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WIT AND WISDOM OF HAMID DALWAI’ A SECULAR MUSLIM
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WIT AND WISDOM OF HAMID DALWAI’
A SECULAR MUSLIM
Excerpts from his Book "Muslim Politics In Secular India"
MUSLIM POLITICS IN SECULAR INDIA
Scintillating and thought-provoking, this book gives an absorbing summing up of the problem of Muslim communalism in India. It relates Muslim communalism to the make-up of the Indian Muslim mind and its historical background. Balanced and well documented, Mr Dalwai’s analysis of the origin and nature of Muslim communalism has earned him a rapidly increasing audience in recent years. His wide research on this subject leads him to make an eloquent and forceful plea for a movement for modernization, secularization and liberalization as the only long-term solution to the communal problem.
Written in a refreshing, anecdotal style, these essays on the problem of communalism and its remedy will prove invaluable for an understanding of the Indian political scene.
The author, Hamid Dalwai belongs to a middle-class Marathi speaking, Muslim family. A self-educated man, Mr. Dalwai has been active in Politics for many years and is an experienced journalist. In Maharashtra, he is known as a provocative publicist and also as an outstanding short story writer.
1. Foreword by Dr A B Shah, President, Indian Secular Forum
1.1 – Educated Muslims prefer playing safe even though that would mean pandering to the prejudices and superstitions of their less fortunate brethren that Mr. Dalwai is engaged in what may be called a one-man crusade against the obscurantism of Muslim society in India. (pg.6)
1.2 – Mr.Dalwai’s thesis is that the basic malaise of Muslim society (in India as elsewhere with the exception of Turkey and perhaps Tunisia) lies in the fact that ft has never had a renaissance in its entire history of more than thirteen hundred years. (pg.7)
1.3 – However the type of integration that is necessary here cannot be achieved unless Muslims no less than Hindus learn to separate religion from the rights and obligations of citizenship of a modem state. (pg.7)
1.4 – It is difficult for a Hindu to visualize, except by a special effort of reason and the imagination, a mind that is almost totally lacking in the conception of the individual and derives the significance of human life solely from the individual’s membership of a collectivity. (pg. 12)
1.5 – The founder of Islam had therefore also to found a state before its message was fully delivered, let alone developed in contact with a more advanced culture without the attainment of force. (pg.13)
Note: (The founder of Christianity did not found a state, or attempt to do so. The Church’s alliance with the state comes much later.)
1.6- (Dalwai)dwelt at some length on this aspect of Islam as a cultural tradition. The reason is not that Islam is unique in its record of intolerance in the past; it is, rather, that Islam still exhibits the same intolerance of free inquiry and dissent as ft did in less enlightened times. (pg.14)
1.7 – The tragedy of Indian Muslims does not lie so much in the backwardness of a vast majority of them in relation to the Hindus which is only a symptom – as in the unwillingness of educated Muslims to undertake a critical reappraisal of their heritage. (pg. 16)
1.8 – For historical and other reasons, the Hindu is at an advantage in this respect. But precisely because of that he has to accept the onus of promoting the modernization of Muslim society. (pg.20)
Note : While Hindus are willing to take the responsibility, it is necessary for the Muslims to co-operate.
2 – Chapter I – Historical Background
2.1 – It is an old habit of Indian Muslims to blame Hindus for their woes. However, the Indian Muslim intelligentsia has never really been critically introspective. (pg.30)
2.2 – It is no fault of the Hindus that the Indian Muslims embraced this theory of a separate, Muslim nationalism. Nor is it the fault of the Hindus that Indian Muslims regarded Hindus in Pakistan as hostages ensuring their own (Indian Muslims’) security in India. (pg.32)
2.3 – The truth of the matter is that the Muslim intelligentsia has not yet given up its postulate of parallel society. It has still not learnt to separate religion from politics. Their idea of religious freedom is merely that the structure of the Muslim society in India should remain unaltered. (pg.33)
2.4 – But the Hindus also had a liberal humanist tradition. (pg.33) The only effective answer to the problems of Indian Muslims would involve on their part a total rejection of the prejudices of history. Only when they rid themselves of the misconceptions that history and tradition produce can they arrive at the conception of a free, modern mind committed only to fundamental human values. (pg.34)
2.5 – However, I consider suicidal the Hindu communalist attempt to answer Muslim communalism by obscurantist Hindu revivalism. Muslim communalism will be defeated only when the Hindu achieves a greater degree of social progress and modernizes himself. By making the Hindus more obscurantist – by making them more puritan and orthodox – Muslim communalism can never be eliminated. (pg.35-36)
Note: (And who is to modernise the Muslims?)
