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October 4, 2012 By Sandeep

Exactly one refrain emanating from the 1970s generation encapsulates the significance of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday: a complaint that October 2nd is a Dry Day.

That’s what Gandhi has been reduced to after 65 years: a symbol of Prohibition that middle class India must vocally protest against. Of course, not with malice because somewhere deep down, Gandhi still commands respect.

I picked the 1970s generation because this generation has benefitted the most from liberalization and the reforms that followed during the NDA regime. Among other things, these benefits have included exposure to various cultures across the globe, which has shaped and changed its worldview. One of the most significant of these changes is the casting away of the irrational taboo—rooted in fear—against alcohol, a taboo to which Gandhi contributed in great measure. Contrary to what Bapu claimed, middle class India has discovered the immensely liberating effects of alcohol. Put another way, today’s middle class India has definitively discarded Mahatma Gandhi. Quite long ago. And most certainly not under influence.

However, while it lasted, Gandhi’s influence was enormous and almost all-pervasive. So much so that even a fine mind like Sita Ram Goel’s developed temporary opaqueness when it came to the subject of Mahatma Gandhi. The harshest criticism Goel reserves for Gandhi is a mild rebuke on the subject of the latter’s inordinate Muslim appeasement.

Now, don’t believe anybody who talks about how “complex” it is to write about Gandhi’s legacy. They’re either ignorant or hypocritical. There’s no third explanation. If not for any reason but for the simple fact that Gandhi happens to be perhaps the earliest and the most successful PR exercise—an exercise that still endures in the West. It’s as if there was no other contemporary leader in India who could effectively fight the British. It’s as if India had to await the Mahatma who came from South Africa, and in a few years, take over the Congress party and deliver freedom to the nation. Not characteristically very different from say, Jesus Christ and Mohammad.

But let’s cut the PR props.

Consider this: a sample of Gandhi’s “legacy” occurred in his own lifetime when the actual worth of the force of his “moral” and whatever other purity and force that supposedly made the mighty British tremble in their knees was put to test. The same throngs of Congress stalwarts who slaved for years at Gandhi’s feet simply bypassed him when the British announced that they wanted to finally quit. And then we have the well-known story of how the claim of “Partition over my dead body” was violently shattered. In both cases, he was left alone. Fasting. Only this time, nobody cared whether he lived or died at the end of the fast.

Bereft of all frills, Gandhi’s actual legacy is just twofold. One, he killed the spirit of free, fearless and robust intellectual discourse, which was thriving until the time of Balagangadhar Tilak and later, briefly, Aurobindo Ghosh. It is worth recalling what D.V. Gundappa wrote (which I’ve translated earlier) in this connection as early as 1928.

Newspapers prior to Gandhi’s time freely carried writings and debates on a broad range of diverse topics. It was commonly accepted by all readers that every question or issue had two, three, or even four alternative or differing perspectives. It was also equally accepted that it was essential to objectively examine each of these perspectives. Thus, Gokhale had his own path carved out, Tilak had his, had his, and had his. Public discourse freely and gladly welcomed and allowed space for everybody. People examined the merits and deficiencies of disparate opinions.

After Gandhi entered the scene, people lost this practice of critically examining any topic or issue and approaching it from multiple perspectives. The emphasis suddenly shifted in favour of a unilateral political voice which therefore meant that no obstacle should

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hinder the Mahatma’s leadership. The impression sought to be conveyed to the British as Type in well as the international community was that India had spoken if Gandhi had spoken and that he had no opposition. Gradually, a situation arose where people began to believe that unless this impression was convincingly made, we wouldn’t achieve Independence. No public gathering or speech was complete without the slogan of Gandhiji ki Jai! Slowly, this escalated to the level of thought—nobody could even think about Gandhi without the mandatory Mahatma prefix.

Our newspapers and opinion-makers quickly followed suit. Their stance was that perchance somebody found something to disagree with even one thing that Gandhi said, he or she had to compulsorily suppress its expression. Thus the national atmosphere of discourse quickly became one where nobody could ever think of something different from what Gandhi thought. The minds of the general public—both literate and otherwise—soon became habituated to conformity, which then turned to blind loyalty towards a partisan idea.

In this light, is it any wonder that a sub-standard mind like Nehru so easily became the first Prime Minister? And is it any surprise that people with original thought and spotless conduct were shunted out of the barely years after we achieved Independence?

Two, Gandhi castrated India—I use that word with caution. Historically, the one thing that enabled India to withstand and successfully repulse the Islamic and other alien onslaughts for nearly a thousand years was the Kshatra or the warrior spirit. The native kingdoms were badly beaten and subdued but they were never fully conquered. They rebounded with double the vigour and reclaimed their ancestral homeland. In fact, as long as the Marathas and Ranjit Singh were around, the British found it really tough to take control of the entire country. And to their credit, praise is due to the British strategy: they spotted that this spirit of Kshatra was one of the biggest obstacles they had to overcome. Which they did. Indeed, from the 1857 revolt till the founding of the INA, there was not a single instance of a nationwide armed uprising against the British. Of these 85 years, Gandhi hogged the freedom struggle for a precious, ruinous 27 years (I’m counting from 1920 when he took over the Congress party’s leadership) and injected liberal doses of toxic non-violence into an already-oppressed nation. Christopher Hitchens, in a damning but highly accurate assessment, observes that Gandhi’s was not a “struggle for India, but with it.” (Italics in the original)

And because he is painted as the man who got us freedom, the logical question arises: did he really get us freedom? Put another way, did India really fight to obtain freedom? If we had really fought for freedom—if we had shed the blood of our own people and that of the British, there’s no way—and this has to be said again—we would have allowed a clueless person like Nehru to become Prime Minister. The maximum hardship that the leading non-violent lights of the freedom struggle had known were a few beatings and spells in jail—our first Prime Minister was fashionable even as a prisoner. Those who actually shed blood were few in number and mostly disorganized and fought in individual capacity and were therefore easily vanquished. Worse, they were chastised by that Apostle of non-violence who had patented the definitions of freedom struggle and patriotism. India didn’t really fight—with sweat and blood—for freedom. India blindly followed the personal prescriptions of right and wrong, good and bad, moral and immoral of one man. Barring the Dandi March, everything Gandhi touched turned to ashes. Pick any major failed epoch of the freedom struggle and you will see the Mahatma’s non-violent imprint of doom on it.

Gandhi’s heady potions of ahimsa and robbed Indians of the incentive to put up a fierce resistance, the kind that actually made the British tremble in their knees, the kind that Subash Bose inspired. The idea of a violent freedom struggle is not the fact of using violence as an end in itself. Violent freedom struggle is effective when it is used as a brutal, fatal, and the ultimate weapon aimed at making it prohibitively expensive for the colonizer to remain for a minute longer in his ill-gotten empire. Indeed, the British couldn’t have asked for a better boon than Gandhi whose idea of a non-violent resistance must have amused them to no end. While they were merely beating up thousands of Gandhi’s minions, they meted out a different sort of treatment to the hapless millions in their other empires in various parts of Africa (it’d be instructive to find out if Gandhi had read Conrad’s heart-rending Heart of Darkness).

An even uglier facet of Gandhi’s legacy is hypocrisy. For a Mahatma who waxed eloquent about leading a moral and virtuous life, it boggles the mind how and why he was unable to instil these values into the heart and head of his blue-eyed boy. Nehru was as anti-Gandhi as it could get in these matters. While the Mahatma preached the evils of alcohol to the whole country, the blue-eyed boy showed no compunction in enjoying his favourite scotch or whatever other drink. While the Mahatma used the poor Manuben among other women as experiments to test the strength (or weakness depending on how you look at it) of his…err…passions, Nehru’s amorous exploits were as legendary as they were public knowledge. A truly moral and ethical person would’ve disowned a guy like Nehru the moment he was caught with his pan…errr…going wayward. Not only did he not disown him, he gifted the Prime Minister’s chair to the blue-eyed boy.

The result of this stifling of the intellect and castration has been disastrous. Even today, even the puniest of nations would’ve given a bloody reply to something like 26/11. What are we still doing? Let’s hear it from the mouth of S.M. Krishna, just 16 hours ago:

“In a difficult relationship like the one we have had with , one should have lots of

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patience. India is known for its patience and perseverance. Patiently we will move in the Type in direction in which we want,” Krishna said.

In other words, the perfect Gandhian approach. Not too different from what Gandhi wrote to Hitler addressing him as “My friend” (sic) :

It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to a savage state. Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success? Any way I anticipate your forgiveness, if I have erred in writing to you.

In other words: moving a foe, barbarian, and tyrant through kindness and purity of heart and universal love and appeal to peace. Coming from a lesser mortal, this can be accurately described in one word: delusion.

Belated Gandhi Jayanti.

