INDIAN INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH
INTO TRUE HISTORY
Newsletter No 29 of
1 News and current affairs
1.1
Taj Mahal and the Great British Conspiracy
* This book has now been published by Dr Bedekar
* Four friends have promised a total of Rs 30,000 for publication, Mr
Godbole has contributed further Rs 11,000. If you too want to contribute
towards the costs it will be welcome.
Viraj Sardesai of
1.3
Why Rewrite Indian History?
Copies of this booklet are available from Mr Godbole.
1.4 The Falsity of
Indo-Saracenic Architecture
This work will be kept pending for some time.
1.5 Taj Mahal : Facts and
Fantasies
No slide shows so far in 1996.
1.6 Around
fighters
• Mrs Sharma, a freelance correspondent had enquired about this tour.
Full details were given to her in November 95
• Visitors from
If you can help in furthering this cause please contact Mr Godbole.
• A six page leaflet is available from Mr Godbole for such visitors.
This will enable any tourists from
1.7 An encouraging response
from the RSS
We reviewed RSS chief Golwalkar Guruji's book Bunch of thoughts in our newsletter
18 of October 1989. Copies were sent to various senior RSS officers. When
Rajubhayya became the RSS chief in place of Deoras, one copy was also sent to
him in April 1994. On
I am really sorry for this inordinate delay in replying to your good
self. I am extremely happy to know from Dr Tatvavadiji whom I met just last
week how deeply you are involved in the sacred task of Hindu Renaissance in U K
– a mission dearest and nearest to all our hearts."
1.8 How did a few thousand
British rule
Our children who are being brought up in foreign lands want to know
about Shivaji. Same is true of non Maharastrians in
1.9 Ambedkar's birthday.
On
The main speaker was a doctor from Stoke on
"Ambedkar's father was sergeant in the Indian army. So he
considered defence of
"As for his conversion to Buddhism, he did not want to cause damage
to the Hindu society."
These utterances were bad enough. But Prof. Rajubhayya, in his speech said,
" Ambedkar knew that after all Gandhi and Nehru were going to
accept partition of
What a pathetic performance by the two speakers!. In a life or death
situation
anything that will help the enemy is treachery. For that reason, yes Ambedkar
was a traitor. In 1946 he wrote the book
Ambedkar lived for ten years after partition of
As for Ambedkar's conversion to Buddhism less said the better. Savarkar wrote
two articles in Kesari a Marathi daily of Pune in October 1956. He says quite bluntly,"
At present many Hindus feel that Ambedkar had some sympathy for Hindus so he
adopted Buddhism. Future generations are also likely to be misguided into
thinking the same way. Therefore it is important to set the record straight.
Ambedkar wanted to do maximum damage to the Hindus but he did not get a chance.
He has not done any favours to us by not embracing Christianity or Islam. He
has shown his sick mentality by his anti-Hindu propaganda for last three years,
criticising Hindu people and Hindu religion in most foul language. But he dare
not criticise Islam and Christianity for the same failings - because he is a
coward." Godbole's doctor friend being young may not have known this past,
but Rajubhayya should have known better.
Ambedkar's idea of partition depended upon exchange of population. But
he must have known what kind of men Gandhi and Nehru were. Partition simply implied
that Hindus would be driven out of
One did not need to be a visionary to predict this outcome. Gandhi
approved of the Rajaji plan on
Ambedkar dreamed of Muslim-Untouchable unity. Congress party ministries resigned
from various provinces in October 1940, Muslim League declared 22 December, a
day of liberation. Ambedkar joined in and embraced Jinnah -
literally and in open! ( see article by R D Gayakyad in the Marathi
bi-monthly Amrapali of 1-16 April
1986.) Yes Ambedkar embraced Jinnah in who called Ambedkar a Kafir.
Ambedkar's hatred of Hindu religion has now culminated in Ambedkar
Buddhism.
1.10 We are treated badly by
others, but do we deserve better?
1.10.1 In May 1995 Mr Godbole conducted his Around London tour of places
associated with Indian freedom fighters. This tour was arranged for friends
from
Even the British do no celebrate Fathers' day. What an excuse for not attending
our tour! Why did they not say that they considered it more important to spend
time with their children than visit the places associated with Indian freedom
fighters ?
