संत रविदास और श्री राम

संत रविदास और श्री राम

 

डॉ विवेक आर्य

 

जय भीम, जय मीम का नारा लगाने वाले दलित भाइयों को आज के कुछ राजनेता कठपुतली के समान प्रयोग कर रहे हैं। यह मानसिक गुलामी का लक्षण है। अपनी राजनीतिक हितों को साधने के लिए दलित राजनेता और विचारक श्री राम जी के विषय में असभ्य भाषण तक करने से पीछे नहीं हट रहे है। कोई उन्हें मिथक बताता है, कोई विदेशी आर्य बताता है, कोई शम्बूक शुद्र का हत्यारा बताता है। सत्य यह है कि यह सब भ्रामक एवं असत्य प्रचार है जिसका उद्देश्य अपरिपक्व दलितों को भड़काकर अपना राजनीतिक स्वार्थ सिद्ध करना है। मगर इस कवायद में सत्य इतिहास को भी दलितों ने जुठला दिया है। अगर श्री रामचंद्र जी मिथक अथवा विदेशी अथवा दलितों पर अत्याचार करने वाले होते तो चमार (चर्मकार) जाति में पैदा हुए संत रविदास श्री राम जी के सम्मान में भक्ति न करते।

 

प्रमाण देखिये

 

  1. हरि हरि हरि हरि हरि हरि हरि

हरि सिमरत जन गए निस्तरि तरे।१। रहाउ।।

हरि के नाम कबीर उजागर ।। जनम जनम के काटे कागर ।।१।।

निमत नामदेउ दूधु पिआइआ।। तउ जग जनम संकट नहीं आइआ ।।२।।

जन रविदास राम रंगि राता ।। इउ गुर परसादी नरक नहीं जाता ।।३।।

 

– आसा बाणी स्त्री रविदास जिउ की, पृष्ठ 487

 

सन्देश- इस चौपाई में संत रविदास जी कह रहे है कि जो राम के रंग में (भक्ति में) रंग जायेगा वह कभी नरक नहीं जायेगा।

 

  1. जल की भीति पवन का थंभा रकत बुंद का गारा।

हाड मारा नाड़ी को पिंजरु पंखी बसै बिचारा ।।१।।

प्रानी किआ मेरा किआ तेरा।। जेसे तरवर पंखि बसेरा ।।१।। रहाउ।।

राखउ कंध उसारहु नीवां ।। साढे तीनि हाथ तेरी सीवां ।।२।।

बंके वाल पाग सिरि डेरी ।।इहु तनु होइगो भसम की ढेरी ।।३।।

ऊचे मंदर सुंदर नारी ।। राम नाम बिनु बाजी हारी ।।४।।

मेरी जाति कमीनी पांति कमीनी ओछा जनमु हमारा ।।

तुम सरनागति राजा राम चंद कहि रविदास चमारा ।।५।।

 

– सोरठी बाणी रविदास जी की, पृष्ठ 659

 

सन्देश- रविदास जी कह रहे है कि राम नाम बिना सब व्यर्थ है।

 

 

मध्य काल के दलित संत हिन्दू समाज में व्याप्त छुआछूत एवं धर्म के नाम पर अन्धविश्वास का कड़ा विरोध करते थे मगर श्री राम और श्री कृष्ण को पूरा मान देते थे। उनका प्रयोजन समाज सुधार था। आज के कुछ अम्बेडकरवादी दलित साहित्य के नाम पर ऐसा कूड़ा परोस रहे है जिसका उद्देश्य केवल हिन्दू समाज की सभी मान्यताओं जैसे वेद, गौ माता, तीर्थ, श्री राम, श्री कृष्ण आदि को गाली देना भर होता हैं। इस सुनियोजित षड़यंत्र का उद्देश्य समाज सुधार नहीं अपितु परस्पर वैमनस्य फैला कर आपसी मतभेद को बढ़ावा देना है। हम सभी देशवासियों का जिन्होंने भारत की पवित्र मिटटी में जन्म लिया है, यह कर्त्तव्य बनता है कि इस जातिवाद रूपी बीमारी को जड़ से मिटाकर इस हिन्दू समाज की एकता को तोड़ने का सुनियोजित षड़यंत्र विफल कर दे।

