INDIAN INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH
INTO TRUE HISTORY
Newsletter No 27 of
1 News and current affairs
1.1 Change of telephone
numbers
We are sorry for delay in producing this newsletter. Mr Godbole now
works on the £2,000 m Jubilee Line Extension Project. His site telephone number
is
0171 200 2515. His home telephone number is 01234 357388.
1.2
Why Rewrite Indian History ?
Copies of this booklet are available from Mr Godbole.
1.3 The Falsity of
Indo-Saracenic Architecture
Mr Godbole has typed all his notes. They need extensive editing. He
needs a list of Hindu structures : temples, forts, palaces etc where
semicircular or pointed arches, and domes are employed. Please write to him if
you have details of such examples.
1.4 Taj Mahal : Facts and Fantasies
Three slide shows were arranged :
• First one on 25 April at Mandeer Restaurant,
• Second one on 29 April at
17 postgraduate students from
• Third one on 11 June at Stantonbury centre,
1.5 Around
• One such tour took place on 8 May. Eight people from Arya Samaj hired
a coach.
• A slide show on above subject was organised at Gudi Padwa function of Maharashtra
Mandal, Leicester on 1 April.
• Visitors from
If you can help in furthering this cause please contact Mr Godbole.
• A video of the tour has been made. Modifications will be made as time
permits.
1.6 Veer Savarkar
Mr Godbole is writing a book entitled Savarkar's rationalism (
Savarkarancha
Budclhivad ) it runs into 400 pages. Editing has started. It is hoped
that one of
Godbole's relatives would translate it from Marathi into English.
1.7 Nathuram Godse remembered
( one way or the other)
On
The programme was organised to commemorate Nathuram Godse and his will
that his ashes should be dispersed in the holy river Sindhu, now in
" The speeches were so full of venom and hatred that Mr Bal
Thackeray's outbursts appear mild in comparison. The meeting was held in a
small, little-known hall in Patil Maruti temple in a lane of
" Mr S.G.Shevade, who is said to have won the Dharmabhushan title
from the Shankaracharya of Sankeshwar, has preached thousands of sermons and visited
the U.S seven times on lecture tours. The other was Mr Charudatta Aphale, who
has been delivering sermons on Nathuram Godse for the past four years. Mr Gopal
Godse read out Nathuram's resolution in Sanskrit calling for creation of an
Akhand Bharat ( undivided
Mr Gopal Godse (72) still remains active in the cause of a Hindu Rashtra
and has written books on the Gandhi murder trial. He said November 15 was observed
each year in Pune as the day to commemorate Nathuram.
" Nathuram lovers decided that this year a function should be held
in
" Nathuram Godse was hanged on
" At the function photographs of Nathuram, Karkare and Apte were
displayed along with an urn containing Nathuram's ashes. On either side of the
stage were pictures of Shivaji and V.D.Savarkar, a proponent of Hindu Rashtra
and Hindu Mahasabha leader."
" Some of the provocative statements made at the meeting were;'
Gandhi backed a plan to create another Muslim nation out of some parts of
The general tone of the speeches was more strident. Mr Gopal Godse
sought donations from the audience for the task of "liberating " the
Sindhu river which he said was especially sacred to Hindus because the Vedas
and other holy books were composed on its banks. All the speakers at the
meeting referred to Gandhi's assassination as Vadh, a term used in Hindu
mythology for the slaying of demon. Mr Gopal Godse also claimed that the
Hazaratbal mosque in
" There was applause from the audience when Mr.S.G.Shevade
commended Nathuram's act and said the only regret was that the murder had been delayed."
The nation is much greater than an individual." he said. Mr Shevade
glorified Shivaji's son Sambhaji, normally discredited by historians for his
dissolute ways. He said Sambhaji was a great Sanskrit scholar and defender of
Hinduism. Mr Charudatta Aphale said there was a tradition of performing keertan
of Ram in a Maruti temple but he was proud to perform keertan on Nathuram in
such a temple."