2.6 – I oppose the ban on cow-slaughter on agro-economic ground. I oppose it even more strongly on non-economic grounds, because if the Hindus belief in the sacredness of the cow is encouraged, it would prevent the Hindus from modernizing themselves and from achieving a great degree of social progress. (pg.36)
Note: (Banning cow slaughter was economic custom as well)
2.7 – Mohamud Ghazanvi could defeat Hindu armies simply by using herds of cows as a shield for his own army! (pg.36)
2.8 – Hindu communalists should not continue to make the tragic blunder of mistaking every Muslim for a communalist. It is true that today it is difficult to find a thoroughly secular Muslim in India. But if we want secular minded Muslims, in the near future, we must encourage and support those Muslims who are already stepping in that direction. (pg.37)
3 – Chapter II – Reading the mind of Indian Muslim
3.1 – Most Muslim leaders in India advance the odd argument that Muslims were not responsible for partition, and even argue that Hindus alone were responsible for it. (pg.40)
3.2 – History provides some clues to the strange behaviour and arguments of Indian Muslim leaders. Indian Muslims always tried to impose their own demands on Hindus with the help of the British, who were a third party in the position of a judge. (pg.40)
3.3 – When they saw that the judgement in this dispute was to be given by a third party, they tried to till the balance in their own favour even by resorting to an unscrupulous and fallacious argument, and the Hindus who were eager for independence conceded their demand. (pg.40)
3.4 – Indian Muslims have committed an even worse sin. They not only relied on a third party but also participated in a movement which aimed at creating a separate nation comprising all provinces which had a Muslim majority. (pg.41)
3.5 – The question which arises here is- why do Indian Muslims make the obviously false claim that Pakistani Hindus are treated with due justice? And why did the Muslims earlier refuse to rely on the conscience of Hindus to get full justice for themselves? (pg.43)
3.6 – Indian Muslims leaders believe that in their dispute with the majority in India, Pakistan is the third party occupying the position of the judge.(pg.44)
Note: See 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
3.7 – However, it must be pointed out that the support of Indian Muslims to the creation of Pakistan was not entirely based on emotional frenzy. It was also based on the theory of hostages. At the same time, Indian Muslims believed that India would eventually be ruled by Islam. (pg.49)
3.8 – Sardar Patel merged the princely states within the Indian Union and thus shattered their hopes. This is why Muslim leaders hate Sardar Patel. (pg.50)
3.9 – Indian Muslims still regard themselves as Pakistanis, and they believe that their emancipation has been ensured by the creation of Pakistan. (pg-50)
4 – Chapter III – Muslims : The so-called Nationalists and the Communalists
4.1 – All Muslim leaders unanimously complain that injustice is done to Muslims in India. However, they have a strange definition of injustice…..
One of the methods of ensuring justice is to claim that Pakistani infiltrators in Assam are not Pakistani at all. A second method is to demand the granting of Indian citizenship to those Pakistanis who are illegal residents of Bihar, West Bengal and some other states of India. A third method is to oppose family planning. (pg.53)
Note: See 4.9.
4.2 – Savarkar admitted the existence of a separate Muslim nationalism. He had even shown his willingness to give them a written guarantee that their culture, their language and their proportional representation would be safeguarded. The only thing Savarkar denied to the Muslims was a separate, independent and sovereign state. (pg.59)
4.3 – In an undivided India a specially privileged Muslim community would have vigorously continued a movement for Islamization of India. (pg.61)
Maulana Hussain Ahmed Madni was considered a great ‘Nationalist Muslim’ leader. He was president of the Jamiat-e-Ulema-i-Hind. When the ulema convened a conference in Delhi in the year 1 945, he said in his presidential address, "it is the non-Muslims who are the field of action for this ‘tabligh’ of Islam and form the raw material for this splendid activity … We are opposed to the idea of limiting the right of missionary activities of Islam within any particular area. The Muslims have got a right in all the nooks and corners of India by virtue of the great struggle and grand sacrifices of their ancestors in this country. Now, it is our duty to maintain that claim and try to widen its scope, instead of giving it up." ("The Deobad School and the Demand for Pakistan" by Z H Faruqi, Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1963, pg.117) The same learned Maulana has said elsewhere, "if Dara had triumphed, Muslims would have stayed in India, but not Islam. Since Aurangzeb triumphed, both Muslims were here to stay." (pg.61-62).
4.4 – What was the difference between Jinnah and the nationalist Muslims? While Jinnah wanted a separate state, the nationalist Muslims wanted the whole of India. (pg.62)
4.5 – Muslim leaders always blame Hindu communalism for partition. I fail to see where, in this entire discussion, Hindu communalism comes in. (pg.62)
4.6 – Jinnah was not fighting Savarkar and Golwalkar. He never mentioned their communalism. He never mentioned their communalism. Jinnah accused Gandhi of being a Hindu communalist, refusing to concede his demands. He criticised Nehru in the same way. Similarly, when Muslim leaders hold communalists responsible for the partition, they want to suggest that it was Gandhi and Nehru who were ‘Hindu communalists’. The implications are clear: they charge every Hindu with being a communalist. At the same time, they make the strange claim that every Muslim is a nationalist. (pg.63) The real conflict, therefore, was not between Hindu and Muslim communalists. It was a conflict between the secular nationalism of Gandhi and Nehru and the religious nationalism of Indian Muslims. (pg-63)
4.7 – When Christians were not modern, even they forcibly converted Muslims to their own faith. (pg.65)
4.8 – Independence, according to the Muslims, is synonymous with all power being concentrated in the hands of the Muslim community. (pg-66)
4.9 – They claim that the Hindu majority in India treats them with injustice. They fail to realize that their definition of Islam is twisted and strange, for these leaders believe that the greatest injustice to Indian Muslims is the simple fact that there is a majority of Hindus in this country. (pg.69)
Note: See 4.1.
