A Bloodless Revolution in one Generation.

IN a letter to Mr. V. Krishna Swami Iyer, Sir William Wedderburn wrote in 1907:- “History is a long business and if in India we can, without bloodshed, accomplish a revolution towards liberty in one generation, it will be a happier experience than has been taken any other country, certainly not excepting this country." Eleven years after this was written by one of the truest and noblest Englishmen that ever had anything to do with the Government of India, we are still told that goal is a distant one! It will never be a near, not to say immediate goal, if the bureaucracy will have its own way. Sir William himself had no excuse for using the phrase "in one generation". When he wrote more than two generations had already passed since the enunciation of the goal of equality, which was but another name for liberty, and nearly full generation had passed since the commencement of conscious efforts towards freedom on India’s own part.