DISTORTION OF INDIAN HISTORY FOR MUSLIM APPEASEMENT, Part 2
Dr. Radhasyam Brahmachari
It has been pointed out earlier that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the prophet of nonviolence, was the originator of the politics of Muslim appeasement in India. As we know, he was the most trusted as well as the most loyal stooge of the British Empire, it was not possible for him to demand India’s independence. In fact, his real intention was to prolong British rule in India. So, to hoodwink the hoi polloi, he imported a vague and mystical term “swaraj” and used to say that he was fighting for that. He further declared that, it was not necessary to terminate British rule for bringing his cherished swaraj, but Hindu-Muslim amity was the most important precondition for that.
It should be noted that his concept of Hindu-Muslim amity was entirely biased and prejudiced. Only Hindus were to make every sacrifice for the sake of the said Hindu-Muslim amity. To achieve that Hindu-Muslim amity, Gandhi suggested alteration or distortion of Indian history, partcularly the period of Muslim rule. and two major guidelines, he set for this purpose, were, (1) Muslim rulers were not foreign invaders as they lived in India and died in India and (2) the Muslim rule in India was not a colonial rule but a golden period of Indian history. And following these guidelines, a group of dirty people called the secular historians, set to distort Indian history in a big way.
Like the Red Fort in Delhi, the fortress at Agra also suffers similar misrepresentation. The invincible fort at Agra, as we see it today, was not built by any foreign Muslim invader and its authorship is falsely atributed to Akbar.. This marvellous exhibit of Hindu architecture, was also built by the Hindu kings well before the arrival of the barbaric Muslim invaders in India. Like the Red Fort in Delhi, the Muslim invaders forcefully occupied it and used it as their royal court and residence. During the time of Mahabharata, Agra belonged to the kingdom of Mathura ruled by the oppressive king Kansa, who used the prison at Agra to incarcerate his political rivals.
Above all, there is no dispute among our historians that, whether it is the Red Fort in Delhi or the invincible fortress at Agra, Hindu style, particularly the Gujarati and Rajasthani style, is very prominent in the construction of the interior palaces, courts, halls and so on. Especially, the pillars and the gateways of these halls and courts bear pure Hindu style of stone carving. It seems amusing when our historians, in their attempt to explain this overwhelming and pervasive Hindu influence, say that the Muslim rulers who, according to their belief, were very sympathetic to the Hindus, deliberately encouraged Hindu style in building their edifices to promote Hindu-Muslim amity.
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Gopal · 825 weeks ago
Its quite logical and analytical. The critical issue is - Will the BJP manage to get all the anti-Congress forces together - without diluting its ideology?
Therein lies the contradiction. The problem is that - while the BJP is the largest non-Congress force in the country, it is unable to get other like-minded people together under one umbrella. And this is despite the fact that the BJP is very good at observing what is referred to as 'coalition dharma'. The root cause is the ideology (or a lack of it).
The BJP's ideology (or atleast the popular perception of its ideology) is that it is that of 'appeasement of majorities'. Just as the Congress is accused of appeasing the minorities with hollow promises, the BJP is accused of doing the same with the majority.
When the minority finds the Congress to be insincere, they can always turn away from that party. However, it still has a loose coalition within the liberal majority that supports it.
The BJP on the other hand turns away a great section of the majority due to its perceived insincerity to the very causes that it espouses. The BJP must become more liberal. They can make a good beginning by getting Narendra Modi to apologize for Gujarat. And getting Advani to apologise for his ill-fated rath-yatra.
The Congress has won many admirers for its repeated apologies on the 1984 riots. It won the Punjab & Delhi elections handsomely. They followed up their past apologies by withdrawing 'riot tainted' candidates in Delhi, thereby reinforcing the belief that the Congress's past apologies are not entirely hollow.
Why can't the BJP be gracious in accepting its past mistakes? Before saying so, the BJP must honestly believe that Gujarat & Ayodhya were mistakes. Until that happens, they will be avoided and shunned by all anti-Congress parties & the anti-Congress voters.