1.10.2 In August 1994 Mr Godbole attended a party to celebrate the 70th
birthday of a mother of one of his friends. At the end of the function her son proposed
to observe five minutes silence for world peace and in memory of victims of
wars in
Why should other treat us with respect?
2 Historical findings
2.1
3. How history gets twisted/
falsified even today
Dhananjay Keer wrote Veer Savarkar's biography in 1966. He says that -
Savarkar was mean. He paid his secretary and his bodyguard very poorly.
He gave no money to his friends even in great need.
This is not true. Other historians say that Savarkar did lend money to
others on what used to be called Promissory Notes. The words are corrupted to Parameshwari
Notes meaning money given by god. Many such people refused to pay the loans
back saying," Oh money given by Savarkar is money given by Parameshwar (
god ) how can it be returned back ? " In the end Savarkar simply burnt
such notes.
Mr Keer also says that Savarkar would not see anyone without an appointment,
but gives no dates. He implies that due prison conditions Savarkar did not like
company of people. This is gross perversion of facts. In jail in Andaman
islands Savarkar made every effort to contact other inmates. How could he have
carried out so much work in prison if he was a loner. In his internment in
Ratnagiri (1924 -37 ) Savarkar carried out social reforms. As a result people
of Ratnagiri stopped practising untouchability. Was this possible if Savarkar
did not meet others? .
Savarkar did meet Subhashchandra Bose without previous appointment in June
1940. The two also met secretly when Bose was President of the Congress Party.
In his public speech of
Keer states that Bhai Paramanand was also denied a meeting, without
prior appointment. But this is false. In 1937 Savarkar was preparing a speech
as President of Hindu Maha Sabha for its annual session at Karnavati (Ahmedabad)
Bhai Paramanand realised its importance and met Savarkar's elder brother
Babarao instead.
One can understand an author pointing out failings of a hero, but he
/she must check facts and not twist the history.
4 Behaviour of Christians and
Muslims today
4.1 On
Plight of Palestinians : As
Colonel Mummar Gaddafi yesterday ordered 1,500 Palestinians to leave
Despite Libyan promises to the Arab League to end the expulsions of foreigners,
30 Palestinians were stranded in the desert at Salloum on the Libyan-Egyptian
border last night and hundreds more were being rounded up in
Panois Moumtizis, head of foreign relations for the UN High Commissioner
for Refuges, warned of an impending humanitarian crisis. The expelled Palestinians
were living in " appalling conditions ..... It's like a rubbish
dump," he said.
The PLO leader, Yaser Arafat appealed to
" I appeal to my brother, the President Muammar, to make the right decision
concerning his Palestinian brothers and allow them to return to their places of
residence in
It is now almost a month since Colonel Gaddafi, the oddest and least predictable
of Arab leaders, announced that he was ordering up to 25,000 Palestinians out
of
Recent rioting between the police and Islamists in Benghanzi, along with
difficulties in paying foreign workers in
On the other hand Iraqi sources have indicated that
A Libyan border official said Colonel Gaddafi had ordered all
Palestinians to pack their bags after
The PLO-Israeli accords offer little hope for the abruptly displaced Palestinians,
which may, in part, be the point that the Libyan leader is trying to make.
Under the
Many thousands of Sudanese illegal immigrants are also to be deported
from
Mr Mountzis visited the Libyan-Egyptian border on Monday to distribute
food and blankets. He said he saw 12 large tents set up on the Libyan side of
the border."
He described conditions on the border as hostile. Swarms of flies and mosquitoes
were increasing the risk of illness, and one woman was taken to hospital after
being stung by a scorpion." It's a rubbish dump there. There are scared to
sleep at night because of the scorpions; children have diarrhoea and women have
to wait till darkness to relieve themselves because they are exposed."
So much for the Islamic brotherhood of man! And yet the Palestinians
will
never say that they are Palestinians and not Muslims. But our Dalit
brothers
have been saying that they are not Hindus.