5 – Chapter IV – The Communal Malady : A Diagnosis
5.1 – Secular parties in India have always considered the problem of Hindu-Muslim relations from the viewpoint of romantic idealism and have refused to face boldly the harsh truth underlying it. After the outbreak of a communal riot, they have hardly thought it necessary to do anything beyond issuing public appeals for communal peace and ritually denouncing Hindu communalist forces as the prime cause of trouble. (pg.70)
Note: See 5.3, 5.7
5.2 – If today the liberal trends among the Hindus are on the wane, the main cause is to be traced to the continuing predominance of separatist and communalist trends among Indian Muslims even 23 years after partition. (pg.71)
5.3 – These traditions of Islam and the strong separatist trends they have engendered among Indian Muslims are the main cause of the persistent communal tension. To claim that Muslim separatism continues to exist because the country has not adequately imbibed the spirit of secularism is to betray ignorance of the working of the Muslim mind. The real cause of the present conflict is that the separatist urges of Muslim nationalism have always existed parallel to those of secular nationalism. Muslims have never agreed that partition put an end to this problem. As I have mentioned in a recent article, Mr Hasan Surhawardy, Chief Minister of undivided Bengal, had pointed out in 1946 that, "Pakistan is not our last demand". In his letter written after the partition to Choudhary Khaliquzzaman, Mr Surhawardy had propounded the. idea of a Muslim majority area in India. It is without significance that the post-independence trend of Muslim politics in India has followed the direction laid down by Mr Jinnah and Mr Surhawardy. (pg.72)
Note: See 5.1, 5.7
5.4 – Nehru was perhaps the only Indian statesman who understood the historical forces operating behind Muslim politics in India. (pg.73)
Note : Yet he did fail prey to the politics of vote bank.
5.5 – Nehru’s insistence on a common electorate and the inclusion in the Constitution of the enactment of a uniform civil code as a Directive Principle of state policy inspire of fierce opposition from the Muslim communalists may be cited as examples of his determination in this regard. (pg.73)
Note : (RSS has also the same programme)
5.6 – Moreover, Nehru was well aware that Muslims could easily combine themselves in one political party because of their social structure and the total absence among them of a modern political consciousness based on secular considerations. As regards Hindus, he knew that their stratified social structure always impeded their mobilisation on a common political platform. At the same time, because of their liberal reformist traditions, Hindus had developed a progressive political consciousness which made them alive to larger socio-economic issues. Hence, he knew, they tended to choose political parties, on non-religious considerations. Because of this peculiar situation he usually tried to project himself as a guardian of Muslim interests with a view to preventing the re-emergence of a strong Muslim party. (pg.74)
Note : A divided Hindu community has permitted the vote bank politics to continue with impunity.
5.7 – Every communal riot has helped the growth of Muslim communalist forces. Muslim leaders claimed that communal riots did not take place wherever the League had a strong force/hold among Muslims. Many a times communal troubles are provoked by Muslims. (pg.75)
Note : See 5.1, 5.3, 5.8
5.8 – The Khaskar’s tradition of dots and the orgy of violence, arson and loot indulged in by the Razakars in Hyderabad are too well-known to need detailed mention. (pg.76)
Note: See 5.1, 5.3, 5.7
5.9 – The Prime Minister (Smt Indira Gandhi) wants to eradicate communalism from this land, but she is indulging in self-deception if she feels that she can curb Hindu communalist forces by conniving at Muslim separatism. (pg.77)
5.10 – The unceremonious exit of Mr.M.C.Chagia from her cabinet and the relaxation of the rule prohibiting polygamy among Muslim employees of the Central Government are but two examples of the concessions she is making to Muslim communalism. (pg.77)
5.11 – The problem of national integration cannot be solved by appeasing Muslim separatism. (pg.77)
6 – Chapter V- Strange Bedfellows: Communists Intimacy with Communalists
6.1 – In fact, this intimacy is not a! all surprising. There are significant resemblances between the communist movement. and the Muslim communalist movement. (pg.78)
6.2 – The basis of the Islamic movement is hot the whole of a society but only the Islamic segment of it. The Islamic movement can establish its own state only by subjugating, if not destroying, the other parts of society. (pg.79)
Note : Many other people also say that the concept of brotherhood in Islam relates to Islamic brotherhood only.
6.3 – Even this secular state would be the secular government of and by a Muslim majority, in which non-Muslims would have little or no place. (pg.79)
6.4 – When the communists are not in power, they are internationalists; when Muslims are a minority in any country they lack a nationalistic spirit and have an internationalistic, that is, pan-Islamic attitude. (pg.80)
Note: See 6.1
6.5 – A communist when not in power, is primarily an internationalist and only secondarily, if at all, a nationalist. A Muslim in minority is primarily a Muslim and only secondarily, if at all a nationalist. Both Muslims -and communists regard their own concept of social structure as perfect. (pg.80).
6.6 – Most nations with a Muslim majority are extremely nationalistic in their social and political outlook. In pre-partition India, the Muslim League used to demand greater provincial autonomy. (pg.81)
6.7 – Communists purge their opponents no sooner than they come to power. Muslim nationalistic movements, wherever there is a Muslim majority, do not allow non-Muslims to exist freely and equally. (pg-81)
6.8 – (The communists) decided to back Muslim communalists in order to precipitate nation-wide disintegration, gain a popular backing. from the Indian Muslims, induce the ruling group in Pakistan to support Soviet policies, and to benefit from the general chaos and factional fights in the entire sub-continent. (pg.82)
6.9 – When the CPI accepted the Ranadive policy of nationwide subversion and uprising many eminent Muslim League leaders throughout India suddenly became ‘communists’! (pg.83)
7 – Chapter. VI – The Chief Obstacle in the way of Muslim Integration
7.1 – Among Indian Muslims there is a conspicuous absence of unbiased self-critical and rational individuals who can discuss this problem fruitfully. This is not entirely the fault to individual Indian Muslims. The capacity for self-criticism, the courage to face facts, the ability to lead the community with a critical awareness of one’s own virtues and shortcomings implies the existence of a level of sophistication in the intelligentsia. The Muslim intelligentsia in India lacks these qualities. Their so called leaders are usually the leaders of a blind, orthodox, and ill-educated community. Such people do not discuss their own faults; rather they obdurately cling to their own view. All of them put forward the same arguments in the same tone again and again. When they find faults, the faults are invariably those of other people. They do not have the capacity to understand their own mistakes. (pg.86)
Note: See 1.1
7.2 – Some Hindu intellectuals have been consistently opposing the demand for a ban on cow slaughter. It is not necessary here to discuss the grounds on which they oppose the demand, some oppose it because they believe that such a ban would be incompatible with the secular ideals of Indian society. (pg.87)
Note : (Is this not being communal ?)
