द इण्डियन स्ट्रगल / भारतीय स्वाधीनता संग्राम (नेताजी सुभाष चन्द्र बोस - ऐतिहासिक विश्लेषण)

CHAPTER XVIII
A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE
As the life of the present British House of Commons will
come to an end in '1936, the Constitution Bill for India will
certainly be put through Parliament before the next General
Election. There is at present a keen controversy going on in
England between the supporters of the White Paper and the
Conservative Diehards led by Mr. Winston Churchill. For
India, the controversy has no interest whatsoever. As we
have already seen, the White Paper contains precious little
and few people in India will be sorry if the scheme is whittled
down further, as seems likely, or suffers complete shipwreck.
What really interests India in connection with the White
Paper is the fact that it leaves no room for co-operation for
those who may feel tired of the prolonged struggle and
would like to settle down to some useful, constructive work.
The policy of the Government, therefore, will help to keep up
the present opposition.
The Government hope to stifle or ignore the Nationalist
opposition in the country with the help of the minorities—
the Moslems, the Depressed Classes, the Indian Christians
and the Anglo-Indians. But will they succeed? It is probable
that for a time a large section of the different minority com-
munities in India will be under official influence. This will
be their return for the concessions made to them in the
Communal Award. But this position cannot last long. The
Communal Award has at best given these communities better
representation in the Legislatures under the new Constitution.
But the new Constitution will give no power to the Indian
people as a whole or to any section of them. It will not
therefore take the representatives of the different com-
munities in the Legislatures long to realise that though the
Government gave them seats, they did not give them power.
Seats in the Legislatures are only meant for a few. These
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