Gandhi said if we cooperate with the British they will show ‘mercy’ and listen to our plea of Swarajya or self governance.
Using this logic, he got Indians to do many things, die in Wars of British, cooperate with them even after
Using this logic, he got Indians to do many things, die in Wars of British, cooperate with them even after
Jallianwala massacre because some “reforms” were introduced, etc etc.
How can we call this man learned and a Mahatma, when he clearly had no sense of history and zero understanding of the reality of the cruelty with which British ‘Governed’ the colonies!
Let’s look at
How can we call this man learned and a Mahatma, when he clearly had no sense of history and zero understanding of the reality of the cruelty with which British ‘Governed’ the colonies!
Let’s look at
an incident from History which was recorded by British themselves- Kaye and Malleson’s History of the Indian Mutiny and Charles Ball’s Indian Mutiny Vol 1. They also say ‘it is better not to write anything about General Neil’s revenge!’ Only some incidents
made it in their books.
After the revolution in Benarus was squashed (mind you, it was still done with excellent planning and we can learn a lot about the machinery of Secret Organizations. But betrayal…), General Neil took revenge from
After the revolution in Benarus was squashed (mind you, it was still done with excellent planning and we can learn a lot about the machinery of Secret Organizations. But betrayal…), General Neil took revenge from
defenseless peasants from neighboring villages.
Remember that during this revolution, at many points in this particular province also, British were shown mercy if they surrendered. But what did they do…
Veer Savarkar writes:
We do not say that the English should have
Remember that during this revolution, at many points in this particular province also, British were shown mercy if they surrendered. But what did they do…
Veer Savarkar writes:
We do not say that the English should have
sympathised with Benares in its attempts to attain Swaraj. But we do maintain that the English could never be justified in the atrocities that they committed in the Benares province, so totally incommensurable with the provocation they received either from
the Sepoys Government or the people in that province. That English have never spared to hurl the most vile and lying abuses on the heads of the Revolutionaries, and hence, on all Indians, for their 'cruelties'. Now, when we shall have described below how
a brave commander of the 'civilised' English army treated the people in the Benares province, and when it is said that all the facts that we shall give are from the accounts of the English themselves, it will be superfluous and unnecessary to add anything to it. Let the
imperial world judge for itself.
After the Benares rising, General Neill organised detachments of the English and Sikhs to keep 'order' in the neighbouring villages. These bands used to enter villages occupied by defenceless peasants. Anybody whom they met was either
After the Benares rising, General Neill organised detachments of the English and Sikhs to keep 'order' in the neighbouring villages. These bands used to enter villages occupied by defenceless peasants. Anybody whom they met was either
cut down or hanged. The supply of those to be hanged was so great that one scaffold was soon found to be insufficient, even though worked day and night; therefore, long line of permanent scaffolds was erected. Though, on this long range, people were half killed and
thrown away, still, there was a crowd of waiting candidates! The English officers gave up as hopeless the silly idea of cutting down trees and erecting scaffolds; so, thenceforth, the trees themselves were turned into scaffolds. But if only
one man were to be hanged on each tree, what has God given so many branches to a tree for? So, 'natives', were left hanging on every branch, with their necks tightly roped to them. This 'military duty' and this Christian mission went on incessantly night and day. No wonder
the brave English got tired of it.
So the necessary seriousness in this religious and noble duty was mixed with a little humour for the sake of amusement.
The rude manner of catching hold of peasants and hanging them on the trees was altered to suit the taste of
So the necessary seriousness in this religious and noble duty was mixed with a little humour for the sake of amusement.
The rude manner of catching hold of peasants and hanging them on the trees was altered to suit the taste of
art. They were first made to mount on elephants. Then the elephants were taken near a high branch, and after the necks, were tied tightly to it, the elephants would be moved away. Still, when the elephants were gone, the countless unshapely corpses used to hang on
the branches and the English passers-by were bored with the unchanging monotony of the scene. Therefore, when 'natives' were hanged, instead of being hanged straight they were made into all sorts of figures.
Some were killed in the shape of English figure '8' and some in
Some were killed in the shape of English figure '8' and some in
the shape of 9!
But in spite of these various efforts in different directions, there were still hundreds of thousands of ‘black’ men living! Now, to hang all these would require an amount of rope that could not easily be had! The 'civilised' and
But in spite of these various efforts in different directions, there were still hundreds of thousands of ‘black’ men living! Now, to hang all these would require an amount of rope that could not easily be had! The 'civilised' and
'Christian' nation of England was landed in this unthought-of difficulty. By the grace of their God Himself, they hit upon a new plan, and the first experiment was so successful that, thenceforth, hanging was abandoned for the new and scientific
method. Village after village could thus be razed to the ground! This setting fire to villages on all sides and burning the inhabitants, was so amusing to many Englishmen that they sent letters to England giving a humorous description of these scenes. One Englishman says in
his letter, 'We set fire to a large village which was full of them. We surrounded them, and when they came rushing out of the flames, we shot them!' 10
And was it only a solitary village that was thus treated?
Out of the many batches sent to burn the villages, one
And was it only a solitary village that was thus treated?
Out of the many batches sent to burn the villages, one
officer, out of the many officers of a batch, says of one of his many outings, 'You will, however, be gratified to learn that 20 villages were burned to the ground’.
Does this qualify as a genocide?
So misplaced was the love of Gandhi for
Does this qualify as a genocide?
So misplaced was the love of Gandhi for
the ‘just and civilized’ British, whose colonization of Indians he thought was a blessing.
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