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India, that is BharatA Perspective of History
By
DR T.H. CHOWDARY
*
Director,
Center for Telecom Management & Studies
Chairman,
Pragna
Bharati
(Intellect India), Andhra Pradesh
Fellow: Tata Consultancy Service Ltd.
* Former
Information Technology Adviser
, Government of A.P
Chairman & Managing Director
Videsh
Sanchar Nigam Ltd., Bombay
T: +91 (40) 6667-1191(O) 2784-3121®
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Hanuman.chowdary@tcs.comSlide2
The Early AgeArya
;
Dravida
Mahabharata war: 3102 BCE, Krishna’s deathEarly IncursionsAlexander’s Foray (326BC)Yavanas, Shakas, Kushanas, HunsArabs-SindhGhazni-Ghori-Prithviraj-JaichandDestruction of Somnath & ReconstructionThe Hindu Resistance – The Buddhist Debacle
June2014Slide3
Five Glorious Epochs of Indian HistoryChanakya
-Chandra Gupta
Pushya
Mitra-Yavana DestroyerVikramaditya-Shaka, Kushana MenaceYashodharma- Conqueror of HunsResistnace to & Overthrow of Muslim ruleJune2014Slide4
Unceasing ResistancePrithviraj-Rana
Pratap-Vijayanagara
Kakatiya Malik Kafur-Pratapa Rudra Kapaya-ProlayaHarihara & Bukka-Vidyaranya-VijayanagaraBattle of Tallikota – 1565Moghal “Empire” – 1626-1707 = 181 years
Vijayanagara
– 1338 -1565=272 years
Panipat
1 (1526), 2 (1556) & 3(1761)
June2014Slide5
The Maratha Saga –Trial & Triumph
Shivaji
& Marathas
ChatrasalBundela3rd Battle of Paniput 1761Ahmed Shah Abdali X Sadashiv Rao BhauThe Maratha Confederacy :
King: in
Satara
Peshwas
: in
Pune
June2014Slide6
Resurgence of Bharat (Hindu Pad Padshahi
)
Scindhias
Holkar Gaikurd BonsaleGwalior Indore Baroda NagpurMahadhiji ScindiaPrime Minister & Protector of the Moghul “Emperor”!Battle of Kirkee (
Khadki
)- 1817
Rise of Sikhs
Battle of
Chilianwala
1849
Crushing defeat of the British but end of Sikh Kingdom
June2014Slide7
Bloodiest Conquests
"The
Mohamedan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within" -Will Durant: Story of Civilization June2014Slide8
Ayodhya, Kasi, Mathura,
Somnath
Aurangzeb:
Kashi and Mathura: “Aurangazeb’s purpose in building these mosques ( Kashi and Mathura) was the same intentionally offensive political purpose that moved the Russians to build their Cathedral in the city center at Warsaw. I must say that Aurangazeb was a veritable genius for picking out provocative sites. Aurangez and Phillip –II of Spain are a pair. They are incarnations of the gloomy fanatical vein in Christian, Muslim and Jewish family of religions………Perhaps the Poles were really kinder in destroying the Russians’ self discrediting monuments in Warsaw than you (Indians) have been in sparing Aurangazebs’s mosques. – Arnold Toynbee,
The
world famous historian and philosopher in his
Azad
Memorial Lecture at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai -
1963
Now International Islamic College & Women’s Arabic College
Chandragiri
,
Tirupati
( like
Babri
masque in
Ayodhya
)
June2014Slide9
Moslem View of HindusMr. Mohamed Ali speaking at Aligarh and
Ajmere
(1924) said:
“However pure Mr. Gandhi’s character may be, he must appear to be from the point of view of religion inferior to any Musalaman, even though he be without character”. The Statement created a great stir. Many did not believe that Mr. Mohamed Ali, who testified to so much veneration for Mr. Gandhi was capable of entertaining such ungenerous and contemptuous sentiments about him. When Mr. Mohamed Ali was speaking in a meeting held at Aminabad Park in Lucknow, he was asked whether the sentiments attributed to him were true. Mr. Mohamed Ali without any hesitation or compunction replied. Yes! According to my religion and creed, I do hold an adulterous and a fallen gentleman to be better than Mr. Gandhi”
June2014Slide10
Excerpts from Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Presidential address at
All India Muslim League Lahore Session, March, 1940
Two-Nations “……………………It is extremely difficult to appreciate why our Hindu friends fail to understand the real nature of Islam and Hinduism. They are not religions in the strict sense of the word, but are, in fact, different and distinct social orders and it is a dream that the Hindus and Muslims can ever evolve a common nationality, and this misconception of one Indian nation has gone far beyond the limits and is the cause of most of our troubles and will lead India to destruction if we fail to revise our notions in time. The Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies, social customs, and literature. They neither intermarry, (only Hindu girls marry Moslems, but they have to convert to Islam – Ed) nor interdine together and, indeed they belong to two different civilizations which are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions. Their aspects on life and of life are different. It is quite clear that Hindus and
Mussalmans
derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They have different epics, different heroes and different episodes. Very often the hero of one is a foe of the other and, likewise, their victories and defeats overlap. To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority, must lead to growing discontent and final destruction of any fabric that may be so built up for the Government of such a state…….”
