INDIAN
INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INTO TRUE HISTORY
Newsletter
No 24 of
1 News and current affairs
1.1Taj Mahal and the Great British Conspiracy
This work of Mr Godbole is now being published by Dr
Bedekar. A Doctorate has also been awarded by the Institute for Oriental
Studies of Thane to Mr Godbole for the above work.
1.2 Why Rewrite Indian History ?
This article by Mr Godbole was published in December1982
issue of Itihas Patrika of Thane. Dr
Bedekar is now publishing it as a booklet.
1.3 Around
A tour for six workers of RSS from Woolwich,
Mr Kankani has made duplicates of Mr Godbole's 27 slides of
the tour, and on his return to
Mr Godbole intends to conduct tours in April and May.
1.4 Visitors
Mr Devendra Kainthola, a Marine Engineer from
Pradeep Athavale, a Radio Engineer in Merchant Navy had come
to
1.5 Hindu Awakening at
last.
Hare Ram Hare Krishna mandir in
081-381-2054 or Dipa or Parekh on 0992-650331.
1.4 American Elections
On
1.5 Might is Right
In October 1993 Russian President Boris Yeltsin wanted to
get rid of the council of people's deputies, so he simply signed a decree to
that effect, and called for a referendum on his proposed constitution which
would give him enormous powers and called for fresh elections to the council of
deputies. The deputies resisted, saying that Yeltsin had no authority to
dissolve their council. But the military backed Yeltsin, and he won. Though his
action was dictatorial, western governments supported him as he would follow
their policies.
1.6 Our Slavish Mentality
1.6.1. British rule
in
A friend of Mr Godbole recently visited the House of
Commons, later he said, " I saw the place from where the British ruled the
world for 500 years."
Mr Godbole said, " How do you count 500 years ? The
East India Company was founded only in 1600, are you saying that as soon as the
trading company was started they ruled over the world ?"
" If not 500, surely they ruled for 300 years ? "
said the friend
" Still not true." said Godbole, " In 1794,
just 200 years ago. Mahadji Shinde, and Nana Phadnavis were alive and the
Marathas were quite powerful."
" O.K. o.k. but the British ruled over us for at least
200 years " argued the friend.
" Not quite. " said Mr Godbole, "The British
defeated Maratha Peshwa in 1818. Their rule over the area formerly ruled by
Marathas, lasted for 129 years. British defeated the Sikhs in 1849. British
rule over Punjab and the
1.6.2. Degree Convocations
Mr Godbole passed his examination of Diploma in Management
studies of Polytechnic of Central London ( now
" Following the Reformation, King Henry VIII assumed
for the Crown of England all the rights which had previously been Pope's. That
is why all subsequent degree awarding bodies have been created by Royal
Charter. Today's awards are given under the authority of the Council for
National Academic Awards (CNNA), which was set up by Royal Charter in
1964............."
" In the twelfth century all academic staff have been
called ' masters.' The word degree comes from the Latin gradus, meaning a step. When a student is admitted to the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, Science or Engineering, he moves one step towards the
mastership. When he is admitted to the degree of Master of Arts or Science, he
climbs another step to the level of the masters."
" The gowns worn by receiving students and academics
are derived from the everyday dress of the medieval clergy. In the Middle Ages
they were not open in front but closed like clergymen's cassock. The beginning
of the sixteenth century saw academics wearing the open at the front to display
the fine clothes they were wearing underneath. The hood, the normal medieval
headwear, soon acquired a coloured lining."
" By the seventeenth century these colours were
controlled so that anyone could tell from the colour of a graduate's hood what
his degree was and by whom it was conferred. Today, those wearing blue and gold
are receiving a degree conferred by the CNAA. There is a range of colours for
CNAA higher degrees. Those in claret and grey are wearing the colours of The
Polytechnic of Central London."
We thus note that the
dresses have changed. There is no reason why the women should wear the same
dresses as men, that is really silly. Moreover why should Indian Universities
follow the West, in this respect ? We must follow our own traditions. If we do
not have them we can create new ones. Veer Savarkar raised this point when he
was conferred an honorary degree of D. Litt by
award
ceremonies.
1.7 Truth - who likes it ?
who wants to know ?
