If there is one place on the face of this Earth
where all the dreams of living men have found a home
from the very earliest days when Man began the dream of existence,
it is India. (Romain Rolland - French Philosopher) |
Quotes From Indian History
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| Bear in mind that the
commerce of India is the commerce of the world and ... he who can exclusively command it
is the dictator of Europe. (Peter the Great of Russia) |
| Many of the advances in the
sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India
centuries ago. (Grant Duff, British Historian of India)
(Sudheer Birodhkar) |
| India was the motherland of
our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. India was the mother of our
philosophy, of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in Christianity... of
self-government and democracy. In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all. (Will Durant, American Historian) (Sudheer Birodhkar) |
| In India I found a race of
mortals living upon the Earth. but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not being
fixed to them, possessing everything but possessed by nothing. (Apollonius Tyanaeus, Greek Thinker and Traveller 1st Century AD)
(Sudheer Birodhkar) |
| Ancient Indian theories
lacked an empirical base, but they were brilliant imaginative explanations of the physical
structure of the world, and in a large measure, agreed with the discoveries of modern
physics. (A.L. Basham, Australian Indologist)
(Sudheer Birodhkar) |
| Medical Science was one area were surprising advances had been made in
ancient times in India. Specifically these advances were in the areas of plastic surgery,
extraction of catracts, dental surgery, etc., These are not just tall claims. There is
documentary evidence to prove the existence of these practices. (Sudheer Birodhkar) |
If I am asked which nation
had been advanced
in the ancient world in respect of education and
culture then I would say it was - India. (Max Muller
German Indologist) |
| Kalaripayat from
Kerala was transmitted to China by a sage named Boddhidharma in the 5th century. The
Chinese called him Po-ti-tama. He taught this art in a temple. This temple is today known
as the Shaolin temple. Thus Judo, Karate, Kung Fu and other similar marshal arts
which are today identified with the far-east actually originated from India.
(Sudheer Birodhkar) |
| In religion, India is the
only millionaire .... The One land that all men desire to see and having seen once, by
even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe
combined. (Mark Twain American Author) |
| Egypt has been
represented in every age as the finest and most fruitful country in the world, and even
our modern writers deny that there is any other land so peculiarly favoured by nature; but
the knowledge I have acquired of Bengal, during two visits paid to that Kingdom inclines
me to believe that pre-eminence ascribed to Egypt is rather due to Bengal. (French traveller Francois
Bernier) |
| What Bengal thinks
today, India thinks tomorrow and the rest of the world the day after! (Gokhle) |
| At its height, around 2500
BC, the first Indian civilization comprised of 1400 cities and towns, spanned an area from
Afganistan to Goa (South West India). It was the largest trading and oldest seafaring
civilization . (NOVO) |
| Let those
whose deity is the Phallus (Shiv-Lingam) not penetrate our Sanctuary. (Rig Ved (vii) Ch 21-5) |
| Originally
the Aryans (Indian Aryans) saw sea-faring as a sin and considered one to lose religion if
they went across the oceans. (NOVO) |
| While some of
the Bengal kings fought on elephants, others rode on ocean-bred steeds of the hue of the
moon. (Bhishma-parvan,
ancient Aryan source) |
| Ancient Bengal men painted their
nails to attract girls. This is the earliest mention of colouring nails. In the ancient
Indus, girls used lipstick which is also another first use. |
| There is a river near it
called the Ganges (Ganga)... On its bank is a market town which has the same name as the
river, Ganges (Ganga: Bengal's old name was Gangaridoi). Through this place are brought
malabathrum and Gangetic spikenard and pearls and muslins of the finest sorts, which are
called Gangetic. It is said that there are gold mines near these places, and there is a
