INDIAN INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INTO TRUE HISTORY

NEWSLETTER NO. 81 OF 16 JUNE 2019

1. NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

1.1 Britain

1.1.1 Brexit – madness

Mrs May resigned as P.M. It is not clear who will succeed her. But he / she will face exactly the same problems as Mrs May. The country is in a limbo. For last three years we have faced a standstill. And as yet there are no talks on trading arrangements with EU.

Politicians should be careful with what they say as their words come back to haunt them. On many occasions Mrs May had said – No deal is better than a bad deal. AND now everyone is frightened of NO DEAL.

Britain has Parliamentary democracy. Referendums are not normal. So, why not have a second referendum? We know lot more now than in 2016, but both Conservatives and Labour rule out a second referendum.

When Mrs May became P.M. she had a comfortable majority of 14, but she decided to call for a general election. During this period negotiations with EU were suspended. Her gamble failed and she had to depend on Northern Ireland DUP M.Ps to remain in office. Still she carried on negotiations with EU on her own. It all ended in a disaster.

She talked about wonderful opportunities outside EU, but nobody has stated what they are. It is a dream. A fantasy.

1.1.2 Islamic Khilafat

Britain and other western powers supported Muslim militants to defeat Asad of Syria. This led to the monster of Islamic state. After much bloodshed the Jihadists were defeated but have left a nasty legacy of foreigners who joined the movement and their wives and children. What will happen when they are forced to return to their countries of origin?

Ms Shamima Begum, who fled from Bethnal Green in east London to join Islamic State as a 15-year-old Jihadi bride. Now she is 19-year-old, who gave birth days after her a journalist tracked her down to a refugee camp (Al-Hol) in north-eastern Syria. (How strange that the British mass media have time and money to undertake this hazardous journey to meet this foolish and dangerous woman. Later investigations revealed that she is not an innocent little girl.)

The Sun reported that Ms Begum had received death threats since speaking out about her plight of being stripped of her British citizenship, blocking her return to the UK.

The development comes after British officials ruled out any effort inside Syria to extract Ms Begum and her child. Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped her of her British citizenship in an effort to stop her returning.

Ms Begum's family have pleaded for the mother and her child to be allowed to come back to Britain. They say the teenager should face justice if she is found to have broken the law by travelling to Syria.

She had no regrets about what she did. She knew about terrible acts of Jihadis and even justified Manchester bombing, but she pleads that she is British and has right of support and protection by British Government. Her husband is from Holland. Her child has died.

1.1.3 British law is an ass

(a) Jihadi jailed for beheading plot wins claim that his segregation breached his human rights - Robert Verkaik / The Telegraph 10 March 2019

A dangerous jihadi who was placed in segregation for plotting to behead prison guards has won his claim that the move breached his human rights.

Nadir Syed, 26, was sentenced to life for planning to behead a poppy seller in a Lee Rigby-style attack in 2015. After his conviction, he was sent to the top-security Category A Woodhill jail near Milton Keynes.

But when he led other Muslim inmates in chanting 'Allahu Akbar', banging on cell doors and threatening to decapitate warders, he was placed in a segregation unit.

Syed launched legal proceedings, claiming that the harsh conditions of his imprisonment were a breach of his human rights. Now judges have upheld his claim, ruling that the level of segregation infringed his enjoyment of a private life and threatened his 'physical and psychological integrity'.

Syed's two year legal battle is estimated to have cost the taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds in legal aid. (why can’t we know who his lawyers are?)

In 2015 Syed, from West London, wanted to join the Islamic State, but the British security services prevented him from travelling to Syria. Instead, he purchased a large kitchen knife with the intention of attacking an innocent member of the public in the street and beheading him. He was planning to carry out an attack on a date close to Armistice Day in 2015.

When he was sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in 2015, Syed was told he may never be released. But chillingly, he remained intent on carrying out a beheading, even while locked up in Britain's most secure institutions.

In 2017 the High Court ruled that the conditions of his detention breached his human rights, prompting an appeal by the Government.

On Thursday the Court of Appeal finally upheld his claim. The judges found that Syed had been locked in his cell for between 20 3/4 and 21 1/2 hours a day for a period of over

41/ 2 months. In this week's ruling the Court of Appeal praised the High Court judgement which they described as being of 'admirable thoroughness and clarity'.

According to court documents, the authorities claim that while he was on remand before his trial began, Syed had commented that, if he were convicted (as he was in December 2015), he would carry out the act that he was in prison for (that is, the act of preparing for an act of terrorism by acquiring a knife in order to kill, and behead, a person).

'On the morning of January 7, 2016, there were reports that the claimant was part of a group of prisoners who were hitting cell doors, stating that officers oppressed Muslims, shouting Allahu Akbar and uttering threats of beheading,' according to the court judgement.

Syed was put in a segregation cell shortly afterwards, and weeks later was placed in a secure wing called the Central Managing Challenging Behaviour Unit (CMCBSU), because of the threat he posed to guards, and because of the fear that he was inciting other inmates to attack warders. A Prison Service assessment of him said: 'Mr Syed has a lot of intelligence stating that he has intentions to take staff hostage and behead them. He is also documented inciting others to disruptive behaviour and at HMP Belmarsh took part in this in the segregation unit, at the time he was also calling out "this is jihad", and he threatened to radicalise the whole unit. Mr Syed presents a risk to others, especially staff and should be treated as such at all times. '

Despite the danger that he posed to staff, three Appeal Court judges have ruled that Woodhill prison breached Syed's human rights by locking him in the CMCBSU.

His lawyers argued that restricting his ability to talk to other prisoners breached his right to respect for his private life under Article 8 of the controversial European Convention on Human Rights.

However, the appeal court has decided his claim does not warrant damages. ... Syed's case highlights the danger that jihadi prisoners pose in British jails.

BUT who created this monster of Human Rights? Tony Blair! And both liberal and labour parties are dead against any changes! Yet another example of the rights of a terrorist being of greater importance than the rights of ordinary citizens to live free from fear.

(b) Allah ho Akbar

A ridiculous case was decided in British High Court

Gareth Davies / The Telegraph 18 January 2019

El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey belonged to a brutal four-man cell of Isil executioners in Syria. Nicknamed The Beatles because of their British accents, responsible for killing a number of high-profile Western captives.

The pair were captured in January last year. Mr Elsheikh's mother, Maha Elgizouli, challenged Home Secretary Sajid Javid's decision - revealed exclusively in The Telegraph - to share 600 witness statements gathered by the Metropolitan Police with US authorities under a "mutual legal assistance" (MLA) agreement without seeking assurances the men would not face execution if they were extradited and tried in America.