1.7.1. During the 1992 election campaign the Conservatives
once again proclaimed
" We have reduced taxes " And people believed them
and re-elected them. In fact total taxes have gone up during past 14 years of
their rule. There are two types of taxes. Direct - the well known income tax,
and the Indirect. Conservatives have reduced income tax by raising indirect
taxes - which are easy for the people to forget. In the very first budget in
1979 Sir Jeffrey Howe, reduced the rate of income tax from 33 to 30 % but
raised the Value Added Tax from 7 1/2% to 15 %. And they have increased the
indirect taxes ever since. In fact before the 1992 elections, they borrowed
money and reduced the rate of income tax. After the elections they raised the income
tax by cleverly disguising it. Tax allowances were frozen or made applicable at
lower rate. There is tax on air travel, on insurance policies, even on fuel!
It was a folly for the Labour Party to publish their
alternative budget, before the elections. Conservatives made a meal of it and
frightened the voters . Labour warned that Conservatives would raise VAT. But
people did not believe them till it happened. At the time of election the
voters did not want to know.
In January 1994 the truth could no longer be hidden. On 13
January the Times reported on its
front page - Tax, how you were better off under Dennis Healey ( The last labour
chancellor )
On Saturday the 15 January, even Sun the strongly right wing paper admitted - people were better off
under labour.
On Sunday the 23 January all the weeklies reported the same
story. On 25th the Guardian produced tables showing how taxes under Labour
were less than under the Tories.
Even this is part of the story. So many social security
benefits have disappeared under the Tories that it is difficult to remember
what they were. Here are just a few which have been abolished or reduced :-
* Unemployment benefit is now paid only for 6 months, as
against 12 months.
* Earnings related supplement for the unemployed was
abolished.
* Unemployment benefit is subjected to tax.
* Student grants have been slashed. They are going to
reduced still further by 30 % over the next three years. Students no longer get
any housing benefits, or unemployment benefits during their vacations. Parents
do not get any rebate on their contribution to their son's /daughter's
maintenance. On top of it, government wants to make it illegal to protest
against its policy on student grants!
* It is now impossible to find a Dentist who will offer you
treatment on the National Health.
* Eye testing is no longer free.
* Prescription charges have gone up every year for last 14
years. Sometimes the medicines are cheaper than the prescriptions!
David Mellor, the Secretary of State for National Heritage
was forced to resign in 1993 for his extra-marital affair with model Antonia de
Sancha. He had the audacity to write in the Evening
Standard of 24 January an article entitled Why swingering tax rises are the only honest answer.
1.7.2. In 1988, Bush got elected to presidency of
1.8 The Russian Coup of
1991.
In August 1991 Russian coup failed. But when it was
attempted Western powers said " The Russians must abide by their past
commitments but westerners would not do the same. Their abiding by the treaties
will depend on behaviour of the new rulers!"
The coup failed because Russian soldiers refused to fire on
their own people. Dear oh dear. Look at the fine tradition of Indian soldiers .
In 1919, they had no hesitation to shoot unarmed men, women and children at
Jalianwala Bagh . Both during and after partition of
It is well worth remembering that during the Rhodesian
crisis of 1964/66 Harold Wilson, the
Labour Prime Minister of
1.9 Forgive and forget
Turkish invasion and occupation of
Sue Masterman reported for the Evening Standard on 21 October 1993,
students in tear gas
" Greek Cypriot students today catapulted tear-gas
grenades across the neutral zone of Nicosia during a mass demonstration against
the continuing division of the island. ....
As the Queen continued her official programme with no
further notable incident, thousands of secondary school children and college
students descended on the Ledra Palace Hotel border between the Greek and
Turkish sectors. Waving Greek and Cypriot flags, chanting patriotic songs, they
confronted a wall of policemen and two successive barbed wire barriers to keep
them from entering the zone guarded by British UN troops."
" A Royal Artillery barracks only 100 yards away was
ignored by the demonstrators, who seemed determined to reach the Turkish side.
There were scuffles as police, helped by teachers, managed to hold back dozens
of youths trying to push behind barricades. ...."