"The speakers hailed Nathuram as 'pandit Nathuram' and recalled his
tremendous courage in the death cell, where he is said to have cracked jokes with
other prisoners before his death. Ms Krantigeeta Mahabal read out a poem of
Nathuram, Amacha Pnyakar Hindustan"
NOTES:-
(a) The fact that Times of India
took notice of this event is important
(b) The word assassination is used and not murder - quite a difference
(c) Nathuram's pet name was Pandit - like Tatya or Appa or Anna
(d) The fact that many so called Muslim monuments are in fact Hindu has nothing
to do with Gandhi's assassination.
(e) There has been recent awakening about true character of Sambhaji,
son of Shivaji. He was far more braver fighter than historians give him credit
for.
1.8 Visitors
RSS chief Prof Rajubhayya visited
wanted to see him personally, but that could not be arranged.
1.9 Hindu Awakening at last ?
1.9.1 The TIMES reported on
1.9.2 AMITY BETWEEN SIKHS AND NON-SiKH HINDUS
Sangh Sandesh of Nov-Dec 1994
carried news of Raksha Bandhan celebrated jointly by Arya Samaj, Sikhs and the
VHP in Southall.
1.10 The fantasy of Islamic
Brotherhood of man
1.10.1 MUSLIMS IN
Racist attacks on Asians are well known to residents of
A teenager who took part in a savage race attack in which an Asian youth
had his scalp kicked off walked free from court because of sentencing restrictions.
Mukhta Ahmed's head was kicked like a football by a 20 strong gang
[ TIMES carried a photograph of Muktar Ahmad.]
Nicky Fuller 17 was sentenced to 11 months in a young offenders'
institution. But by the time Fuller had spent in custody on remand meant he had
effectively served the sentence and was released.
There was no reaction from the Islamic world to this horrific attack!
Ayatollah Khomini was in power in
It is time the Asian Muslims realised that the so called Islamic
brotherhood of man is just a myth. It is in their own interests to co-operate
with Hindus in
1.10.2 Fighting in
Boris Yeltsin, the Russian President was power hungry. So, he went
behind the back of Gorbachev and made separate treaties with
1.11 Our Slavish Mentality
Pradnyalok is a quarterly
magazine in Marathi, published from
Well, Mrs Thatcher says so!
Any disadvantages or bad side effects of privatisation? None whatsoever!
The author does not even touch this aspect. We in
Thus after all these years translation of articles in English magazines
is still the limit of our intellectuals. Time has come to eradicate this mental
slavery. We have brains. Let us study the pros and cons, short term and long
term effects and decide for ourselves what should and should not be in private hands
for the good of
And now time for the truth
Nicholas faith wrote for the Independent on
YES WE HAVE NO BANANAS - TELL SID
Punters now realise that
privatisation was bribery.
YOU can buy politicians, went the old saying. The trouble was, they
didn't stay bought. So it is with the millions of Sids who made a nice little
profit out of successive privatisation's. For a time they continued to say
thank you for the benefit by voting Tory.
By now, apart from Railtrack, the Government has run out of public
assets to sell off cheap. Joe ( or rather Sid ) public realised this and is
accordingly, unwillingly to continue to support his former benefactors.
Unlike the Government, and many of those involved in the privatised
utilities, the punters realise that we are now a banana republic that has run
out of bananas. Hence their anger at the wretched directors of British Gas who
- like their brothers
(no sisters are involved) - feel entitled to seek a continuous bonus
from the Goodies that result from privatisation. Yet these much-misunderstood
fellows are merely carrying to its logical conclusion the policy of systematic looting of public property called privatisation.
So the punters many of whom have already benefited from it, are in no position
to object. Yet it is now beginning to dawn on them that the true nature of the
sale to private sector, at well below its true value, of what Lord Stockton
called, " the family silver" was bribery of the electorate. .....
....... Privatisation had nothing
whatsoever to do with goodness, industrial efficiency, or private enterprise,
and everything to do with bribing the electorate with totally unearned profits.