The High Court has rejected that challenge

Home Secretary Sajid Javid said: "I am pleased the Court has upheld my decision on all grounds in this case. My priority has always been to ensure we deliver justice for the victims’ families and that the individuals suspected of these sickening crimes face prosecution as quickly as possible.

"Our long standing opposition to the death penalty has not changed. Any evidence shared with the US in this case must be for the express purpose of progressing a federal prosecution."

Kotey and Elsheikh, who were raised in the UK, are believed to be detained by Kurdish forces in Syria and have been stripped of their British citizenship.

They are said to have been members of the cell which also included Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, who was killed in a US air strike in 2015, and Aine Davis, who has been jailed in Turkey. Emwazi appeared in a number of videos in which hostages, including British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning and US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, were killed.

MPs accusing Sajid Javid of breaching the UK's long-standing opposition to the death penalty. The Government's former reviewer of anti-terror legislation, Lord Carlile, branded the move "extraordinary" and said it was a "dramatic change of policy".

Prime Minister Theresa May supported Mr Javid's original decision, which was also backed by Boris Johnson when he was foreign secretary.

But the MLA sparked widespread criticism in Westminster from across the political divide. Allan Hogarth, Amnesty International UK’s Head of Policy and Government Affairs, said: "This is a disappointing ruling and must not, on any account, be used by the Government as precedent for discarding its principles on the death penalty in future cases.

"The alleged crimes of Kotey and El-Sheikh are appalling, but the UK was wrong to have set aside its principled opposition to the death penalty like this.

So, if you are a Muslim, no matter how inhuman your acts are (beheading / burning alive/ torturing) you will not face the death penalty! Moreover, even in British prisons you will have Human Rights. Allah ho Akbar. He protects Muslims

1.1.4 Immigration – alarming signs

Hostile environment leaving UK-born children street homeless, finds report

May Bulman /The Independent 19 February 2019

The government has been accused of prioritising its “hostile environment” policies over children’s rights after it emerged UK-born children are being left on street homeless due to the immigration status of their parents.

Thousands of youngsters are living in extreme poverty as local councils wrongly deny support to parents who, under Home Office rules, have no access to welfare benefits because they are subject to immigration controls, according to a report by a charity.

Project 17 found that in some cases, families in London – many with children who were born in the UK – have been forced to sleep in churches, on buses or in A&E departments because they have been wrongly denied support due to “gruelling” and “hostile” assessment processes.

Local authorities are obliged under Section 17 of the Children’s Act to safeguard and promote the welfare of children “in need” – a provision that has become a safety net for youngsters whose parents have no recourse to public funds (NRPF) due to their immigration status.

But the charity said pressures of austerity and cuts to councils’ budgets have made many local authorities unwilling to provide this support, leading them to use “gate-keeping” methods and subject families to “unprofessional and disrespectful” treatment to deter families from accessing it.

The report states: “Misinformation, attacks on credibility, intimidation, aggression, and disrespect on the part of local authorities leaves families destitute and at high risk of exploitation.”

In one case, three siblings aged seven, five and one had to sleep on night buses with their mother after they were evicted from their flat due to rent arrears because she had lost her right to work. In the mornings, she would take the children to McDonalds to brush their teeth. When they went to the council for help, they were refused support because two of the children did not have immigration applications pending, which was due to the fact that their mother could not afford the application fees.

Figures from the Children’s Society show that over a two-year period in 2016, more than 50,000 individuals with dependents had the NRPF condition applied to their leave to remain in the UK.

A Home Office spokesperson said: “The welfare of children is one of our top priorities and our immigration system will always protect families with children from becoming destitute. Support will never be withheld if the welfare of a child is at risk due to a family’s financial circumstances.” (This is only after the report by the charity)

1.1.5 Ideological madness – Outsourcing

Watchdog slams 'extremely costly' probation changes /

Amy Walker / The Guardian 01 March 2019

Failings by the Ministry of Justice in the part-privatisation of probation services have been “extremely costly” for taxpayers, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said.

A review of Chris Grayling’s Transforming Rehabilitation programme (launched in 2013), published on Friday, added that the number of people on short sentences recalled to jail had soared and the termination of contracts with private probation companies would cost at least £171m.

There has been a 2.5% reduction in the proportion of offenders proven to have committed another crime between 2011 and March 2017. However, the number of offences per re-offender has increased by 22%.

In 2013, the programme was launched by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) under Grayling, who was then the justice secretary, with the aim of cutting re-offending rates in England and Wales and reducing costs.

Amyas Morse, the NAO chief, said: “The ministry set itself up to fail in how it approached probation reforms. Its rushed roll out created significant risks that it was unable to manage.

“Not only have these failings been extremely costly for taxpayers, but we have seen the number of people on short sentences recalled to prison skyrocket.”

Last July, the justice secretary, David Gauke, announced that private companies running CRCs would have their contracts terminated in 2020, two years earlier than agreed.

So far, they have received £467m in projected bailouts, a proportion of which was given to cover penalties owed by the companies for failing to meet targets under Grayling’s “payment by results” system.

When current contract-holders were in the bidding process, their collected forecasted profits were £269m, but by March 2018 CRCs faced collective losses of £294m.

Eventually Government has decided to take this work in-house

Grayling has been involved in loses at the justice department and transport and left both in a shambles, He has just landed the government with a £33 million bill over his incompetence in 'fixing' the Brexit ferry situation.

Then there was Boris Johnson who over spent 53 million pounds on a failed bridge garden, then there was his closure of fire stations and his bike shambles,

1.1.6 Britain a third world country?

Leeds – platforms have not been extended to accommodate new, longer trains! Another delay of at least 2 years (March 2019)

Social welfare – complaints

My universal credit is now 70 quid a week to live on - this is supposed to cover food, gas, electricity, council tax, water, clothes, housing costs, Child support (kids from before redundancy) and internet and phone (required by Department of Work and Pensions - DWP for looking for work) and travel expenses. It was hard enough on Employment support but 70 quid is basically impossible. 40% drop or £2,000 drop per year per person from ESA to Uni credit. NO wonder food banks are up, There will be a full scale riot by the poor when this is fully rolled out - either that or more thefts by the poor and more deaths from either starvation or the cold weather.

The DWP in partnership with the Tories should be done for disability hate crime and discrimination of disabled people.