" But why all this unrest ? In 1974 there was
instability in
Let us recapitulate what
happened in
Dr N.B.Khare writes, " Mr Ashutosh Lahiri met Nehru and
acquainted him with the sorry tale of these Bengali refugees and requested him
to render some help to these down-trodden human beings of
" From the above account it would be clear that those
who had some sympathy with these Bengali refugees and who wanted to enlist
public sympathy, were put behind prison bars, or externed or detained under
Preventive Detention Act."
( Ref : My Political Memoirs, by Dr.N.B.Khare,
2nd edition 1971, pp 359/360 )
No wonder Churchill called Nehru " Light of Asia "
The infamous Nehru-Liaquat Pact was signed on 9th April 1950.
1.10 Jobs for the Boys
In the 1956 general elections, quite a few Congress leaders
in
Chris Patten, the Conservative Party chairman lost his seat
in the House of Commons during the General Elections of 1992. Immediately he
was made Governor of the colony of Hongkong by the British Prime Minister Mr
Major.
In May 1993 SAFETY
management reported, " An Ex-Government minister, known for his strong
views on privatisation and deregulation, had been appointed to the Health and
Safety Commission ( HSC ) by the Employment Secretary. 46 year-old Christopher
Chope, who lost his Southampton Itchen seat to Labour at the last election,
took up his part-time post with the tripartite body early last month, when six
other Commissioners were also re-appointed. It is the first time in the
Commission's history - established 18 years ago by the Health and Safety at
Work Act 1974 - that an ex-minister from any political party has been appointed
to the role."
Who says
1.11 Will they ever learn
from history ?
In 1984, Union of Democratic Mineworkers ( UDM ) helped to
break the strike called by National Union of Mine workers. Naturally they were
much praised by the then Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher. But they are no longer
required and have been sold down the drain. Tories have decided to close all
the coal mines, including those worked by the UDM, who foolishly often quote
Mrs Thatcher. Why would they not learn
from history ?
1.12 Importance of English
Boris Yeltsin does not
speak English. In fact in former Soviet Russia people speak 22 different
languages. How do they communicate to each other ? Through English ? NO.
Stalin never spoke a word of English.
BBC 2 showed a four part
series on rise of
At the height of Kuwait-Iraq conflict (
1990/91 )
Admitted that English is an important language, but let us
not exaggerate its importance. It is irritating to find that In India (
2 Historical findings
2.1 muslim
fabrication
Aurangzeb carried out his campaign against the Marathas
during 1682 - 1707. An example of how he wanted to falsify the history has
recently come to light. Ravivarcha Sakal a
Marathi weekly of Pune of 13 September 1992 published an article by Prof P K
Ghanekar. He writes, " Aurangzeb
changed the name of Rayagad fort to Islamgad. He even prepared an inscription
proclaiming that he erected the fort.
For some unknown reason the stone remained at village Pachod on the
foothills of the fort. It was never transported and erected on the fort, and
has now disintegrated. A photo of the inscription before disintegration was
however taken by Ninad Bedekar an history enthusiast of Pune . We are grateful
to Mr N M Datye - father-in-law of Mr Godbole, for this information.
2.2 patrya maruti
This well known temple in Pune was erected in 1772 in the
days of Narayan-rao Peshwa . It is
dedicated to God Hanuman. It is traditional to offer Shendur a red coloured oily substance to the idol. As a result, the
original shape of the idol was hidden in layers of this substance. Mr Godbole
remembers that the idol looked like a rectangular stone with a bulge in the
middle. In April 1952, on the day of Hanuman Jayanti ( birthday of Hanuman ) all the layers came
off and the original idol was revealed. But if a person was stubborn he would
say , " I saw that idol for several years. It is just a red stone. There
is no need for me to come to Pune to see it again."
They treat our history just the same.
We are grateful to our friend Mr Arun Bhat, for doing search
in the offices of Sakal a Mararthi
daily of Pune and confirming Mr Godbole's recollection. Mr Bhat obtained a copy
of relevant page of Sakal of 10 April
1952.
2.3 horrors of the
* Right until 1966, many children from poor families in
They will help to find the roots of children who were thus
affected. In many cases the children were even removed from their natural
brothers and sisters - a wicked act. However poor one may be there is always
some comfort in family life, there is a sense of belonging. The names of the children were changed, so that they
would not remember who they were, and could not trace their parents and
relatives.