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1. niraj November 17, 2012 at 3:08 PM

Britishers squeezed last drop of blood of Indians,that had cause of 20 major man made famine during .Nearly 90 million people died due to starvation.Large no. of whom nigher buried nor cremated. So,after independence we found ourself poor.The land which was called “Golden bird” in1500 A.D.became poor like beggar in 1947 A.D. India had lost her self pride. AS KOFI ANNAN FORMER U.N.SECRETARY AND OUR PRESENT PRESIDENT OF NATION SAID RECENTLY THAT WE DO NOT NEED FOREIGN AID. ,WE ARE SELF SUFFICIENT NOW.WE ARE GIVING FOREIGN AID TO SO MANY COUNTRY,EVEN EUROPEAN UNION ALSO.WE ARE CONDUCTING OUR SPACE PROGRAM OF OUR OWN,WE ARE INTRODUCING LONG RANGE MISSILE OF OUR OWN. INDIA IS REGAINING HER SELF PRIDE.

2. [email protected] November 14, 2012 at 5:20 PM

good one!! I am really surprised to find this blog and reading some comments.. Just wondering for last many months.. Mahatma Gandhi worked for whose favor – India or British. In fact his philosophy of Non-violance saved Britishers in India and elongated their stay. India was among last countries in the world to come out from british empire..He we were told wrong (in schools) that congress / allied freedom fighters are reason of our liberty. In fact, Britain was so weak after WWII that they had to borrow billions from USA to keep their country running. They could not afford to control us anymore, that’s why they left- and divided us. USA become united after british defeat and gaining freedom, India was divided..and result – in 500 years of history USA is ruling world (by other means) and after 5000 years of civilisation history India is still struggling..

3. karan November 13, 2012 at 1:06 PM

1.11 lakh Indian soldiers died in the First World War for Britain and 2.43 lakh Indian soldiers died in the Second World War for Britain.

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Indians did NOT want to fight for the cruel white English speaking Christian invader. Type in

See how well Rothschild groomed Gandhi in South Africa using ’s mindless non-violence doctrine.

4. niraj November 13, 2012 at 1:01 PM

In another occasion when he was talking to a group of refugees, said, “If all the Punjabis were to die to the last man without killing (a single Muslim), Punjab will be immortal. Offer yourselves as nonviolent willing sacrifices.” (Collins and Lapierre, Freedom at Midnight, p-385).

5. niraj November 13, 2012 at 12:57 PM

Rothchild was the owner of British , who grew Opium in India and sold it in China.

Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India is a 2011 biography of Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld and published by Alfred A Knopf. Great Soul has engendered controversy based on early reviews, which portray passages within the book as hinting that the relationship between Gandhi and his friend Hermann Kallenbach was more intimate than previously thought and possibly sexual in nature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Soul:_Mahatma_Gandhi_and_His_Struggle_With_India “ should never be angry against the Muslims even if the latter might make up their minds to undo their (Hindus’) existence. If they put all of us to the sword, we should court death bravely. … We are destined to be born and die, then why need we feel gloomy over it?” (recorded speech delivered on April 6, 1947)

6. som November 13, 2012 at 10:32 AM

He is true Mahatma of Rothschilds (The Rothschild family known as the House of Rothschild, or more simply as the Rothschilds, is a European banking dynasty, of German-Jewish origin, that established European banking and finance houses starting in the late 18th century. Five lines of the Austrian branch of the family have been elevated to AUSTRIAN NOBILITY , being given HEREDITARY BARONIES OF THE HABIBURG EMPIRE by Emperor Francis II in 1816. Another line, of the British branch of the family, was elevated to BRITISH NOBILITY at the request of Queen Victoria. During the 1800s, when it was at its height, the family is believed to have possessed by far the LARGEST PRIVATE FORTUNE IN THE WORLD as well as by far the LARGEST FORTUNE IN MODERN WORLD HISTORY. The family’s wealth is was divided amongst hundreds of descendants. Today, they encompass a diverse range of fields, including: mining, banks, energy, mixed farming, wine, and charities. They were real owner of British East India Company ,and they became real rich acquiring tons of gold looted from Malabar temples by Tipu sultan AFTER FALL OF HIS SULTANATE). For safeguard the interest of this family he work as a SOLDER recruiting agent for WW I & WW II ,to eliminate every possibility of armed struggle for independence of India (that can cause MUTINY OF BRITISH ARMY),

7. som November 13, 2012 at 9:55 AM

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. Ahimsa (non violence) for whom? For hindu community ,according to Gandhi they should follow non violence measures for British invaders and violent follower of other faith (because they are brothers) not for enemy of Jews.

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shekhar Type in November 13, 2012 at 9:44 AM

Remember in both First and Second World Wars, Gandhi urged Indians to kill Germans for the British. He did NOT want Indians to kill the British invaders .

9. niraj November 12, 2012 at 6:13 PM

RELIGION NOT THE CRYING NEED OF INDIA 20th September 1893

Christians must always be ready for good criticism and I hardly think that you will mind if I make a little criticism- you Christians, who are so fond of sending out missionaries to save the soul of the heathen – why do you not try to save their bodies from starvation? In India, during the terrible famines, thousands died from hunger, yet you Christians did nothing. you erect churches all through India, but the crying evil in the East is not religion – they have religion enough -but it is bread that the suffering millions of burning India cry out for with parched throats. They ask us for bread, but we give them stones. It is an insult to the starving people to offer them religion; it is an insult to the starving man to teach him metaphysics. In India a priest that preached for money would lose caste and be spat upon by the people. I came here to seek aid for my impoverished people, and I filly realized how difficult it was to get help for heathens from Christians in a Christian land.[]

Famines inBritish India between 1765 and 1947 Year,Name of famine (if any),British territory [1]769–70Great Famine , Northern and Central Bengal10 million, (about one third of the then population of Bengal [2] 1783–84,Chalisa famine,Delhi, Western Oudh, Eastern Punjab region, Rajputana, and Kashmir Severe famine. Large areas were depopulated. Up to 11 million people may have died during the years 1782–84. [3]1791–92 ,Doji bara famine or Skull famine Hyderabad, Southern Maratha country, Deccan, Gujarat, and Marwar One of the most severe famines known. People died in such numbers that they could not be cremated or buried. It is thought that 11 million people may have died during the years 1788–94 [4]1837–38 ,Agra famine of 1837–38,Central Doab and trans-Jumna districts of the North- Western Provinces (later Agra Province), including Delhi and Hissar800,000 [5]1860–61Upper Doab of Agra; Delhi and Hissar divisions of the Punjab,Eastern Rajputana,2 million [5]1865–67,Orissa famine of 1866,Orissa (also 1867) and Bihar; Bellary and Ganjam districts of Madras,1 million (814,469 in Orissa, 135,676 in Bihar and 10,898 in Ganjam) [6]1868–70,Rajputana famine of 1869,Ajmer, Western Agra, Eastern Punjab,Rajputana,1.5 million (mostly in the princely states of Rajputana) [7]1873–74,Bihar famine of 1873–74,Bihar,An extensive relief effort was organized by the Bengal government. [8]1876–78Great Famine of 1876–78 (also Southern India famine of 1876–78)Madras and BombayMysore and Hyderabad6.1 to 10.3 million [9]1888–89Ganjam, Orissa and North Bihar150,000 deaths [10]Ganjam. Deaths were due to starvation as famine relief was not provided in time. [11]1896–97,Indian famine of 1896–97, Madras, Bombay Deccan, Bengal, United Provinces, Central Provinces,Northern and eastern Rajputana, parts of Central India and Hyderabad,5 million [12]1899–1900,Indian famine of 1899–1900,Bombay, Central Provinces, Berar, Ajmer,Hyderabad, Rajputana, Central India, Baroda, Kathiawar, Cutch,1 million [13]1905–06,BombayBundelkhand,235,062 [14]1943–44,, Bengal,4.5 million

Is it not time that the descendants of the victims of The Great Holocaust of Bengal sought compensation from the present Government of the United Kingdom? Is it possible to initiate a criminal case against Winston Churchill and all those who were in power during 1942-45 (or during 1765-1947) in British Government? Is that too much to ask for? Do you believe that the systematic murder of six million white-skinned Jews was a crime worthy of punishment, while the killing of thirty million black- skinned people of Bengal does not even deserve a footnote in history?

10. niraj November 12, 2012 at 5:49 PM

Yes,Gandhi Ahimsa (non -violence) is not Sanatan Dharma (introduced by Lord Krishna in Bhagwad Gita) ,but a new (extreme ) version of Christianity (introduced by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy) .