4.2 Daily Telegraph of
4.3 On
( Now you know why Ambedkar did not embrace Islam or Christianity )
5. Victorian
In November/ December 1994 BBC2 televised a series on Thursdays called
FORBIDDEN BRITAIN.- OUR SECRET PAST 1900 TO 1960
It shatters the myth of
Juvenile crime
Youth crime was a part of daily life. One former thief said that he
never broke into a working class home because they had nothing to steal. They
mostly stole food items. Easy targets were the corner shops who displayed food
on pavement. Parents knew about theft, but welcomed food however obtained. The
police knew about these petty thefts, but turned a blind eye. As long as property
was protected their job was done. Gang warfares were rampant.
Middle class boys got away with crime because of their class.
Sex outside marriage and under age sex would land one in a juvenile
court.
Eloping was a crime.
Advent of the Car led to more crime. There was more opportunity for
crime. If you steal a new car police would nod at you, but if you stole an old
car they will become suspicious.
At some stage Approved schools were established instead of prisons. Shoplifting
would land youngsters in such schools. One in five ran away, some were caught
some managed to survive by stealing food and money for years.
Bostral schools was another alternative boys from the age of 16 to 23
were sent there. The authorities were law onto themselves and would make life hell.
There was no appeal, no fear of an outside inspection. They could get away with
murder. Illicit beatings were common place.
War provided a way out for boys in bostrals. Those who had been in such schools
could join the army. Desertion among soldiers was rampant. 20,000
deserted each year.
Second World War provided opportunities for youth crime. With
conscription's of fathers youngsters were left on their own. Blitz and
blackouts provided excellent opportunities for thefts. This fact was suppressed
for the sake of morale. One former thief said," we stole ration books. It
did not hurt the people from whom we stole. They simply got emergency
books."
Extra marital affairs
We dealt with partly in previous newsletters. In addition we were told
:-
War time marriages were a disaster. Couples rushed into marriages for infatuation.
Separation created pressures on women. Broken marriages were kept a secret for
morale on the war front. Frustrations led to the tendency for living for today
which led to affairs and unwanted pregnancies. Most of the time married women
were left dry when they were in a mess. Once the women were pregnant the men
did not want to know. Soldiers tried to get their wives pregnant.
After the war men came home. They had affairs but that was o.k. Women were
expected to be faithful. Divorce laws were weighed heavily against women
Racism and civil unrest.
Rioting in the streets was quite common. Publicity was censored by the government.
Police beatings went unrecorded. At the end of World War I
In 1926 there were several miner's strikes. Police protected the strike breakers.
Fighting in
There was lack of crowd control which resulted in a tragedy in 1946 when
33 spectators were crushed to death when barriers broke down during a football match.
During inter war years there were several marches of the unemployed.
Their
only strength was their numbers.
In 1932 there was a hunger march in
There were confrontations between Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts and the Communists,
not only in
Racism raised its ugly head again in 1954 and 1958. Mosley used teddy
boys for his campaign of keeping
Homelessness
Very little information is available on this aspect. Vagrant was the
term used to describe homeless. Officially homeless children did not exist, but
their problem was not solved since the Victorian days.
Homeless people survived on raw leaves, cherries, dandelions, flowers
and carrots. Pesticides were not in use then. So it was quite safe to eat such vegetation.
Graveyards were used by the homeless at nights.
The welfare of homeless children was left to charitable societies like
National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( NSPCC )
Some had dreams of making fortune in the
Irish labourers had extremely hard time during inter war years. They
faced hostility and discrimination. If lucky they could find seasonal work on
farms. They slept on beds of straw. They had no cooking and washing facilities.
They had to walk miles to find work.
Last refuge of the homeless was the Salvation Army hostels. It was an unnerving
experience for any one.
Second World War added to the problem of the homeless. Some 1/2 million people
were now homeless. Though there were disused Army camps which could be used,
local councils did not want to house the homeless.
In the post war period teenage runway girls were sent to mental
hospitals.
Sexual abuse
In 1908 incest was recognised as a crime due to pressure from NSPCC.
True extent of sexual abuse is not known. Working class cases of abuse are recorded
by NSPCC and the police. Girls were mostly abused by their fathers, sometimes
by their brothers. One reason was that because of lack of accommodation
families slept together.
The effects of such abuse haunts the women even after 60 / 70 years.