They have turned a department from that of one that helps people, to one that deliberately and criminally hurts people.

Not for getting the millions forced in to poverty and homelessness. Then we'll see billion in tax giveaways and offshore to millionaires. I can fully understand why people get aggressive when they pick up their newspaper and turn on their television and they see very large tax giveaways to the super-rich receiving huge amounts of money year, on year, often living lifestyles that taxpayers cannot afford for themselves.

* Since the year 2000 people over the age of 75 were exempt from TV licence, but now the BBC says that as Government has cut down its funding these people will have to pay licence fees from 2020. Of course very poor will not have to pay – which means means-testing – lot of paper work, checks and verifications of claims.

1.1.7 Know our heritage

GaMaBhaNa – A journey to bridge the gaps

GaMaBhaNa is a social community initiative started by like-minded passionate people based in the UK (Leicester) and is led by Santosh and Supriya Deshpande. GaMaBhaNa’s main aim is for children who have Marathi speaking parents to know their roots GaMaBhaNa believe that Language, Music, Books, STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Maths) , outdoor activities, Mindfulness and art go hand in hand.

Santosh and Supriya teach children from age3-age14 to speak, read, write Marathi in a fun and informal way. The lessons are held on Saturday in Coventry, Nottingham and Sunday in Leicester and there are no charges at all for the lessons. GaMaBhaNa are supported by Mr Nitin Nimbalkar of Coventry Marathi, Mrs Rupali Naik of Nottingham Derby Marathi Mandal and all the parents and their kids and a huge number of friends for all the activities.

This way children can relate to what they are learning at school rather than getting lost in cultural differences. Children are regularly taken out for nature walks, outdoor activities and outdoor play.

GaMaBhaNa also make the children aware of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) by taking them to Science Fairs or talking about Science in Marathi class where relevant.

GaMaBhaNa run a free Marathi Library which has been a huge success. The website https://gamabhana.libib.com/ lists over 300 top class books that are available for anyone in the UK to request for free. If you are local the books are hand delivered. In other cases the books are posted with a prepaid stamp in for you to post the books back. GaMaBhaNa do it purely out of passion that in the world of Kindles and smartphones, books with real pages survive.

GaMaBhaNa are trying their best with genuinely good intentions and are supported by a huge number of genuine friends, parents and families throughout the UK.

GaMaBhaNa – Call it an initiative, or a movement , it is a journey to bridge the gaps and for all Marathi Parents and the kids to feel proud of what they are and hold the heads high.

Santosh - 07881766009 Supriya - 07854642966

Website for Library : https://gamabhana.libib.com/

Facebook : GaMaBhaNa

1.2 America

inhuman immigration

At least nine babies held in Ice detention in Texas

Amanda Holpuch in New York / The Guardian 28 February 2019

The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. Immigrant rights groups have urged DHS to immediately release the infants and their mothers.

At least nine infants under the age of one are being held in a Texas immigrant detention facility, according to a complaint filed Thursday with the US Department of Homeland Security that warned of an “alarming increase” in how many infants are detained.

Immigrant rights groups have urged DHS to immediately release the infants and their mothers, who said their children were sick, had lost weight and were crying more than usual.

One of the infants turned six months old in DHS custody at the South Texas Family Residential center in Dilley, where the infants and their families are receiving legal support from the Dilley Pro Bono Project.

The group’s advocacy coordinator, Katy Murdza, said they started noticing infants under the age of one were being held last week. “We’ve almost never seen this before,” Murdza told the Guardian.

It is unusual for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the DHS agency that oversees immigration detention, to detain infants.

Murdza said last year there was an incident where five infants were detained. In the past two weeks, there were 11 infants in detention at one time, though two of the children have since been released.

“Most of these babies have been sick and not getting better,” Murdza said. “A lot of moms are saying that they are crying much more than they normally do. They are crying all night and keeping people up in shared dorm rooms. There a lot of kids who are really congested, sometimes having trouble breathing, coughing a lot.”

Murdza said the mothers, who are Honduran, said they do not always get bottled water with baby formula and they are concerned the detention center’s tap water is not clean enough. The mothers also complained that there have been sudden changes in the formula they are given – even though doctors advise formula to be changed gradually because of infants’ sensitive digestive systems.

At least one of the infants has been detained for more than 20 days, according to the complaint. Under the Flores agreement, it is illegal to hold a child in immigration detention for more than 20 days, though the Trump administration has attempted to modify that rule.

The American Immigration Lawyers Association, American Immigration Council and Catholic Legal Immigration Network, filed the complaint and are partners with the Dilley Pro Bono Project.

1.3 Saudi Arabia – Might is right /18 October 2018

Jamal Khashoggi a journalist and critic of Saudi Rulers was killed inside Saudi Arabian Embassy in Istanbul – Turkey’s capital. When his absence could not be explained it was suggested that some rogue elements entered the embassy and killed the journalist. There was constant demand for his dead body. It was eventually admitted that he was killed by Saudi Arabian officials and his body was cut into pieces and dissolved in acid – so no body was ever produced. American President Trump expressed dismay and said that there will be consequences. Britain also raised concern. But eventually nothing happened. No one was punished. Trump does not want to lose business of armed supply. Thousands of skilled workers depend on S Arabian contracts, same in Britain. So, once again it proved that Might is right. S Arabia has not punished any of its officials

1.4 Hindusthan

Despite formidable odds BJP have won parliamentary elections and Modi is Prime Minister again. Lot more about this in the next newsletter

2. AROUND LONDON TOUR OF PLACES ASSOCIATED WITH INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS

One tour was on 16 March (Saturday) Five adults attended. One family came from Harrow and the other one from Surrey.

Second tour was on 27 April. This was made at the request of Dr Sanjeev Joshi of America. Our friend Sobodh Thaker from Hounslow joined in. As usual it was very cold, windy and showery, but we visited all the places.

Third tour was on 26 May (Sunday). This was requested by Aditya Deodhar of Basildon. Five people participated. As usual we faced delays and disruptions on Rail services, the weather too was extremely variable and uncomfortable. When we were standing in front of Savarkar’s house a gentleman named Mark Stieler, German came out to meet us. He lives on the ground floor flat.

3. BEHAVIOUR OF CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS TODAY.

3.1 The Christians

3.1.1 Not long ago Priests used to say – In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

Now they say – In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Why the change?

3.1.2 Attacks on Jews

On 27 April 2019 a right wing terrorist John Earnest attacked Jewish synagogue in California. A vigil was held in a Presbyterian church in San Diego. In October 2018 there was a similar attack on Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.