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11. shankar November 12, 2012 at 5:40 PM

Gandhi is not a cult ,bur a new (extreme ) version of Christianity(A MENTOR OF PASSIVE RESISTANCE ),introduced and brainwashed by(a Jew) Leo Tolstoy (e.g “A Letter to Hindoo”)and furnished by (again a jew) Rothschild(banker and actual owner of British East India Company) by gifting 110 acres of lush green land( with fruit trees) in South Africa (Tolstoy Farm) to work as a SOLDER reciting agent for WW II ,to eliminate every possibility of armed struggle for independence of India (that can cause MUTINY OF BRITISH ARMY),an agent (most cunning deployment by Britishers) to safeguard their interest.

12. shankar November 12, 2012 at 5:34 PM

AMARTYA SEN GETS NOBEL PRIZE FOR WHITEWASHING CHURCHILL’S INDIAN HOLOCAUST http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/search?q=amartya+sen+and+Rothschild

13. narendra November 12, 2012 at 2:27 PM

HERE IS ANOTHER STOOGE OF ROTHSCHILD Here is what bullshit Amartya Sen wrote in his books and told in all foreign TV channels till be frothed from his cancer affected mouth. 1) There was adequate food in Bengal at the time of the great famine in 1943.

2) There was NO need for Churchill to send rice to India .

3) Diverting grain ships from Australia passing India enroute to Suez Canal every few days, was NOT necessary

4) did panic buying and greedy hoarding in a disgraceful manner.

5) The local administration consisting of mainly Bengalis were corrupt and inefficient in food distribution.

6) How incompetence and corruption can cause famine in a land of plenty.

7) Root cause of famine was inflation and speculative hoarding by Bengalis. It was NOT hoarded by British for the army.

8) Food was stocked 13% more in Bengal than in 1943 than in 1941. Hence it was OK for Churchill to export food from India.

9) Famine cannot exist in proper democracy. ( India under princely states never had famine )

10) 1943 famine was a local Bengali man made thing. The incompetence was native NOT of the British.

11) Bengali producers exported food.

12) Wages of labourers was NOT in par with food prices. Enough food was there , believe me, I saw it in the local bania godowns . AMARTYA SEN GETS NOBEL PRIZE FOR WHITEWASHING CHURCHILL’S INDIAN HOLOCAUST

14. Hari November 8, 2012 at 12:23 AM

“The following are some of the methods they used to cleanse the land of its rightful owners: Bounties for human scalps, including women and children, out and out massacres, starvation and germ warfare. These cruel British methods of destruction were so effective that the British came close to realizing their cleansing goal. All North American civilizations under their occupation were badly damaged,

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many eliminated, and close to 95% of the people exterminated.” Type in -Daniel Paul So,the British methods of destruction also applied in India ,during 20 major feminine. Thanks ,for first and second world war ,that diverted interest of Britishers for recruiting solders and a promise for Independence and off course, Gandhi was an essential agent to convey the massage to masses .

15. ramesh November 4, 2012 at 5:30 PM

“GANDHI, BUT WITH GUNS”: ARUNDHTI ROY Despite massacres, not everyone in India regards the Maoists with horror. One such apologist is the talented and articulate novelist Arundhati Roy who has, since her Booker Prize-winning 1997 novel “The God of Small Things,” focused on bigger things, rambling 19,500-word essay published in Outlook magazine in India and the Guardian newspaper. The piece was headlined “Gandhi, but with guns.” The comparison is obscene. Maoists want an articulate messenger, and Ms Roy fulfils that role. A Gandhian with a gun is as absurd as a Maoist pacifist. Like Maoists elsewhere, they are brutal. They conduct show-trials, sometimes executing the people they find guilty; they use improvised explosive devices and land mines; and they appear to use child soldiers. Since 2006, their attacks have become audacious, targeting police stations, power lines, schools and trains. They have not spared civilians and other “class enemies” who in their view collaborate with the state.

16. ramesh November 4, 2012 at 4:42 PM

Just like Muslims were happy finding a useful idiot in Gandhi and Mao was happy finding a useful idiot in Nehru. Kuldip Nayar regularly writes for Pakistani newspapers against alleged “Hindu fundamentalism.” The Pakistanis, of course, rub their hands in glee, having found a useful idiot Nehru, Gandhi, Kuldip Nayar, Sacchar, Barkha, Sardesai …. these are all examples of race traitors against the Hindu race. (NOT Prannoy Roy in this list because he is a Christian, not a Hindu.) These kind of deranged Indians commit race treason. They suffer from a denial of reality and a strange refusal to fight the enemy. Indeed, they keep disputing and confusing people about who the enemy is! Race treason occurs when one becomes hostile to his own race and walks into the enemy camp carrying information and propaganda against his own people.

17. Padmanabhan November 2, 2012 at 9:50 PM

And now we have the stupid from that lineage – Rahul Gandhi – shown as Yuvraaj by Congressi Stooge Media

18. Padmanabhan November 2, 2012 at 9:15 PM

Even if he was, how does it matter. He was sure an IMPOTENT who failed to stand up against Mohammad Ali Jinah and the British design to divide India. He was not an Abraham Lincoln, a pacifist, who went to war to stop the partition of his motherland.

19. pran November 2, 2012 at 12:41 PM

So, the GANDHIYAN Nehru was not only mentally blind — planning to take the Hyderabad affair to the UN — he could be unbelievably petty too, pressuring bureaucrats not to attend the funeral of

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Sardar Patel. How can such a petty lout, full of feminine jealousy of others more competent than him, Type in become the PM of India? GANDHI MUST EXPLAIN WHAT HE SAW IN THE NEHRU IDIOT TO TRUST HIM ON AS THE PM.

20. Y November 1, 2012 at 12:22 PM

Mokey: Is protecting one’s culture & treading with self-respect with determination to be considered as acts violence and aggression? Encapsulating warrior spirit does NOT translate to being aggressive and violent. Demonstrating intolerance however does & the 2 cannot be mixed together.

why do Gandhians always are mis-guided & come up with baseless and unfounded conclusions?

21. karan October 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM

This government should have used this money to help millions specially kids who sleep on sidewalks and havn’t eat because they don’t have a money to buy food, who don’t have a money to go to hospitals when there sick with even little things, even millions of kids who never went to school because they belong to poor families. This stupid government should think of there country instead of buying these odd letters for no reason…And again so what if he was a gay…most of the peoples already new it by his everyday activites….

22. karan October 27, 2012 at 9:59 AM

Indian government spends £700,000 to buy letters which ‘prove national hero Gandhi was gay’

23. Monkey October 19, 2012 at 2:23 AM

Kshatra or the warrior spirit ——- castrated (basically u are trying to justify violence and trying to justify as if we need it to guard ourselves) - Please understand that we no longer live in times of and because of the way thigns work i the modern society, violence and aggression has been universally accepted as evil -( proven over again and again by various incidents.

In short – Please think again for yourself with an unbiased mind…..

24. SM Krishna October 16, 2012 at 5:10 AM

Vineet,

Again, I’m here to criticise the article written by Sandeep, not to discuss things that he hasn’t discussed in the first place.

Yes, that was one of my points too: The topic Sandeep has chosen “Gandhi’s True Legacy” is far too wide and Sandeep has not covered it fully. I would say the topic is nothing short of a PhD thesis. However, Sandeep just selectively presents a few cases that support his viewpoints. What about the issues that do not support his viewpoints? Not a single mention of them. If one has to write on such a wide topic he has to study too many things and then write about it; which I feel Sandeep has not done at all.

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If Sandeep really wants to make justice to the topic he should have put Gandhi’s good points on one Type in side and Gandhi’s blunders on the other side and then weighed them appropriately against each other for the reader explaining why they are good and why they are bad. Then he should have arrived to the conclusion of What Gandhi’s True Legacy was depending on that dispassionate comparison. There are so many such one sided articles in praise of Gandhi too which invariably conclude Gandhi was the greatest. They turn a blind eye to Gandhi’s blunders. What’s the use of such one-sided affair?

The Moplah Rebellion that you invariably keep falling back to had no mention in Sandeep’s article, it would be pointless if we discussed it any further here. If you are so interested then write a decent article on “Gandhi’s role in Moplah Rebellion” and open it up for criticism and then hold your ground. More importantly, while holding your ground don’t fall back to unrelated issues like Left, Right, Centre, Writing Style, Congressi, Onus of Proof and others. Stick to the point and ruthlessly discard anyone who deviates.

25. Vineet October 15, 2012 at 11:08 PM

@S M Krishna

“Although my intention was not to offend you, my sincere apologies to you for coming out that way.”

Ok point taken

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“Your stubbornness in not sticking to the scope which Sandeep has laid-out in his article. Sandeep’s article does not make any reference to Moplah rebellion.”

Do you seriously think that the scope of Sandeep’s article was so limited as you are trying to make out. The range of issues by Sandeep is good enough to understand the direction of his article. And taking that as the backdrop, the Moplah rebellion was mentioned to highlight Gandhi’s response or rather lack of it, to such a ghastly act.