For Thatcherism was not really about enterprise. It was about unearned rather
than earned money; and not just the profits - perhaps £100 bn - skimmed from
public assets by the privatisers ........ Privatisation itself was entirely
unnecessary, as the present row over the funding of the Post Office proves so
clearly. The commercial freedom the industries required could just as well have
been provided within a public sector framework, has it not been for the desire
of the Thatcherites to bribe the electorate, and the refusal of the adolescent
ayatollahs at the treasury to bend their inflexible doctrines in favour of
financial common sense.
The result of the exercise of the way Thatcherite policies encouraged
house prices to soar - was to break the previous inherent relationship between effort,
work, risk-taking and financial reward.
[ Note - Sid was the fictitious character used in the advertisements for
privatisation of public assets ]
2 Historical findings
Swastika used by the Romans
3 Behaviour of Christians and
Muslims today
3.1 MUSLIM FANATICISM
On
" At the other end of the scale, a dialogue between the Algerian
president and Islamic Salvation front, which was on the bring of winning
parliamentary elections when the generals intervened, could result in a
government convinced that pluralism and continued co-operation with the West
offered the best hope of rescuing the country from a morass of corruption and economic
stagnation. In between these two poles lies a gamut of less clear- cut
possibilities, including a descent into chaos reminiscent since the withdrawal
of Russian troops in 1989."
" Whatever the outcome, it is clear that the attempt at a military
solution has failed. After the deaths of more than 10,000 people since the
elections were cancelled, there is no indication that the radicals can be
crushed and stability restored through force of arms. President Liamine Zeroul
is therefore right to have released from prison all but one of the prominent
members of the Front, in particular its two leaders, Abassi Madani and Ali
Benhandji. The task before both parties is to end the violence and lay
groundwork for elections. If their talks are to bear fruit, the president will
have to keep at bay those soldiers, the so-called eradicators, who wish to
pursue the bankrupt policy of military oppression. Leaders of the Front have to
contend not only with ultra- radical Islamic Armed Group but also with part of
the Front's own military wing, the Islamic Salvation Army, which reject any
dialogue with the junta."
" Judging from past pronouncements of the Front's leaders, the
chances for compromise are not high. Nevertheless, there is no sensible
alternative to the course on which President Zerousal had embarked. He and his
prospective interlocutors on the Front should be encouraged by Western
governments to search for a solution which will bring an end to the killing and
allow Algerians to express their preference through the ballot box. The outcome
could be a government which would make life uncomfortable for the West. But
that would be preferable to the present situation, where all the increasing
spiral of violence can promise is an ever greater social explosion."
3.2 Women in the Muslim Society
At last a veil is being lifted from the hidden world of women in Muslim
World.
Today of
(Batman £15.99). It reads : MY LONE BATTLE AGAINST MALE
CRUELTY AND ABUSE. If Fatima Durrani fears for her life she does not show it. She has
challenged the very fabric of Moslem society with her appalling story of
violence and subjection at the hands of her powerful politician husband. Her
book has been described as obscene and pornographic back home in
Such was her book's impact in
" We have to move into the 21st century and if I believe that, any
possible repercussions should not make me surrender" is her simple
answer." I will not surrender to blackmail."
Born into a highly respected family, she was married after falling in
love with Mustafa Khar, the glamorous feudal lord of one of
When Mustafa became a political exile for a while and moved his family
to
Tehmina won back custody of her children after Mustafa married again,
and is living and earning money as a writer in
She hopes her book will inspire other female victims of violence. As she
says,
" Our closed society considered it obscene for a woman to reveal
her intimate secrets, but would not silence be a greater crime ?"
4. Victorian
June 1990 issue of the Occupational
Safety & Health carried an article entitled Our Literary Legacy. It
reviews the novel by Benjamin Diseraeli, published in 1845 before he became
Prime Minister. It reflects his own observations on the politics and social
milineu of his day. (It depicts the ghastly conditions of the working class in
Victorian Britain )
The 'Two Nations'
'.... our Queen reigns over the strongest nation that ever existed'
Which nation ? asked the younger stranger,' for she reigns over two ....