gold coin which is called caltis. And just opposite this river there is an island in the
ocean, the last part of the inhabited world towards the east, under the rising sun itself,
it is called Chryse; and it has the best tortoise-shell of all the places on the Erythrean
Sea. (Greek historian
Periplus) |
| ... But the
waves utterly overwhelmed it, and Chryse sank and disappeared in the depths... (Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.33.4) |
| The Culture of
India is pre-Aryan in origin. As in Greece, the conquered countries civilised the
conquerors. The Aryan Indian owed his civilisation and his degeneration to the Dravidians
as the Aryan Greek to the Mycaeneans. (Hall in
his "Ancient History of the Near East") |
| There is enough in the fragments vie have recovered , about the religious
articles found on the sites to demonstrate that this religion of the Indus people was the
lineal progenitor of Hinduism. In fact, Siva and Kali, the worship of the Linga and other
features of popular Hinduism, were well established in India long before the Aryans cam.. (Sir John Marshall) |
| In all
history, it is victors who write and record their life and times. Life-a cavalcade of
glory, times-a fabulous spectacle. The vanquished are doubly disappeared. Once by
exclusion from the national saga, next by the avalanche of blatant partisanship
commemorating the oppressors as heroes. All the gore, greed, and grimness of immortal
adventures and unjust aggressions are adroitly turned into a simple equation of good
defeating evil. Simplism, embedded in lies, can be easily assimilated to memory as
righteousness. (I K Shukla, MAHABHARATA : THE REVENGE OF
THE NON-ARYANS?) |
| The Persians
coined the term Hindu to describe the people of India. It was a mispronounciation of
Sindhu, the large river of western India, now in Pakistan. |
| Indian cities
are prosperous and stretch far and wide. There are many guest houses for travellers. There
are hospitals providing free medical service for the poor. The viharas and temples are
majestic. People are free to choose their occupations. There are no restrictions on the
movement of the people. Government officials and soldiers are paid their salaries
regularly. People are not addicted to drinks. They shun violence. The administration
provided by the Gupta rulers is fair and just. (Chinese
traveller Fa Hien, during the reign of Chandragupta II.) |
During
DevPal's rule. the Pal empire extended from Bengal to Afganistan.
(NOVO)
|
| Bangladesh was
once the cradle of Buddhism... (Harry Belitz) |
| Describing the
demoniac pleasure which Babur used to derive by raising towers of heads of people he used
to slaughter, Col. Tod writes that after defeating Rana Sanga at Fatehpur Sikri
"triumphal pyriamids were raised of the heads of the slain, and on a hillock which
overlooked the field of the battle, a tower of skulls was erected and the conquerer Babur
(Babur/Babar is the founder of the Moghul dynasty) assumed the title of Ghazi."
(Akbar continued the tradition) |
| ...The Lord
Cherisher of the faith (Moghul Emperor Aurongzeb) learnt that in the provinces of Tatta,
Multan, and especially at Benaras, the Brahmin misbelievers used to teach their false
books in their established schools, and that admirers and students both Hindu and Muslim,
used to come from great distances to these misguided men in order to acquire this vile
learning. His majesty, eager to establish Islam, issues orders to the governors of all the
provinces TO DEMOLISH THE SCHOOLS AND TEMPLES OF THE INFIDELS and with utmost urgency put
down the teaching and the public practice of the religion of these misbelievers... |
| The Bahmani
Sultans of Gulbarga and Bidar considered it meritorious to kill a hundred thousand Hindu
men, women, and children every year. |
In the matter
of indian and world history the world can be duped in many respects for hundreds of years
and still continues to be duped. The world famous Tajmahal is a glaring instance. For all
the time, money and energy that people over the world spend in visiting the Tajmahal, they
are dished out of concoction. Contrary to what visitors are made to believe the Tajmahal
is not a Islamic mausoleum but an ancient Shiva Temple known as Tejo Mahalaya which the
5th generation moghul emperor Shahjahan commandeered from the then Maharaja of Jaipur.