7.3 – The unfortunate fact remains that not a single intellectual from among the number Muslims who style themselves as intellectuals had the courage to speak out openly on this occasion’. (pg.88)
Chapter VI -The case of the missing hair at Hazratbal.
7.4 – I must frankly state that there is a kind of Hindu who is always terrified when he thinks of Muslims. (pg.88)
7.5 – The real obstacle in the way of secular integration is the vast gulf that separates the intelligentsia of the two communities. An intellectual minority always helps to shape the rest of the society on proper lines. (pg.89)
7.6 – As long as such a vital difference exists between the mental make-ups of the two communities, Hindu-Muslim tensions are not likely to abate. I think this difference between the two communities is in the nature of a disparity of cultural levels. (pg.90)
Note : (And yet we talk about the cultural contribution of Islam).
7.7 – As modern men, we do not rely on religion for deriving our concept of social conscience. Our social conscience is inherent in the democratic system of government we have accepted. (pg.93) Muslim opposition to secular Integration : Nature, Causes and Remedies
7.8 – Secularism in India, although embodied in the Constitution, is as yet only an aspiration. It has not yet permitted our social life. (pg.94)
7.9 – Muslims who are today leaders of political parties such as the Right Communist but like Mr.Mohammed Illiyar of West Bengal are proven communalists, must be exposed. (pg.97)
8 – Chapter VIII – Humanistic Modernism the only solution
8.1 – (The orthodox Hindu) stages an agitation against the proposed removal of the word ‘Hindu’ from Benares University, and secures the support of the Muslim League. He would start an agitation for a ban on cow slaughter and Muslim communalists would support even that. For when they support him on such issues, both of them can establish a united front against Mr.Chagla, and then the Muslim communalist would also be left free to stage nationwide agitations for re-display of the prophet’s lost hair. He can bully critics of the Prophet. In short he
will always turn Hindu revivalism to his own benefit. (pg. 104)
9 – Chapter IX – Indian Muslims at the Crossroad
9.1 – One line of thinking was that as Muslims were denied recognition as a political entity enjoying parity with the majority, they were left with no alternative to establishing a state of their own. Others thought that in a united India Muslims all over the subcontinent were bound to remain perpetually at the mercy of the Hindu community. (pg.111)
9.2 – Muslims who were to remain in India were called upon to sacrifice their security and welfare to ensure a glorious future for fellow Muslims who would constitute the majority in Pakistan. (pg.111)
9.3 – Whenever Muslims are in a majority they have refused to recognise the equal rights of non-Muslim minorities and where they are in a minority they have been generally reluctant to regard themselves as part and parcel of a non-religious nation. The recent revolts of Muslims in Philippines, Thailand and Ethiopia are merely expressions of the Muslim unwillingness to participate in a common social order on equal terms with others and this unwillingness is rooted in a long and deeply entrenched historical and religious tradition. (pg. 116)
Note : See 10.2
9.4 – Even educated Muslims whose religious faith is often skin-deep rarely rise to a broad, humanist outlook. This sensitivity to human suffering as human suffering is as yet feeble. (pg.119)
9.5 – Surely the actual practice of the persons following a religion provides a much more reliable guide to its values than their professions. (pg.120)
9.6 – Gandhiji never asserted that Hindus were, as a matter of fact, tolerant. He only insisted that they should cultivate tolerance. (pg.120) Note: Tolerance in the religious context means that there are many ways to reach heaven and each person is free to choose the one that is most suitable for himself.
9.7 – If Muslims do not have the courage to confront these historical forces and the religious and social traditions which create and sustain them, they will be able to do very little to help their society to extricate itself from its present predicament. (pg-1 23)
10 – Chapter X – Failure of a Mission ?
10.1 – That is why also violence in India immediately calls forth condemnation by organised public opinion. (pg. 1 29)
10.2 – The difference between the two communities does not end here. Wherever Muslims are in a majority, they have denied equal citizenship to non-Muslims. (pg.130)
Note: See 9.3
10.3 – The fact that no major Hindu-Muslim riot has taken place in Pakistan after 1964 does not mean that the Muslims of Pakistan suddenly became secular after that years holocaust. Steady persecution of the Hindus and even of Muslims from what now is India has been going without allowing the facts to come out. Hindus are not now allowed to migrate to India without forfeiting their property to the Government. Nor are they allowed to sell their property except with the prior permission of the Government. (pg. 131)
11 – Chapter XI – The Meaning of Bangla Desh
11.1 – While attempting to create a nation of their own the Muslims only achieved their own political, social and cultural disintegration. (pg. 138)
11.2 – A nation is created with a purpose; Its existence cannot be taken for granted in the absence of a secular purpose shared by its constituents. The rulers of Pakistan never recognised this. They took for granted the political unity, of all Muslims qua Muslims. (pg.139)
11.3 – Were Pakistan to disintegrate and become weaker, Indian would have no need to support the Arabs unconditionally in their fight against Israel. (pg.147)
11.4 – The greatest beneficiary of the disintegration of Pakistan would be India, and no Muslim nation would accept this with equanimity. (pg. 147)
11.5 – Nehru’s own views were sharply different from the two trends among the Hindus described above. He accepted as relevant India’s historical but not its religious traditions. (pg.150)
HAMID DALWAI
A veteran journalist and provocative publicist, Hamid Dalwai has long crusaded for a secular outlook among the new generation of Indian Muslims.
