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The Rising Temper of the East Sounding the Human Note in the World-Wide Cry for Land and Liberty
The Rising Temper of the East Sounding the Human Note in the WorldWide Cry for Land and Liberty Author:Frazier Hunt General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Subjects: Nationalism Eastern question (Far East) Nationalism and nationality National liberation movements Anti-imperialist movements EAST ASIA History / General History / General History / Asia / General Politica... more »l Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism Social Science / Developing Countries Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTEB n THE NEW RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM OF THE EAST The Story of the revolt against white domination by India's three hundred million is the story of the unrest of but one-third of the billion black, brown and yellow men of the awakening East. This that follows is the story of another discontented third -- of the great Mohammedan millions scattered from the provinces of India, through the historical passes of the Himalayas, across Persia, Mesopotamia, Arabia, over the Nile and into Egypt, and across the great stretches of Northern Africa. They too are tired of domination. They too are tired of their subservience to Europe. They, like the millions of ignorant, half-hungry Hindus of India, want to run their own affairs their own way, and they do not care if it is less efficient or less modern or less "civilized" than the way of their European masters and tutors. They are willing to admit the superiority of much of western civilization, but they want to be the choosers themselves, It is difficult for the outsider to realize the depth and the vital consequences of this growingracial and national consciousness of the submerged peoples of the East. It is easy to wax sentimental over the denied rights of small nations and grow maudlin over such honeyed phrases as self-...« less