ABSTRACT
The Indians were perfectly justified in connecting politics with swadeshi. The Viceroy believed that the movement was limited to that section of the population which was imitating Western political methods, whose leaders had succeeded in obtaining more attention in England for their pronouncements than they could ever hope to obtain in India. Western countries provided practical examples of national, anti-monarchical and anti-foreign movements. Constitutional agitation to gain national objectives was a conspicuous feature of British history, which had a profound influence on India, notably on the Congress movement. The main source of sedition was the Indian press. For the spread of sedition in the Punjab, the Government and the loyalists laid the blame on the Arya Samajists who had been active in militant propaganda. Because of the complex character of the Indian agitation, the Government's difficulty lay not in facing the revolution, but in finding the treatment for its various aspects.