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“And you, Vineet, went *obtusely awry* in your comments by bringing up Moplah rebellion and what not all. If you can’t stick to the topic don’t expect others here to divert from topic, is my point.”

The key issue is that we do not discuss Mahatma Gandhi at all. We only deify him. The title of the post is “Mahatma Gandhi’s True Legacy” and if for honest discussion, certain other linked topics have to be brought up then so be it.

Furthermore, it was not limited to Alcohol or non-Alcohol MG or JN. It was way beyond that. If Gandhi insisted on JN becoming PM despite Congress voting to the contrary then it showcases his stubbornness, Moplah was example of his belief of not taking on Muslims. I may be proven wrong, if you produce some piece where MG criticizes Muslims, but I am speaking from knowledge in common space of his conduct during partition riots. I belong to Punjab and live in Delhi and you would appreciate that it is quite likely that I would have heard a few first hand or second hand accounts of barbarism and the response of then leadership headed by Gandhi.

It is this dualism of his character vis a vis Muslims which has become DNA of Congress which has ruled the country for such a long period. Hence these meek tendencies are his legacy. Don’t draw boundaries to suit your line of thought or debate. The canvas is much larger.

Yes you had by & large ‘civilized’ debate with G, but it was not something as meaningful as you are trying to showcase. You may choose to ignore these ones and honestly you are not required to respond as well but still you cannot say that related issues which help in understanding his legacy should not be discussed. ————

26. SM Krishna October 14, 2012 at 8:45 PM

Vineet,

Clarifying points.

1. First of all, your insistence that I was arrogant shows that you were too offended with my comments. Although my intention was not to offend you, my sincere apologies to you for coming out that way. That said, the reason for my perceived arrogance was your stubbornness. Your stubbornness

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in not sticking to the scope which Sandeep has laid-out in his article. Sandeep’s article does not make Type in any reference to Moplah rebellion. But you are trying to get me debating with you on that topic and other out-of-the-scope topics. Now, the Moplah rebellion is a whole different topic in itself and I think one cannot make any justice to it in comments under the article to a whole different discussion. And you fail to see my point and furthermore, go ahead with things like ‘Onus of proof’ and pasting links to some other articles. If that is not ‘digression from topic’ for people here then I don’t know what is… If you paste a few links I can paste too. What’s the use?When you pasted the links that is where I decided you don’t even deserve the decency of a reply from my side.

2. After all this now you come down to at least sticking to the topic. You say “You have been trying to argue the case that MG should not be held responsible for JN’s drinking. OK. If JN was a good PM, no [body] would have bothered. But the debate is that MG chose JN over the collective wisdom of the Congress party who voted for Patel.” Now that is what I wanted you to do in the first place. Also, that is where I disagreed with Sandeep’s article. Sandeep has not explored this episode of Nehru’s Pm-ship at all. He ostensibly recalls DVG who was speaking of a different topic and Sandeep says “In this light …” If anything, Sandeep should have gone deep into it explored what choices Gandhi had and what pressure was he under that particular situation. But Sandeep. skirted that context from the reader. And you, Vineet, went *obtusely awry* in your comments by bringing up Moplah rebellion and what not all. If you can’t stick to the topic don’t expect others here to divert from topic, is my point. You took pity in saying “in our country we have lost the art of debate.” I so sympathize with you and for you on that!

Read the discussion between ‘g’ and me. We stayed within the scope established by Sandeep’s piece as much as possible with a few diversions here and there just to drive home the points we were making. Did anyone make any derogatory comments against anyone else there? Did I show arrogance to ‘g’? Did ‘g’ show arrogance to me? Why do you think we had a good conversation? If you don’t have to conviction to read first, then please don’t have the compulsion to debate, Vineet.

If you are still stubbornly insistent that I have to answer all the questions that you ask regardless of they being within the scope of the article, then I choose to leave it at that.

Thanks,

27. Vineet October 14, 2012 at 7:20 PM

@Y

Support your views. Infact some of the publicized quality of JN of ‘love of children’ was more of a PR exercise than genuine affection.

@S M Krishna

The more I read your comments, somehow I am reminded of one writer with id Vicjags on The Indian Realist blog. Same arrogance, similar ability of not answering the questions asked and rather trying to belittle every other person, as if you were the divine gift to the world. Stop this arrogance, it may give you a high but cuts no ice with us. The reason I chose to respond to some and not to other comments where you were more concerned about my genitals was because I did not want the debate to go off track. Hence had raised question of Moplah rebellion with a few links for reference

Like I had said in my previous response to you – “If you think that I have only read “Rightist” blogs or information on the questions I raised, how about enlightening us with “real” info. It will never come”

And it never did. Neither to me nor to ‘Y’

You have been trying to argue the case that MG should not be held responsible for JN’s drinking. OK. If JN was a good PM, no buddy would have bothered. But the debate is that MG chose JN over the collective wisdom of the Congress party who voted for Patel. Gandhi may be considered non-violent, democratic Mahatma, but some of his actions were hardly democratic. Therefore people have every write to question his actions and choices he made. It is a pity that in our country we have lost the art of debate. It was ability to question that gave Hindus so many various schools of thought.

Hence it must be said that you have continued to produce “High Decibel Farts” rather than answering. You may still continue to hide behind the cloak of us “Tom-Dick-Harry’s” not being worthy of your response, but the fact is (till now) you don’t have those answers. So stop this charade.

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“Frankly, ‘Y’, if you believe that any ‘Tom-Dick-Harry’ is better at making informed conclusions of the ‘Worthiness’ of Nobel Peace Prize than the Nobel Peace Committee itself then that’s your delusional choice, not mine; and I hope to God that others here do not share the same view as yours.”

I am sure you are applauding the European Union peace prize and also selection of Obama. Only you

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can figure out their peace efforts though… Type in

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“But hey, from the above point that I made it is clear to us what is your thinking ability. Best that I ignore your rather uneducated comments that are totally contrary to the spirit of the debate and asymptotic (NOT tangential) to the topic at hand.”

“I’m ashamed that people like you are in this forum. I should not have even shown you the decency of a reply!”

Again – it is better for the quality of the debate that you stop pretending as if u r superior

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“That had nothing to do with the debate at hand and again was tangential to this discussion but Vineet wouldn’t listen”

“Furhtermore, if you had taken the pain to read my discussion with Vineet and the specific context in which I made that point you would never have taken to reiterating it. But sadly, you still did it whereas poor Vineet there took my point, chose to either understand or ignore it.”

Poor Vineet asked you several questions which you never answered. Well I guess I had answered, the things I didn’t listen was that I chose not to.

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Regards

28. shankar October 14, 2012 at 7:04 PM

BAGHA JATIN, THE FATHER OF OUR NATION LEGACY OF JATIN MUKHERJEE POPULARLY KNOWN AS BAGHA JATIN (TIGER JATIN): Bagha Jatin , born as Jatindranath Mukherjee was the leader of Yugantar party, a group of patriotic nationalists who wanted the white Christian invader out of India. They knew that the British had sucked out all the wealth of India and in 250 years flat reduced India from the richest country on the planet to the poorest. The British East India Company was owned by Rothschild who grew opium in India and sold it in China. Rothschild controlled India, and the John Bull British soldier in India thought that they were fighting for Queen and country– while they were actually fighting for a German Jew. Jatindranath Mukherjee founded PATHURIAGHATA BYAM SAMITY which was n important centre os armed revoloulion of indian national movement. They are engaged in night schools for adults, homoeopathic dispensaries, workshops to encourage small scale cottage industries, experiments in agriculture. Since 1906, with the help of Sir Daniel, Jatin had been sending meritorious students abroad for higher studies as well as for learning military craft. In 1900, BAGHA JATIN upon returning to his native village Koya in March 1906, JATIN learned about the disturbing presence of a leopard in the vicinity; while reconnoitring in the nearby jungle, he came across a Royal Bengal tiger and fought hand-to-hand with it. Mortally wounded, he managed to strike with a Gorkha dagger (Khukuri) on the tiger’s neck, killing it instantly. The famous surgeon of Calcutta, Lt-Colonel Suresh Sarbadhikari, “took upon himself the responsibility for curing the fatally wounded patient whose whole body had been poisoned by the tiger’s nails.” Impressed by Jatin’s exemplary heroism, Dr Sarbadhikari published an article about BAGHA JATIN in the English press. The Government of Bengal awarded him a silver shield with the scene of him killing the tiger engraved on it. For the uninitiated a Bengal tiger is larger than their cousins elsewhere on the planet. When a Bengal tiger roars in anger, the African lion will freeze due to the infra sound.