* Tony Callagher reported for the Daily Mail on 17 July 1993 :
lost tribe helpline swamped by parents.
He says, " A helpline was besieged yesterday by
emotional families trying to trace sons and daughters who may have been sent to
" Pressure is growing for an enquiry into the policy
under which 15,000 foster children and youngsters from children's homes were
sent abroad to ease pressure on British charities between 1945 and 1967. There
is growing evidence that children as young as four were sent to countries such
as
" The plight of the children dubbed The Lost Tribe
emerged after Nottinghamshire social worker
Margaret Humphreys began receiving letters from people in
" The BBC programme, produced jointly with the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was a two-part drama about two children
sent to
' Many of the callers were in a terrible state, very upset.
They never heard from children they put up for adoption and now, because of
this programme realise they may have been in
" A cross-party group of MPs wants the Prime Minister
to release all documents relating to the controversial policy and for Mr Major
to discuss the issue with Australian primier Paul Keating."
2.4 Savarkar's
contribution to Indian Historical research.
Some of Savarkar's historical research has been forgotten.
We note the following examples.
Vasco-de-gama sought the
help of a Hindu merchant who was trading between
East
October 1934 )
Ref :- Samagra Savarkar Vangamaya
volume 3 p 741
Prof Vakankar
gave us this information in 1986. See our newsletter no. 14
Khandesh, a region of
Mr Oak has
simply reiterated this information since 1984 .
Kutb Minar in
Lord Ganesh is a form of
the Hindu holy symbol and word OM. ( Article published in
3 Behaviour of Christians
and Muslims today
3.1 Muslims in
Conor Cruise O'Brien reported for the Independent on 10 December 1993
A French lesson for Muslims.
" In November the French authorities changed course
over the treatment of cultural minorities. Up to then, official policy had been
similar, outwardly at least, to that generally prevailing in
" Four schoolgirls were suspended last month from a
state school at Nantua for having presented themselves for class wearing
headscarves, thus obeying the orders of their parents against those of the
principal. Formally, the school's decision is based on the old laic tradition - a heritage from the
French Revolution - that no religious expression of any kind is permitted in French public schools. The headscarf is
seen as the Muslim equivalent of wearing a visible Catholic symbol ( a crucifix
on a chain, as it might be ), which has always been banned in this particular
context. Thus the authorities can claim not unreasonably, that the headscarf
ban involves no specific discrimination against Islam, merely an assertion of
the principle that the French state is a secular one, and therefore its school
must be strictly secular."
" The trouble with this, at present stage, is that the
principle - though never, I should think, relaxed where Christian symbols are
concerned - has not generally been applied to the dress of Muslim children for
more than four years now. The Government allowed principals to set their own
rules and most chose to let secularism go by than risk confrontation with
Muslim parents."
" In some newspapers this international story has been
accompanied by an emotive photograph. Two girls, looking about 14 and wearing
the now-prohibited headgear, are shown hurrying away from a school playground;
they are being watched by two teenagers, of European appearance and dress, with
not particularly friendly expressions. Others are playing, and paying no
particular attention. That picture carries extremely painful associations of
racial and religious persecutions, of official condonation of the same, and of
collusion on the part of the general public. One thinks involuntarily of
photographs of 60 years ago showing Jewish children wearing the Star of
David."
" Like so many other analogies, this one is strongly
suggestive, up to a certain point. The common feature is the association of
distinctive garb with ostracism, and with the pain that implies. Yet the
circumstances that gave rise to the wearing of the distinctive garb are widely
different. In the Jewish case, the distinctive garb was imposed by the state
alone, as a preliminary and prerequisite for a programme of persecution which
was to culminate in the Holocaust. In the case of the Muslims of France, the
distinctive garb was voluntarily assumed and implied a rejection of the secular
state in favour of a theocratic system laid down in a Holy Book. The modern
French state did not impose, but prohibits, the wearing of this distinctive
garb."
" The wearing of the Star of David was imposed by
decision of a hostile state. The wearing of the headscarf by children attending
secular schools is imposed by the families of the children, in practice
primarily by their fathers. The girls suspended from school for wearing the
headscarf are victims, not of a persecuting state, but of a Kulturkampf, pitting Muslim families and
the Muslim community against the secular state."