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy : who are as ignorant
of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in
different zones or inhabitants of different planets : who are formed by a
different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners,
and are not governed by the same laws.
...... The rich and the poor."
We meet the first nation immediately, in the opening chapters, as they gamble,
gossip and socialize to relieve the tedium of their leisured days, or indulging
in political machinations, rarely for any reason other than their own advancement.
The second we encounter later, on the estate of Lord Marney, who
".....
eulogised the new poor law".
A beautiful illusion
The beautiful setting of the rural town of
before the truth is revealed..
" Beautiful illusion! For behind that laughing landscape, penury
and disease fed upon the vitals of a miserable population! ..... Marney mainly
consisted of a variety of narrow and crowded lanes formed by cottages built of
rubble or of unhewn stones without cement, and from age, or badness of the
material, looking as if they would scarcely hold together.
" The gaping chinks admitted every blast; the leaning chimneys had
lost half of their original height, the rotten rafters were evidently misplaced;
while in many instances the thatch, yawning in some parts to admit the wind and
wet, and in all utterly unfit for its original purpose of giving protection
from the weather, looked more the top of a dunghill than a cottage.
" Before the doors of these dwellings, and often surrounding them,
ran open drains full of animal vegetable refuse, decomposing into disease in
their imperfect course filling foul pits or spreading into stagnant pools,
while a concentrated solution of every species of dissolving filth was allowed
to soak through and thoroughly impregnate the walls and ground adjoining."
Typhus, malaria and other horrors bring sickness and death to the hapless inmates.
" This town of
" To that home, over which Malaria hovered and round whose
shivering
hearth were clustered other guests besides the exhausted family of toil
-
Fever in every form, plate Consumption, exhausting Synochus (a
continuous
fever), and trembling Ague - returned after cultivating the broad fields
of merry England the bolt British peasant, returned to encounter the worst of diseases
with a frame the least qualified to oppose them; a frame that subdued by toil
was never sustained by animal food; drenched by tempest could not change in
dripping rags; and was indebted for its scanty fuel to the windfalls of the
woods."
Shuffle and Screw
Unscrupulous mill-owners, who fleeced their hands of their scanty wages
by one means or another were a common feature of the time.
Slaughter of the innocents
".... the expense is not great; laudanum and treales, administered
in the shape of some popular elixir, affords these innocents a brief taste of
the sweets of existence, and keeping them quiet, prepares them for the silence of
their grave. Infanticide is practised as extensively and as legally in
" There are infants that will defy even starvation and poison,
unnatural mothers and demon nurses. Such was the nameless one of whom we speak.
We cannot say he thrived; but he would not die. So at two years of age, his mother
being lost sight of, and the weekly payments having ceased, he was sent out
into the street to play in order to be run over. Even this expedient failed.
The youngest and feeblest of the band of victims, Juggernaut spared him to
Moloch. All his companions were disposed of. Three months' play in the streets
got rid of this tender company - shoeless, half naked, and uncombed - whose
ages varied from two to five years. Some were crushed, some were lost, some caught
cold and fevers, crept back to their garret or their cellars, were dosed with
Godfrey's cordinal! ( sweetened, flavoured tincture of opium ), and died in
peace."
Devildust had all this and more, his cellmates and the old woman all
dying of fever in an epidemic around him, whereupon, at the age of five, he
crawled into a factory to sleep and, next morning, been taken on for work in
the ' Wadding Hole ' a place for the manufacture of waste, and damaged cotton, the
refuse of the mills, which is here worked up into counterpanes and coverlids."
The weaver's lot
We enter a weaver's cottage ...." It was a single chamber of which
he was the tenant. In the centre, placed so as to gain the best light which the
gloomy situation could afford, was a loom. In two corners of the room were mattresses
placed on the floor, a check curtain hung upon a string if necessary concealing
them. In one was his sick wife; in the other, three young children ; two girls,
the eldest about eight years of age; between them their baby brother. An iron
kettle was by the hearth, and on the mantel-piece, some candles, a few lucifer
matches, two tin mugs, a paper of salt, and an iron spoon. In a farther part,
close to the wall, was a heavy table or dresser; this was a fixture, as well as
the form which was fastened by it.