BAGHA JATIN (Tiger Jatin), born Jatindranath Mukherjee (7 December 1879 – 10 September 1915) was an Bengali revolutionary philosopher against British rule. The Master taught him the art of conquering libido before raising a batch of young volunteers “with iron muscles and nerves of steel”, to serve miserable compatriots during famines, epidemics and floods, and running clubs for “man-making” in the context of a nation under foreign domination. They soon assisted , the Swami’s Irish disciple, in this venture.

Having personally met the German Crown-Prince in Calcutta shortly before , he obtained the promise of arms and ammunition from Germany; as such, he was responsible for the planned German Plot during World War I. Shortly after when World War I broke out, in September 1914, an International Pro-India Committee was formed at Zurich. Very soon it merges into a bigger body, to form the , or the Indian Independence Party, led by Virendranath Chattopadhyaya : it gained the support of the German government and had as members prominent Indian revolutionaries abroad, including leaders of the Ghadar Party. Militants of the Gadhar party started leaving for India, to join the proposed uprising inside India during World War I, with the help of arms, ammunition, and

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funds promised by the German government. Advised by Berlin, Ambassador Bernstorff in Washington Type in arranged with Von Papen, his Military attaché, to send cargo consignments from California to the coast of the Bay of Bengal, via Far East.

GANDHI NEVER MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONDEMN BAGHA JATIN ALTHOUGH In 1925, Gandhi told , the Intelligence Chief and Police Commissioner of Bengal that Jatin Mukherjee, generally referred to as “BAGHA JATIN ”, was “a divine personality. According to J. E. Armstrong, Superintendent of the colonial Police, JATIN “owed his preeminent position in revolutionary circles, to his qualities of leadership.”

Charles Tegart, the Intelligence Chief and Police Commissioner of Bengal had once told his colleagues that if BAGHA JATIN were an Englishman, then the English people would have built his statue next to Nelson’s at Trafalgar Square. In his note to J.E. Francis of the India Office in 1926, he described Bengali revolutionaries as “the most selfless political workers in India” BAGHA JATIN had a natural respect for the human creature, heedless of class or caste or religions. He carried for an aged Muslim villager a heavy bundle of fodder and, on reaching her hut, he shared with her the only platter of rice she had, and sent her some money every month. He was the principal leader of the Yugantar party that was the central association of revolutionaries in Bengal.

Inspired by Swami Vivekananda, Jatin expressed his ideals in simple words: “Amra morbo, jagat jagbe” — “WE SHALL DIE TO AWEKAN THE NATION”.It is corroborated in the tribute paid to JATIN by Charles Tegart, the Intelligence Chief and Police Commissioner of Bengal : “THOUGH I HAD TO DO MY DUTY, I HAVE A great admiration for him. He died in an open fight.” Later in life, Tegart admitted : “Their driving power immense: if the army could be raised or the arms could reach an Indian port, the British would lose the War”. Professor Tripathi analysed the added dimensions revealed by the Case proceedings: acquire arms locally and abroad; raise a guerrilla; create a rising with Indian soldiers; BAGHA JATIN ‘s action helped improve (especially economically) the people’s status. “He had indeed an ambitious dream.”

Finances were taken care of by Jatin. He masterminded a series of daring robberies, from Rothschild’s banks. Plus Indians abroad opened out their purse strings.

Another of his original contributions was the indoctrination of the Indian soldiers in various regiments in favour of an insurrection.

As Jatin grew older, he gained a reputation for physical bravery and great strength; charitable and cheerful by nature, he was fond of caricature and enacting mythological plays, himself playing the roles of god-loving characters like Prahlad, Dhruva, Hanuman, Râja Harish Chandra. He not only encouraged several playwrights to produce patriotic pieces for the urban stage, but also engaged village bards to spread nationalist fervour in the countryside. After passing the Entrance examination in 1895, BAGHA JATIN joined the Calcutta Central College (now College), to study Fine Arts. At the same time, he took lessons in steno typing with Mr Atkinson: this is a new qualification opening possibilities of a coveted career. Soon he started visiting Swami Vivekananda, whose social thought, and especially his vision of a politically independent India – indispensable for the spiritual progress of humanity – had a great influence on Jatin.

..”Noticing his ardent desire to die for a cause, Vivekananda sent BAGHA JATIN to the Gymnasium of Ambu Guha where he himself had practised wrestling. BAGHA JATIN met here, among others, Sachin Banerjee, son of Yogendra Vidyabhushan (a popular author of biographies like Mazzini and Garibaldi), who turned into BAGHA JATIN’s mentor.

Fed up with the colonial system of education, Jatin left for Muzaffarpore in 1899, as secretary of barrister Pringle Kennedy, founder and editor of the Trihoot Courrier. He was impressed by this historian: through his editorials and from the Congress platform, he showed how urgent it was to have an and to react against the British squandering of Indian budget to safeguard their interests in China and elsewhere.

According to Daly’s Report: “A secret meeting was held in Calcutta about the year 1900 The meeting resolved to start secret societies with the object of assassinating officials and supporters of Government . One of the first to flourish was at Kushtea, in the . This was organised by one Jotindra Nath Mukherjee as being among the founders of the , and as a pioneer in creating its branches in the districts..”. Nixon reports further : “The earliest known attempts in Bengal to promote societies for political or semi-political ends are associated with the names of the late P. Mitter, Barrister-at-Law, Miss Saralabala Ghosal and a Japanese named Okakura. These activities commenced in Calcutta somewhere about the year 1900, and are said to have spread to many of the districts of Bengal and to have flourished particularly at Kushtia, where Jatindra Nath Mukharji was leader.”Bhavabhushan Mitra’s written notes precise his presence along with Jatindra Nath during the first meeting. A branch of this organisation (Anushilan Samiti), was to be inaugurated in Dacca. In 1903, on meeting at Yogendra Vidyabhushan’s place, Jatin decides to collaborate with him and is said to have added to his programme the clause of winning over the Indian soldiers of the British regiments in favour of an insurrection. W. Sealy in his report on “Connections with Bihar and Orissa” notes that Jatin Mukherjee “a close confederate of Nani Gopal Sen Gupta of the Howrah Gang worked directly

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In 1905, during a procession to celebrate the visit of the Prince of Wales at Calcutta, Jatin decides to draw the attention of the future Emperor on the behaviour of HM’s English officers. Not far from the royal coach, he singles out a cabriolet on a side-lane, with a group of English military men sitting on its roof, their booted legs dangling against the windows, seriously disturbing the livid faces of a few native ladies. Stopping beside the cab, BAGHA JATIN asks the fellows to leave the ladies alone. In response to their cheeky provocation, Jatin rushes up to the roof and fells them with pure Bengali slaps till they drop on the ground. The show is not innocent BAGHA JATIN is well aware that John Morley, the Secretary of State, receives regularly complaints about the English attitude towards Indian citizens, “The use of rough language and pretty free use of whips and sticks, and brutalities of that sort…” He will be further intimated that the Prince of Wales, “on his return from the Indian tour had a long conversation with Morley [10/5/1906] He spoke of the ungracious bearing of Europeans to Indians.” Jatin, together with Barindra Ghosh, set up a bomb factory near Deoghar, while Barin was to do the same at in Calcutta. Whereas Jatin disapproved of all untimely terrorist action, Barin led an organisation centred around his own personality : his aim was, aside from the general production of terror, the elimination of certain Indian and British officers serving the Crown. Side by side, BAGHA JATIN developed a decentralised federated body of loose autonomous regional cells. Organising relentless relief missions with a para medical body of volunteers following almost a military discipline, during natural calamities such as floods, epidemics, or religious congregations like the Ardhodaya and the Kumbha mela, or the annual celebration of Ramakrishna’s birth, Jatin was suspected of utilising these as pretexts for group discussions with regional leaders and recruiting new freedom fighters to fight the supporters of the Britain.

Duly appreciated for his professional competence, in 1907 BAGHA JATIN was “sent to on some special work,” for a period of three years. “From early youth he had the reputation of a local Sandow and he soon attracted attention in Darjeeling in cases in which he tried to measure the strength with Europeans. In 1908 he was leader of one of several gangs that had sprung up in Darjeeling, whose object was the spreading of dissatisfaction, and with his associates he started a branch of the Anushilan Samiti, called the Bandhab Samiti.” In April 1908, in railway station, BAGHA JATIN got involved in a fight with a group of English military officers headed by Captain Murphy and Lt Somerville, leading to legal proceedings, widely covered by the press. On observing the gleeful animosity created by the news of a few Englishmen thrashed single-handed by an Indian, Wheeler advised the officers to withdraw the case. Warned by the Magistrate to behave properly in the future, Jatin regretted that he would not refrain from taking similar action in self-defence or in the vindication of the rights of his countrymen.One day, in a pleasant mood, Wheeler asked BAGHA JATIN : “With how many can you fight all alone ?” The prompt reply was : “Not a single one, if it is a question of honest people; otherwise, as many as you can imagine!”

