Project Gutenberg
2011-02-21
Public domain in the USA.
350
Das, Chitta Ranjan
1870
1925
Das, Chittaranjan
Das, C. R. (Chitta Ranjan)
Chittaranjan Das
Freedom Through Disobedience
E-text prepared by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org)
"Freedom Through Disobedience" by Chitta Ranjan Das is a political speech delivered during the early 20th century, specifically in the 1920s, at the thirty-seventh session of the Indian National Congress. The book reflects on the theme of political resistance, urging the necessity of disobedience against unjust laws and repressive governmental practices as a means to achieve India's freedom from colonial rule. Das articulates the principles of nationalism, the importance of self-determination, and the moral imperative of non-violent resistance. In this powerful address, Das draws parallels between historical struggles for freedom, including references to seminal events in English history, to argue that the Indian populace must assert their rights through disobedience to oppressive laws rather than passive compliance. He underscores the idea that true representation and governance must arise from the people's will and that unjust laws losing legitimacy through popular non-cooperation. Throughout, he emphasizes the need for a collective national identity and cooperation among various communities in India, promoting a vision of Swaraj (self-rule) that is rooted in the spiritual and moral upliftment of society. With a call for robust participation from all sections of the population, especially labor and peasant groups, Das seeks to unify diverse communities across India in the pursuit of freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading ease score: 56.9 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
en
India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947
Civil disobedience -- India
DS
Text
Browsing: History - British
Browsing: History - General
Browsing: Politics
Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Category: History - Modern (1750+)
Category: Religion/Spirituality
Category: Politics
142448
2025-06-14T11:39:16.501062
text/html
142165
2011-02-21T14:41:07
text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
158719
2011-02-21T14:43:47
text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
application/zip
216464
2025-06-14T11:39:22.636052
application/epub+zip
216739
2025-06-14T11:39:19.578033
application/epub+zip
108591
2025-06-14T11:39:18.333043
application/epub+zip
328925
2025-06-14T11:39:24.910082
application/x-mobipocket-ebook
317047
2025-06-14T11:39:21.878034
application/x-mobipocket-ebook
189438
2022-09-16T08:20:55.294702
application/x-mobipocket-ebook
128332
2025-06-14T11:39:16.114070
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
128052
2011-02-21T14:38:15
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
45689
2011-02-21T14:38:15
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
application/zip
128059
2011-02-21T14:38:15
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
45689
2011-02-21T14:38:15
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
application/zip
21175
2025-06-14T11:39:25.049992
application/rdf+xml
12024
2025-06-14T11:39:18.919051
image/jpeg
2996
2025-06-14T11:39:18.628026
image/jpeg
256229
2025-06-14T11:39:16.523035
application/octet-stream
application/zip
Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at
https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog
en.wikipedia