America is facing danger from Muslims and whites want to attack Jews! How absurd

3.1.3 Killings in New Zealand mosques

On Friday 15 March 2019, an Australian white supremacist gunman named Brenton Tarrant, 28 entered two mosques in Christ-Church, New Zealand and killed 50 Muslim men women and children and injuring another 50 all of whom were attending Friday prayers. This was condemned throughout the world. Brenton Tarrant, has been charged over the attacks.

Hundreds of mourners gathered in a Christchurch cemetery on Wednesday for the first funerals of those killed in the twin mosque massacre last Friday.

During the Memorial service we saw White women wearing scarves over their heads as a matter of respect and yet our Hindu girls are ashamed of wearing kunku (tilak) on their foreheads even in front of their parents and in- laws.

Question arises on how did Muslims from Afghanistan and Syria reached New Zealand as refugees?

3.1.4 As a sequel see that happened - Dev Patel's 'Hotel Mumbai' removed from New Zealand theatres after Christchurch mosque attacks

Publication: DNA India / Date: March 18, 2019

URL: https://www.dnaindia.com/hollywood/report-dev-patel-s-hotel-mumbai-removed-from-new-zealand-theatres-after-christchurch-mosque-attacks-2730592

Starring the Oscar-nominated actor, along with Armie Hammer, Anupam Kher and Jason Isaacs in pivotal roles, Hotel Mumbai is based on the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks which left more than 160 people dead. It displays the story of Taj Hotel staff that risked their lives to keep the guests and other people safe during one of the darkest days for the financial capital of India.

According to a report by NZ Herald, Icon Film Distribution released a statement saying the film has been suspended from all the New Zealand theatres after the Christchurch mosque shootings. Aling with that, the promotional activities and advertising have been stopped for the movie directed by Australian film-maker Anthony Maras.

"After consultation with local exhibition partners, the decision was made to suspend the film out of respect for a country in mourning," the statement said.

So, the world should not know about Muslim terrorists.

Not a single candle has been lit by the Muslim leaders in the UK for all the Christians murdered by isis. Nor have any candles been lit by the Muslim leaders in the Netherlands for the 3 people killed this week.

On the other hand - Isis has called for retaliation over the terror attack on those two mosques. The spokesman for the jihadist group, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, has broken a six-month silence to say last week’s massacre “should incite the supporters of the caliphate to avenge their religion. The scenes of the massacres in the two mosques should wake up those who were fooled.” Abu Hassan al-Muhajir said in the recording. The New York Times reports.

3.2 The Muslims

3.2.1 In April, Sultan of Brunei announced strict Sharia will be complied with, meaning chopping of hands for theft, stoning to death for adultery and such barbaric measures including death penalty for homosexuals. Human Rights groups did not raise much voice.

After a great deal of protests the Sultan has returned his honorary degree from Oxford University.

3.2.2 Sudanese women protesters sentenced to 20 lashes, month in jail

By Khalid Abdelaziz in Cairo (Reuters) /09 March 2019

Nine female Sudanese protesters were sentenced on Saturday to 20 lashes and one month in prison for rioting, the Democratic Alliance of Lawyers said, a day after President Omar al-Bashir ordered the release of all women detained in anti-government demonstrations.

3.2.3 Iran

(a) Attack on Revolutionary Guards / Reuters 09 March 2019

A suicide bomber killed 27 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in mid-February in a south-eastern region where security forces are facing a rise in attacks by militants from the Sunni Muslim minority. The Sunni group Jaish al Adl (Army of Justice), which says it seeks greater rights and better living conditions for the ethnic Baluchi minority, claimed responsibility for the attack.

According to another source -

Suicide attack in Iran frames visit to Pakistan by Saudi crown prince

James M Dorsey / 17 February 2019 / from Sandhya Jain

The suicide attack on Revolutionary Guards in Iran’s south-eastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, the second in two months, could not have come at a more awkward moment for Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan. The assault on a bus carrying the guards back from patrols on the province’s border with the troubled Pakistani region of Balochistan killed 27 people and wounded 13 others. It occurred days before Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman was scheduled to visit Pakistan as part of a tour of Asian countries. While Baluchistan is set to figure prominently in Prince Mohammed’s talks with Mr. Khan, the attack also coincided with a US-sponsored conference in Warsaw, widely seen as an effort by the Trump administration to further isolate Iran economically and diplomatically.

(b) In September 2018, the Revolutionary Guards fired missiles at an Iraqi-based Iranian Kurdish dissident group that killed at least 11 people in an attack in a western border area.

In October, Iran fired missiles at Islamic State militants in Syria, whom it blamed for an attack that killed 25 people on its soil.

(Reporting by Dubai newsroom; Editing by Ros Russell and Helen Popper)

(c) Militants attack Iran military parade, killing at least 25

Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell /Associated Press 22 September 2018

Teheran, — Militants disguised as soldiers opened fire on an annual Iranian military parade in the country's oil-rich south-western city of Ahvaz, killing at least 25 people and wounding over 60 in the deadliest terror attack to strike the country in nearly a decade.

Women and children scattered along with once-marching Revolutionary Guard soldiers as heavy gunfire rang out at the parade, the chaos captured live on state television.

The region's Arab separatists, once only known for night time attacks on unguarded oil pipelines, claimed responsibility for the brazen assault.

Journalists and onlookers turned to look toward the first shots, then the rows of marchers broke as soldiers and civilians sought cover under sustained gunfire. ...

"Oh God! Go, go, go! Lie down! Lie down!" one man screamed as a woman fled with her baby.

The state-run IRNA news agency said gunmen wore military uniforms and targeted a riser where military and police commanders were sitting. At least eight of the dead served in the Revolutionary Guard, an elite paramilitary unit that answers only to Iran's supreme leader,

"We suddenly realized that some armed people wearing fake military outfits started attacking the comrades from behind (the stage) and then opened fire on women and children," All four gunmen had been killed

State media and government officials seemed to come to the consensus that Arab separatists in the region were responsible. The separatists accuse Iran's Persian-dominated government of discriminating against its ethnic Arab minority, though an Ahvazi Arab, Gen. Ali Shamkhani, serves as the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council. ...The attack undermined the Iranian government on the day it wants to give a message to the world that it is powerful and in control.

Saturday's attack comes after a coordinated June 7, 2017 Islamic State group assault on parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. At least 18 people were killed and more than 50 wounded.

That assault shocked Tehran.

