OUR FREEDOM MOVEMENT HAD BEEN QUITE EXTENSIVE, SPANNING ALMOST TWO CENTURIES ( IT IS STILL GOING ON TO SHAKE OFF BRITISHO-CRACY AND INSTAL BHARATIYO-CRACY ). THERE WERE SEVERAL PERSONALITIES WHO CONTRIBUTED THEIR MIGHT TO THE MOVEMENT. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A MATTER OF SPECULATION BEFORE HISTORIANS AS TO WHO WAS EXACTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF FREEDOM, PARTICULARLY IN VIEW OF GANDHI'S ROLE, WHATSOEVER. FOR THE MOVEMENT TO ATTAIN INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITISH PLUNDERERS, THESE WERE THE THREE PERSONALITIES WHO CAUSED STRATEGIC TURNAROUND AT CRUCIAL JUNCTURES AND IMPARTED THE THRUST OF DECISIVE BLOW TO ENSURE THEIR OUSTER FROM THE COUNTRY. MANGAL PANDEY. PROVIDED THE SPARK OF 1857 REVOLUTION WHEREIN 3,64,000 'FIRANGIs' WERE BEHEADED WITH SWORDS. THE IMPETUS THAT THIS GREAT REVOLUTIONARY PROVIDED, THE MASS REVOLT THAT HE UNLEASHED, CHILLED 'FIRANGIs' TO THEIR BONES. THOSE COLOURLESS DAYLIGHT PLUNDERERS / DACOITS FROM 'GREAT' BRITAIN HAD THEN, FIRST-HAND MAIDEN EXPERIENCE OF HINDU FEROCITY. FOR THE FIRST TIME THEY DISCOVERED THEMSELVES MILITARILY WEAK AND SUSCEPTIBLE, IN SPITE OF THEIR MASSIVE GUN-POWER. 1857 WAS A PERFECT MASS REVOLUTION IN SPITE OF IT'S BEING AN UNORGANISED SUDDEN OUTBURST OF HINDU-WRATH, WHICH SUCCEEDED VERY WELL IN SHAKING THE PETTY, HAUGHTY EMPIRE BASED IN LONDON.
LOKMANYA TILAK. THE ECONOMIC BLOCKADE THAT HE UNLEASHED ON A MASS SCALE THROUGH HIS 'SWADESHI ANDOLAN' WAS A MARVELLOUS MASTER-STROKE OF STRATEGY TO SHAKE THEM OUT OF THEIR TREASURY OF LOOT AND PLUNDER. HE WONDERFULLY BLENDED IT WITH 'SATYAGRAH' THAT MADE 'SWADESHI ANDOLAN' A LETHAL WEAPON TO STRIKE AT THEM. HE EFFECTIVELY HUMBLED THE 'PINDARI' EMPIRE OF LONDON, PROVED THEM HIGHLY SUSCEPTIBLE ECONOMICALLY TO BRAIN-POWER. HE MARVELLOUSLY DISPLAYED BEFORE THE WORLD AND PROVED BEYOND AN IOTA OF DOUBT, ENTIRE BRITISH WEALTH / SPLENDOUR WAS JUST LOOT & PLUNDER AND NOTHING ELSE.
NETAJI BOSE. HE PROVIDED THE FINAL, DECISIVE BLOW TO THE 'FIRANGIs' THROUGH HIS INA. WHEN INA STARTED ADVANCING TOWARDS INDIA, BRITISH PLUNDERERS WERE MORTALLY SCARED... HORROR MEMORIES OF 3,64,000 'FIRANGIs' BEING BEHEADED IN 1857 CAME BACK AFRESH WITH A BANG INTO THEIR BRAINS. TO SAVE THEIR LIVES, THEY QUIT FOR THE BETTER. NETAJI'S DECISIVE ROLE WAS CONFIRMED LATER BY THE THEN BRITISH PRIME MINISTER CLEMENT ATTLEE IN KOLKATA, YEARS AFTER HE RELINQUISHED OFFICE.
THESE WERE THE NATIONALISTS WHO SHOULD TO BE WORSHIPPED BY THE ENTIRE NATION. I DO NOT INTEND TO BELITTLE ROLES OF OTHER HEROES OF FREEDOM MOVEMENT. THEY CONTRIBUTED IMMENSELY BY KEEPING THE CAULDRON BOILING. HOWEVER, DECISIVE AND STRATEGIC THRUSTS AT THE MOST CRITICAL / VULNERABLE POINTS OF HISTORY WERE PROVIDED BY ONLY THESE THREE FREEDOM FIGHTERS. NO OTHER FREEDOM FIGHTER WORTH HIS / HER SALT CAN MATCH THEIR STRATEGIC INPUT / CONTRIBUTION.
I CALL UPON HISTORIANS OF ALL HUES, 'EMINENT' AS WELL AS NOT SO EMINENT, FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO REACT AND DEMOLISH THESE OBSERVATIONS BASED ON FACTS AND FIGURES.