"…this young Muslim who has chosen
to take his own religion to task for
obstructing the way to successful
secularism in India, has certain
positive points which may not be
ignored. One has to applaud the courage…"
–Hindustan Standard, Calcutta
Jehadis again attack Bharat while Govt bends before Bangla Desh! – Dr Pravin Togadia
Press Release
Jehadis again attack Bharat while Govt bends before Bangla Desh!
– Dr Pravin Togadia
New Delhi, September 7, 2011
Condemning the heinous Jehadi attack in Delhi High Court when & where common people queue up for passes & the day when well-meaning citizens trying to do social service flock the court to file PILs, Dr Pravin Togadia, International Secretary General VHP said, “It is most shameful that when the highest authority of the nation, the Hon. Prime Minister is visiting Bangla Desh – a gateway of Jehadis of various terror outfits – there is a Jehadi attack on one of the 4 pillars of democracy – the Judiciary! In past many years Govts has been lenient to Jehadi outfits for vote bank politics, but the very visit of the Hon PM of Bharat should have strengthened the positive ties – if any. However, Govt bent to Bangla Desh to the level of crawling & opened volatile borders for Bangla Deshis 24 X 7! It is an open secret that Jehadis from Pakistan enter Bharat via Bangla Desh & Nepal & not just from Kashmir. Yet, such a step by the govt to appease the vote bank & offering over 600 + Acres of land in Karimgunj & Dhubri districts of Assam to Bangla Desh have not deterred Jehadis from striking Bharat’s heart Delhi!”
Demanding the reasons of defocused NIA’s interference & inaction about all Jehadi blasts in Bharat whereas its extra interest in persecuting Hindus & Hindu organizations, Dr Togadia further appealed all citizens of Bharat to be alert & inform the local police of any untowardly movements of suspicious people. He also expressed dissatisfaction about govt’s lack of political & social will to tackle Jehadi terrorism with a strong hand. He suggested that people of Bharat have been tolerating Jehadi attacks for long & are sick & tired of politicization of the serious issue of Domestic & border safety & security.
Contact: Dr Pravin Togadia, 098253 23406, drtogadia@gmail.com
Fraud Expert Teesta Setalvad Gets Bail
TNN Aug 3, 2011, 04.07am IST
AHMEDABAD: A city sessions court on Tuesday granted anticipatory bail to social activist Teesta Setalvad in connection with an alleged offence of preparation of false affidavits on behalf of the 2002 riots victims and filing them before the Supreme Court.
The police have already begun probe into fabrication of affidavits case. Special judge S H Vora, hearing Naroda Gam massacre case, had ordered to file an FIR against Rais Khan, a former employee of Teesta’s Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), for his admission of having prepared false affidavits.
Setalvad sought anticipatory bail fearing arrest, for the Gujarat high court last month gave green signal to police to investigate the role of Khan’s associates, and Khan has always wanted to testify against her former employer. While granting bail on furnishing personal bond of Rs 25,000 and on the condition of surrendering her passport within three days, additional sessions Judge S B Gajre observed that since all the evidence in this case, which is in form of depositions before the special court, has been already taken on record, there is no chance of her tampering with evidence.
Athirathram” – one of the most ancient and sacred ritual associates with Vedic Dharma
http://satyameva-jayate.org/2011/05/13/athirathram/
The Panjal Athirathra Yajnam..takes 12 days to complete and is a very complex process involving Rig, Yajur and Sama Veda recitation and procedural details. Though Athirathram had been performed in 1990 and in 2006 as well, the importance of this Athirathram is that it is again being conducted in Panjal after a gap of 35 years. Panjal in Thrissur District in Kerala is considered as Yajna bhumi as it has a history of several Yajnas in the past.
…Panjal Athirathram 2011, should be treated as the Dharma Karyam of the year. In fact, one would have expected Governments of both Kerala and India to show support and make arrangements to ensure success of this project. However, Government of Kerala is going for polls while Government of India is busy supporting other causes. Vedic Rituals like Athirathram evoke immense sense of history among Hindus, the battered ones of this wretched and ungrateful country. As our tradition is slowly eroding in the waves of modernization, events like Athirathram give some hope that future generations may know that ancient Hindus were not barbaric lot as pictured in some History books, but were masters of various sciences.
http://satyameva-jayate.org/2011/05/13/athirathram/
http://vsmoni.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/athirathram/
Pictures
https://picasaweb.google.com/vividvivek/AVisitToPanjalAthirathramAndGuruvayurappan#
British Officer Planned the Operation Jahad in Kashmir 1948
So dear British you went to so much effort to attack Indian’s I,e Hindus..Did you have some shame or Some Pride in your character ?
This is not my information and we definitely need to verify it from the British Archives..
All the information below this line belongs to the blogger below. You can check his blog for more information.
This is not my information and we definitely need to verify it from the British Archives..
http://military-history-pictures.blogspot.com/2011/03/lieutenant-colonel-gh-harvey-kelly.html
Lieutenant Colonel G.H Harvey Kelly-A Forgotten British Hero of Kashmir War
Lieutenant Colonel G.H Harvey Kelly-A Forgotten British Hero of Kashmir War
by
Agha.H.Amin
Lieutenant Colonel G.H Harvey Kelly was a British officer who fought the 1947-48 Kashmir war with Pakistan Army.