In 1908 Jatin was not one of over thirty revolutionaries accused in the Bomb Case following the incident at . Hence, during the Alipore trial, Jatin took over the leadership of the secret society to be known as the Party, and revitalises the links between the central organisation in Calcutta and its several branches spread all over Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and several places in U.P.. Through Justice Sarada Charan Mitra, Jatin leases from Sir Daniel Hamilton lands in the to shelter revolutionaries not yet arrested.. Repressive measures in series were introduced to quench the rising sedition since the agitations against the Partition of Bengal in 1905. Protesting against these repressions and organising the defence of the militants under trial in the Alipore Case, Jatin issued a series of dazzling actions of daring and desperate self-sacrifice in Calcutta and in the districts “to revive the confidence of the people in the movement. These brought him into the limelight of revolutionary leadership although hardly anybody outside the innermost circle ever suspected his connection with those acts. Secrecy was absolute in those days – particularly with BAGHA JATIN.” Almost contemporaneous with the anarchist gang of Bonnot well known in France, Jatin invented and introduced in India bank robbery on automobile taxi-cabs, « a new feature in revolutionary crime. Several outrages were committed : for instance, in 1908, on 2 June and 29 November; an attempt to assassinate the Lt Governor of Bengal on 7 November 1908; in 1909, on 27 February, 23 April, 16 August, 24 September and 28 October; two – of the Prosecutor Ashutosh Biswas (on 10 February 1909) and the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Samsul Alam (on 24 January 1910): both these officers had been determined to get all the accused condemned. Arrested, outwitted by the Police, BIREN DATTA-GUPTA, the latter’s assassin, disclosed Jatin’s name as his leader.

On 25 January 1910, “with the gloom of his hanging over everyone”, the Viceroy Minto declared openly : “A spirit hitherto unknown to India has come into existence , a spirit of anarchy and lawlessness which seeks to subvert not only British rule but the Governments of Indian chiefs…” On 27 January 1910, BAGHA JATIN was arrested in connection with this murder, but was released, to be immediately re-arrested along with forty-six others in connection with the Howrah-Sibpur conspiracy case, popularly known as the Howrah Gang Case. The major charge against Jatin Mukherjee and his party during the trial (1910–1911) was “conspiracy to wage war against the King-Emperor” and “tampering with the loyalty of the Indian soldiers” (mainly with the 10th Jats Regiment) posted in Fort William, and soldiers in Upper Indian Cantonments. While held in Howrah jail, awaiting trial, BAGHA JATIN made contact with a few fellow prisoners, prominent revolutionaries belonging to various groups operating in different parts of Bengal, who were

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all accused in this case. He was also informed by his emissaries abroad that very soon Germany was to Type in declare war against . Jatin counted heavily on this war to organise an armed uprising along with Indian soldiers in various regiments.

The Howrah-Sibpur conspiracy case

The case failed because of lack of proper evidence thanks to BAGHA JATIN ‘s policy of a loose decentralised organisation federating scores of regional units, as observed by F.C. Daly more than once: “The gang is a heterogeneous one, with several advisers and petty chiefs… From information we have on record we may divide the gang into four parts: (1) , (2) Influential supporters, (3) Leaders, (4) Members.”J.C. Nixon’s report is more explicit : “Although a separate name and a separate individuality have been given to these various parties in this account of them, and although such a distinction was probably observed amongst the minor members, it is very clear that the bigger figures were in close communication with one another and were frequently accepted members of two or more of these samitis. It may be taken that at some time these various parties were engaged in anarchical crime independently, although in their revolutionary aims and usually in their origins they were all very closely related.”Several observers pinpointed Jatin so accurately that the newly appointed Viceroy Lord Hardinge wrote more explicitly to Earl Crewe (H.M.’s Secretary of State for India): “As regards prosecution, I deprecate the net being thrown so wide; as for example in the Howrah Gang Case, where 47 persons are being prosecuted, of whom only one is, I believe, the real criminal. If a concentrated effort had been made to convict this one criminal, I think it would have had a better effect than the prosecution of 46 misguided youths.” On 28 May 1911, Hardinge recognised : “The 10th Jats case was part and parcel of the Howrah Gang Case; and with the failure in the latter, the Government of Bengal realised the futility of proceeding with the former… In fact, nothing could be worse, in my opinion, than the condition of Bengal and Eastern Bengal. There is practically no Government in either province…”

Jatin was acquitted in February 1911 and released. Immediately, he suspended terrorism. This lull proved Jatin’s full command of violence as an antidote, contrary to the Chauri Chaura fiasco after him. During the German Crown Prince’s visit to Calcutta, BAGHA JATIN met him and received a promise about arms supply. Having lost his government job – and home interned -, he managed to leave Calcutta, to start a contract business constructing the –Jhenaidah railway line. This provided him with a valid pretext and an ample scope to move about on horse-back or on bicycle to consolidate not only the district units in Bengal, but also to revitalise those in other provinces. Jatin with his family set out on a pilgrimage, and at Haridwar visited his , Bholananda Giri. BAGHA JATIN went on to Brindavan where he met Swami Niralamba (who had been Jatindra Nath Banerjee, the renowned revolutionary, before leading a sanyasi’s life); he had continued preaching in Sri Aurobindo’s doctrine of a revolution.

Niralamba gave BAGHA JATIN complementary information about, and links to, the units set up by him in and the Punjab. An important part of revolutionary activities in these regions were led by Rasbehari Bose and his associate Lala Hardayal. On returning from his pilgrimage, Jatin started reorganising Jugantar accordingly. During the Damodar flood in 1913, mainly in the districts of Burdwan and , relief work brought together leaders of various groups : BAGHA JATIN “never asserted his leadership, but the party members in the different districts acclaimed him as their leader.”

Drawn by Jatin’s relief work during the flood, Rasbehari Bose left Benares to join him : the contact with Jatin added a new impulse to Bose’s revolutionary zeal : in Jatin, he discovered “a real leader of men” At the close of 1913, Bose met BAGHA JATIN to discuss the possibilities of an All-India armed rising of 1857 type. Impressed by Jatin’s “fiery energy and personality”, Bose renewed negotiation with the native officers posted at the Fort William of Calcutta, the nerve centre of the various regiments of the colonial Army, before returning to Benares “to organise the scattered forces.”

There were also attempts to organise expatriate Indian revolutionaries in Europe and the United States. Jatin’s influence was international. The Bengali best seller Dhan Gopal Mukerji, settled in New York and, at the summit of his glory, was to write : «Before 1914 we succeeded in disturbing the equilibrium of the government… Then extraordinary powers were given to the police, who called us anarchists in order to prejudice us forever in the eyes of the world… Dost thou remember Jyotin, our cousin – he that once killed a leopard with a dagger, putting his left elbow in the leopard’s mouth and with his right hand thrusting the knife through the brute’s eye deep into its brain ? He was a very great man and our first leader. He could think of God ten days at a stretch, but he was doomed when the Government found out that he was our head.”

Right since 1907, Jatin’s emissary, Taraknath Das had been organising, with Guran Ditt Kumar and Surendramohan Bose, evening schools for Indian immigrants (a majority of them Hindus and ) between and San Francisco, through Seattle and Portland : in addition to learning how to read and write simple English, they were informed about their rights in the USA and their duty towards Mother India : two periodicals – Free Hindustan (In English, sponsored by local Irish revolutionaries) and Swadesh Sevak (‘Servants of the Motherland’, in Gurumukhi) – became increasingly popular. In regular contact with Calcutta and London (where the organisation was managed by Shyamji Krishnavarma), Das wrote regularly to personalities throughout the world (like Leo Tolstoy and Éamon de Valera). In May 1913, Kumar left for Manilla to create a satellite linking Asia with the American West coast. Familiar with the doctrine of Sri Aurobindo and an erstwhile follower of Rasbehari Bose, in 1913, invited by Das, resigned from his teaching job at the University of Berkeley,

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coaxed by Jiten Lahiri (one of Jatin’s emissaries) of wasting his time in daydreaming, Har Dayal set Type in out on a lecture tour covering the major centres of Indian immigrants; enlivened by their ardent patriotism, he preached open revolt against the English rulers of India. Welcomed by the Indian militants of San Francisco, in November, he founded his journal Ghadar (‘Revolt’) and the Yugantar Ashram, as a tribute to Sri Aurobindo. The Sikh community also became involved in the movement. During World War I

These efforts were directly connected with the Jugantar, under Jatin’s leadership, in its planning and organising an armed revolt. Rasbehari Bose assumed the task of carrying out the plan in Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab. This international chain work conceived by Jatin came to be known as the German Plot, the Indo-German Conspiracy, or the Zimmermann Plan. Jugantar started to collect funds by organising a series of (armed robberies) known as “Taxicab dacoities” and “Boat dacoities”. Charles Tegart, in his “Report No. V” on the seditious organisations mentions the “certain amount of success” in the contact that exists between the revolutionaries and the Sikh soldiers posted at Dakshineshwar gunpowder magazine; Jatin Mukherjee in company of Satyendra Sen was seen interviewing these Sikhs. Sen “is the man who came to India with Pingle. Their mission was specially to tamper with the troops. Pingle was captured in the Punjab with bombs and was hanged, while Satyen was interned under Regulation III in the Presidency Jail.” With Jatin’s written instructions, Pingle and met Rasbehari in North India.