LET US ALSO LOOK AT THE OTHER ASPECT OF THIS FREEDOM PHENOMENON.
COUNTRY ATTAINED PARTIAL FREEDOM THROUGH INDIA INDEPENDENCE ACT 1947 PASSED BY THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT ( WHAT A MONUMENTAL SHAME !! OUR INDEPENDENCE BEING ENACTED BY A CONCLAVE OF PINDARIs / LOOTERs / PLUNDERERS IN A FOREIGN LAND !!! ) AND TRANSFER OF POWER AGREEMENT 1947 WAS SIGNED BY MOUNTBATTEN AND OUR 'RANGILA RATAN' PRIME MINISTER NEHRU. LADY EDWINA MOUNTBATTEN FACILITATED THE PROCESS IN HER 'BEST POSSIBLE WAY' WITH THE CONSENT OF HER 'BONAFIDE' HUSBAND, 'LORD' MOUNTBATTEN ( EVERY BRIT WANTS TO 'LORD' OVER THE WORLD !! ). THE INDEPENDENCE REMAINED PARTIAL IN ALL RESPECTS OWING TO THE HIGHLY REPREHENSIBLE ROLES PLAYED BY THIS TROIKA OF DOUBLE PARTITION, ON TWO SIDES OF THE COUNTRY, EAST AND WEST.
MAHATMA Das Mohammed Karim Chandra Gandhi, CONGRESS-PITAA & RASHTRA-KAPUT. BY 1947 HE WAS MENTALLY DERANGED. THIS LUNATIC FELLOW BELIEVED, FREEDOM COULD BE ATTAINED BY DRINKING GOAT'S MILK AFTER TAKING COLONIAL, COLOURLESS, CAUCASIAN SLAPS ON BOTH CHEEKS. BUT THIS CONFIRMED ENEMY OF HINDUs COULD NOT DO ANYTHING WHENEVER MUSLIMs SLAUGHTERED HIS GOATS, 'SLAPPED' HINDUs. I BELIEVE, THIS ENEMY OF HINDUs WAS DESERVEDLY SLAPPED WITH A BULLET BY A GREAT HINDU-NATIONALIST OTHERWISE COUNTRY WOULD HAVE CERTAINLY WITNESSED THIRD PARTITION IN HYDERABAD. IN RESPONSE TO A POINTED QUESTION, THE SAME CLEMENT ATTLEE CONFIRMED, GANDHI'S 'CHARKHA-BAKARI-KHICHRI ANDOLAN' FOR INDEPENDENCE DID NOT MATTER TO BRITISHERS AT ALL !!!
'RANGILA RATAN' JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU. HE WAS ALSO KNOWN AS 'PANDIT JI' !!! ALL HIS TOM-TOMMED ACHIEVEMENTS HAVE EITHER CRUMBLED DOWN OR BECOME A LIABILITY FOR THE NATION ( FOR INSTANCE, IITs HE CREATED WITH FANFARE SERVED AMERICA VERY WELL !!! ). IT IS A TRAGI-COMEDY THAT THIS MAN MAINTAINED ( IN THE WORDS OF HIS SISTER VIJAY LAXMI PANDIT !! ) A VERY BEAUTIFUL RALATIONSHIP WITH THE WIFE OF THE OUTGOING VICEROY, FROM WHOM HE WAS TO GRAB FREEDOM & POWER OF THE COUNTRY !! SHE WAS PLANTED BY THE BRITISHERS. YEARS LATER WHEN BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY 'SIR' ALEC DOUGLAS HUME VISITED INDIA, HE WAS PLEASANTLY SURPRISED TO SEE A DOZEN ENGLISH NEWS-PAPERS PUBLISHED FROM NEW DELHI ALONE. HE 'COMPLIMENTED' US FOR CARRYING ON WITH THE BRITISH VALUES, CULTURE & IDEALS !!! THAT WAS THE DIRECTION THAT THIS 'RANGILA RATAN' PRIME MINISTER GAVE TO THE COUNTRY. IT IS A HIMALAYAN SHAME FOR HIS ENTIRE FAMILY AND THE PARTY RUN BY THEM.
QUAID-E-DOZAKH MOHEMMED ALI JINNAH. HE HAS ALREADY BEEN CONDEMNED ( AND ADMIRED TOO BY PEOPLE LIKE 'SAMRAAT' JASWANT SINGH !!! ) A LOT. IT SHALL BE AN INSTANCE OF SELF-CONDEMNATION IF I COMMENT UPON THIS EMACIATED ( IN ALL RESPECTS ) MAN WHO SHOULD EITHER NEVER HAVE BEEN BORN OR ASSASSINATED / DIED LONG BEFORE HIS DEBUT INTO POLITICS.
I HOPE, THIS POST WILL ADD A NEW DIMENSION TO THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTY OF HISTORIANS AND ALL OTHER BHARATIYAs.
VANDE MAATARAM I
RAMAKANT TIWARI
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