June2014Slide11
Dr Ambedkar on Pakistan-ism
The
ideas of separate Muslim nation germinated in the speeches of Sir
Sayyed Ahmed Khan Meerut speech 1888 and Sir Mohammed Iqbal (1930) and Choudhary Rahmat Ali (1933). These became the creed ; Dr B.R. Ambedkar wrote, “ I do not think the demand for Pakistan is the result the mere political distemper, which will pass away with efflux of time......it seems to me that it is a characteristic in the biological sense of the term, which the Muslim body politic has developed in the same manner as an organism develops a characteristic”(1). June2014Slide12
Pakistan as DNAMaulana Abul
Hasan
Ali
Nadvi (known as Ali Mian) said at the reception given by the Secretary General of the Pakistan National Alliance to delegates of the first Asian Islamic Conference at Karachi in July 1978, “Muslims all over the world including those of India were hopefully looking upto Pakistan for help and guidance and whatever happened in Pakistan or any other Muslim country casts its shadows on the Indian Muslims also. Pakistan’s debacle of 1971 has caused immense grief to Indian Muslims”. June2014Slide13
Khandith Bharat Khanda
The British
Hindu-Muslim Rivalry Resurfaces …
Khilafat …..Maulana Md. Ali--------; Sir Md.IqbalMuslim League & 2-nation Theory 1940 …1937 &1946 electionsDirect Action 15 Aug 1946 slaughter of 26,000 Hindus in Calcutta !Partition & PakistanJune2014Slide14
Sardar Patel : Integrated Indian Nation State
Travancore,
Junagarh
Hyderabad and J&K565 Indian states- Sardar PatelIndia-Pakistan Wars 1947, 1965, 1971, 1999….1000 cuts & zihadi terrorismJune2014Slide15
Disintegration of India
Regional parties
Competition for Minority votes
Mogulistan – Prof Amar Abbas (Economic & Political Weekly Dec 2000)Over run by Bangladeshis – 20 mln(2)+92 “Minority “ districtsNot one or two; many nations – DiscourseCommunist Party of the United States of India!“secularism” June2014Slide16
Maoist War: Sappers & MinersThe 36 year war against India
Demonisation
of Hindus
Riots – Replay of pre-1947 separatism & militancyJune2014Slide17
Article#370The origin
Hindus’ plight
Muslim Attitudes
Incites SeparatismPossible Settlements June2014Slide18
JNU- Marxist MadrassaHow came in 1969No Sciences & Technology
Esoteric Subjects
Thodo
Phodo BharatInjection of Sedition, treachery & disintegration – eg. EFLU; UOHJune2014Slide19
Communal Incidents During Recent Years
S.No
Year
Number of communal incidents
Number of deaths
Number of injured persons
1
2012
668
94
3317
2
2011
580
91
1899
3
2010
701
116
2138
4
2009
791
119
2342
5
2008
943
167
2354
6
2007
761
99
2227
7
2006
698
133
2170
8
2005
779
124
2066
Total
5921
943
19513
Source:
www.niticentral.com
,
Annual Reports, Ministry of Home Affairs)
June2014Slide20
The Fraud in conversions
Year
1971
1981
1991
2001
Total population (
mln
)
43.5
53.6
66.5
76.2
Christians
(
mln
)
1.8
1.43
1.2
1.1
% of Christian population
4.19
2.68
1.83
1.44
June2014Slide21
What Bharat Never DidNever waged a Holy War
Never conducted an Inquisition
Never launched Crusades
Never burned hereticsNever exiled apostatesNever launched a conversion campaignNever commit aggression on foreign countriesJune2014Slide22
The Indian way for SalvationIt
is already becoming clear that a chapter which had 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 human history, the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian way....Hear we have the attitude and the spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together into a single family - and, in the Atomic age this is the only alternative to destroying ourselves - Arnold Toynbee in 1969
June2014Slide23
Harmony and PeaceSahanaavavatu
Sahanau
bhunaktuSaha veeryam karavaavahaihMaa vidvishavahaihTejasvinaavadheetamastuAum santih, santih
,
santih
!
June2014Slide24
Dhanyawad:Thank You
Who is ruling India?
June2014