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Updated: May 13, 2025
August 4, 1920. The following letter has been addressed by Mr. Gandhi to his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught; Sir, Your Royal Highness must have heard a great deal about non-co-operation, non-co-operationists and their methods and incidentally of me its humble author. I fear that the information given to Your Royal Highness must have been in its nature one-sided.
Chintamani, once the irreconcilable editor of the Allahabad Leader, came out at the head of a large poll, though in order to defeat him the "Non-co-operationists" sacrificed their principles and put up and supported with their own votes an obscure candidate by whose election they hoped to bring the new Council into contempt.
And we must continue to non-co-operate, i.e. to purify ourselves till the goal is achieved. I ask Your Royal Highness and through you every Englishman to appreciate the view-point of the non-co-operationists. It is to be wished that non-co-operationists will clearly recognise that nothing can stop the onward march of the nation as violence. Ireland may gain its freedom by violence.
At the same time, it may be doubted whether the abstention of "Non-co-operationists" has deprived the Indian Councils of more than a very few individuals whose ability and character, apart from their political opinions, would have given them any great weight. The splendid demonstration which Mr.
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