I wonder how much trust can be put into the numbers pushed by Indian researches. There is every incentive to inflate them as much as possible as modern society values and rewards victimhood status above everything else, the more millions evil British killed, the higher position in virtue ladder current Indian society can take.
And, of course, as with any other revolution - Russian, Paris Commune, Red Khmer - any low life criminal can claim the status of a freedom fighter. That story of 600 villages? The guys claiming to rule them might as well be a bunch of racketeers and debt collectors who ended up controlling some rural bumblefuck hovels in state of collapse of central power and then claimed to be revolutionaries. Older story in the book.
The details of past actions (or atrocities) are hard to pin down. In times of violence, racketeers flourish, (maybe everywhere) and anyone can claim a hundred justifications. For me, the point of the article is defusing a western belief that Gandhi meditated in the lotus position, and by this peaceful action, and the many toothless demonstrations that followed, the British withdrew from India. How absurd.
So our "bosses" are telling us, don't rebel, just follow the wise, like Gandhi. Balderdash.
Oh, with that - 100% agree. Once we start counting in the massacres of Muslims who were trying to get to new Pakistan, killings in Bangladesh, reverse killings of Hindus - tool would be quite high.
Great article. I have followed a guru and social politician who was involved in the process. The larger India security forces sympathetic to Gandhi and his cause threatened and pushed the English forces out.
Thanks for the information . I mostly known about Chandra Subhas Bose . In WWII the Japanese wanted to get rid of the European conquest of east Asia and they have achieved that. So not
so sur that they have lost the war . But they know who is the real enemy .
I wonder how much trust can be put into the numbers pushed by Indian researches. There is every incentive to inflate them as much as possible as modern society values and rewards victimhood status above everything else, the more millions evil British killed, the higher position in virtue ladder current Indian society can take.
And, of course, as with any other revolution - Russian, Paris Commune, Red Khmer - any low life criminal can claim the status of a freedom fighter. That story of 600 villages? The guys claiming to rule them might as well be a bunch of racketeers and debt collectors who ended up controlling some rural bumblefuck hovels in state of collapse of central power and then claimed to be revolutionaries. Older story in the book.
The details of past actions (or atrocities) are hard to pin down. In times of violence, racketeers flourish, (maybe everywhere) and anyone can claim a hundred justifications. For me, the point of the article is defusing a western belief that Gandhi meditated in the lotus position, and by this peaceful action, and the many toothless demonstrations that followed, the British withdrew from India. How absurd.
So our "bosses" are telling us, don't rebel, just follow the wise, like Gandhi. Balderdash.
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Oh, with that - 100% agree. Once we start counting in the massacres of Muslims who were trying to get to new Pakistan, killings in Bangladesh, reverse killings of Hindus - tool would be quite high.
Great article. I have followed a guru and social politician who was involved in the process. The larger India security forces sympathetic to Gandhi and his cause threatened and pushed the English forces out.
Thanks for the information . I mostly known about Chandra Subhas Bose . In WWII the Japanese wanted to get rid of the European conquest of east Asia and they have achieved that. So not
so sur that they have lost the war . But they know who is the real enemy .