(P. N. Oak, Tajmahal: The True Story)
|
| Famine,
the trademark of the British, continued all over India (during their rule). (NOVO) |
| 1770: Bengal is hit by a
terrible famine; nearly 1/3rd of its population dies... (From 1780) The population of
Britain doubles in fifty years. (Ashish
Dharmadhikari) |
| From 1765, when the British
took over Bengal, to 1858, when they quelled India's first rebellion, twelve famines and
four "severe scarcities" occurred. ... a conservative estimate suggests that in
the nineteenth century alone, more than twenty one million people died of starvation. ... (D. P. Sinhal) |
| A thoroughly English
educational system which would create "a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour
but English in taste, in morals and in intellect" and through such a class the
British would perpetuate their rule. (Thomas Macaulay, President of a Committee on Public Instruction in
Bengal,1835) |
| It is my firm belief
that if our plan of education is followed up, there would not be a single idolater in
Bengal in 30 years hence... (Macaulay, 1836) |
| Indians have in general
"superior endowments in reading, writing and arithmetic than the common people of any
nation in Europe." (Warren
Hastings, 1813) |
| The Calcutta Madrasha
(Islamic School) was established by Warren Hastings (a Christian British) in 1781. |
| The people of Bengal had been
used to tyranny, but had never lived under an oppression so far reaching in its effects,
extending to every village market and every manufacturer's loom. They had been used to
arbitrary acts from men in power, but had never suffered from a system which touched their
trades, their occupations, their lives so closely. The springs of their industry were
stopped, the sources of their wealth dried up. (Historian
R.C. Dutt) |
| The British Parliamentary
Select Committee of 1812 was appointed to discover how they (Indian manufactures) could be
replaced by British manufactures, and how British industries could be promoted at the
expense of Indian industries. (R.
C. Dutt) |
| To discourage Indian exports
Indian goods were taxed heavily... Tax of 67.5% was levied of Indian calicos and a tax of
37.5% was levied on muslins on entry into Britain. Over 300% import tax was placed Indian
sugar. Possesion of Indian imported goods in England such as cotton items was fined
heavily to further hurt the Indian industry. (Ashis
Dharmadhikari) |
| The misery hardly finds a
parallel in the history of commerce. The bones of the cotton-weavers are bleaching the
plains of India. (William Bentinck, the
Governor-General, 1835) |
| In the early 1800s, in
Narkelbaria, near Calcutta (Bengal) the first major martyr of the independence movement
started his ressistance. This was the immortal Titumir. Titumir led a violent campaign
against the British established rich land lords. With his son, Jawhar Ali, and others, he
built a legendary bamboo fort (Bansher Kella) to defend against the British. On 19th
November, 1831, they clashed with the British forces. In the battle, they were defeated by
the British and both Titumir and his son became martyrs. |
| The Bengal army was
"more or less mutinous, always on the verge of revolt and certain to have mutinied at
one time or another as soon as provocation might combine with opportunity". (Fredrick
Halliday, Lieutenant Governor of Bengal) |
| ...through ninety years of
British rule in India, from 1858, when the East India Company transferred lndia to the
British Crown, to the Independence Act of 1947. These years were full of revolutionary
activities. (Satyavrata Chattapaddhay) |
| The policy of Divide and Rule
received great impetus since the British realized that if the Hindus and Muslims combined
like they had in 1857, India may prove to be very difficult to be ruled. (Maj (Retd) AGHA HUMAYUN AMIN,
Military Political Analyst of 1857 Rebellion) |
| As for the police, so far
from being a protection to the people, I cannot better illustrate the public feeling
regarding it, than by the following fact, that nothing can exceed the popularity of a
recent regulation by which, if a robbery has been committed, the police are prevented from
making any enquiry into it, except upon the requisition of the persons robbed: that is to
say, the shepherd is a more ravenous beast of prey than the wolf. (William Bentinck, the Governor-General of the British Indian Government) |
| The police are "a
scourge to the people", and that "their oppressions and exactions form one of
the chief grounds of dissatisfaction with our government". (William Edwards, a British official, 1859) |
| In the early 20th century:
The drain of wealth from India to Britain constitutes nearly 6 % of India’s national
income and 1/3rd of its national savings. This drain constitutes nearly 2 % of
Britain’s national income, and nearly 29 % of Britain’s current investment in
industry and agriculture, which was about 7 % of its national income. (Ashish Dharmadhikari) |
"The
leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes
are the stronghold of the present abominable English system". (Karl Marx: 'The East Indian Question?, in: Karl Marx & Friedrich
Engels: 'Collected Works', Volume 12; London; 1979; p. 198)
|
" .
