MUSINGS ON THE MAHATMA ... 1
Gandhi's contribution to the freedom movement was in his giving it mass base and so raising a counter national will that could challenge the collective will of the Crown. Beyond this he was a failure and it was left to historical circumstances and the revolutionaries to lead the country to freedom.
Gandhi became inconsequential from after the Quit India Movement of 1942 and it was left to the British to ally themselves with Nehru and Jinnah to conveniently partition India and debilitate her for good. Non-violence can never drive away a mighty world power from its colonial possession and neither did Gandhian non-violence succeed in doing so. Had the revolutionaries, that is, Rash Behari Bose, Netaji and the Indian National Army, in alliance with Imperial Japan, not precipitated circumstances within India and catalysed mutinies in the British Indian Armed Forces in 1946, the nation would not have been freed. Just like after the First World War when the victorious British unleashed horrendous brutality on the Indians to strike stronger control over their colony, the same would have been the fate of India after the Second World War had the INA not been instrumental in driving the British off. Britain would have soon recovered from the ravages of war by plundering India further and kept us in perpetual bondage till kingdom come.
It is in this light that Gandhi's contribution to the freedom movement must be seen, as a corollary to the basic theorem of revolution that did the job and not as the theorem itself as is mischievously preached by the protagonists of the Anglo-American consortium who now vouch the cause of these neo-colonists.
Historians are hired intellectuals who write what their paymasters ask them to do and who distort the story of man to suit their self-interest. So, their accounts of denunciation of Netaji and the revolutionaries need not bother you, O reader, who have embarked on the voyage of self-discovery of facts from diverse sources. May you be led by your research to arrive at your own conclusions!
Bande Mataram!
Written by Sugata Bose
Gandhi's contribution to the freedom movement was in his giving it mass base and so raising a counter national will that could challenge the collective will of the Crown. Beyond this he was a failure and it was left to historical circumstances and the revolutionaries to lead the country to freedom.
Gandhi became inconsequential from after the Quit India Movement of 1942 and it was left to the British to ally themselves with Nehru and Jinnah to conveniently partition India and debilitate her for good. Non-violence can never drive away a mighty world power from its colonial possession and neither did Gandhian non-violence succeed in doing so. Had the revolutionaries, that is, Rash Behari Bose, Netaji and the Indian National Army, in alliance with Imperial Japan, not precipitated circumstances within India and catalysed mutinies in the British Indian Armed Forces in 1946, the nation would not have been freed. Just like after the First World War when the victorious British unleashed horrendous brutality on the Indians to strike stronger control over their colony, the same would have been the fate of India after the Second World War had the INA not been instrumental in driving the British off. Britain would have soon recovered from the ravages of war by plundering India further and kept us in perpetual bondage till kingdom come.
It is in this light that Gandhi's contribution to the freedom movement must be seen, as a corollary to the basic theorem of revolution that did the job and not as the theorem itself as is mischievously preached by the protagonists of the Anglo-American consortium who now vouch the cause of these neo-colonists.
Historians are hired intellectuals who write what their paymasters ask them to do and who distort the story of man to suit their self-interest. So, their accounts of denunciation of Netaji and the revolutionaries need not bother you, O reader, who have embarked on the voyage of self-discovery of facts from diverse sources. May you be led by your research to arrive at your own conclusions!
Bande Mataram!
Written by Sugata Bose
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