Preoccupied by the increasing police activities to prevent any uprising, eminent Jugantar members suggested that Jatin should move to a safer place. on the Orissa coast was selected as a suitable place, being very near the spot where German arms are to be landed for the Indian rising. To facilitate transmission of information to Jatin, a business house under the name “Universal Emporium” was set up, as a branch of Harry & Sons in Calcutta, which had been created for keeping contacts with revolutionaries abroad. Jatin therefore moved to a hideout outside Kaptipada village in the native state of Mayurbhanj, more than thirty miles away from Balasore.

On reaching Orissa, in April, 1915, Jatin sent one of his close associates, Naren Bhattacharya (future M.N. Roy) to Batavia, following instructions from Chatto[disambiguation needed], in order to make a deal with the German authorities concerning financial aid and the supply of arms. Through the German Consul, Naren met Theodore, brother of Karl Helfferich, who assured him that a cargo of arms and ammunition was already on its way, “to assist the Indians in a revolution.”

The Czech interlude

The plot leaked out through Czech revolutionaries who were in touch with their counterparts in the United States. In the beginning of World War I, in 1915, Emanuel Viktor Voska organised the minority of Czech patriots in USA into a network of counter-espionage, putting up to date the spying activity of the German and Austrian diplomats against USA and the Entente powers. (He described these events later in his book Spy and Counter-Spy.) American publicist of Czech origin Ross Hedví?ek claims that had E. V. Voska not interfered in this history, today nobody would have heard about Mahatma Gandhi and the father of the Indian nation would have been Bagha Jatin.B. Jatin wanted to free India from the British hold but he had the idea of allying against them with the Germans from whom he expected to receive arms and other helps. Voska learnt it through his network and, as pro-American, pro-British and anti-German, he spoke of it to T. G. Masaryk. This latter rushed to keep the institutions informed about it. Thus, Voska transmitted it to Masaryk, Masaryk to the Americans, the Americans to the British. T. G. Masaryk mentions all these facts in the English version of the Making of a State. As soon as the information reached the British authorities, they alerted the police, particularly in the delta region of the , and sealed off all the sea approaches on the eastern coast from the Noakhali– side to Orissa. Harry & Sons was raided and searched, and the police found a clue which led them to Kaptipada village, where Jatin was staying with Manoranjan Sengupta and Chittapriya Ray Chaudhuri; a unit of the Police Intelligence Department was dispatched to Balasore.

Jatin was kept informed and was requested to leave his hiding place, but his insistence on taking Niren and Jatish with him delayed his departure by a few hours, by which time a large force of police, headed by top European officers from Calcutta and Balasore, reinforced by the army unit from Chandbali in Mayurbhanj State, had reached the neighbourhood. Jatin and his companions walked through the forests and hills of Mayurbhanj, and after two days reached Balasore Railway Station.

The police had announced a reward for the capture of five fleeing “bandits”, so the local villagers were also in pursuit. With occasional skirmishes, the revolutionaries, running through jungles and marshy land in torrential rain, finally took up position on 9 September 1915 in an improvised trench in undergrowth on a hillock at Chashakhand in Balasore. Chittapriya and his companions asked Jatin to leave and go to safety while they guarded the rear. Jatin, however refused to leave them.

He is regarded as the first freedom fighter to have fought the British police face-to-face near Chasakhand in Balasore. He could have run away from the battle ground but he fought bravely for the motherland and laid down his life.

Bagha Jatin was in the jungle of Kaptipada in Mayurbhanj district planning an attack on the British police when the cops, headed by Charles A. Teggart, surrounded them. They were encountered by the police at Chasakhand, 10km from Balasore, while waiting for the arrival of a consignment of arms on the Balasore coast for an armed rebellion.

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Jatin succumbed to bullet injuries at the district headquarters hospital on September 10, 1915, after he Type in refused to undergo treatment in the hands of British doctors.

Among his aides, Chittapriya Raychaudhary died in the encounter and two others, Manoranjan Sengupta and Birendranath Sengupta, were hanged. Another aide, Jyotish, was sent to in the Andamans

Bagha Jatin is a unsung, sunk ( by Gandhi and Nehru ) hero of our freedom fighting history.

He was a true patriot, not a British stooge like most our famous freedom fighters whom we worship, all false gods, all hand in glove with the enemy , the white Christian invader.

He was intelligent enough to see through the nonsense. The Indian National Congress was created by the invader, with Indian stooges running the show.

Just like Swami Vivekananda, Bagha Jatin saw through all these pseudo freedom fighters of INC — the so called moderates like ,

INC is still being run by pseudo patriots with foreign DNA.

Allan Octavian Hume , a man whom we honour , was very cruel with the Indians sepoys who revolted in 1857. He hid in Agra for a while after quelling the rebellion. In 1885, he was made a double agent by Rothschild , wherein he declared himself as a native of India, and formed INC to fight for India’s freedom. Hume took in another Rothschild recommended double agent Sir William Wedderburn— who had already brainwashed Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Rothschild’s Opium finance agents like Sir Edulji Dinshaw Wacha.

So Wheeler asked him, how many white British soldiers he can take on alone in physical fight . Jatin replied “Not a single one, if they are good people, but if they are goons , as many as you can imagine”

He organized with the help of Chempakaraman Pillai, a German ship fully loaded with arms and ammunition to land on a spot a Balasore beach of Orissa, which he selected personally.

The ship SS Maverick, would have delivered to Jatin 30,000 modern rifles with 400 rounds of ammunitions each gun .

The plot leaked via a Czechoslovakian triple spy in the payroll of Rothschild. The US President Woodrow Wilson gave this information to Rothschild , the US Presidential chair kingmaker.. Rash Behari escaped to Japan in May 1915–as the British were after him.

To facilitate transmission of information to Jatin, a front business house under the name “Universal Emporium” had been set up with Saileswar Bose in charge . This would be a branch of Harry & Sons in Calcutta, which had been created for keeping underground covert contacts with revolutionaries abroad.

As soon as the information reached Rothschild , he forced the British police and military into immediate action. The British sealed off all the sea approaches to Bengal and Orissa. Leaked information led them to Harry & Sons building, which was raided and searched. From here they retrieved a major clue .

A telegram was intercepted by the British. The telegram mentioned, “arrived here, starting tonight for Balasore, expect to meet some one there.” The sending of the telegram and the nexus between Hary & Sons of Calcutta and the Universal Emporium at Balasore led to an enquiry at Balasore by the British police.

The enquiry in turn led to the search of Universal Emporium and its covert doings at Balasore. Saileswar Bose was tortured . British found that that he had visited a god forsaken place Kaptitada on different occasions.

On 6th September 1915, the DistrictMagistrate of Balasore, accompanied by several police officers engaged in the enquiry, went to Kaptipada and learnt that few young Bengalis were living in a house in the jungle about a mile and half away. British police searched the house and found that the group had scooted.

The search party, however, could found some interesting documents, among which were a map of the Sundarbans and a cutting from a Penang paper about the SS Maverick, and it became apparent that the group had firearms in their possession as a tree in the compound showed marks of bullets used for target practice.

Before going underground, Jatindranath entrusted his sister Benodebala with the care of his wife Indubala, his daughter, Ashalata and his two sons, Tejendranath and Birendranath.

A large posse of police, headed by top European officers from Calcutta and Balasore, in tandem with the British army unit from Chandbali in Mayurbhanj State, closed in on Jatin. Jatin and his companions walked through the thick forests , marshy land and hills of Mayurbhanj, and after two days decided to

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dig trenches and fight it out. Type in

Out of hindsight they should NOT have tried this brave but foolish stunt. .This cost India our freedom , while Gandhi was still in South Africa. Jatins comrades in the trench begged him to make a run, but this honorable man would not listen. All were tired, thirsty and hungry after running for 2 days.

The local people had been warned to watch out for 5 escaped criminals carrying a huge bounty on their heads . So Jatin and party had to dodge the villagers too. .

The posse of British soldiers surrounded the trench. A fierce gunfight ensued, lasting nearly two hours. Jatin Bagha and his five comrades were lightly armed and had limited bullets for their German Mauser pistols, while the police had modern long range rifles and grenades, which they kept lobbing.