 

यही इस लेख का उद्देश्य है।

संत रविदास और इस्लाम

संत रविदास और इस्लाम

डॉ विवेक आर्य

 

आज जय भीम, जय मीम का नारा लगाने वाले दलित भाइयों को आज के कुछ राजनेता कठपुतली के समान प्रयोग कर रहे हैं। यह मानसिक गुलामी का लक्षण है। दलित-मुस्लिम गठजोड़ के रूप में बहकाना भी इसी कड़ी का भाग हैं। दलित समाज में संत रविदास का नाम प्रमुख समाज सुधारकों के रूप में स्मरण किया जाता हैं। आप जाटव या चमार कुल से सम्बंधित माने जाते थे। चमार शब्द चंवर का अपभ्रंश है।

 

चर्ममारी राजवंश का उल्लेख महाभारत जैसे प्राचीन भारतीय वांग्मय में मिलता है। प्रसिद्ध विद्वान डॉ विजय सोनकर शास्त्राी ने इस विषय पर गहन शोध कर चर्ममारी राजवंश के इतिहास पर पुस्तक लिखा है। इसी तरह चमार शब्द से मिलते-जुलते शब्द चंवर वंश के क्षत्रियों के बारे में कर्नल टाड ने अपनी पुस्तक ‘राजस्थान का इतिहास’ में लिखा है। चंवर राजवंश का शासन पश्चिमी भारत पर रहा है। इसकी शाखाएं मेवाड़ के प्रतापी सम्राट महाराज बाप्पा रावल के वंश से मिलती हैं। संत रविदास जी महाराज लम्बे समय तक चित्तौड़ के दुर्ग में महाराणा सांगा के गुरू के रूप में रहे हैं। संत रविदास जी महाराज के महान, प्रभावी व्यक्तित्व के कारण बड़ी संख्या में लोग इनके शिष्य बने। आज भी इस क्षेत्रा में बड़ी संख्या में रविदासी पाये जाते हैं।

 

उस काल का मुस्लिम सुल्तान सिकंदर लोधी अन्य किसी भी सामान्य मुस्लिम शासक की तरह भारत के हिन्दुओं को मुसलमान बनाने की उधेड़बुन में लगा रहता था। इन सभी आक्रमणकारियों की दृष्टि ग़ाज़ी उपाधि पर रहती थी। सुल्तान सिकंदर लोधी ने संत रविदास जी महाराज मुसलमान बनाने की जुगत में अपने मुल्लाओं को लगाया। जनश्रुति है कि वो मुल्ला संत रविदास जी महाराज से प्रभावित हो कर स्वयं उनके शिष्य बन गए और एक तो रामदास नाम रख कर हिन्दू हो गया। सिकंदर लोदी अपने षड्यंत्रा की यह दुर्गति होने पर चिढ़ गया और उसने संत रविदास जी को बंदी बना लिया और उनके अनुयायियों को हिन्दुओं में सदैव से निषिद्ध खाल उतारने, चमड़ा कमाने, जूते बनाने के काम में लगाया। इसी दुष्ट ने चंवर वंश के क्षत्रियों को अपमानित करने के लिये नाम बिगाड़ कर चमार सम्बोधित किया। चमार शब्द का पहला प्रयोग यहीं से शुरू हुआ। संत रविदास जी महाराज की ये पंक्तियाँ सिकंदर लोधी के अत्याचार का वर्णन करती हैं।

 

वेद धर्म सबसे बड़ा, अनुपम सच्चा ज्ञान

फिर मैं क्यों छोड़ूँ इसे पढ़ लूँ झूट क़ुरान

वेद धर्म छोड़ूँ नहीं कोसिस करो हजार

तिल-तिल काटो चाही गोदो अंग कटार

 