In 2009, more than 40 people, including six Guard commanders, were killed in a suicide attack by Sunni extremists in Iran's Sistan and Baluchistan province.

Some comments

It's just a part of the unending Sunni-Shia civil war within the Islamic community. It's been going on for centuries.

The assault on the parade points out perfectly how nothing in the Middle East is simple. Iran has blamed Arab separatists. Iranians are not Arabs, they are Persians. The Iranians speak Farsi, not Arabic. Iran is overwhelmingly the sect of Islam that the Sunni majority of the Muslim world considers to be heretics. ... Despite Obama's lies about Iran having no involvement with Al Qaeda, the Bin Laden trove revealed otherwise which of course Obama knew. Al Qaeda is Sunni and militantly Sunni yet Iran and Al Qaeda have the common goal of replacing the Saudi Royal Family, hence the safe harbor and safe passage given to Al Qaeda by Iran. The Gulf States with the exception of Bahrain and Yemen and Saudi Arabia's eastern provinces are predominantly Sunni. Throughout the region it is still largely a tribal society, the tribal tensions going back over a thousand years.

(d) Islamic State says Iran attack will not be the last – al Furqan.

Reuters 26 September 2018

CAIRO - A spokesman for the Islamic State said in an undated recording released on Wednesday that an attack on Iranian Revolutionary Guards, which the group claimed on Saturday, would not be the last.

"The Ahvaz attack will not be the last, God willing," Abi al-Hassan al-Muhajer said in the recording carried by the group's Al Furqan network on Telegram.

3.2.4 Muslims discriminating against Muslims?

Metro, the free paper of London reported on15 March 2019

Driver called ‘black slave’ by diplomat wins £8,000 (p2)

A driver who was racially abused by a Qatari diplomat has been awarded £8,000 by an employment tribunal.

Somali born Mahamoud Ahmed was called a black slave and a dog while he worked for Abudullah Ali Al-Ansari between 2006 and 2013. The 80 year old won a six year legal battle when employment judge Joanna Wade ruled he was discriminated and unfairly dismissed because of ‘race related scorn’.

Mr Ahmad said: “I did not want to tell my family about any of it as I did not want to upset them, and so I would avoid seeing them. I felt like I was in a prison, yet I kept working for the sake of my family.

Mr Al-Ansari was protected by diplomatic immunity until a landmark Court of Appeal ruling in 2015 which backed up by one in the Supreme Court in 2017. He told his lawyer to leave the Central London Employment Tribunal hearing to protect his ‘dignity and privileges’ and allegedly offered Mr Ahmad £50,000 to drop the case.’

But we were often told that in Islam all are equal, there is no discrimination

3.2.5 War in Syria / March 8, 2019.

More civilians leave Islamic State's Syria enclave, delaying final assault

By Rodi Said / Reuters

People gather near the fence of al-Hol displacement camp in Hasaka governorate, Syria

BAGHOUZ, Syria (Reuters) - The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) paused military operations against Islamic State (IS) militants holed up in the group's final enclave in eastern Syria, expecting more civilians to be evacuated from the area on Saturday, an SDF official said.

Thousands of people – many of them the wives of IS fighters and their children - have been streaming out of besieged enclave at Baghouz for weeks, forcing the SDF to delay the assault to wipe out the last vestige of the jihadists' territorial rule.

The SDF has said it wants to make sure all civilians are out of the enclave before launching its final assault. Hundreds of IS fighters have also surrendered, but the SDF believes the most hardened foreign jihadists are still inside.

Those emerging from Baghouz are screened by the SDF and most are sent north to the al-Hol camp, already overcrowded with uprooted Syrians and Iraqis from years of war.

More than 62,000 people displaced by fighting around the IS enclave have flooded al-Hol camp, with 5,200 arriving between March 5-7 and thousands more expected, the United Nations said on Friday.

The weather is cold and rainy and there is a shortage of tents and supplies. Dozens of children have died on the way to the camp. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) on Friday said al-Hol was at "breaking point".

"No one could have guessed that such a large number of women and children were still living in Baghouz," IRC spokeswoman Misty Buswell said.

However, the jihadists remain a threat. In Iraq they have gone to ground, staging waves of killings and kidnappings. In Syria, their comrades hold out in remote desert areas and have carried out bombings in areas controlled by the SDF.

Islamic State on Saturday said it had carried out a suicide car bomb attack near the Syrian town of Manbij to signal to foreign troops that they are not safe in the country. Manbij is controlled by a militia allied to the SDF.

Our comment - Very soon all these terrorist fighters and their families will be sent to their countries of origin as neither the Kurds nor Syrians want them. This is going to be quite a headache for European countries.

3.2.6 Philippines church bombing / Sky News 27 January 2019

At least 20 people have been killed and 81 injured after two bombs exploded at a Catholic cathedral in the Philippines.

The first bomb went off in or near the church in Jolo during Sunday mass.

This was followed by a second blast outside the building as government forces responded to the attack. The explosions tore away the entrance to the cathedral and ripped through the main hall, shredding pews. Images from the scene showed debris and bodies lying on the street outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, which has been targeted by bombs in the past.

Troops in armoured vehicles sealed off the main road leading to the church, as the wounded were evacuated. Some of those injured were airlifted to nearby Zamboanga city.

The dead included 15 civilians and five soldiers, according to the authorities, while among the wounded there were 14 soldiers, two police and 61 civilians.

Defence secretary Delfin Lorenzana said: "I have directed our troops to heighten their alert level, secure all places of worships and public places at once, and initiate pro-active security measures to thwart hostile plans.

Jolo island, in the south of the Philippines, has long been troubled by Abu Sayyaf militants, who are blacklisted by the US and the Philippines as a terrorist group due to years of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings. A Catholic bishop, Benjamin de Jesus, was gunned down by suspected militants outside the cathedral in 1997.

The attack came nearly a week after a referendum in which voters backed a new Muslim-majority autonomous region in the south of the largely Roman Catholic nation, where the island of Jolo is located. The move is aimed at ending nearly five decades of a separatist insurgency, which has left 150,000 people dead.

While most Muslim areas supported the deal, voters in Sulu province, where Jolo is located, rejected it.

Just note -

Muslims only make up 5.5% of the population of the Philippines, but kill more innocent people than any other terrorist group......

Muslims only make up 5.2% of the population of Belgium, but kill more innocent people than any terrorist group.......

Muslims only make up 4.4% of the UK population, but kill more innocent people than any terrorist group.......

Seems to be a bit of a pattern developing here..........................

