the habit of looking at everything through Western glasses. . The movement for freedom has, to some extent, checked this tendency, but in the same way as used to be the case in former eras, i. e. the Western philosophy has been adopted with certain superficial and minor changes. We are going to have the same. Western type of councils, the same kind of legislatures, cabinets and administrative machinery. . Even if the British were to quit India today, the modes of British administration would continue to be in vogue. On a difficult question rising for the. Speakers of our legislatures, the answer normally would be that the matter would be duly studied and a ruling given later. In fact, however, this would only mean that records of the British Parliament would be closely scrutinised to yield a solution applicable to the situation in hand. The changes, when they come in India, would go no deeper than changes in Britain when, for instance, a Chamberlain takes over from a Baldwin, or an. Attlee from a Chamberlain. It no fresh culture rises in India in the meantime, Westernism would continue to reign here, though in some superficial respects it would tend to look like something diferent. Gandhiji, who is considered to be the