चंवर वंश के क्षत्रिय संत रविदास जी के बंदी बनाने का समाचार मिलने पर दिल्ली पर चढ़ दौड़े और दिल्लीं की नाकाबंदी कर ली। विवश हो कर सुल्तान सिकंदर लोदी को संत रविदास जी को छोड़ना पड़ा । इस झपट का ज़िक्र इतिहास की पुस्तकों में नहीं है मगर संत रविदास जी के ग्रन्थ रविदास रामायण की यह पंक्तियाँ सत्य उद्घाटित करती हैं

 

बादशाह ने वचन उचारा । मत प्यादरा इसलाम हमारा ।।

खंडन करै उसे रविदासा । उसे करौ प्राण कौ नाशा ।।

जब तक राम नाम रट लावे । दाना पानी यह नहीं पावे ।।

जब इसलाम धर्म स्वीरकारे । मुख से कलमा आप उचारै ।।

पढे नमाज जभी चितलाई । दाना पानी तब यह पाई ।।

 

जैसे उस काल में इस्लामिक शासक हिंदुओं को मुसलमान बनाने के लिए हर संभव प्रयास करते रहते थे वैसे ही आज भी कर रहे हैं। उस काल में दलितों के प्रेरणास्रोत्र संत रविदास सरीखे महान चिंतक थे। जिन्हें अपने प्रान न्योछावर करना स्वीकार था मगर वेदों को त्याग कर क़ुरान पढ़ना स्वीकार नहीं था।

मगर इसे ठीक विपरीत आज के दलित राजनेता अपने तुच्छ लाभ के लिए अपने पूर्वजों की संस्कृति और तपस्या की अनदेखी कर रहे हैं।

 

दलित समाज के कुछ राजनेता जिनका काम ही समाज के छोटे-छोटे खंड बाँट कर अपनी दुकान चलाना है अपने हित के लिए हिन्दू समाज के टुकड़े-टुकड़े करने का प्रयास कर रहे हैं।

 

आईये डॉ अम्बेडकर की सुने जिन्होंने अनेक प्रलोभन के बाद भी इस्लाम और ईसाइयत को स्वीकार करना स्वीकार नहीं किया।

 

(हर हिन्दू राष्ट्रवादी इस लेख को शेयर अवश्य करे जिससे हिन्दू समाज को तोड़ने वालों का षड़यंत्र विफल हो जाये)

 

Ltr to President Trump

President Donald J. Trump                                                                                     Feb. 2, 2017

The White House

Washington D.C.

 

Dear Mr. President,

 

Ref: Special consideration and help to persecuted Christians for migrating to the US:

 

Sub: Similar consideration & help be given to persecuted Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Christians & Jains from Pak. Afghan & Bangladesh:

 

         Your recent decision to extend special help for migrating to the United States to the persecuted minorities, particularly the Christians, from some of the Islamic states has been highly appreciated by the persecuted communities and the Christian world.

 

        We would like to draw your attention to other groups of persecuted minorities who have equally been heavily persecuted by the Islamic States of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh who deserve similar consideration by your administration as has been extended to the Christians of the other Islamic states. The heavily discriminated minorities in these countries include Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Christians, Jains and others.

 

       Mr. President, at the time of the partition of India in 1947 close to four million of these minorities were mercilessly slaughtered by the Sunni Muslim radicals of Pakistan. Similarly, in 1971 at the time of the birth of Bangladesh more than three million Bengalis were killed by the occupying Sunni army of Pakistan. In view of the cold war alliances and policies generated by them these genocidal human devastations did not hit the headlines in most of the Western capitals nor were humanitarian sympathies or aid offered by the ever-generous Westerners.

