We all love jokes.
But, I love nothing more than good historical jokes. And, I came across one that could even beat the joke of the year; Mush�s speech on being sworn in as the President of Paquiland! (wonder if you have readit?)
This joke is about India and her past.
Someone seems to be not just implying, but asserting as if India has always been like our good old Brits left it after their near perfect mutilation of the place.
Path of history is a very strange one and if we care to look at it, with just a wee fine intellectual tools, we find that all invaders and occupier were in fact the same, with mere nominal variations of the bit here and a wee bit there kind.
They were always invaders and occupiers and our good ol� Brits were no different than anyone of their day.
The question about India is very simple.
Why was every Tom, Dick and Christopher Columbus dying to find a direct overnight beeline sort of a route to that country? Our Christopher did manage to reach just a wee this side of that fabled land called India. But please refrain your laughter at his founding of the West Indies as at least it does breed good Cricketers!
Was the whole world be trying to get to India had it been some worn out Ford Fiesta left somewhere in the middle of a football pitch, by naughty kids, after their post binge drinking joy ride?
No.
It was just because India had been the world�s largest single economy since the 14th century. She turned out 72% of the Global Produce. Must apologise, this produce didn�t include mobile phones or plasma televisions, but nevertheless it was 72% of the global produce.
India was the richest single nation on our then known earth.
I don�t know what Navajo Indians were doing in that day, but I definitely know the conditions that existed in any London, Lisbon or Paris of that period. And, I would refrain from talking about any such appalling conditions just out of a sense of pity or, you could even count me in as saying out of plain simple disgust.
India was a balanced society, with her own very rich culture.
And, as if all of that could have been attained without a well ground education system? is the joke! This system served her people, of all colours, all shades, all nationalities and not to forget, all religions, well. This system was destroyed because some Lord Macauley had to plant something that would serve just the Westminster.
The other good joke is: the Brits set up hospitals!
It reads as if los pobre Indianos hadn�t had the world�s finest health care system and for some unknown centuries? (Though, I am tempted to ask if these hospitals were set up by the Oxfam? Or, were paid for by some Mike Smith�s tax-deductible contributions, from somewhere in Somerset?)
India had a whole string of such health systems.
Shall we just count the Ayurvedic and the Tibbiya as the two best known systems for now? These systems evolved through centuries of her peaceful history � prior to the arrival of the great angels and their hospitales.
Both of these systems run without any SIDE EFFECTS.
And, today, all educated and well-informed world is trying to switch back to these systems, though these are now known as the Alternative Therapies!
India was a place in which people of all shades, of all religions and of more than 82 different nationalities did co-exist for around 1071 years and almost in a near ideal manner. Yes, there was always an odd incident here and a bit of a row there, but in general, the society on the whole reached their own adjustments, from within and went bye enjoying their gifts.
The Brits crept in, with just a nominal trade concession and set up a nominal cowshed type of a warehouse, at Pondechari circa 1770. They swore (I have no idea on what) that their sole aim was to trade with this great country and make just bit of dosh for the poor folks at home.
But, in fact, they were smuggling guns.
Must have had some other designs. Somehow the great train Robbers and a few other criminals spring to mind!
The East India Company would not have had a single pence invested in it if the prospect wasn�t the best in that era. I will skip slimy Clive�s role in all of this, that will need a whole volume to see how thieves and crooks are converted into Lords when they rob others.
In 1857, all nationalities, from across India arose against the Brits.
This First war of Indian Independence was crushed for a horde of reasons, primarily, by the occupiers� superior firepower.
Mayo Commission was set up in 1861.
This commission decided to act on the partition plan in 1894 �exactly, by sowing hatred at the district level. Refer to the Gazettes of Imperial India to find out what tactics were deployed. I am not going to waste my time in pasting 1000s of pages here.
One of the posters, I believe, from that part of the world seems to have added a bit of massala to this joke, by adding that the Brits allowed everyone to practice their religion freely!
What a poor implication as if all others who were in India before them didn�t?
I am a bit tied up right at this minute with a whole range of items at hand.
I wish I had the time to present the Brit role in sabotaging the Mid East peace has been from the date of the Balfour Letter through the various stage of their duplicity in the Twice Promised land!
I won�t have the time even to expose Brit atrocities in Africa, not just in massacring hundreds of thousands of Jomo Kenyata�s (Mau Mau) supporters, but also their hand in their Sudan campaigns.
I would be interested in knowing who first authorised the use of Mustard Gas and aerial bombardment of civilians?
- No need to Google it. It was Winston Churchill who sanction the death of 60,000 Iraqis in 1922
- But of course in the National Interest!
If any Brits wish ever to speak with me on any matters of their superior conduct, please, do that only once you have dealt with your latest crimes against humanity champion: Tony Blair.
Also, please, I must inform you that I am an Afghan, the Brits tried to occupy us twice, once in 1843 and then again in 1883. We finished off the 16,000 strong invading army, but just let Colonel Bryden off - with a special message for the British Crown, inscribe on his back, in an indelible dye.
This worked and they never ventured again.
But it seems, they had forgotten the most vital lesson of history and have invaded us again after a whole 118 years (in 2001), perhaps, under the illusions of their special relationship with los Amrecanos!.
That vital lesson of history is just plain and simple:
You can never occupy those who are willing to die for their freedom!
I would request the pobre Marthas of our world to do a bit of real history, away from the one purveyed by some daily Mail or the Mirror, before replying to this post.
Edited by Whisper