The Call to Young India

In the glorious galaxy of living eminent Indians who now adorn Indian public life, there is none more universally respected or more universally beloved, excluding Mr. Gandhi perhaps, than the great Panjab patriot, Lala Lajpat Rai. The mantle of Mr. Tilak as an All-India leader, if it is to fall on any one with any degree of appropriateness, will fall on Lajpat Rai by common consent. For the last now nearly forty years, almost since the very day on which he set up practice as a vakil in his eighteenth year in 1883, Lajpat Rai has laboured for our country’s cause long and hard, none more strenuously, more insistently or with better concentration of purpose than he.