 

        At the time of Pakistan’s birth in 1947 the volume of the above mentioned persecuted minorities in Pakistan was 30 to 35% of the total population of Pakistan. Today due to the continued ethnic cleansing according to the Western sources that volume has been reduced to just 1%. Afghanistan had about 15% non-Muslims but they all were either driven out, forcibly converted or simply eliminated. In Bangladesh, the volume of the non-Muslim population has been reduced from 40% to about 7% and ethnic cleansing, forced conversion, massacres and driving the unwanted non-Muslims out of the country were some of the methods used to achieve the dominant Islamization.

 

        The Islamic crusade in Pakistan did not end in the Islamic State itself but with the active help of the US enemy number one, Osama Ben Laden, and the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia it crossed the frontiers and radically altered the ethnic composition of India’s Kashmir by unleashing genocidal attacks against all kinds of non-Muslims. Consequently, now the Kashmir valley, after having eliminated the entire non-Muslim population has been reduced to Sunni land. Consequently, India’s Kashmir has become replica of Pakistan with 100% Sunni Wahhabi Muslims. We request that the exiled people from these countries, who are generally the persecuted minorities, may also be afforded the same kind of consideration for relocating in the U.S. as the Christians of the Islamic States.

 

Already some of your prominent and brave supporters from the Indo-American community have severely criticized the liberals and democrats for having done precious little and shown no compassion towards these uprooted refugees. Would it not be befitting for the Trump administration to express support for these homeless people and thereby solidify India’s and the Indo-American community’s massive support behind the Trump Agenda of transforming America?

 

         A few things about these disenfranchised and exiled people that need to be kept in mind are a) they are non-violent; b) educated and skilled; c) know and understand democratic values; d) love the West particularly America; e) believers of thought & religious freedom; f) highly tolerant & compatible; and, g) believers in co-existence and mutual respect. Furthermore, they will be America’s readymade skilled and educated workforce with all the attributes and qualities for strengthening the American society and its freedom and democratic values.

 

        Mr. President, in conclusion we would like to emphasize that by extending the same kind of help for immigrating to the US as USA is going to the persecuted Christians of the Muslim states identified by you we will be engaging in a great humanitarian plan and in the process, we will be earning gratitude, support, and good will of nearly two billion people of South Asia. We urge you Mr. President to please give a serious consideration to this win-win suggestion.

 

With best wishes

 

Sincerely yours

     Dr. Jagan Kaul

3145 Gilbert Ave.,

Roseburg, OR 97471

 

The Hindu Future of the World

From: Mohan Natarajan < >

 

The Hindu future of the world

January 27, 2017, 11:14 PM IST Francois Gautier in Francois Gautier’s blog for TOI | India | TOI

 

(Skanda987 has added words in parenthesis, and his comment at the end of the article.)

 

Happy Republic Day, my Hindu brothers and sisters!

Happy? Well the future of Hindus in India is endangered: Hindus are becoming a minority in many parts of Kerala (Santhosh, a BJP worker, was recently murdered in Kannur), in Assam, in West Bengal and some districts of UP and Bihar. They cannot start a business, buy land or build a house in Jammu and Kashmir, but Kashmiris from the Valley open shops all over India, though they don’t feel they belong to this country. Hindu temples – still under the BJP Govt – are subject to Government control and their funds are seized, while mosques and churches are totally free.

 

In a land where Hindus are the overwhelming majority, Hindus are still a fair target for its Media, its intellectuals, NGO’s and even the Judiciary. Their traditions and ancient customs, such as Holi colors, Jallikattu or firecrackers, are being eroded and made fun off.

 

The Constitution of India favors minorities, to which it grants many rights – to divorce upon pronouncing three words, subsidies to fly to the Mecca, a foreign country that has often been inimical to India, grants to Christian schools who indoctrinate Hindus, to madrassas that fanaticize their youth – but no such thing to Hindus, especially if they do not belong to the lower castes.

 

Brahmins have become ostracized in many parts of India, like in Tamil Nadu, where they have very little access to Govt posts, but the Government, both Central and State, goes overboard to please the Muslim minority so as to get their ever more powerful vote; which is sometimes enough to get elected – is it not so, Mrs. Mamata Banerjee?