They faced loneliness, were withdrawn, developed self destruction tendencies. Adults
paid no attention to children's' complaints. As a result they were frightened
into silence. They knew no one they could trust. When they did complain there
was no evidence to prove sexual abuse had taken place. Worst still, even the
institutions for such children were not immune from sexual abuse. There was no
check on the staff running such institutions.
By the 1950s family stability had returned - at least on the face. In
middle class homes abuse went unnoticed.
Unemployment
In the 1930s various schemes were introduced to get people back to work.
Retraining centres did not have enough money allocated for their effective use.
They were a farce.
Prospectus for women were even bleaker. They were trained for domestic service.
When they found jobs as domestic servants they were general dogs bodies working
from
Emigration was not easy. In 1928, 10,000 emigrants were sent back by Canadian
government as there was no demand for labour in that country. The unemployed
were saddled with a debt of £ 20 for sea passage to and from
Churches tried to rekindle religious faith by regular prayers. But there
was utter disillusionment at such attempts.
National Unemployed Workers'
Some hard-line politicians decided that the unemployed were getting work
shy. So they set up Instruction Centres run by Army Officers. In fact they were
labour camps. Conditions were Spartan, discipline harsh. Manual labour caused
hands to blister. But workers had no choice. They got 15 shillings a week dole
for six months, after which they were sent to labour camps. If they refused to
work they were sent back and got no dole. Such pitiable conditions persisted
for nearly ten years. It was only the World War II that brought full employment
to
A book based on the series is published by the BBC
6. Forgive and forget
6.1 Evening Standard reported on 5 June 1996," Welsh hand out a
snub to
Churchill archive"
The first act attempts to show the public some of the Churchill Papers,
controversially bought for the nation with £132.25 million of Lottery
money a
year ago, have already net with indifference in one quarter.
The Welsh have said they are not interested in the small but fascinating
exhibition derived from the collection which opens tomorrow at the Public Records
Office in
" We are very disappointed," said Piers Brendon, curator of
the Churchill Archives in
No reasons for refusal were given but may be still embedded in Welsh memories
is Churchill's decision as Home Secretary in 1911 to break the Welsh miners'
strike at Tonypandy.
Dear oh dear. The Welsh are still bitter about events of 80 years ago!.
Look at us Hindus. We have no memory whatsoever. If the collection was
displayed in
6.2 John Hiscock reported from
Plans to build a museum on the site of a
Fifty years after it closed, the former Manzanar internment camp has
become such a divisive issue that angry citizens have said that they will
destroy any memorial or museum that is built there.
Officials of the National Parks Service, which is developing the museum,
have been threatened and jeered on site visits.
Manzanar was built near the small town of
The injustice of the episode was cited by Congress when it named
Manzanar
an historic site.
But many people dispute the accepted history of the camp and are particularly
enraged by an historical marker at the entrance which refers to Manzanar as a
concentration camp.
According to the revisionist account, rather than the eight towers with machine-guns
that Park Service historians say ringed the camp, there were only one or two
fire watchtowers.
" To say these people were interned there is an incredible
lie" said Lillian Baker an historian and author of four books on the
subject
" They volunteered to be re-located there because they had nowhere
else to go. At Manzanar they had their own post office, library, bank, hospital
and newspaper. They could take the bus into town and do whatever they
wanted."
But Ross Hopkins, the National Parks Service's superintendent of
Manzanar, said," There is a cadre of super-patriotic individuals whose
agenda seems to be to belittle and minimise the experience of Japanese
Americans at Manzanar. Somehow they feel it reflects badly on
Just note how history gets twisted even today. Survivors of these camps
are still alive. Why not ask them what happened ? Why speculate ?
7. Why we cannot tell the
truth
Occupational safety &
health news of December 1995 reports four cases of workers too scared to speak the
truth. The editor heard following stories when his train was delayed for 50
minutes.
* A man on his way to a hospital appointment because of chronic lung problems.
According to his doctors, these had probably been caused by his 25 years in
construction. The blocks he was told to lift above chest height on his current
job
(no handling aids) were too heavy for him and he knew nothing of the
manual handling regs. Even after my explanation he said he wouldn't be mentioning
them to his boss. He'd definitely get the sack if he did that. Anyway, they'd
been very good when he'd had a fall off some scaffolding (no hard hat) a few
years previously and had taken him back on after his sick leave.
