The work that has so far been done has indeed been of the highest value. The growth during the last 50 years, of a feeling of common nationality, based upon common tradition, common disabilities, and common hopes and aspirations, has been most striking. The fact that we are Indians first, and Hindoos, Mahomedans, Parsees, or Christinas afterwards, is being realized in a steadily increasing measure, and the idea of a united and renovated India, marching onwards to a place among the nations of the world worthy of her great past, is no longer a mere idle dream of a few imaginative minds, but is definitely the accepted creed of those who form the brain of the community-the educated classes of the country.


Extract from his speech during setting up and defining the charter of the Servants of Scoiety. Page=702 - Sources of Indian Tradition

Gopal Krishna Gokhale Quotes

The work that has so far been done has indeed been of the highest value. The growth during the last 50 years, of a feeling of common nationality,...

The work that has so far been done has indeed been of the highest value. The growth during the last 50 years, of a feeling of common nationality,...

The work that has so far been done has indeed been of the highest value. The growth during the last 50 years, of a feeling of common nationality,...

The work that has so far been done has indeed been of the highest value. The growth during the last 50 years, of a feeling of common nationality,...