" The wearing of the headscarf can be seen as a symbol
of Islamic self-respect. It can also be seen as a symbol of the subjugation of
women to patriarchal values, and their exclusion from the benefits of a secular
value-system increasingly oriented towards gender equality. For some at least
of the girls concerned, that headscarf must be a symbol not of collective
self-respect but of cultural imprisonment ; a psychological Shirt of Nessus.
Islam, more than other religions, is triumphalist, not merely sub specie aeternitatis, but here below.
This is not, as is often suggested, the advent of something new; Islamic
fundamentalism. It is part of the nature of Islam itself, except in contexts
where its teachers have been prepared to compromise with the West. A youth
brought up on the Koran will be conditioned, by the literal meaning of what he
reads, to despise unbelievers, and will expect their undoing to be
imminent."
" Other forms of revelation also encourage such
attitudes, but not as starkly, unremittingly and undeviatingly as with the
Koran. There is nothing here equivalent to the Christian
" Render unto
Caesar the things that are Caesar's ." An unbelieving Caesar, such
as any Western government, simply has no entitlements, in this world or the
next."
" Of its nature, therefore, Islam poses a new challenge
to post-Enlightenment society and its growth, the secular state. The French are
meeting that challenge in a more forthright way than either the American or the
British have yet done. A local Turkish
imam, Husseyin Konos, urging
" Allah's law takes precedence
over French law." The French government promptly deported the imam. It
also placed Moulay Hassan, an Islamic adviser to the parents of the suspended
girls, under house arrest. The French government thereby clearly committed
itself to the principle that French Law , within the jurisdiction of the
" I believe that message to be a salutary one, not
merely to Western society, but also to Muslims who have chosen to live within
Western jurisdictions . And especially to Muslim women. Neither the British nor
the American authorities have yet adopted as clear-cut a position as the French
authorities now have. It is true that both John Major and Bill Clinton, by
receiving Salman Rushdie, have implicitly challenged the applicability of
" Allah's law"
( at least as laid down in
3.2 On 13 January 1994 , BBC Radio 5 reported on the plight
of Marsh Arabs of
3.3 On Sunday 12 December 1993 BBC Radio 4 reported in the
religious programme ( 0730 to 0830 )
Catholic Church authorities have decided to close St Phill 6th form
college in
3.4 On Sunday 9 January 1994
BBC Radio 4 reported at 0830 :- Evangelical Christians in
Readers should remember that according to Koran any Muslim
who wants to change his faith faces death.
3.5 Howard Smith reported for the Evening Standard on 25 January 1994 : schools must put christian teaching first.
" Schools have been ordered to concentrate on teaching
children about Christianity in religious education. Government advisers insist
that Christianity is the central core of lessons and should take up at least
half the time in the RE syllabus. Millions of schoolchildren will also have to
study five other main religions - Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and
Judaism."
" The blueprint, unveiled by education minister
Baroness Blatch today, sets out two models for future lessons on faith. .......
The model syllabuses aim to :
Reflect the fact that the religious traditions of
Take account of the other
principal religions in the country. . There will be restrictions in primary
schools on the number of alternative religions
that children
should study, which will anger some religious groups....."
" Traditionalists have already warned that the split
between Christianity and other faiths recommended in the new guidelines, drawn
up by the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority, will confuse young
children. They say that the vital lessons of the Christian faith will be lost
as children struggle to understand the basics of other religions."
4. Christianity - some
doubts
4.1 Ruth Gledhill
reported for the TIMES on 20 December 1993 :
bishop of
He says, " THE Star of Bethlehem did not exist, the
Three Wise Men and their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh were mythical,
and there are doubts over whether there really was ' no room at the inn ' In
Bethlehem. This was the Christmas message yesterday from the Bishop of Durham,
Dr David Jenkins. In line with a tradition he has made peculiarly his own, he
continued to cast doubt on the basic tenets of the Christian faith. "
" While Dr Jenkins received support from some senior
churchmen, including the Bishop of St Albans, the Right Rev John Taylor,
another prominent Anglican, the Environmental Secretary, John Gummer, said :
" It will be a relief when great festivals of the Christian year are not hijacked
by the Bishop of Durham and his personal publicity machine. The teaching of the
Church is very clear. All over the world millions will be rejoicing in the
supreme fact that God came to earth as a baby, born of the Virgin Mary."