The world of literature, intelligentsia and Journalism is peopled by Hindus indeed – but descendants of Macaulay’s children, who forever see India through the very negative prism of western eyes and culture and keep denigrating and downgrading their own culture.

Christian children learn catechism in their schools and churches, Muslim kids are all taught the Koran at a very young age, regardless of the class they come from, but Hindu children are not grounded in the Bhagavad Gita, the greatest book of knowledge ever, that should become the Bible of the future of this Planet, nor in Kalidasa, one of the most brilliant poets ever – on par with Shakespeare, nor do they know about Sri Aurobindo’s Foundations of Indian Culture or Life Divine – some of the major works of philosophy, that haven’t lost a single line of relevance in a hundred years.

 

On the contrary, in their schools and universities, they are taught only western concepts and subjects that make them lose their Hindu-ness and become good for export- indeed, the greatest brain drain in the world, is that of the Hindus, who go to enrich the faculties and research centers, and medical corps and engineering and software reservoirs all over the world, particularly in the US, UK and Canada, never come back and their children and grandchildren are lost forever for India.

 

But it’s in politics that Hindus are the most deprived. Though there is today a Hindu party in power, most of the outward actions of the Government and the Prime Minister are not for the Hindus – whose support is taken for granted – but towards the minorities. The Prime Minister and its core group will take care to wish Muslims on their holy festivals, to receive Muslim dignitaries – for this Republic Day Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahya – or Muslim actors, such as Aamir Khan, who makes fun of Hindus in his films, but they mostly ignore Hindus and their leaders.

 

We see that Europe and the US are not ashamed to proclaim themselves as Christian countries. Forget about Donald Trump, even an Obama, who has African and Muslim roots, is sworn in on the Bible and prays fervently to the Christ. But in India, the word ‘Hindu’ is dirty and we see no politicians or the government swear by the Gita or the Upanishads.

 

Yet, the knowledge that stands behind Hinduism, can save the world. For Hinduism is not a religion, but a universal spirituality that recognizes that God can manifest Himself or Herself at different times, using different names and different scriptures. This is why a Hindu today is able to enter a mosque or a church, but the reverse is not true. Indeed, Hindu tolerance has been a one-way traffic and the Hindu genocide has been the most cruel in the history of Humanity.

 

It is recorded too: Teimur’s killing of a hundred thousand Hindus in one day is history, Yes, Mr. Saif Ali Khan, you did not name your son innocently. So is Aurangzeb’s cruelty towards Hindus, their temples and their customs, in thousands of firmans (orders) with the Emperor’s seal.

 

Nevertheless, Hindus continue to (foolishly) accept others (the aggressive anti-Hindus) regardless of this bloodshed; and their spiritual leaders such as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, teach techniques that can be practiced not only by Hindus, but also by Muslims, Christians, and Chinese… Meditation, hatha yoga and pranayama are taking the world by storm and more and more of this (Vedic) Knowledge, that comes from India, (and the Hindus believe) will permeate the world and lead it from Darkness to Light:

asato ma sad gamaya

Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya

Mrtyor ma amritam gamaya

 

Meaning:

Lead us from non-being to being

Lead us from darkness to light

Lead us from death to immortality

 

DISCLAIMER: Views expressed above are the author’s own.

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(Skand987’s comment:

The Vedics need to know dharma as it is from Bhagavad Gita, which is a 700-verse summary of the 20,000-hymn Vedas, and the live per dharma correctly. Gita/Bhagavan Krishna says:

द्वौ भूतसर्गौ लोकेस्मिन् दैव आसुर एव च।

This verse says that in the material world there always are (and will be) more or less people with asiric mentality. The solution for the suras is to subdue or kill the asuras (and declare the asuric religions illegal) who constantly rob the freedom of the suras, their lives, women, land, property, and honor, and strive to dominate over the suras. Per this dhrma, Arjun killed his beloved Bhishma, and Drona, and others because they took the side of adharmi Duryodhan. The only solution for the survival of the Vedic dharma in the Vedic’s homeland Hindustan is to make Hindustan a Vedic State, not “secular.” Please read short articles at below link for full rationale:

https://skanda987.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/how-to-make-bharat-a-vedic-state/

https://skanda987.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/religions-and-religious-freedom-v1/

https://skanda987.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/defects-of-democratic-constitutions/

 

Please share this with all the Vedics you know.