Harvey Kelly was commanding the 4/10 Baluch .This battalion moved to Chinari from Abbottabad on 22 May 1948 and joined the 101 Infantry Brigade.
In middle of June 1948 Harvey Kellys battalion was tasked to capture Pandu.Harvey Kelly made a bold plan involving infiltration.Pandu comprised of two high mountain features point 6873 being 6873 feet high and main Pandu massif which was 9178 feet high.
Harvey Kelly devoted himself to reconnaisance and planning and his final plan titled “Jehad“ was ready by 17 July 1948.Ironically on the same day Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Kelly received the orders to report back to the army headquarters as the British Commander in chief Gracey had taken a policy decision to withdraw all British officers.
Command of 4/10 Baluch was assumed by Lieutenant Colonel Malik Sher Bahadur ex Rajputan Rifles.
Pandu was captured as per Harvey Kellys plan on 24 July 1948.
http://military-history-pictures.blogspot.com/2011/03/lieutenant-colonel-gh-harvey-kelly.html
All the information Above this line belongs to the blogger above. You can check his blog for more information
In the dying days of the Raj … (via Quick Take – As It Happens)
British Empire the master of fraud propaganda and also its news organization BBC or Bull Shit British Corporation…Same side of the Coin…Not even the other side of the coin and yes..British Empire is a Protestant empire. As one African American professor said once..Slavery left the Protestant countries last
Catholic were able to abolish it earlier.
Martin Luther is the founder of Protestant part of Christianity
Martin Luther was monk in Catholic Seminary and left it later and wrote his 95 point and then in his old age married a former Nun .Great Life it is. You decide when you read his books…
His poor physical health made him short-tempered and even harsher in his writings and comments. His wife Katharina was overheard saying, “Dear husband, you are too rude,” and he responded, “They are teaching me to be rude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninety-Five_Theses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jews_and_Their_Lies
Basics at start
• Protectorates – Thirteen Colonies
• Allies – Austria, Hannover, United Provinces, Portugal
• Trade Partners – United Provinces, Thirteen Colonies, Sweden, Portugal
• Enemies – Barbary States, Pirates
• Religion – Protestant
http://www.twcenter.net/wiki/Great_Britain_(ETW_Faction)
Remember British are Protestants
Keep in mind the South part of USA is mainly Protestants and this was the part which was against abolishment of Slavery and mainly people form Britain settled in the south part.
Connect the dots and also the main Evangelical thrust in india is coming from this part of USA and of course our dear and near British Empire .
Check his blog to figure out what is happening on the Ground
http://indianrealist.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/rajiv-malhotras-speech-on-breaking-india/
http://www.breakingindia.com/?page=sixProvocations
One Question to Hindu’s.What do you call a Guy who broke his Vow of Celibacy and marries and is a foul mouth and is responsible for the death of many..
Hindus Start Reading other’s books also..Time has arrived now that we start learning how others think also…For last 200 years Hindus have been vilified and threatened, Humiliated as pagans to what not.Don’t you think we start learning what makes them think like that..Don’t you?
Tulsidas : The saint who saved Hindusim and Kept the flame alive
Goswami Tulsidas
http://sites.google.com/site/nmisra/tulasidasa
| कविता करके तुलसी न लसे कविता लसी पा तुलसी की कला |
The poetry of Goswami Tulsidas (गोस्वामी तुलसीदास) in Avadhi and Braja is like the manifestation of the Nirguna Brahma into Saguna. This simile is also picked up from his own work – when Raama describes the autumn season (शरद ऋतु) to Lakshmana
फूलें कमल सोह सर कैसा | निर्गुन ब्रह्म सगुन भएँ जैसा |
(रामचरितमानस ४.१६.१)
In other words, his poetry is the expression of the inexpressible, the description of undescribable, the manifestation of the unmanifest. As one mahatma said, it is like the wish-granting cow, Kamadhenu (कामधेनु) – one who sings or listens to his poetry, gets whatever they wish – be it Dharma, Artha, Kaama or Moksha; be it Bhakti, Jnaana or Yoga; be it Neeti, Vairagya or Samataa.
Each Chaupai, each Doha, each Sorathaa and each Harigitika is like a mantra from the Guru (मन्त्रमूलं गुरुवाक्यं). Through these simple metres, Goswami Tulsidas elevates poetry to its most sublime state. The varnas, the alankaaras, and the nine rasas dance effortlessly to his tunes, competing with each other to achieve their very purpose of existence – to be used by a poet like Tulsi in his poetry.
A translation of his lesser known works in Awadhi and Braja to English is being attempted. Apart from the main purpose of author’s own internal happiness (स्वान्तःसुखाय), this effort is aimed to make available freely (free as in freedom) on the Internet the lesser known works of Tulsidas, with English language translations. The translations are totally free without any copyright or copyleft whatsoever.
This page will be updated frequently and more and more documents will be added as and when they are completed.
A scanned image of handwriting of Goswamiji (1613 A.D.) (with the same text below).
Courtesy of Pawan Sharma, New Delhi. Click on image to enlarge.
The works of Goswami Tulsidas
1. Raamacaritamaanasa (रामचरितमानस)
This is his magnum opus, and most widely known composition. Lord Shiva (शिव), the master of काशी, himself attested to it, and inscribed the words सत्यं शिवं सुन्दरं on a copy. One of the best English translations is available freely (of course) for personal use at the Gita Press site [click here]. Here is the link to Raamacaritamaanasa at Stutimandal. Among the numerous singers who have recently sung the Maanasa, Pandit Channulal Mishraof Benares stands without an equal – his technique is so perfect and his भाव (emotion) so intense that only on hearing him one can savour the अमृत (nectar) in his singing. Three of his CDs – Ramcharitmanas, Shiv Vivah and Sundar Kand are the delight of any Manas lover and devotee of Raama.
