Most people who clamour that the history of our freedom movement has been written with over-emphasis on the non-violent Gandhian resistance have not cared to read the copious amount of literature available on the armed struggle for independence as well. It is sheer ignorance to thus clamour and is a sad pointer to what political propaganda can do to a polity.
Few care to read. Most are content to clamour. Now what can be done if people wish to dwell in their ignorance? Even Dr. Ramesh Chandra Majumdar has left an adequate account of the armed struggle. But men must shout that the venerable professor did write five times as much on the Gandhian resistance. Now who is to blame for that? Gandhiji? Pandit Nehru? The British? Dr.R.C.Majumdar? Netaji? History? Who?
Written by Sugata Bose
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