3.2.7 Kenya : Terrorist attack in Nairobi

Terrorists eliminated after 14 killed in Kenya, as survivors reveal stories of escape:

The Independent 15 January 2019

At least five people have been killed in a terror attack on an upmarket hotel complex in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

Eyewitnesses reported a number of casualties at the DusitD2 hotel and office complex in the city’s Westlands neighbourhood after an explosion and suicide bombing that have been claimed by al-Shabaab, the Somali Islamist militant group. Kenya‘s interior minister, Fred Matiangi, said that the “situation is under control” and that all affected buildings had been cleared.

Survivors of the deadly attack described a massive explosion and the bodies of people shot dead while sitting at a cafe. Enoch Kibet, who works as a cleaner in the complex, said: “We were changing our shifts and that is when I heard a loud blast and people were screaming.” She said she escaped by crawling out of a gate in the basement. ”I couldn’t believe I was alive. The blast was so loud and shook the whole complex,” she added.

Several large international businesses including Dow Chemical and Reckitt Benckiser have offices in the Riverside area, while the Australian embassy is across the road.

The DusitD2 complex is about a mile away from the Westgate shopping mall, where al-Shabaab carried out a days-long siege in 2013, killing 67 people.

3.2.8 Italy : Bus with children inside set on fire

Nick Squires / The Telegraph 21 March 2019

An Italian bus driver of Senegalese descent was arrested on Wednesday after hijacking his own vehicle and setting it on fire, threatening to kill 51 children on board whose hands he had bound. The 47-year-old man said he was acting in revenge for the thousands of migrants, many of them African, who have drowned in the Mediterranean in recent years while trying to reach Europe from Libya.

“No one will survive,” he said, according to police.

“He shouted 'Stop the deaths at sea, I'll carry out a massacre',” said Marco Palmieri, a police spokesman.

The man, named as Ousseynou Sy, was driving 51 children from their middle school near the city of Cremona to a sporting event when he started making threats, brandishing a knife. In an ordeal that lasted around 40 minutes, he started driving towards nearby Milan.

He rammed the bus into cars on a busy highway before it came to a stop at a roadblock set up by police. He then doused it in petrol and set it on fire. Police smashed the windows of the vehicle to allow the children to escape. Television footage showed thick black smoke and flames billowing from the bus, which was reduced to a burnt-out hulk.

“It was a miracle, it could have been a massacre,” said Francesco Greco, a prosecutor from Milan. “The police were exceptional in blocking the bus and getting all the children out. They broke the windows and managed to get all 51 kids out.”

One of the children told reporters that the driver had threatened to pour petrol on them and set them alight. “He handcuffed us and threatened us. He said that if we moved he would pour out the petrol and set fire to it. “He kept saying that people in Africa are dying and the fault is Di Maio and Salvini's” – a reference to the leaders of the two parties that make up the populist coalition.

A 12-year-old boy who was interviewed by Italian television said the driver claimed that three of his children had drowned at sea while trying to reach Italy by boat from North Africa. “He said that many children die at sea, so we should die too.”

….At least 12 children were taken to hospital for bruises, smoke inhalation or because they were suffering from shock.

Police said the suspect had a criminal record, with convictions for sexual molestation and driving while drunk. He obtained Italian citizenship in 2004.

Mr Salvini, the interior minister and head of the anti-immigration League party, asked why a person with a criminal record was allowed to drive a school bus.

Some reactions

How do you even get to drive a bus full of children with his record? The mind boggles.

Unbelievable, how could he do that. The people that left the children under care of such a man without a staff to look after them made a terrible mistake. This experience will affect the children badly, it is an awful situation for a child to be in. Thank God that they were all saved from this evil man

3.2.9 Nigeria: “Fulani Militants Kill Over 20 with Machetes and Gunfire,”

Author: Robert Spencer / Publication: Jihad Watch.org /Date: March 15, 2019

URL: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/03/nigeria-muslims-murder-over-20-christians-with-machetes-and-gunfire

Christianity Today reported that “Fulani have become more deadly than the Boko Haram jihadist insurgency”; according to Reuters, they have “a deliberate plan to ‘wipe out certain communities,” chief among them being the Christians of Nigeria, who are the farmers targeted in this attack and others.

Washington, D.C. – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on the morning of March 4, 2019, Fulani militants attacked Tse-Tema Dula, Tse-Ugor, and Tse-Jabu villages of Mbacohon area in Gwer West Local Council area of Benue State. According to ICC’s local sources, 23 people were killed. Confirming the attacks, Reuben, a member of the Gwer West legislative council, said, “It was bad. They killed over 20 people. Some were killed by gunshots and some by machete hacks!” While speaking of the aftermath for those who survived, Reuben lamented, “The displaced persons are scattered all over, some in Naka, the Local Government headquarters.”

Three days after the village attacks, the militants again launched another attack at Tse-Ikyo Mke, Mbapupur community in the same Local Council area. This time, three people were killed.

The communities in Benue State are predominantly agrarian. The farming communities have suffered several years of violent confrontation by nomadic herdsmen who prefer open-grazing cattle breeding, a practice that has resulted in instances of destruction of farmland.

As an approach to a solution, the state government enacted legislation providing for ranching instead of open-grazing, which took effect on May 22, 2017. Shortly after this law was implemented, attacks worsened for several months, culminating in more than 70 people being killed in early January 2018.

Comments - I can't wait until all the mosques in western countries denounce this act of terrorism including the 40 Christians killed in Nigeria last week and the 3 killed 9 injured by islamists on the train in the Netherlands today as well and the 5000+ Christians killed annually by Islamists. But they won't because the media wouldn't cover it

3.2.10 Mali / Jihadists kill 16 soldiers at base

Gunmen attacked and briefly seized a Malian army base at the weekend killing at least 16 soldiers and destroying five vehicles in central Mali’s Mopti region. The base, in Diours village, was overrun by jihadists with links to al-Qaeda. “The toll was heavy catastrophic.” a defence spokesman said. ( i, a free paper of London 18 March 2019 p2)

4 History today / Historical notes

4.1 Historical landmarks

100 years ago

April 1919 – Jalianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar, Punjab

75 years ago June 1944 – D Day landing of allied forces in Normandy beaches of France. Apart from casualties of soldiers on both sides it is easily forgotten that many French civilians too died due to allied bombings.

