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#NotMyMahatma - 1.

Before going inside, let us not forget this fact that, Gandhi never moved, nor Congress never passed, a resolution condemning brutalities on revolutionaries.

British enhanced Gandhi's stature worldwide through publicity, encomiums, awards and velvet glove
handling . This in turn fed into the personality cult surrounding him, thanks to the susceptibility of Indian masses to personae who appear as avatars, and in due course facilitated the subversion of national goals.

This series explores Gandhi & I will leave it to the readers
as they are better judges…

Did MKG truly believe in Ahimsa or it was stage managed only to protect British from revolutionary freedom fighters?

He called the revolutionaries who had risked their everything to serve their motherland as enemies of the country, simply because
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Was reading about recently died Hyderabad Nizam Mukharram Jah & found this interesting part of history which nobody wants to tell.

Following the partition of India, Mir Osman Ali Khan, the then reigning Nizam and Mukarram Jah's grandfather, wished to remain independent,
much against the wishes of the local populace.

Pakistan actively supported the Nizam, hoping it could be the third subregion of Pakistan — East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) was the second.

Anticipating a military action from India, Osman Ali Khan sought arms and weapons from
Pakistan. To procure the weapons, Nizam's finance minister, Moin Nawaz Jung, transferred a sum of £1,007,490 and nine shillings to the account of Pakistan's High Commissioner, Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola, in National Westminster Bank, London.

Thanks to Operation Polo, Hyderabad
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