Priyanka Gandhi, India’s Independence was one thing nevertheless non-violent, please be reliable on the very least to your self

On Tuesday, April 11, Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi whereas addressing a public meeting organized by the United Democratic Front (UDF) employees in Kerala’s Wayanad made numerous assertions regarding India’s freedom wrestle, one such being that India was constructed on the inspiration of ‘non-violence’. 

“Our nation was built on the foundation of truth, non-violence, equality, and justice,” Priyanka Gandhi talked about as she asserted that “when the institutions are failing to be checks and balances for the government, It is the job of the people of India’s job to be checks and balances for the government.”

When the institutions are failing to be checks and balances for the federal authorities, It is our job, the people of India’s job to be checks and balances for the federal authorities. pic.twitter.com/O1hfmeyYEn

— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) April 12, 2023

Contrary to the Congress chief’s assertions, the inspiration of neutral India was laid on one thing nevertheless non-violence. Even our school textbooks taught us that ‘Baapu’ purchased us freedom from the British colonialists by his non-violent movement. However, it has been a bloody historic previous of ours which is not normally talked about. It anyhow does not make sense {{that a}} nation that fought two world wars could be deterred by non-violence and let go of its treasure-India. 

While the true historic previous and horrors of Direct Action Day, the Khilafat Movement, and plenty of such pertinent episodes related to the Indian freedom wrestle won’t have found a spot throughout the mainstream dialogue as a result of the emphasis was laid on the ‘Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb’ and completely different imaginary notions. Our school historic previous books drastically watered down the Indian Independence wrestle and painted a romantic picture {{that a}} man with a stick in his hand singlehandedly launched us freedom.

Here are among the many chapters of our Independence historic previous which had been rigorously watered down.

Two-Nation Theory

The proponents of the ‘Two-Nation Theory’ had been the distinctive ‘Tukde-Tukde Gang’. Two Nation Theory was first touted by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the founding father of the Aligarh Muslim University. Khan had in 1876 talked about that he was happy that Hindus and Muslims might under no circumstances be one nation owing to the distinctiveness of their lifestyle and religion. Years later, in 1888, Khan had asserted that if the British depart India with all their canons and weapons, who would rule this nation as he argued that every Hindus and Muslims cannot sit on the equivalent throne, together with that one ought to conquer the alternative. “It is necessary that one of them should conquer the other. To hope that both could remain equal is to desire the impossible and the inconceivable. But until one nation has conquered the other and made it obedient, peace cannot reign in the land.”

Other than Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Allama Mohammad Iqbal who’s extensively acknowledged for writing ‘Saare Jahan Se Accha, Hindustan Hamara’ had years later contradicted himself solely to push for a separate ‘Muslim’ nation. 

In 1910, the poet occurred to jot down Tarana-e-Milli for teenagers to contradict private phrases he had written six years sooner than. The Islamic fundamentalist nature of Muhammad Iqbal grew to change into fully evident as he wrote, “Cīn o-ʿArab hamārā, Hindūstāṉ hamārā, Muslim haiṉ ham, wat̤an hai sārā jahāṉ hamārā” throughout the Tarana-e-Milli, which was composed within the equivalent meter and rhyme scheme as ‘Sare Jaha Se Achcha’. 

Interestingly, Muhammad Iqbal was moreover one among many authorized professionals who represented the murderer of Mahashay Rajpal who had printed the e e-book named ‘Rangeela Rasool’. He moreover praised the murderer acknowledged as Ilmuddin, who was later conferred with the title of ‘Ghazi’ (warrior of faith) by Pakistan for killing Mahashay Rajpal in 1929.

It is critical to note that this very two-nation idea laid the inspiration for the demand for the creation of a separate Islamic nation, Pakistan, and the bloodshed that ensued. 

Indians fought the British warfare 

It is a acknowledged undeniable fact that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi who’s portrayed as a result of the patron saint of non-violence all via his life had extended assist to the British in the midst of the First World War. Over 1.5 million Indian troopers fought from the British side on account of MK Gandhi decided so. As recognized by Congress chief, Shashi Tharoor on this (article), all through this time, there have been hardly any rebellions in opposition to the British as a result of the Indian nationalists did not take advantage of the state of affairs by “even inciting disturbances”. Apparently, the Congress like true ‘allies’ rallied behind the British oppressors. 

Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire in the midst of the Great War, a report printed by the War Office in 1922, states that on the end of 1919, 53,486 Indian troopers had died, 64,350 had been wounded, and a few,937 had been nonetheless missing. Nevertheless, just some pages earlier, the equivalent e e-book presents an “approximate” number of 47,746 Indians who had been “killed, died of wounds, died,” and asserts {that a} additional 65,126 had been injured. It is, nonetheless, not very powerful to know that the exact amount may need been strategy higher.

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: The unasked reward of stopping the British warfare

Even when World War I concluded in 1919 and Britain prevailed with the assistance of Indian troopers the Britishers did not protect their promise. Instead of allowing for self-government, the British enforced the Rowlatt Act, which banned and censored the press, imprisoned political activists with out price, and detained anyone suspected of treason in opposition to the Empire with no warrant. General Reginald Dyer gave the order to his troops to open fireplace on 15,000 unarmed and defenseless males, ladies, and children in April 1919, ensuing throughout the horrifying Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Interestingly, whereas the horror of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre nonetheless brings tears to people’s eyes, Gandhi someway forgave the British General. 

Khilafat Movement

Muslims in India launched the Khilafat movement (1919–1924) to assist the Caliphate in Turkey. MK Gandhi moreover equipped his assist to this, hoping that Muslims would do the equivalent for his nationalist wrestle.

As a outcomes of the Moplah Muslims’ senseless zeal, virtually 10,000 Hindus had been brutally murdered, a whole bunch of Hindu ladies had been raped, and Hindu temples had been desecrated. The Moplah Muslims engaged in a murderous rampage in the midst of the Malabar Massacre in 1921, slaughtering Hindus in primarily essentially the most heinous strategies attainable. Over the years in our school historic previous books, this has been whitewashed as ‘Muslims’ wrestle for Indian Independence’ whereas it was their movement to find out an Islamic state in India.

Direct Action Day

Muhammad Ali Jinnah gave a reputation that we might have “either a divided India or a destroyed India” on the streets of  Calcutta on August 16, 1946, calling on fellow Muslims all via India to participate in a “Direct Action Day.”

Nothing identical to the rampage that ensued had ever been witnessed in India. Over the course of three days, nearly 10,000 people had been killed, and as a lot as 15,000 had been injured by sword-wielding males.

Noakhali Riots

The Noakhali riots, which began on October 10, 1946, had been a set of loosely coordinated murders, mass rapes, kidnappings, and compelled conversions of Hindus to Islam, along with looting and arson of Hindu properties, carried out by the Muslim neighborhood throughout the Noakhali district of the Chittagong Division of Bengal (now Bangladesh). Around 5,000 people had been slain in the midst of the unrest, which lasted for virtually per week.

Partition

There are tales of male family heads murdering their very personal daughters to forestall the women from being raped by the Islamist hordes. In her e e-book The Other Side of Silence, Urvashi Butalia narrates an incident from the Thoa Khalsa village throughout the Rawalpindi district (now in Pakistan) whereby 90 Sikh ladies jumped proper right into a properly to avoid wasting a number of their honour from the ‘enemies’. 

Many misplaced their properties and had been compelled to depart nations the place their family had resided for lots of generations. In a matter of days, a centuries-old tie to their dwelling nation acquired right here to an end. 

With Ambedkar Jayanti throughout the nook, it’s normally the becoming time to recall that architect of the construction was in favour of a complete inhabitants alternate on the time of partition. 

When any individual asserts that the inspiration of India was laid on non-violence, they’re lying to the Indian people and blatantly masking up the horrors the people of this nation endured. Such assertions moreover belittle the sacrifices of freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, and quite a few others.

To title Indian Independence historic previous as ‘non-violent’ is a disgrace and disservice to a whole bunch who had been killed throughout the quite a few massacres leading to fifteenth August 1947 and even previous.