30 years ago

June 1989 - Tinamann Square massacre of civilians in China

4.2 Why should an overseas Indian bother about true Indian History

My article was written in 1983. It needs to be revised and brought up to date. It can be put on our web-site www.satyashodh.com

4.3 Problems of Native people

All over the world this problem has been neglected for too long. It seems that there are some signs of creating awareness. Here is one example from Australia -

Invasion Day rally 2019: where to find marches and protests across Australia

Calla Wahlquist / The Guardian 25 January 2019

An Invasion Day rally in Melbourne last year. The theme of this year’s protests is not change the date but abolish Australia Day.

Scott Morrison may encourage Australians to “get around” the annual national celebration of 26 January, the day the First Fleet landed at Port Jackson in 1788, but for an increasing number of Australians it is a day of protest. More than 100,000 people spent Australia Day at Invasion Day marches in 2018 and crowds are expected to be even bigger this year.

Here’s where you can find them.

Sydney

Barangaroo Reserve / Hyde Park on the corner of Elizabeth and Liverpool streets/the Yabun festival in Victoria Park. .

Melbourne (Birraranga)

A dawn service at the Kings Domain Resting Place, a memorial that holds the remains of 38 Victorian Aboriginal people that represent the thousands of Aboriginal people whose bodies were taken for science or collections. The memorial is located off Linlithgow Avenue in the Domain, opposite the Janet Lady Clarke Rotunda.

The Invasion Day protest march will begin at 10.30am, with crowds to gather outside Parliament House on Spring Street before marching down Bourke and Swanston streets toward Flinders Street station.

Brisbane (Meanjin)

Emma Miller Place in the CBD.

Canberra

Garema Place

Adelaide

The Tandanya Survival Day event begins at 11am Saturday on the Semaphore foreshore. The community event is jointly hosted by the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute and the Port Adelaide Enfield council

Perth

Forrest Chase

Concert in the supreme court gardens

The Aardvark in Fremantle

Esplanade Reserve

Darwin -- A community event hosted by Community Solidarity Action NT in Civic Park.

Hobart

A dawn service will be held at the Hobart Cenotaph from 5.30am to commemorate those killed in the frontier wars and in massacres.

The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre is hosting an Invasion Day march and rally, which will begin at 11am at the TAC offices and head toward the Parliament House lawns.

4.4 Research in British Library, London.

With the help of Sanket Kulkarni of London we are exploring many aspects of Indian History. This will be loaded on the web-site www.satyashodh.com

(I) One important file is IOR/ L/ PS/13/201

Quarterly surveys of political and constitutional position in British India January 1943 – April 1947.

This covers important events – INA trials / Mutiny in the Royal Indian Navy / Elections of 1945/46 / Noakhali massacre of 150,000 Hindus.

The question remains – what about the quarter May / June / July 1947? (On 3 June Nehru and Patel accepted partition of India without exchange of population.)

(ii) Gandhi in Noakhali (Bengal)

In October 1946 Muslims of Bengal massacred 150,000 Hindu men, women and children. This was 500 times larger than the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919. Any sensible person would have said that it is Government’s duty to protect its citizens and maintain Law and order. If they cannot or will not do so the Governor must dismiss that Government and take control under section 93 of Government of India Act 1935, but not Gandhi. He did not even insist on Governor visiting the riot affected area, assuring the people and investigating and punishing the guilty. His attitude was that as those killed / women raped were all Hindus that was o.k. He went to Noakhali. Congress propaganda was – Gandhi walks fearlessly alone. This was repeated American papers. The truth is that Gandhi was protected by 20 Police Officers (from D. S. P. to constable.)

Ref – Viceroy’s Journal , 1977 p428 Viceroy Lord Wavell writes in his diary

13 March 1947 – In the evening Burrows, Governor of Bengal arrived. …...He was very relieved that Gandhi had left Bengal, it had taken 20 of his best police to protect him; and he was sarcastic over as American correspondent’s article headed ‘Gandhi walks alone’

(But neither Burrows nor Wavell wrote to the American paper)

The names of those 20 police officers are available in secret files in British Library

The reference is – L/P & J/ 5/ 153/4 – Bengal Province

When Rajmata Vijayaraje Shinde met me in London in 1987 she also said, “Gandhi was a remarkable man. He was walking alone fearlessly in Noakhali.”

(iii) Gandhi’s assurance – Partition of India? – over my dead body.

Ref – Disastrous Twilight by Major General Shahid Hamid, p153

The date is 31 March 1947 – what happened to this assurance?

Same book pp 168/9 May 1947 – Gandhi said - “ Let the whole nation be in flames. We will not concede an inch to Pakistan.

(iv) Last days of Gandhi. The question remains – what were the 7 conditions laid down by Gandhi to end his last fast? That was the last straw which broke camel’s back and Nathuram decided – enough is enough.

Maulana Azad mentions these conditions in his book – India Wins Freedom. If we read these that makes our blood boil. But what was published in the papers which Nathuram would have read?

12 January 1948 – At the evening prayer meeting Gandhi declared that he will go on fast for an indefinite period for Hindu Muslim amity, but he did not lay down any conditions during his announcement. After the prayer meeting Gandhi went to see the Governor-General, Lord Mountbatten, and was with him for some time. Why?

13 January - Papers do not mention any conditions.

Gandhi begins his fast at 11 a.m. after eating meal. During the day he was visited by Cabinet Ministers and others who sought to persuade him to desist, but he is adamant.

He attended his 5 p.m. prayer meeting as usual.

17 January - Maulana Azad visits Gandhi and tells the people outside Birla House of the 7 conditions of Gandhi at 2.15 p.m. (As per Indian Express). These were given to him by Gandhi at his request. At the same time Government of India asks Reserve Bank of India to release 55 crores of rupees (55-5 = 50) to Pakistan.

18 January - Gandhi breaks his fast at mid-day after taking orange juice from Maulana Azad, stating that his 7 conditions have been fulfilled.

19 January – Gandhi’s day of silence

Indian Express states – Seven conditions prescribed by Mahatma Gandhi for breaking his fast were outlined by Maulana Azad at a peace rally today. The conditions were given to him at his request by the Mahatma when he saw him at 2.15 p.m. today.

Gandhi’s seven conditions were as follows -

(1) The annual fair at the Mausoleum of Khwaja Bakhtvar which fall due shortly may be held, also Muslims may be able to join it without any fear.

(2) One hundred and seven mosques which, after the recent riots in Delhi, were converted into temples or residential places, may be turned into mosques again by the non-Muslims of the particular area.

(3) Muslims should be able to move about freely and without any danger in Karol Bagh, Subzimandi and Paharganj, which formerly were predominantly Muslim areas.

