#TheMurderOfHistory (K.K Aziz)
"#MirzaGhalib, the poet, did not hide his pro-British leanings. In his Dastambu he was critical of those who conducted the hostilities [1857 insurrection]. Naturally, because since 1806 he had been in receipt of a pension from the British.....
"#MirzaGhalib, the poet, did not hide his pro-British leanings. In his Dastambu he was critical of those who conducted the hostilities [1857 insurrection]. Naturally, because since 1806 he had been in receipt of a pension from the British.....
During the mutiny he gave up the use of the titles which had been bestowed on him by the Mughal court. He also wrote a number of qasidas in praise of the British rulers: one addressed to Lord Hardinge on the conquest of the Punjab (regretting that his old age did not allow....
him to take part in the fighting), another to Lord Ellenborough, another to Lord Canning, another to the Govemment for taking over the control of India from the East India Company, and a long one to Queen Victoria begging for an appointment as a court.....
poet in London (request turned down). He described the rising as a rastkhez-i-beja, denounced the "natives" who revolted against the British, calling them "rebels" and disloyal elements". He thought the British were fully justified in killing...
even the dogs and cats of the "natives" (Dastambu). In his taqriz (a kind of a foreword) to a new edition of Ain-i-Akbari brought out by Sayyid Ahmad Khan he lauded British culture and institutions."
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