Rethinking
How our politics ruined by opting road of disobedience
This piece is taken from kanji dawarkadas book which remind us the hey days of September November 1920 when Mahatma was ready to launch disobedience movement. Anie Beasent, C.R.Das, Jinnah opposed it. kanji dawarkaDas wrote many books about the politics of first half of 20th century. In 1968 he wrote a book Ten Years to freedom published by Popular prakashan, Bombay. in this book there is a chapter xx1, Gandhiji Assinated ,in which he reproduce a piece from his article published in Illustrated weekly of India , September 28th, 1947 as
" In 1920s Mrs. Besant told Gandhiji when he was contemplating the mass civil disobedience movement that the day of victory for India , that is, when india attains self-Government & freedom , would be the biggest day of defeat for Gandhiji because the spirit of lawlessness resulting in loss of respect for law which he was creating through civil disobedience would react against the Indian Government and people would disobey authority on the lines taught to them by Gandhiji." P-273/4
his last line of the book is more alarming " Gandhiji and Nehru left a bad legacy for India and it takes us years to liquidate the civil effects of this legacy" P-289
now in 2013, we should revisit our politics of disobedeience, Satyagarah, Khilafat, Higrat, Non-cooperation if we want to build a good future for south asia. In Pakistan there r lot more intellectuals who love to praise such movements and our textbboks r inflected with pride and prejudice regarding these movements. some use it as anti-colonial struggle, some as congress struggle, some as muslim response, some as progressive movements but in net shell it promote bad politics. the pice i written today in urdu is
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