. . the Mohammedan leaders were inspired by certain Anglo-Indian officials, and that these
officials pulled wires at Simla and in London and of malice aforethought sowed discord
between the Hindu and the Mohammedan communities". (James Ramsay MacDonald: 'The Awakening of India'; London; 1910; p. 284)
|
| Every adherent of the
Congress, however noisy in declamations, however bitter in speech, is safe from burning
bungalows and murdering Europeans and the like. His hopes are based upon the British
nation and he will do nothing to invalidate these hopes and anger that nation. (A. O. Hume, founder of the Indian National Congress In 1885) |
| 1906: "To
promote, among the Musalmans (Muslims) of India, feelings of loyalty to the British
Government..." 1913: "To maintain and promote
among the people of this country feelings of loyalty towards the British Crown..." (Muslim League)
|
The Viceroy,
Viscount Wavell, gave "... unabashed support for Jinnah and the Muslim league"
(Denis Judd: ibid.; p. 40). (britneo)
|
| In
the light of these results (1937 elections), the leader of the Muslim League, Mohammed Ah
Jinnah decided that "... the League should strengthen its attraction to Muslim voters
by an appeal to Islamic anxieties". (Denis Judd: ibid.; p. 27). |
| It is the common habit
of established governments and especially those which are themselves oppressors, to brand
all violent methods in subject peoples and communities as criminal and wicked. When you
have disarmed your slaves and legalised the infliction of bonds, stripes, and death on any
one of them who may dare to speak or act against you, it is natural and convenient to try
and lay a moral as well as a legal ban on any attempt to answer violence by violence... (Biplobi (Revolutionary) Aurobindo Ghos) |
| Whenever the natural
process of national and political evolution is violently suppressed by the forces of
wrong, then revolution must step in as a natural reaction and therfore ought to be
welcomed as the only effective instrument to reenthrone Truth and Right. You (the British
imperialists) rule by bayonets and under these circumstances it is a mockery to talk of
constitutional agitation when no constitution exists at all. But it would be worse than a
mockery, even a crime when there is a constitution that allows the fullest and freeest
developement of a nation. Only because you (British) deny us a gun, we pick up a pistol.
Only because you deny us light, we gather in darkness to compass means to knock out the
fetters that hold our Mother down. (V. D. Savarkar,
Indian Hero, the real Father of India) |
| We believe as
much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of
all races. (M. K. Gandhi) |
| Yes, my friends, I too
am prepared to die for a cause, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. (M. K. Gandhi) |
| I think it would be a good
idea. (M. K. Gandhi, when asked what he
thought of Western civilization) |
| There is
enough for man's need but not for man's greed. (M. K. Gandhi) |
| Thanks to the
Court's decision, only clean Indians (meaning upper caste Hindu Indians) or colored people
other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trains. (M. K.
Gandhi) |
| Ours is one
continued struggle sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade
us to the level of the raw Kaffir (Africans), whose occupation is hunting and whose sole
ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife, and then pass his life in
indolence and nakedness. (M. K. Gandhi) |
Clause 200
makes provision for registration of persons belonging to uncivilized races (meaning the
local Africans), resident and employed within the Borough.
One can understand the necessity of registration of Kaffirs who will not
work, but why should registration be required for indentured Indians...? (M. K. Gandhi)
|
| In the
instance of fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives
(Africans). The British Indian does not need
any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of
fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so
by preventing the native from arming himself. Is
there the slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indians? (M. K. Gandhi) |
| Under my
suggestion, the Town Council (of Johannesburg) must withdraw the Kaffirs from the
Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs
with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly.