(4) The Hindus should not object to the return to Delhi of those Muslims who have perforce gone to Pakistan if and when they choose to do so.

(5) Muslims should be able to travel in railway trains without any risk.

(6) There should be no economic boycott of Muslims.

(7) The accommodation of non-Muslims in Muslim zones in Delhi be left entirely at the discretion of residents of those areas.

Maulana Azad said, “Mahatma Gandhi’s decision to undertake the fast had come to him as a surprise. Gandhiji had not consulted even his trusted friends in this matter. When I saw him on Tuesday morning shortly before his fast began I knew that it was no use trying to make him change his mind. That was an impossible task because his mind was made up.” (How strange that Gandhi did not mention his 7 conditions to any one else except Maulana Azad!)

The 7 conditions published by Indian Express are sanitised version. Azad’s book gives the true conditions which are extremely insulting to Hindus. Is it not strange that the 7 conditions were fulfilled within 24 hours? How were these communicated to the people? Was there an announcement on Radio?

>>There are two important sources we must look at

* Complete Works of Mahatma Gandhi * Report of Kapoor Commission of enquiry into Gandhi’s assassination.

Both are published by Government of India and copies of both are in British Library, London.

There are two issues here. By Indian Independence Act 1947, British Indian Empire ended and in its place two dominion states came into existence – India and Pakistan. But the British were very crafty. By this act the dominion state of India inherited all the assets and liabilities of British Raj. The division of assets and liabilities was to be agreed by the two states. British knew that Gandhi / Nehru and Patel were always going to be over-generous to Pakistan during these negotiations. The 55 crores of rupees was the share of Pakistan of the cash left by British. Out of this 5 crores were already given away. Then came the aggression of Pakistan army into Kashmir which has ceded to India by its Maharaja. So, Patel argued that unless Pakistan withdraws it’s troops they will NOT get the 50 crores of rupees. Gandhi forced that payment by blackmail. As soon as the 50 crores of rupees were given to Pakistan Gandhi ended his fast.

The other issue was accommodation of huge influx of Hindu (including Sikhs) refugees who were hounded out by Pakistan. They had nowhere to go and occupied some mosques and houses of Muslims who had gone to Pakistan. This made Gandhi furious. He wanted the refugees to be expelled from their shelter WITHOUT making any arrangements for them. Nehru called for Madras Regiment soldiers to do this dirty work. Nathuram witnessed that merciless expulsion by police and army. He decided that enough is enough. Khosla also touches on this. (more in next newsletter). Of course, Gandhi was living in Birla House protected by some Policemen. No anti-Gandhi demonstrations were allowed by Patel, not just outside Birla House but anywhere in Delhi. Patel Nehru and other members of the cabinet were living in bungalows of former British masters. Have you seen any pictures of how Gandhi / Nehru / Patel used to live in Delhi? And how the refugees were shivering in the open in cold?

Moreover, what about the division of liabilities? British India had a debt of 1,200 crores of rupees. So, Pakistan should have accepted a debt of 300 crores of rupees. But that would have made them bankrupt. So, Gandhi / Nehru and Patel said- We will accept all the debt of 1,200 crores of rupees. Pakistan should repay their share of 300 crores at their convenience! There was no time limit! Which meant that that amount was never going to be paid! Even today that amount is shown in Indian budget as outstanding from Pakistan (what an accountant? 300 crores in 1948 is the same as 300 crores in 2019?)

4.5 Other research findings

1857 war of independence

Information in Times of London

Google has done an incredible job. It is called Times online 1785 to 1985. If you put the subject as Indian Mutiny and the period from 1857 to 1859 you get all the information published in Times of London. It will take 50 to 60 days to read. With the help of Dr Bedekar of Thane, Godbole has loaded this data on Pen drive. The war was very extensive indeed.

Kaye and Malleson’s History of Indian Mutiny is also a valuable source. It was written by Sir John Kaye, KCSI, FRS in 1864 and edited by Col Malleson, CSI. It was published in 1891 by W H Allen & Co of 13 Waterloo Place, London. It has 6 volumes with following pages.

Vol I – 454 pages

Vol II – 505

Vol III – 384

Vol IV – 412

Vol V – 362

Vol VI – 462

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Total – 2564 pages

There is an index at the end of last volume and there are many detailed diagrammes. As more than 100 years have passed since publication, no one will now have any copy rights. Would any rich person consider re-printing it?

* Mutiny in the Royal Indian Navy

This very important event of 1946 has been ignored by our historians.

We had received following E Mail on the subject.

From: Pradeep Rawat <pradiprawat55@gmail.com> Date: 11 Nov 2018

Subject: How Gandhi, Patel and Nehru colluded with Brits to suppress Naval Mutiny of 1946

https://www.dailyo.in/politics/how-gandhi-patel-and-nehru-colluded-with-the-british-to-suppress-the-naval-mutiny-of-1946/story/1/5567.html

The document runs into 32 pages.

* English East India Company used build their ships in Mumbai docks. The Engineers were two Parsees. Their portraits are displayed on wall of Royal Asiatic Society, North Gower Street, London. The reason for building ships in Mumbai was that Indian timber was superior to British one. AND Nelson defeated Napoleon’s navy by using such ships.

Ref – The East India men.

* On Facebook some one had produced letter from Subhash Chandra Bose resigning from the lucrative Indian Civil Service. The date is 22/ 4/ 1921. His address – 16 Herbert Street, Cambridge. He stood 4th in the ICS examination of August 1920.

5. Obituary

We are sad to announce that our long standing friend Dr P V Vartak of Pune passed away on 29 March. He was deeply interested in research in Vedic literature. Every year Godbole used to deliver one lecture at his home – Vartak Ashram in Pune.

On 19 May 1974 (Sunday) Dr Vartak arranged a demonstration in Pune on how Vedic mantras have the power to ignite fire. The details are -

Place - Old house of Historian Ahitagni Rajawade ( in Pune)

Time - 05:02

Person who carried out this experiment - Shree Kashinathpant B Shidore

At Sudhagad / Post Nadsur

Dist Kolaba / Maharashtra

This was well advertised in local papers. Some experts and two magicians were also in attendance. 200 to 250 people attended. They were all surprised.

Vartak’s autobiography was published in 1995. He gives examples of mental slavery of our intellectuals, which is astonishing. Their attitude is that unless Vartak’s research is accepted by western scholars we will not accept it. It is however surprising that in his photo Dr Vartak is wearing a tie and a jacket!