" Dr Jenkins's latest challenge to conventional belief
came after a week in which he rejected the concept of eternal hell and the
second coming of Christ. The Church of England's doctrine commission is now
debating salvation, including the concepts of death, judgement, heaven and
hell, and is thought likely also to reject the concept of physical hell
fire."
" Dr Jenkins speaking on BBC !'s Breakfast with Frost, said the account of the star guiding the
Three Wise Men to
' Who knows ? ' he said. "
" Challenging the story of the ' star of special
brightness ' he said ; ' these stories are so splendidly symbolic and pick up
so many echoes both from prophecies and the Old Testament .... that I think
they are stories composed by the early church out of their faith.' The birth narratives appear only in the
Gospels of Matthew and Like. In 1986, partly in response to Dr Jenkins's
statements on the virgin birth, a church report said ; ' We acknowledge and
uphold this the virginal conception as expressing the faith of the Church and
its historic teaching."
" His remarks provoked an immediate outcry among MPs,
although his fellow bishops seemed sanguine. Dame Jill Knight ( C, Edgbaston )
said : ' The Bishop does no good to the Church. For centuries, faithful people
have believed that the Bible spoke the truth. He seems determined to destroy
the faith of those simple believers.' Godffrey Dickens ( C, Littleborough and
Saddleworth ) said : ' He is desroying the faith of millions of believers.'
" Anglican bishops were reluctant to counter the
attack. Traditionalists and evangelicals are looking forward to his retirement
next year and believe the best policy is to keep silent. Many liberals secretly
agree with all he says. But Bishop Taylor, a member of the doctrine commission,
blamed the media for resurrecting Dr Jenkins's remarks on hell, originally made
some weeks ago at a lay readers' conference in the
" There was more support for the bishop from a senior
church spokesman last night. He said : ' Dr Jenkins is deeply concerned to
communicate the Christian faith in a way that he feels is intelluctually
acceptable for today. He will antagonise others. He is certainly successful in
creating debate about matters of Christian faith."
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INDEED WAS HE CRUCIFIED AT ALL ?
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We requested our member Bhupendra Patel to attend the
meeting, but he could not go because he had promised to take his friend back to
5. True nature of Western
Liberals
5.1 The British
Liberals.
On 10 April Amit
" Controversy is raging over whether a street or a
public building in the
"Udham Singh held O'Dwyer to be the real culprit even
though the order to fire was given by brigadier general Reginald Dyer, the
British officer commanding the troops in
" In 1974 his exhumed remains were flown to
" The lobby to honour Udham Singh includes six Asian
councillors in Hounslow, led by Sanjiv Vedi, 27 who works for a local law
centre. Four of them are Sikhs and two, including Vedi, Hindu Punjabis. Vedi
has failed to get a new community theatre in Hounslow, named after Udham Singh,
but he will renew his attempt this Wednesday ( April 13 ) the 69th anniversary
of the massacre of Jallianwala Bagh."
" Vedi's view that Udham Singh committed a ' political
act ' is strongly opposed by his white labour colleagues. One of them Peter
Smith, called Udham Singh a " terrorist."
Another local labour
politician, Peter Pitt, wants the party to adopt a resolution that
" under no circumstances should any area in Hounslow be
named after Udham Singh on the grounds that he was in the final analysis a
murderer." ........ Meanwhile
5.2 The American
Liberals.
Linda Cox obtained a Ph D for her research on the Chitpavan
Brahmins, the caste which produced Justice Ranade, Gokhale, Phadke, Chaphekar,
and Savarkar. She studied at the
6 History today
6.1 American and
British spying in
In Newsletter no. 22 we revealed the details of American Air
Force's flying missions over Soviet Russia, in flagrant violation of
international law, after World War II.
Channel 4 revealed more details in the programme Secret History on Thursday 9 February. To pretend that US
Air Force was not involved, the planes belonging to the CIA were used.
40 aircraft were shot down, 250 aircrew's lives were lost. A
CIA historian admits that much of this policy is still secret, and was often
withheld from American Presodents.
