ABSTRACT
Members spoke of the rise of Japan, whose victory over European Russia had profoundly impressed the Indian mind and it was stated that ‘national indignation had been filled to overflowing by the partition designed to break down the political power and influence of the educated opinion of Bengal’. The first furious anti-partition agitation was spent; the Press Act and other measures had enabled the Government to get the general situation well in hand, and probably most Indian politicians had ceased to hope for annulment of partition. The President declared that most of India’s misfortunes were due to ‘the unsympathetic and illiberal spirit of bureaucracy towards the newborn hopes and ideals of the Indian peoples’. A new phase in Congress activities had thus begun and the history of India for some years to come was to be largely the story of non-cooperation and boycott.