The fight on 10th Sept 1915, ended with an unrecorded number of casualties on the British side Government side; on the revolutionary side, Ray Chaudhuri and Jatin Bagha died. Jatish Mukherjee was seriously wounded, and Manoranjan Sengupta and Niren Dasgupta were captured after their ammunition ran out. Sengupta and Dasgupta were executed after a speedy trial..

The last words Jatin Mukherjee uttered were : “My wounds are still bleeding , or what ?

During the trial, the prosecuting British Official advised the Defence laywer to read a manuscript by Jatin Bagha . Impressed he remarked:” Were this man of such great vision alive, he would have led the world !”.

MN Roy later said “ Jatin Bagha was the first Indian to die fighting, arm in hand “

29. SM Krishna October 14, 2012 at 6:47 PM

Y,

Clarifying and concluding points.

1. If you took my defence as your derogation, I can’t help but press my tongue against my cheek to suppress that uncontrollable smile.

2. The things I said that were ostensibly not related to this debate were initially required to be said in the context of a discussion with others in order to make my point (Mao-Stalin reference. Onus of Proof reference). The people who were involved in that discussion were not offended or did not contest it further. It is you who chose to override them and take it to levels of being an asymptote NOT just tangential to the discussion here, perhaps you had not read the whole discussion.

3. Oh, definitely! I’m not here to discuss any sayings or proverbs and neither am I here to discuss yours or mine ‘personally identifiable information’. But I showed to the people here that you were being an imbecile and thinking on the lines of and Fascism. I have similarly chastised others here who were being contrary to the spirit of the debate, even though their viewpoints were supportive of mine. (Sigh, I repeat *if only* you had taken the pains…)

On that note, let’s leave it to the readers to decide who was working contrary to the spirit of the debate.

Thanks,

30. Y October 14, 2012 at 11:51 AM

S.M.Krishna,

Like all those, who desperately cling onto the silly ideas of gandhian type of ‘ahimsa’ and thereby overlook / ignore even the basic rational thinking, you too have been a casualty. You have conveniently chose to ignore the fact that MKG had an option to distance himself from JN , which he did not. Conveniently bending/ignoring of the principles whenever it becomes ‘inconvenient’ is a classic example of .

By not taking on a little ‘pain’ of finding the worthiness of araphat for his ‘peace’ efforts, you have invariably bypassed rational judgment . By resorting to accuse me of not taking any ‘pains’ its again you who have demonstrated the hypocrisy . FYI: Tom-Dick-Harry is a phrase to mean the common man. This common man is wise enough to make his own judgements & there is no reason for anyone to belittle his judgement. In forums like this one has to put his views in a concise manner and not resort to writing novels. So it

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would have been appreciated if you had focused on the theme of discussion rather than trying to divert Type in the topic by talking about use of phrases and proverbs.

Well, let me clarify. You have chosen to put blind faith on the nobel committee in their decision but not resorted to rational judgment. It is crystal clear that the ‘peace’ prize has, in the past, been handed over under heavy political influence. Awarding the prize to someone like araphat is one of the biggest blunder one can make for which there is enough evidence to prove. Alas! One has to shed the cloak of denial and ignorance, only then is it possible to realize this. If still you cant understand the crux of the discussion then it is your thinking which is not even close to that of the Toms & Dick and Harrys. To top it all, your response is evidence of the classic gandhian manner of resorting to demeaning & insulting remarks whenever the loopholes/flaws are pointed out.

I only asked for details on information which you, on your own, had chosen to provide. If you think by doing so will jeopardize your safety, & thereby not declare it, it is fine with me. But then atleast don’t make statements which you yourself cannot support with evidence ; least-of-all ,continue to accuse others in a disgraceful manner, should anyone want to verify them. By the way, your mention of your involvement in rss shakhas was tangential to the discussion in itself. No one had asked for it , neither was rss anywhere in sandeps article. If Mr. XYZ had made any reference to congess then he was referring to the ideologies that the political party (read: bunch of barefaced liar and hooligans) subscribes to. Not necessarily physically associating oneself to it.

Please be advised that whenever any individual voluntarily participates in an open discussion it invariably becomes ones duty to clarify one stance and respond to the queries/objections to his/her statements raised by other participants. Replying , clarifying and responding is an obligation not an option. So please stop flaunting your bravado and claiming your ‘decency’. If you really intend to demonstrate any decent behavior then it should be with modesty, not through derogatory remarks overflowing with arrogance, cause it will just expose your vile attitude.

31. shankar October 13, 2012 at 8:24 PM

True, Mahatma Gandhi is a hero to world but India — na-na-na naare naare — we remember him ONLY on 2nd October every year and DD telecasts that Ben Kingsley portrayal — congressmen pay homage and sing bhajans Vaishnav Jan to tene kahiye — and that’s it.

MAHATMA GANDHI KI JAI! MAHATMA GANDHI KI JAI!! MAHATMA GANDHI KI JAI!!!

32. OM October 13, 2012 at 8:16 PM

This is part of what Gandhi was all about . Documented facts. In the wake of partition most of the Hindu families became victims of Muslim oppression and raping Hindu women was an inseparable part of their attacks. When Hindus were butchered in Noakhali in 1946, thousands of Hindu women were raped by the Muslims. Many Hindus of this country do not know, what Gandhi, the Great Soul and the Apostle of nonviolence, thought about this behavior of the Muslims. In the 6th July, 1926, edition of the Navajivan, Gandhi wrote that “He would kiss the feet of the (Muslim) violator of the modesty of a sister” (Mahatma Gandhi, D Keer, Popular Prakashan, p-473). Just before the partition, both Hindu and Sikh women were being raped by the Muslims in large numbers. Gandhi advised them that if a Muslim expressed his desire to rape a Hindu or a Sikh lady, she should never refuse him but cooperate with him. She should lie down like a dead with her tongue in between her teeth. Thus the rapist Muslim will be satisfied soon and sooner he leave her. (D Lapierre and L Collins, Freedom at Midnight, Vikas, 1997, p-479). From the above narrations, it becomes evident that Gandhi was never moved by the sufferings and miseries of the Hindus and, on the contrary, he used to shed tears for the Muslims. His idea of Hindu-Muslim amity was also extremely biased and prejudiced. Only Hindus are supposed to make all sacrifices for it and they should endure all the oppressions and heinous crimes of the Muslims without protest. And that was the basis of Gandhian nonviolence and secularism. So a Muslim called Khlifa Haji Mehmud of Lurwani, Sind, once said “Gandhi was really a Mohammedan” (D Keer, ibid, p-237)

33. karan October 13, 2012 at 7:50 PM

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Just before the partition, both Hindu and Sikh women were being raped by the Muslims in large Type in numbers. Gandhi advised them that if a Muslim expressed his desire to rape a Hindu or a Sikh lady, she should never refuse him but cooperate with him. She should lie down like a dead with her tongue in between her teeth. Thus the rapist Muslim will be satisfied soon and sooner he leave her. (D Lapierre and L Collins, Freedom at Midnight, Vikas, 1997, p-479).

Long live the MAHATMA! Shall we recommend him for Nobel Peace prize?

34. nash October 13, 2012 at 7:46 PM

om and karan

The dreams and fantasies of these great authors are appealing on the first read.Yet to read a critique (good one)of these authors.No wonder the savior got influenced with those writings.Anyways the herbs grown in the backyard are not medicine.I do not know why the white color appeals so much to our folk.If this small flaw was not their in our system,may be we would be in better circumstances.

35. karan October 13, 2012 at 6:26 PM

The famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy ( like Karl Marx ) was a crypto-jew. He wrote in 1891 as follows:

“The Jew was the pioneer of civilization, many thousands of years before the birth of Christ when the ancient world was surrounded with an impregnable wall of barbarism and rudeness.

The prevailing rule in the land of Israel was that each individual was obligated to teach those who were uneducated or those unable to read or write… the Jews have and always will adhere, support and spread the idea of liberty, civilization and religious tolerance.”

“What is the Jew?…What kind of unique creature is this whom all the rulers of all the nations of the world have disgraced and crushed and expelled and destroyed; persecuted, burned and drowned, and who, despite their anger and their fury, continues to live and to flourish.

What is this Jew whom they have never succeeded in enticing with all the enticements in the world, whose oppressors and persecutors only suggested that he deny (and disown) his religion and cast aside the faithfulness of his ancestors?!

The Jew – is the symbol of eternity. … He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear. The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity.”

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy achieved his place as one of the greatest Russian writers of all time, with Rothschild’s support. His average books War and Peace, and Anna Karenina, were made out to be classics by the Rothschild held media. Rothschild made Tolstoy brainwash young and gullible Mohandas Gandhi with the idea of nonviolent resistance .

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