Continued from the
last post -
Over
the period British had also found some special likings of natives.
They had noticed that common man of India is deeply and very easily
influenced by God-men or Sadhus. This showed to them that if they can
appoint a so called Sadhu type fellow to lead Indian National
Congress that will be convenient and situation can be eased out so
that English officers will be able to work without fear of being
lynched by violent freedom fighters. This man Gandhi was ready to
perform as a Sadhu and by that the problem of British administration
was finally solved. Gandhi became leader of Congress party and he
very appropriately performed the role of a sadhu throughout the
period and could fool natives for the benefit of British
administration. Even though, most clear vision freedom fighters, like
Savarkar were fully aware of the drama that the British Raj was
playing with innocent and simpleton Indian; rest of people continue
to believe in Gandhi's drama of sadhugiri. Most Indians, even most
educated, were as expected, were following this Gandhi as their god
sent leader. British further encourage press to show him as a Mahatma
to Indian people; that further increased people's support to him.
Every thing was going on as expected by the Viceroy of India and
London office of Indian affairs. We notice from the pages of history
that as Gandhi took over as leader of Indian people, killing of
British officers came to end. People were more interested in the
so-called non-violent movement; and British game was successful. In
recent past we have seen one such god-man, Anna Hazare, how he became
popular using the same formula as did Gandhi! Ramdev Yogi is next in
line to use the same formula. It was clever of British that they had
discovered this weakness of Indian people almost 150 years ago, that
shows how clever they were!
Gandhi
was helping British Raj in doing whatever they wanted to do with
Indians and their money. There are several occasion where we see that
Gandhi was in actual parlance with then British officers and he
helped them in their work even in things those were against the
interest of Indian people. However, as we know we Indian are fond of
Sadhus, we did not take cognizance of those things. Gandhi formed
Ashrams and many such ploys to fool people further and that gave
further proof of him being a Mahatma; the drama was going on very
superbly. Finally, we got freedom because as the then British PM has
declared in his speech in British parliament, he told the parliament
that since Indian Army and Navy are no more loyal to the Crown it is
time that we release this country before we are thrown out by any
army general of Indian origin disgracefully. By then Subhash Chandra
Bose had shown Indian Army that they can achieve what he had during
WWII, British game was a total success. They gave us freedom as per
their convenience and on their conditions. Even so, holding on it as
a member of "Common wealth".
Gandhi had warned
Congress people that they wind up this party and form a new body with
suitable changes but nobody had time for that. Everybody was eager to
get power and rule. I would like to quote the excerpts from speech of
Allan Octavian Hume, first secretary of Indian National Congress. He
said in that speech,
"Every
nation secures precisely as good a Government as it deserves. If you
the picked men, the most highly educated of the nation, cannot,
scorning personal ease and selfish objects, make a resolute struggle
to secure greater freedom for yourselves and your country, a more
impartial administration, a larger share in the management of your
own affairs, then we, your friends, are wrong and our adversaries
(here Hume refers to the other group of British officers) right, then
are Lord Ripon's noble aspirations for your good fruitless and
visionary, then, at present at any rate all hopes of progress are at
an end and India truly neither desires nor deserves any better
Government than she gets."
In this speech Hume
has mentioned the possibility of all round corruption that may crop
in and true to his vision we are having selfish people, irrespective
of political parties, in power. As he said we deserve a corrupt
government and nothing else.
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