Sri Aurobindo

Bande Mataram

Political Writings and Speeches. 1890–1908

Appendixes

Draft of the Conclusion of “Nagpur and Loyalist Methods”¹

[.....] whether they will or will not recognize this unconstitutional decision to transfer the place of session arrived at on an unofficial representation and while there were still citizens of Nagpur[,] members of the Reception Committee willing and able to carry out the resolution of the Calcutta Congress to hold the next session at Nagpur. If we do not, we have two courses open to us, either to separate from the dictator-ridden Congress altogether and hold a Nationalist Conference at Nagpur or to leave the Loyalists to a purely Moderate Congress at Surat and according as they act, decide our future course. In any case we think there should be a council of leading men of our party at Nagpur in December to confer on our future action, for in view of the bureaucratic campaign and the danger of a retrograde step on the part of the Congress the times are critical for the Nationalist movement and concerted action is imperative.

This work was not included in SABCL, vol.1 and it was not compared with other editions.

¹ Final version see here

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