On 1 May 1960, the Russians shot down a U2 spy plane and
caught Garry Powers, the pilot red handed.
It was then that the world knew of the clandestine activities of the
Americans. Nikita Kruschev promptly asked for the resignation of the head of
the CIA. Eisenhover refused and the peace talks were stalled.
There was collusion between
6.2 The Plight of the
American Indians
1993 was designated as UN year of the indigenous people. Not
much has happened. But in
On 23 and 30 January 1991 BBC 2 showed a two part
documentary on the plight of American Indians
in the Timewatch series. Part I was entitled ;Savagery and the American Indians -
wilderness. Part II was : Civilisation
It is a sad story of Indians in
ITV also showed a
three part series Before Columbus in
September 1992.
The main points are -
* European settlers brought with them diseases such as
Smallpox, Plague, Cholera, Measles. Indians were isolated from outside world
for 10,000 years. They had no immunisation system built in their bodies. As a
result large population died. The Pilgrims found huge areas empty due to deaths
of Indians.
* There were several massacres of Indians. The first one
recorded happened in May 1630 by the
Puritans on the Mystic river. This pattern was repeated and considered
as normal.
* General Philip Sheredon is famous for his saying "
The only good Indian is a dead Indian."
* The white man would agree one thing verbally and write
down something completely different.
* And even these Treaties were flouted by the white man.
* In 1830 Indians were forced to travel 1200 miles to their
Reservations. 4,000 Indians died during this move. US Supreme Court ruled this
act illegal. But Andrew Jackson, who was known to be a Indian hater, refused to
honour the Supreme Court ruling.
* Treaties made by US government were not ratified by the
Congress on the grounds that they were too favourable to the Indians.
* Though there was a peace treaty between the Shayan
Indians, they were massacred at Sandcreek, the bodies of the dead were
mutilated.
* In 1868 the
* When mining prospectors came they flouted the treaties
between the Indian tribes and the
* In 1876 General Castrad was shot, so the Sioux Indians
were rounded up.
* December 1890 - 300 men women and children of Indians were
massacred at Wounded Knee in
* Thus the population of Indians fell from nearly 5 million
before
Not satisfied with the
massacres , the whiteman decided that the Indians must be
forcibly civilised. In 1883
* Conversion to Christianity was the first step.
Reservations were divided into churches. All native ceremonies were banned and
outlawed. Everything sacred to the Indians was burned.
* Children of the age of six were taken away from their
families by force and sent to schools hundreds of miles away. If the parents
refused, they were denied rations.
* Boarding Schools were harsh / regimental / militarised.
* The boys were asked to work on farms or workshops for half
the day - a cheap labour. The work did not impart any useful skills.
* Use of Indian language was banned, as language is a source
of one's identity. Any violation of the
ban was severely punished by beatings / whippings. One punishment was this - a
rubber band would be put in the mouth, pulled and released, causing severe
injury to the lips.
* Some boys tried to run away, they were rounded like stray
cattle.
* Hundreds of boys died.
* In 1920s it was evident that the policy of forced
assimilation was a disaster. It was abandoned.
Back on the reservations
every effort was made to destroy the Indian culture.
* In 1887 US Congress passed the Allotment Act. Beginning
with
* Bureau of Indian Affairs was part of the War Department.
Indians required permission for everything
even visiting friends or growing crops.
* By 1947 Indians were relocated in cities and towns where
they faced discrimination and unemployment.
Condition of Indians is
bleak. True, 1.8 million of them still survive. But they are the
poorest ethnic group in
IT IS A HISTORY
OF WHICH EVERY WHITE AMERICAN SHOULD BE ASHAMED .
And yet in 1988 Ronald Reagan the American President had the
audacity to say in
Readers should read the book coyote waits by Tony
Hillerman published in February 1991.
7 Why we cannot tell the
truth
In August 1993 Occupational
Safety & Health reported :- whistle blowers victimised
People who complain to the ( Health and Safety Executive )
HSE about unhealthy working conditions run the risk of being victimised or even
sacked, according to an employment medical adviser from Edinburgh, Dr Frazer
Kennedy. " It has been my experience that a witch-hunt often follows the
calling in of the HSE by an employee," he said at a conference organised
by the RCN Scottish OH Nurses' Forum.
