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has caused your complexions to darken.
reason the British call you black.
This is the
If you were fed in
the same way as the English you would cease to be black
and ugly for you and the English come of a common stock
seeing that you are both Aryan.
O my foolish brothers! You people are treated
worse than cattle. No other race in the whole world
is treated like you are. n America the negro-slaves
who serve in the American Army receive the same pay as
the American white soldiers. In addition to this men
of any caste, any tribe, any country, come here and enlist in the Army. They receive the same pay because this pay is given according to their work and not their
colour.
0 youth of India! Pity it is that you sold your lives so cheaply into the hands of the British and that your lives as soldiers are no better than those of
convicts in another country. These are at least suf-
fiently fed but you have to carry your rifles on empty
stomachs. Of braves! Consider a momont. You are
placed on guard all round the camp while the white people
sleep in safety. Why ? ? ?
The Russians conquered Turkestan, Samarkand
and Bokhara but they did not illtreat the inhabitants.
Tartar Mussulnen in the Russian Army rise to the high
ranks of Colonel and General and the Russians look upon
them with honour. But, 0 men of Hindustan, have you even seen a white soldier salute a jemadar or subadar ?
Never! Never! because the wretched Hindustanies are
black.
O Indian Soldiers!
If to please the English
you sacrifice life, faith, religion, fire your temples
and