Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Mahatma: the Cult & his infamous resistance (Lessons for today)

 


Mahatma: the Cult & his infamous resistance
(Lessons for today)

Mahatma Gandhi (killed at 30th Jan 1948)... Like his life, his death was a controversy....Just few months after partition (Oct 1947) till the time of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, a heated debate was underway between Jawaharlal Nehru and Ghanshyam Das Birla over price control. Indian capitalists, backed by Gandhi, were pushing for the removal of price controls,(Introduced during 2nd WW) while Nehru argued that this would lead to price hikes and undermine the country's freedom. This episode was documented by Kanji Dwarkadas in his book "Ten Years to Freedom". In a surprising move, Gandhi began supporting Pakistan's demand for its share of assets, seemingly to embarrass the Nehru government. Notably, Nehru was the Prime Minister at the time, and Sardar Patel was the Interior Minister, both of whom supported price control. Gandhi's actions were likely influenced by his perception of being above the government, which he believed should heed his advice.

He got 3 war medals from the Empire, one in South Africa when British occupied local Boers Queen's South Africa Medal. other two during WW1, unlike Tagore, he did not return his medal after Jillianwala massacre(13 April 1919) and wrote against martyrs in Harijan. (Indian Summer)

In 1920 when he indulged Non cooperation movement many people left congress, in 1922 after Chura Churri mob violence when he suddenly withdrew Khilafat movement without any consultation Congress faced huge split, Moti Lal, C R Das type tall figures left the party. Mahatma boycotted 1923 and 1926 provincial elections but boycott failed terribly and new leadership emerged out of it.

The execution of Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru, and Sukhdev Thapar

Singh-Rajguru-Sukhdev, as the trio is popularly known as, was executed in the Lahore jail on 23rd March, 1931. What preceded and followed was a nationwide movement. Amongst the voices was also a loud cry of blame- saying the “father of the nation” had failed to save the three, or had rather, not tried to do so....... 

Mahatma Gandhi wrote a letter to the Viceroy of India, putting in compelling words a request to stop the execution. But, it was dated March 23rd, 1931- the same day Singh was scheduled to be hanged.

Mahatma Gandhi opposed the Communal Award of 1932, which granted separate seats to Dalits or scheduled castes in assemblies. He pressured B.R. Ambedkar into withdrawing the proposal, likely because Gandhi knew that quotas for lower classes would reduce the Hindu majority. Thanks to Ambedkar, Dalit politics could not groom for next 50 years yet in 1980s it got its place. Interestingly, like Mahatma, Indian Communists too never raised Dalit question till 1960s. 

Gandhi was a strong supporter of Hindi, advocating for its use since 1917. Unlike Nehru, he didn't support Hindustani as a common language. Nehru report (1928) advocated for Hindustani and opposed Urdu Hindi controversy, J L Nehru himself supported Hindustani in his book My Life (Pub in 1935) but when the Congress formed provincial governments after the 1937 elections, Hindi was imposed instead of Hindustani. It proved power of Mahatma in Congress. 

In 1938, Gandhi worked against Subhas Chandra Bose, who had been elected president of the Indian National Congress. During World War II, Gandhi was willing to collaborate with Japan and Hitler, but Nehru intervened, preventing this alliance. Gandhi's approach was populist, using contradictory slogans and promoting non-violence, while relying on violence to achieve his goals.Despite his assassination in 1948, merely five months after India gained independence, Mahatma Gandhi's legacy continues to have a profound and lasting impact on South Asia, influencing the region in complex and multifaceted ways. Its not merely religion but its a cocktail of Religion, narrow Nationalism and populism 

گاندھی کلٹ عوامی چکر(پاپولزم)، قدامت پسندی، تنگ نظر قوم پرستی تے دھرمچی سیاستاں دی کاک ٹیل سی پر ساڈے کئی یار ہن وی انکاری صورتحال دا شکار جے۔ پہلے ترے وار میڈل لتے، پھیر جلیانوالہ وچ ہڑتال کروان بعد جداں 13 اپریل نوں قتلام ہویا تے 5 دن بعدوں ہریجن وچ لکھیا کہ ایہہ شہید نہیں سن کیونجے انہاں کنڈ تے گولیاں کھادیاں۔۔۔۔خلافتی چکر وچ انڈین مسلماناں نوں ٹرک دی بتی مگر لایا، جداں ہجومی تشدد پاروں تھانے وچ 22 پلس والیاں نوں چورا چوری وچ ساڑ دتا گیا تے کسے نال گل کیتے بغیر خلافتی لہر مکادتی، عبدالباری، موتی لال، سی آر داس سنے کئی اوس نوں چھڈ گئے، پارٹی دو حصیاں وچ ونڈی گئ۔۔۔پر مہاتما 1923 تے 1926 دے الیکشن دا علی برادران نال مل کے بار بار بائیکاٹ کیتا، پنجاب، بنگال تے یوپی دی خلافت کمٹیاں بائیکاٹ نہ کیتا۔ ایہہ گاندھی جی سن جنہاں اردو ہندی لڑائی وچ پاڑ ودھاندے ہوئے 1917 وچ ہندی پرچار سبھا بنائی تے کانگرس وچ ہندوستانی زبان نام رکھن دی مخالفتاں کیتیاں۔۔۔۔اوہ لارڈ ارون نال معادہ کردا رہیا پر بھگت سنگھ، راج گرو تے سکھ دیو تھاپڑ نوں بچاون لئی کجھ نہ کیتا ، 1932 وچ ایہو ماتما سن جنہاں شیڈویول کاسٹاں نوں وکھرا گنن تے اسمبلی سیٹاں دین دی مخالفت کیتی، چکری مرن بھرت رکھیا تے امبیدکر وارگیاں نوں تھلے لایا۔۔۔۔نہرو رپورٹ 1928 تے نہرو دی کتاب میری کہانی 1935 وچ ہندی دی تھاں ہندوستانی دی حمائیت کیتی گئی پر 1937 دی چوناں بعد کانگرس گاندھی دے آکھن تے ہندی لائی۔ 1938 وچ برلا، آزاد نال مل کے مہاتما نیتا جی سبھاش چندر بوس خلاف ات چکی۔ مہاتما تے 1941 وچ برما محاذ تے جاپانیاں دی حق وچ قرارداد لیاون لئی تیار سی پر نہرو اوس نوں ڈکیا۔ اوس گاندھی جناح ملنی 1944 وچ ہی آکھ دتا سی کہ جے وکھرا ملک باو گے تے اساں پنجاب تے بنگال ونڈوا دواں گے پر ساڈے یار بس گاندھی دے گھراو جلاو وچوں امن لبھن وچ مست رہے۔ انیا بنن بعد مہاتما برلا تے سیٹھاں دی مدد لئی اکتوبر 1947 وچ ہی پرائس کنٹرول مکاون لئی سرگرم ہویا ، جداں نہرو کہیا کہ اسی قیمتاں تے کنٹرول مکایا تے مہنگائی ہو سی اتے عوام آکھن گے انگریز دور ہی چنگا سی، جداں مہاتما دی گل نہ منی گئی تے اوس پاکستان نوں اوس دا حصہ نی دین دی مخالفت دا چولا وی پا لتا۔۔۔۔۔


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