Left: Chaupais (6.40.3) from the रामचरितमानस (white text on saffron background) amidst names of shops on Judges Bungalow Road in Ahmedabad. Right: Chaupais (1.115.1) from the रामचरितमानस at a रामकथा organised at Bhopal in November 2008. Click on the images to enlarge.
2. Vinayapatrikaa (विनयपत्रिका)
This is a letter of request or petition sent in the court of Raama. This petition was attested to by Lord Rama himself, as Goswamiji sings in the last pada of Vinayapatrikaa. For more information on the legal case of Vinayapatrika, click here. Also see Vinayapatrikaa at Stutimandal. This is currently being translated and can be downloaded here – Vinayapatrikaa PDF [1.3 MB]. Status: 161 padas (out of 279) translated as on January 27, 2009 (Translation started in July 2008).
3. Dohaavalii (दोहावली)
This is a collection of 573 couplets – dohas (दोहा) and sorathaas (सोरठा) on a wide range of topics like devotion, true knowledge, dispassion, righteous conduct, love and tact. Some of these couplets are also in the रामचरितमानस, and many couplets are famous as adages among the speakers of Avadhi, Braj and Hindi. Most of the couplets bear the signature (भणित) “तुलसी” of Goswamiji. The original can be downloaded here – Dohaavalii PDF [162 KB]. Translation will be started after completion of Vinayapatrikaa.
Note on the metres: Both दोहा and सोरठा are मात्रिक छंद, metres characterized by मात्राs (pronunciation times of syllables). A दोहा has the मात्रा sequence 13-11, 13-11 – usually one words does not span two quarters. The quarters are further broken down as 6-4-3, 6-4-1, 6-4-3, 6-4-1. The rhyme (तुक) occurs at the end of second and fourth quarters, and consists of a long syllable (गुरु) followed by a short (लघु) one. The सोरठा is the mirror image of the दोहा, with the मात्रा sequence 11-13, 11-13 broken down as 6-4-1, 6-4-3, 6-4-1, 6-4-3. The rhyme is at the end of first and third quarters, and like the दोहा consists of one long (गुरु) and then one short (लघु) syllable.
More of Gosvamiji’s works will be added later, including
4. Barvai Raamayana
5. Vairaagya Sandeepanii
6. Jaanakii Mangala
7. Parvati Mangala
8. Ramalala Nahachhu
9. Kavitaavali
10. Shri Krishna Geetaavali
11. Hanumanabahuka
12. Raamajna Prashna
The Worth of a British Queen’s Promise
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria’s_Proclamation
This is after the 1857 Revolt of India..British got it..that to play with religion in India is to play with FIRE in India…
Read the full declaration at the above line
We hold ourselves bound to the natives of our Indian territories by the same obligations of duty which bind us to all our other subjects, and those obligations, by the blessings of Almighty God, we shall faithfully and conscientiously fulfill.
Firmly relying ourselves on the truth of Christianity, and acknowledging with gratitude the solace of religion, we disclaim alike the right and desire to impose our convictions on any of our subjects. We declare it to be our royal will and pleasure that none be in anywise favoured, none molested or disquieted, by reason of their religious faith or observances, but that all alike shall enjoy the equal and impartial protection of the law; and we do strictly charge and enjoin all those who may be in authority under us that they abstain from all interference with the religious belief or worship of any of our subjects on pain of our highest displeasure.
And it is our further will that, so far as may be, our subjects, of whatever race or creed, be freely and impartially admitted to offices in our service, the duties of which they may be qualified, by their education, ability, and integrity, duly to discharge.
We know, and respect, the feelings of attachment with which the natives of India regard the lands inherited by them from their ancestors, and we desire to protect them in all rights connected therewith, subject to the equitable demands of the State; and we will that generally, in framing and administering the law, due regard be paid to the ancient rights, usages, and customs of India. “
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria’s_Proclamation
HOW THE PROMICE WAS KEPT by the British Empire…..?
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1912/mar/05/indian-empire-royal-proclamation-of-1858
Indian Empire (Royal Proclamation of 1858).
HC Deb 05 March 1912 vol 35 cc184-5 184
Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTT
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that in the Royal Proclamation of 1858 Her late Majesty Queen Victoria guaranteed to the inhabitants of all those territories which had hitherto been administered by the East India Company that, so far as may be, her subjects, of whatever race or creed, should be freely and impartially admitted to offices the duties of which they may be qualified by their education, ability, and integrity duly to discharge; whether the Indian Government hold that this guarantee is compatible with a regulation absolutely excluding from the civil and police services of the territories affected all persons who are not of pure European descent on both sides; and whether he will take any steps to assure the people of India, who regard this Proclamation as the charter of their rights, that its guarantees will be adhered to?
So far as the territories for which I am responsible in this House are concerned, no such regulation as my hon. Friend describes, exists. As regards territory which has been transferred to the Colonial Office, the Govern- 185 ment of India has expressed no opinion, nor has the Secretary of State received any complaints. I would suggest that my hon. Friend should address himself to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTT
Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this Proclamation is regarded by the people of India as a charter of their rights, and that the interpretation placed upon it by a Member of the Cabinet completely nullifies the Proclamation?
If there is any discontent with the regulations affecting the welfare of the Indian people a memorial should be sent to the Government of India and the Secretary of State. No such complaint has been, received.
Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTT
If the right hon. Gentleman receives complaints from India will he remonstrate with the Colonial Office?