It think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even
the proverbial patience of my countrymen.
(M. K. Gandhi) |
| Men in prison are
"civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy. (M. K. Gandhi) |
| In an open
letter to the members of the Natal legislatures, Gandhi while claiming that the Indians
and the English have descended from the same common stock regretted that the English
regarded the Indians as "little better, if at all than savages or the Natives of
Africa" whom he referred to as "raw Kaffirs". (page
148, Suniti Ghosh's "India and the Raj")
|
| The Western
news media and their Indian allies by a massive propaganda exercise created the illusion
of sainthood around Gandhi and made people believe that he fought Apartheid in South
Africa, and in the process of doing so developed a new method of non-violent struggle
called satyagraha. Nothing is farther from the truth. (Velu Annamalai) |
| When he
(Gandhi) was fighting on behalf of Indians, he was not fighting for all the Indians, but
only for his rich merchant class upper caste Hindus! (Velu
Annamalai) |
| Gandhi, for
the major part of his life, worshipped British imperialism and too often proudly
proclaimed himself a lover of the Empire. He
was Kipling's Gunga Din in flesh and blood. (Velu Annamalai) |
| To understand
Gandhi's politics in South Africa, it is essential to note the three fundamental trends
which all along persisted underneath all his
activities. They were: (1) his loyalty
to the British Empire, (2) his apathy with regard to the Indian "lower castes",
India's indigenous population, and (3) his virulent anti-African racism. (Velu Annamalai) |
| Gandhi was once thrown out of a train compartment which was reserved
exclusively for the Whites. It was not that
Gandhi was fighting on behalf of the local Africans that he broke the rule in getting into
a Whites' compartment. Gandhi was so furious that he and his merchant caste Indians
(Banias) were treated on par with the local Africans. (Velu
Annamalai) |
| During
the `Kaffir Wars' in South Africa he (Gandhi) was a regular Gunga Din, who volunteered to
organize a brigade of Indians to put down the Zulu uprising and was decorated himself for
valor under fire. (Velu Annamalai) |
| Gandhi always
advised Indians not to align with other political groups in either colored or African
communities. He was strongly opposed to the
commingling of races. (Velu Annamalai) |
| Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. might have heard the word of non-violence from Gandhi, but it is certain
that Dr. King did not know the true colors of Mr. Gandhi.
From the beginning to the end, M.K. Gandhi was loyal to imperialism. (Velu Annamalai) |
| "Rabindranath Thakur
(Tagore) formally conferred the title Deshanayak (Leader of the Nation) upon Netaji
Subhas Chandra Bose , and perceived in him the highest quality of courage, patriotism,
vision and leadership that an independent India would need desperately..."
(Monish R. Chatterjee) |
| As
early as October 1938, Gandhi wrote to a confidant, "There is bound to be some
difficulty this time electing the President." (This refers to the well-known and
controversial Presidential election of the Indian National Congress at Tripuri in 1939 in
which Subhas Bose won despite Gandhi's opposition- author.) Rabindranath Tagore
urged that Bose be re-elected in a letter to Gandhi, but Gandhi said it would be better
for Bose not to run. ... On January 29, 1939, Subhas Bose was elected Congress President,
besting Sitaramayya (candidate backed by Gandhi- author) by 1,580 votes to 1,375.
Subhas Bose had won a victory, but a serious war with the Gandhians was just beginning.
(Monish R. Chatterjee) |
| In 1939, he (Subhas Chandra
Bose) was re-elected as president of Congress defeating Gandhi's candidate. Gandhi was not
happy and played sore loser. Gandhi boycotted Bose. He started a non-cooperation movement
against Bose. This was more important to Gandhi than the independence of India apparently.
