LET HISTORY BE RETOLD ... 1
Constant campaign against the false assertion that non-violence won us independence is changing the narrative of the freedom struggle gradually and I must thank all those who are pertinently contributing to the cause yet to set the seal on the correct chronicling of the historical development leading to India's freedom.
The Goebbels' lies in the name of Gandhian disproportionately high contribution to India's liberation from colonial conquest must be countered not with further euphemisms but with undiluted affirmations about the blood-lettered narrative of the real revolutionaries who saw their dreams thwarted and shattered in the motherland's eventual attainment of the partitioned dominion status by these collaborators of the colonists masquerading as freedom fighters under the despotic control of the so-called Mahatma of dubious philosophical, ethical and political integrity.
Gandhian passive resistance is simply ineffectual in a brutal world governed by realpolitik. To attempt to overcome an enemy, equipped with a modern army that helped it keep a third of the world in colonial subjugation, with passive non-violent means of resistance such as non-compliance with unjust laws and endurance of suffering in one's bid to melt the heart of the offender and so convert him to the higher state of spiritual insight where justice abounds, was to live in a fool's paradise, to state it plainly. This was not the revolution required then to achieve freedom but was a compromise with the colonists which favoured the adversary alone to the detriment of the national cause beyond hope of future redemption, as the ensuing events of the next three decades would testify to. This was collaboration -- collaboration with the British, wittingly or unwittingly, whichever way the facts would tend to reveal. And this must be exposed today as the nation awakes.
Written by Sugata Bose
Constant campaign against the false assertion that non-violence won us independence is changing the narrative of the freedom struggle gradually and I must thank all those who are pertinently contributing to the cause yet to set the seal on the correct chronicling of the historical development leading to India's freedom.
The Goebbels' lies in the name of Gandhian disproportionately high contribution to India's liberation from colonial conquest must be countered not with further euphemisms but with undiluted affirmations about the blood-lettered narrative of the real revolutionaries who saw their dreams thwarted and shattered in the motherland's eventual attainment of the partitioned dominion status by these collaborators of the colonists masquerading as freedom fighters under the despotic control of the so-called Mahatma of dubious philosophical, ethical and political integrity.
Gandhian passive resistance is simply ineffectual in a brutal world governed by realpolitik. To attempt to overcome an enemy, equipped with a modern army that helped it keep a third of the world in colonial subjugation, with passive non-violent means of resistance such as non-compliance with unjust laws and endurance of suffering in one's bid to melt the heart of the offender and so convert him to the higher state of spiritual insight where justice abounds, was to live in a fool's paradise, to state it plainly. This was not the revolution required then to achieve freedom but was a compromise with the colonists which favoured the adversary alone to the detriment of the national cause beyond hope of future redemption, as the ensuing events of the next three decades would testify to. This was collaboration -- collaboration with the British, wittingly or unwittingly, whichever way the facts would tend to reveal. And this must be exposed today as the nation awakes.
Written by Sugata Bose
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