We will always be ready to communicate with the Colonial Office concerning any complaints of substance we receive.
Now lets look at the Deeds of her Royal Servants in India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Dyer
Threatening language
On the day after the massacre, Mr. Kitchin, the Commissioner of Lahore as well as General Dyer, both used threatening language. The following is the English translation of Dyer’s Urdu statement directed at the local residents of Amritsar on the afternoon of 14 April 1919, a day after the Amritsar massacre:
“You people know well that I am a Sepoy and soldier. Do you want war or peace? If you wish for a war, the Government is prepared for it, and if you want peace, then obey my orders and open all your shops; else I will shoot. For me the battlefield of France or Amritsar is the same. I am a military man and I will go straight. Neither shall I move to the right nor to the left. Speak up, if you want war? In case there is to be peace, my order is to open all shops at once. You people talk against the Government and persons educated in Germany and Bengal talk sedition. I shall report all these. Obey my orders. I do not wish to have anything else. I have served in the military for over 30 years. I understand the Indian Sepoy and Sikh people very well. You will have to obey my orders and observe peace. Otherwise the shops will be opened by force and Rifles. You will have to report to me of the Badmash. I will shoot them. Obey my orders and open shops. Speak up if you want war? You have committed a bad act in killing the English. The revenge will be taken upon you and upon your children.”[23]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre
http://www.amritsar.com/Jallian%20Wala%20Bagh.shtml
Now look at the Reason why the 1857 Revolt really took place and what were the reasons of the revolt.. from Indian Perspective ..
The shaking hand — “ The Indian Problem “
The shaking hand
January 17, 2011 1:26:19 AM
http://www.dailypioneer.com/310863/The-shaking-hand.html
François Gautier
A series of high-profile scandals, disarray in State units and rising popular discontent against inflation pose a stiff challenge to the Congress celebrating its 125th anniversary. Is it the beginning of the decline of the grand old party’s dominance at the Centre? Or, can it once again belie the doomsday theory, as it has done several times in the past?
The Congress, now in its 125th year, can rightly be called the grand old party of India. But is it as grand as it pretends — or is assumed — to be? Indeed, as it is facing a series of scandals, disarray in State units and rising popular resentment against inflation, one should make an analysis of its history in the first part; and, in the second, find out how the party survived for so long.
The main label that the Congress gives itself is that it is the party which achieved the country’s independence. Well, it is hoped that one day the history of India’s freedom movement will be rewritten. For what is now taught, both in the West and in India, is often the history of the superficial, the apparent and the false. And those who have least contributed to the country’s independence, or worse who were to some extent responsible for Partition, occupy a place of honour in those books, while those who had a deeper vision and worked with dedication for a wholesome independence are in the shadow and have been waylaid by our ‘eminent’ historians.
History wants us to believe that the freedom movement began with the Indian National Congress. In reality, however, the Congress was a colonial tool fashioned by the British Empire for its use. Witness the fact that it all began in December 1885 by Englishman AO Hume, with the avowed aim to “allow all those who work for the national (read British) good to meet each other personally, to discuss and decide of the political operations to start during the year”. And certainly, till the end of the 19th century, the Congress, which regarded the British rule in India as a “divine dispensation”, was happy with criticising moderately the Government, while reaffirming its loyalty to the Crown and its faith in “liberalism” and the “British innate sense of justice”!
http://www.dailypioneer.com/310863/The-shaking-hand.html
Read the whole article above..
“Also, there is an eternal inferiority complex that a part of the Indian intelligentsia seems to be holding up towards the West. This is particularly striking among a section of the Indian media, which appears to look at the country through a Western prism and constantly worry how the foreign press views India, how the foreign countries — particularly the United States — perceive it, and what the Amnesty International has to say about it. Sonia Gandhi’s ‘fair’ skin may also bewitch Indians because of the theory of the Aryan invasion, which has divided the country, pitting the South against the North, Dravidians against Hindi, Dalits against upper castes. All these despite the fact that all the recent archeological and linguistic evidences, and satellite mappings have proved that there never was an Aryan invasion.” < —Just Showing the Gist of the article…
INDIAN INDIFFERENCE TO CORRUPTION AND THE COMING ECLIPSES
KN RAO
4 January 2011, 11:56 AM
http://www.journalofastrology.com/article.php?article_id=333
My old joke that Delhites compensate their lack of sense of humor with a stronger sense of rumor is now stale because even rumors do not circulate now. Every rumor is becoming truth and rumor has no place in a society awash with gossip and corruption. It does not rankle anymore as surfeit of stories of corruption is the accepted stuff of day to day life now. There is no raging fury against it. The stories appearing in the media and the television channels make no impact because of the belief that ultimately it turns out to be a story of a thief accusing a robber, the noise accompanying and ineffective speechifying by the spokesmen of different political parties, particularly in English television channels is dismissed cynically by everyone as ineffective. May be the narrator, in this case the journalist is, it turns out to be true, himself the thief ? There is total transparency as far as corruption is concerned–it is legible without words.
To add to that comes now the New Moon horoscope of 4 January 2011 as though the jar of scandals is not brimful. This shows assassination, murder, and violent deaths. Sit with your fingers crossed.
http://www.journalofastrology.com/article.php?article_id=333
Read the Full article Above… and ENJOY……
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My take is man proposes and god disposes..Remember bad deeds always lead to bad…Deeds in the name of RELIGION not done ethically and morally does not lead to salvation but a endless cycle of bad deeds..
If you want people to follow your path/ RELIGION…or Convert people to you religion… Show it by your Deeds and Character .People will follow you automatically
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