(NOVO) |
There are more than forty major rebellions and hundreds of minor ones
against the British in India from 1763 to 1856. (Ashish
Dharmadhikari)
|
| Most
people think that ressistance to the British is a 20th century phenomenon and synonymous
to Gandhi but ressistance actually began as early as the 19th century in Bengal. And it
was not a pacifist movement but a series of violent uprisings that continued throughout
British rule. Gandhi actually plays a very small part of the struggle but due to being in
the right place at the right time, he has been transformed into a demigod by the world's
media. (NOVO) |
| Revolutionaries like
Savarkar created an atmosphere which made it possible for Mahatma Gandhi to succeed. It
would be unpatriotic if the people of India failed to give Savarkar a prominent place in
the history of India. (M. C. Chagla) |
| The role of the
revolutionaries has been either ignored or underplayed. It has been so due to two factors,
the British rulers and the Congress leaders. Both had their well-calculated reasons. If
the revolutionaries were given a separate status, they would claim their share at the time
of independence, sooner or later The Congress, for apparent reasons, wanted to be the sole
claimant. And it has actually been such. By 1946-47, there appeared another factor, not
visualised at the early stage. The Muslim League claimed and got its share, Pakistan. (Satyavrata Ghosh, Revolutionary) |
| Revolution does not
necessarily involve sanguinary strife, nor is there any place in it for individual
vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and the pistol. By 'Revolution' we mean that the
present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change. Producers or
labourers, in spite of being the most necessary element of society, are robbed by their
exploiters of their labour and deprived of their elementary rights. The peasant who grows
corn for all, starves with his family; the weaver who supplies the world market with
textile fabrics, has not enough to cover his own and his children's bodies; masons, smiths
and carpenters who raise magnificent palaces, live like pariahs in the slums. The
capitalists and the exploiters, the parasites of society, squander millions on their
whims. These terrible inequalities and forced disparity of chances are bound to lead to
chaos. This state of affairs cannot last long, and it is obvious that the present order of
society in merry-making is on the brink of a volcano. (Bhagat
Singh, Indian Revolutionary) |
| The real revolutionary
armies are in the villages and in factories, the peasantry and the labourers. But our
bourgeois leaders do not and cannot dare to tackle them. The sleeping lion once awakened
from its slumber would become irresistible even after the achievement of what our leaders
aim at. After his experience with Ahmedabad labourers in 1920, Mahatma Gandhi declared:
'We must not tamper with the labourers. It is dangerous to make political use of the
factory proletariat.' ('The Times', May 1921). Since then, they never dared to approach
them. There remains the peasantry. The Bardoli resolution of 1922 clearly defines the
horror these leaders felt when they saw the gigantic peasant class rising to shake off not
only the domination of an alien nation but the yoke of the landlords. (Bhagat Singh, Indian Revolutionary) |
| It is there that our
leaders prefer a surrender to the British than to the peasantry ... That is why I say they
never meant a complete revolution. (Bhagat
Singh, Indian Revolutionary) |
| By 'Revolution' we mean
the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such
breakdowns, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognised and a
world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of
imperial wars. (Bhagat Singh Indian Revolutionary) |
| I do not care about
sentence of death. It means nothing at all ... I do not worry about it at all. I am dying
for a purpose. We are suffering from the British Empire. ... I am proud to die to free my
native land and I hope that when I am gone, ... in my place will come thousands of my
countrymen to drive you dirty dogs out; to free my country ... you will be cleansed out of
India. And your British imperialism will be smashed. Machine guns on the streets of India
mow down thousands of poor women and children wherever your so-called flag of democracy
and Christianity flies. Your conduct, your conduct - I am speaking about the British
government. I have nothing against the English people at all. I have more English friends
living in England than I have in India. I have great sympathy with the workers of England.