Jai sri Krishna!

-sv

 

If Islam is Tolerant, then Why

 

  1. Except for the creation of Pakistan, why Islam has spread by invasions in other countries and by forced conversions?
  2. In the times or riots why many Muslims submit their best Hindu (or non-Muslim) friends to rioters for killing?
  3. Why a non-Muslim wife of a Muslim man is forced to convert to Islam?
  4. Why all religions, except Islam, are illegal in most Muslim countries?
  5. Why all the Muslim invaders in Hindustan in last 1000 years destroyed Hindu temples and slaughtered Hindus, and raped their women?
  6. Why all the terrorists are Muslims?
  7. Why almost all riots in India are started by Muslims?
  8. Why Hindustani Muslims refuse to sing vande maataram song, knowing well that Islam has invaded in Hindustan by force and it does belong there?
  9. Why India was partitioned in 1947, which created Pakistan on the Hindu land?
  10. Why ISIS and Boko Haram do not understand human rights of non-Muslims?
  11. Why Kashmiri pundits (the Hindus) overnight had to quit their homes and State, and are living as refugees in their own country?
  12. Why Muslim men do not give equal freedom to women?
  13. Why Muslim rulers in Hindustan were collecting jizya (poll tax for practicing their Hindu dharma) from the Hindus?
  14. Why Muslims are demanding separate prayer rooms and separate schools in non-Muslim countries?
  15. Why Muslims are killing non-violent Buddhist monks in Malaysia?
  16. Why Muslims create hindrance to Hindus celebrating their religious festivals in their own homeland?
  17. Why Muslims demand Sharia law in non-Muslim countries?
  18. Why Muslims do not understand human rights of non-Muslims?
  19. Why Muslims gang rape non-Muslims?
  20. Why Muslims keep imitating so called Prophet Muhammad who was a brutal warrior against those who refused to accept Islam?
  21. Why Muslims resist Hindus to build Rama Temple at Babri mosque that is built on Rama temple that was destroyed by a Muslim ruler Babar?
  22. Why Muslims riot when someone creates or publishes a cartoon or picture of Mohammed?
  23. Why non-Muslims are not allowed to enter in Mecca or in mosques?
  24. Why Taliban shot missiles at Bamian Buddha statue in Afghanistan?
  25. Why the Hindus are being killed by Muslims in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and in West Bengal, and even in Hindustan?
  26. Why the Muslims cannot tolerate non-Muslim women without burkha?
  27. Why there is fatwa on Salman Rushdie, Taslisma Nashreen, Robert Spencer, Tarek Fatah, etc. intellectuals?
  28. Why there is no peace where there is Islam?
  29. Why the punishment for blasphemy -apostasy – is death?
  30. Why Muslims force Islam on non-Muslims?
  31. Why hijab is forced on women, even on pre-puberty girls?
  32. Why University of Medina in Saudi Arabia refuses to admit female students?
  33. Why Islam approves slavery?
  34. Why Islam is against the laws created democratically by parliament?

 

 

 

Quotes-Notes from The Truth about Muhammad

The below are some quotes from the 200-page book–The Truth about Muhammand, Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion– by Robert Spencer

Some are in the words who hand-wrote these notes while he was reading the book.  The purpose of sharing that the world, especially the non-Muslim democracies must know the truth, so that they can make appropriate policies, and laws, even amend constitution, to purge out the cancer from their countries.

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jai sri Krishna!