HSE director general, John Rimington, a speaker at the
conference, commented that he had not the slightest doubt that there was
victimisation. " It is absolutely disgraceful," he said. " Where
we can get evidence, we will pursue the matter - but there is a difficulty in
getting information."
Dr Kennedy told OS & H that where people who made complaints
requested anonymity, every possible step was taken to comply. But sometime it
was obvious who had blown the whistle. " For example, I once asked to
visit a company which was on our list as having a dozen employees, but when I
got there I found there were only three people in total - the managing
director, his brother and the man who had registered the complaint!" Dr
Kennedy said it was better if the complainants agreed their names could be
used, but where they did not want to stick their necks out he sometimes asked a
factory inspector to visit first and request a follow up by an employment
medical adviser ( EMA )
If a factory inspector calls, it can be passed off as a
routine visit. If an EMA calls, it cannot. The only problem is that the process
complained of may not be in evidence during a " routine " visit.
8 How the history gets
falsified even today
rss and gandhi
RSS workers have always denied that they were formed to
protect Hindus in the wake of Muslim riots.
Their love for congress leaders who always despised RSS is beyond
belief.
Organiser, their English
weekly carried an editorial in the Deepavali Special issue of 1988. The editor
says, " ... That the RSS was the result of only Hindu-Muslim riots as some
professional secularists and motivated historians would have us believe, is a
dangerously simplistic platitude. ..... It is pertinent to recall that the
enormity of the one-sided, anti-Hindu riots in Malbar, Kohat and elsewhere in
early twenties had made even Gandhiji cry out that " The Hindu is a
coward, the Muslim is a bully" and he had even started a protest fast in
the house of Maulana Mohammad Ali in Delhi ... " ( Gandhiji's words
were -" .. in my experience, every Hindu is a coward and
every Muslim , a bully ; but I will teach non-violence at least to
Hindus." )
Let us get some facts
straight. In August-December 1921 terrible atrocities were
committed on Hindus by Moplas in Malbar ( Kerala ).
According to Servants of
The Mopla riots were followed by more Muslim riots in
Amethi, Sambhal, Gulburga and Kohat. During the Kohat riot of 9 - 10 September
1924 a whole population of Hindus consisting of about 20,000 were looted,
pillaged, plundered and forced to migrate elsewhere. Some 155 Hindus were
killed and property worth 9 lakhs of rupees ( £90,000 at 1924 prices ) was
destroyed. Even Mrs Sarojini Naidu wrote,
" Speeches and homilies on peace would not do." At
this time Gandhi was in
[ Ref :- Dr Hedgewar,
a biography in Marathi by N H Palkar, 3rd edition 1987, pp 102, 127/8.
gandhi : 1915-1948 a detailed chronology, by Mr C.B.Desai.
1971, pp 43, 53, 204.
Hindu Mahasabha : its Contribution to
The Kohat tragedy prompted a special session of Hindu Mahasabha
in
At this stage Gandhi said, " And yet I must ask the
Hindus even today, to die and not kill."
The editor continues, " ... There is little doubt that
Gandhiji, a staunch Hindu, despite his disastrous bargaining proclivities, was
being drawn closer to RSS. " Once
again no iota of proof is offered. The editor must be living in outer space.
RSS was founded in 1926, Gandhi was killed in 1948. When did he ever say a
single word of praise for RSS ? Congressites had condemned RSS as a communal
organisation. When did Gandhi reprimand/ rebuke them and said that RSS was a
petriotic organisation ?
8. Acknowledgement
We are grateful to the following for their help :-
For posting copies of our
newsletters in
Arvind Kulkarni, Manohar Rakhe, Dr Tanaji Acharya, Mukund
Nawathe, Suresh Paithankar all of
For posting copies of our
newsletters in
Dr Atul Joshi
For donating £10 each for
our cause :-
Dr Acharya, Kumar Singham who is now in
For donating Rs 5,000 for
publication of Mr Godbole's booklet Why
Rewrite Indian History
Dr N.K.Bhide of Pune.
9. Publicity and
Appreciation
Mr Godbole's article on Veer Savarkar was reprinted in the
Sept-Oct 1993 issue of Sangh-Sandesh.
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