* A 23 year old who worked in an amusement arcade. Every week she did five,
eight-hour shifts, four of which ended at 10 p.m. when she locked the day's
takings in the safe. She was always frightened because the arcade attracted a
lot of youths and she and her (female) colleagues wouldn't stand much of a
chance if the clients cut rough. Furthermore, if the alarm wouldn't set (a
frequent occurrence) she had to stay, by herself, waiting for the engineer.
She's waited upto 12.30 a.m. before now. She did not get paid after 10 p.m.
Complain? Ask about the company's policy on lone working? She'd lose her job.
* The wife scared witless about her 50 year old husband who'd had a
heart by-pass op two years ago. He'd worked all his life for the same car
company. There were no light duty jobs available on his return to work so he
was put straight back on the track. And at present they were sending increased numbers
of car bodies through. He came home, ashen-faced with exhaustion, every night
and went straight to bed. The company's occupational health department
said," there's nothing we can do." and anyway, heart by-passes are
commonplace these days. No, he couldn't get out; her job as a keyboard operator
was only part-time and they couldn't afford it. And besides her firm was very
good about not pushing her too hard when she got " these awful pains in
her arms and shoulders." No, she never heard of Display Screen Equipment
(DSE) regs.
* A woman with appalling varicose veins who was the manageress of a tobacco
kiosk. There was nowhere to sit down in the booth so she stood all day. Other
staff would not turn up and when this happened she'd have to do their shift
herself. She did not get paid for this - she got time off in lieu .. except she
never got the time off. She needed an op for her veins but she did not think
they'd keep her job open.
The editor adds :- None of this was recounted for my benefit; they did
not know what I did for a living (though I got some funny looks as I talked
about health and safety law) For them, these were the facts of working life. I wondered
not for the first time, what on earth is the point of all our carefully drafted
legislation when it has absolutely no impact on the lives of so many of our
fellow citizens? And, I thought, fat chance that the proposed new regs on employee
consultation will make the slightest bit of difference either.
We are all scared for our jobs. So are Indian historians who refuse to face
truth about Taj Mahal.
8 Obituary
8.1 We are sad to announce the death of Jeevan Kulkarni, a research
scholar from Mumbai (
8.2 Subrahmanyan Chandrashekharthe Indian Noble prize winner died in
August 1995.
He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983, half a century after he had confounded
members of the Royal Astronomical Society with his audacious lecture on white
dwarf stars. He was still a student at
His uncle C V Raman received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1930 for his
study of the scattering of light rays.
Having obtained a Physics degree from
During the Second World War, Chandrashakhar worked on the study of ballistics
in
Subrahmanyan Chandrashakhar is survived by his wife Lalitha, also a physicist..
There are no children. .
8.3 Our friend Kumar Sundaram died of heart attack in May in
9. Acknowledgement
We are grateful to the following for their help :-
• For taking copies of our newsletters to
Arvind Kulkarni of
• For making copies of our newsletters and distributing them to
friends:-
An anonymous friend from
Godbole of Rochdale, Raj Vora of
Mrs Sharma, a correspondent from
• For publicising our Around London Tour
Mrs Bhanap, President of Maharashtra Mandal,
• For donating for our cause :-
Mrs Kelkar of
Mr Raste of Croydon (Rs 200)
Mr Thakur of Seven Oaks (Rs 100)
An anonymous friend from Pune ( Rs 7,000 )
• For contributing towards the publication of Mr Godbole's book
Taj Mahal and the Great
British Conspiracy -
Mr Mohanlal Gupta of Canada, Raj Vora of Dombivali, near Thane, India,
an anonymous friend from Pune, India and Devendra Kanthola of Glasgow. They all
contributed Rs 5,000 each.
Dr More of Rahuri,
10. Publicity and
Appreciation
We received a letter from Dr Gogate of
Please help by :-
* acknowledging the receipt of this newsletter to the following address
Mr V S Godbole
14 Turnberry Walk
MK41,8AZ
* sending money to Mr Godbole (in pound sterling or Indian rupees )
* making 5 copies of this newsletter and sending them to your friends.
* circulating this newsletter among your friends.
* trying to get parts of this newsletter published in various
newspapers, magazines and periodicals
* arranging slide shows by Godbole at various social functions.