I am against the imperialist government...Down with British imperialism! (Udham Singh, Indian Revolutionary, at his trial) |
| Our struggle will
continue as long as a handful of men, be they foreign or native, or both in collaboration
with each other, continue to exploit the labour and resources of our people. Nothing shall
deter us from this path. (Kartar Singh Sarabha, Indian Revolutionary) |
| You can only hang me,
what more can you do? We are not afraid of that. (Kartar Singh Sarabha, Indian Revolutionary) |
| Today there begins in
foreign lands a war against the British Raj. What is our name? Mutiny. What is its work?
Mutiny. Where will mutiny break out? In India. The time will soon come when rifles and
blood will take the place of pen and ink. (Ghadar
Party) |
| The
Revolutionary Party is not national but international in the sense that its ultimate
object is to bring harmony in the world by respecting and guaranteeing the diverse
interests of the different nations; aims not at competition but at cooperation
between the different nations and states, and in this respect it follows the footsteps of
the great Indian Rishis and of Bolshevik Russia in the modern age. (Ghadar Party) |
| It is high time that
England returns the crown jewels and other treasures they robbed from India.
(NOVO) |
| We must set up a target: in 15 years we will educate so many people. And
only those people who can read and write will be allowed to vote. In such an eventuality,
politicians will get busy educating the masses in order to get votes. (Gopal Godse: Brother of Nathuram Godse, who killed Gandhi) |
| The Indians
just smother you out there with all their devious tricky things. They are really
something. (President Nixon once told McCormack)
|
| The U.S.
government, long supportive of military rule in Pakistan, supplied some $3.8 million in
military equipment to the dictatorship (of Pakistan) after the onset of the genocide (in
Bangladesh), "and after a government spokesman told Congress that all shipments to
Yahya Khan's regime had ceased." (Payne, Massacre, p.
102.) |
| The mass
killings in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) in 1971 vie with the annihilation of the
Soviet POWs, the holocaust against the Jews, and the genocide in Rwanda as the most
concentrated act of genocide in the twentieth century. (gendercide.org) |
| The mass
killing in Bangladesh (3 million in 9 months) was among the most carefully and centrally
planned of modern genocides. A cabal of five Pakistani generals orchestrated the events:
President Yahya Khan, General Tikka Khan, chief of staff General Pirzada, security chief
General Umar Khan, and intelligence chief General Akbar Khan. (gendercide.org) |
| Today the West
wants the world to forget the genocide in Bangladesh
because they, the "free world", supported the genocide. And so a
tragedy of such epic proportion, where one in every 23 people were murdered, is totally
avoided in history books in the west. (RQ) |
"And of course we
have a consul in Dhaka with a map calling it Bangladesh already," Kissinger
complained to Nixon. "Yes, I know," Nixon replied with obvious irritation.
"The bastard who was there before, isn't he? He's really an all-out India-lover,
isn't he?"
|
'Aid'
is of particular benefit to arms manufacturers:
"Debt is fuelled by arms: Pakistan and India
between them spend more than . . . �6 billion a year on arms imports. . . . Britain is at
the centre of this trade, with a $5 billion defence export industry directly employing
more than 150,000 people. In 1996, Indonesia alone spent �438 million on British-produced
weapons". ('Guardian', 15 May 1998; p. 6)
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"Although
the imperialists have lost their colonies, they are as avid as ever to fleece other
people, if they can. To do so in the changed circumstances, they are building a new system
of exploitation in place of the shattered colonial system, using new methods towards the
same end, which is to keep the now independent peoples under their own economic
control" (Mailakovievich Volkov: 'The Strategy of
Neo-colonialism Today'; Moscow; 1976; p. 6)
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It is already becoming
clearer that a chapter which has a western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if
it is not to end in
the self-destruction of the human race... At this supremely dangerous moment in history
the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian Way. (Dr.
Arnold Toynbee, British Historian ) (Sudheer Birodhkar) |
| Myth: Congress and Gandhi
brought Indian independence through non-violent struggle. Myth: The revolutionaries were isolated terrorists
who believed in bloodshed and armed robberies just for the heck of it. (NOVO)
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