" The man seated himself at his loom; he commenced his daily task.
Twelve hours of daily labour at the rate of one penny each hour; and even this
labour is mortgaged! How is this to end ? Is it rather not ended ? and he
looked around him at his chamber without resources; no food, no fuel, no
furniture, and four human beings dependent on him, lying in their wretched beds
because they had no clothes.
' I cannot sell my loom, he continued,' at the price of old firewood, and
it cost memgold. It is not vice that has brought me to this, nor indolence, nor
imprudence ... It is that Capitalist has found a slave that has supplanted the labour
and ingenuity of man. Once he was an artizan; at the best, he now only watches
machines; and even that occupation slips from his grasp, to the woman and the
child.
" The capitalist flourishes, he amasses wealth; we sink, lower and
lower, lower than the beasts of burthen; for they are fed better than we are,
varied for more...."
Is it not time we told our children about this? And did conditions
change even 100 years later ? NO. BBC2 carried a series called FORBIDDEN
BRITAIN. More about it in the next newsletter.
5 Obituary
We are sorry to note that Setu Madhavarao Pagdi, former IAS officer, Persian
Scholar and a Historian died in October 1994. He was aware of the falsification
of Indian History, and wrote articles on the subject. He especially emphasised
that in
6. Why we cannot tell the
truth
6.1 Richard Ford reported for the TIMES
on
Civil servant was marked down after race complaint.
Civil service chiefs victimised a Mauritian-born employee by marking
down his performance after he complained of the lack of black workers in prestigious
area. Michael Koong, who is of Chinese ethnic origin is to be awarded
compensation after an industrial tribunal ruled that he suffered racial discrimination.
He had pointed out that a branch offering regular opportunities for foreign
travel had no workers from ethnic minorities. After writing to an equal
opportunities officer and to his head of division. Mr Koong found that his
marking in his annual appraisal fell. He had to wait 14 months for a transfer
to another part of the Export Credit Guarantee Department
(ECGD).
The tribunal in central
Yesterday the ECGD refused to comment on the marking down of Mr Koong.
6.2 Liz Hunt, Medical Correspondent reported in the Independent on 23
September 1994 : Attack on
climate of fear in NHS
An editorial in the medical journal the Lancet points out the new
climate of fear in the NHS ( National Health Service ) which is stifling the
opinions of people who work in it, with those who speak out becoming victims of
private sector personnel handling at its very worst.
The uncritical application to the NHS of business methods and language
is widening the gulf between managers and clinical and nursing staff. So-called
whistle-blowers have to be afforded protection by the media more suited to the
protection of informants on the Irish Republican Army.
The editorial was prompted by recent events which included the dismissal
of a nurse at the Plymouth NHS trust for the technical offence of repeating
drug orders for a patient without a doctor's signature. The nurse, who had been
in the NHS for 37 years, had spoken out about declining standards. In
No wonder Indian Historians are tongue tied
about true nature of Taj Mahal.
7. Acknowledgement
We are grateful to the following for their help :-
• For posting copies of our newsletters in
Arvind Kulkarni of
• For making copies of our newsletters and distributing them to
friends:-
An anonymous friend from
Ghosh of
• For distributing copies of Why Rewrite Indian History 7 to friends
Mr Amrit Vara of
• For arranging slide shows on Taj Mahal :-
Ashwini Kshirsagar of
College,
• For arranging Around London Tour
Dr Acharya of West Baling,
• For making a video of Around London Tour :-
Bawasingh Garayai of Southall, Middx
• For arranging a slide show on Around London Tour:-
Shekhar Punatambekar of
• For donating £7 for our cause :- Rajesh Tawari of
8. Publicity and Appreciation
Viraj Sardesai of
Mr Suri of
Mr Keshav Dev Sharma of
A letter appreciating this tour has also been received from Nitin Apte,
an advocate of Pune.
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