 

Real origin of the Kashmir problem

 

From: Avnish Kashyap < >

 

Real origin of the Kashmir problem 

Jammu and Kashmir

 

For years before independence Kashmir head of state was Hindu. If Kashmir is a Muslim state, how did they appoint a Hindu king? Probably, all (the Hindustani) Muslims are Hindu converts due to Islamic invasions. This is my personal opinion. – Sarpeshkar

If World War III were to begin, most defense and political experts the most likely place will be Kashmir and between Nuclear powers India and Pakistan. Everyone seems to sense this, yet the two countries remain locked in a dangerous confrontation. The main flashpoint is Kashmir.

What are the origins of the problem and what keeps the fire of conflict raging?  Having no legal right to claim Kashmir but desiring it all costs, a belligerent and aggressive Pakistan has waged four very costly and unsuccessful wars on India seeking to wrest control of Kashmir from India by force. Pakistan’s greatest military and political supporter always has been America. Why?

Conflict is an expensive affair. Yet Pakistan with an economy that survives on handouts, grants and subsidies primarily from America and American allies.

Why would the world’s most powerful nation, which portrays itself as ‘The Champion of Freedom and Democracy’ support an incompetent, corrupt, theocratic, fundamentalist, terrorist, military regime with state of the art weapons and training etc. to continuously wage war on India, a peace loving secular democratic nation? Why?

Why in the name of fighting terrorism give Pakistan weapons that can only be used only against India such as aircraft with nuclear weapons delivery capabilities? Why?

This requires us to travel back in history before Indian independence.

Britain became an empire by being effective, in protecting and furthering her own interests at all costs, while being extremely polite and diplomatic. Britain’s interest was to retain indirect control of India even after independence. This is still done in many ways, but here we will only discuss the military one.

A weakened Britain backed by a powerful America did not want to leave a power vacuum in which communist Soviet Union and a possibly China could take control. So they proposed British bases and armed forces to be retained in India after independence. Indian leaders refused to allow the stationing of foreign troops

Jinnah on the other hand made a deal with the British, that if they partitioned India, and provided provide military and economic aid to Pakistan, then he would give free rein to the British to do as they chose. This was a major incentive for the British to partition India. Bengal and Kashmir were two strategic areas from which British and American forces could keep in check, both Russia and China.

In pursuit of their grand objectives, the Americans in 1954 chose Turkey, Iran and Pakistan as their defense partners to contain Russia and communism. In 1955 SEATO and CENTO was formed and had expanded to include UK and Iraq also.  In 1959. Massive American aid began gushing into Pakistan, turning a relatively small insignificant nation into a monster.

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Mountbatten, Nehru and Edwina

Inexplicably both India and Pakistan agreed to retain Britishers as Commander-in-Chief and Chiefs of Air and Naval Staff, of their respective armies, even after independence. Lord Mountbatten was appointed the Governor General of India.

Mountbatten, not Nehru presided over the proceedings of the Defense Committee of the Cabinet. Incredulously Nehru willingly handed over control of the security and defense of the country to the British. More shocking is the silence of all Indian leaders, the intellectuals and the general public on this matter.

The heads of the armed forces both of India and Pakistan which were commanded by British generals, were in a unique position to influence the course of the military action. The Attlee Government in the UK, Mountbatten and the British generals in India and General Gracey, British C-in-C of Pakistani army, conspired to stop India from making full use of its military strength to throw out Pakistani forces from Jammu and Kashmir or to attack Pakistan in 1947-48.

Recently unclassified British records reveal that, Mountbatten and his officers collectively projected to Indian leaders a deliberately exaggerated picture of India’s military limitations, vis-a-vis Pakistan. General Busher, C-in-C Indian Army, issued a directive on July 6, 1948, to General Cariappa in Jammu and Kashmir, that no major operation should be undertaken without approval of Army HQ. He forbade the use of the Indian Air force. Mountbatten further advised India to take the case to the United Nations.
Evidence by way of interviews and records of this conspiracy have been recorded by C. Das Gupta in his book War and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 by Sage Publications, New Delhi.