On this day in 1919, the British committed a heinous crime, and to rub salt on the wound, see how Justice Party/Periyar Party supported Gen Dyer's actions.
Ofcourse Congress supports them, no surprises there.
Not only did Dravidians support Jallianwala Bagh.
When General Dyer died in Jul-1927 some newspapers in Madras called him a sinner Dyer. Periyar/Dravidians condemned those newspapers saying dont copy Tamil-Brahmin papers, so many Dyers are in India
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When the Madras Times defended General Dyer and the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. (from an editorial in @the_hindu)
When Sardar Udham Singh shot Dyer and took revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Mohandas Gandhi said "The outrage has caused me deep pain. I regard it as an act of insanity...I hope this will not be allowed to affect political judgment"
Gandhi also protected Gen. Dyer.
In 1938, in an interview, Gandhi said "The Jallianwala Bagh Congress Inquiry Committee, on my advice, had refused to ask for his [Gen. Dyer's] prosecution."
Nehru wrote in The National Herald, "The assassination is regretted but it is earnestly hoped that it will not have far-reaching repercussions on the political future of India."
(Both statements of Gandhi & Nehru appeared on 15th March 1940 in Harijan & NH respectively)
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What Links Michael O'Dwyer, The Thapar’s and Nehru’s?
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Born in 1855, Karan Thapar’s paternal grandfather was Diwan Bahadur Kunj Behari Thapar of Lahore. He belonged to a
section of the Punjabi elite that came into new wealth as commission agents for the British.
Kunj Behari Thapar was also one of four people, including Umar Hayat Khan, Chaudhary Gajjan Singh and Rai Bahadur Lal Chand, who donated Rs 1.75 lakh to the fund of Punjab governor
Michael O’Dwyer — the man who backed the actions of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer during the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Kunj Behari Thapar was also awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1920 for his loyalty.
Kunj Behari Thapar had three sons — Daya Ram,
Does a Muslim slaughter a Cow when he goes to Mecca or Medina?
No, this is not a question asked by Sanghi, but written by Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar in his book Pakistan or Partition of India.
The complete paragraph for your reference
"Another illustration of this spirit of
exploitation is furnished by the Muslim insistence upon cow-slaughter and the stoppage of music before mosques. Islamic law does not insist upon the slaughter of the cow for sacrificial purposes and no Musalman, when he goes to Haj, sacrifices the cow in Mecca or Medina.
But in India they will not be content with the sacrifice of any other animal. Music may be played before a mosque in all Muslim countries without any objection. Even in Afghanistan, which is not a secularized country, no objection is taken to music before a mosque.
"I simply cannot bear to look at Ba's face, the expression is often like that of a meek cow and that in her own dump manner she is saying something" –
MKG
To keep the brand, “Mahatma” popular, they never told the miserable story of his wife.
On her 153rd birth anniversary, let
Born on April 11, 1869 at Porbander, Kasturba was elder to Gandhi by 6 months, she married Mohandas with whom she played since her childhood.
Gandhi’s rejection of Kasturba came to the extent of his remarking, ‘Her staying in the
Ashram is in vain’.
MKG’s dissatisfaction with Kasturba surfaced off & on whenever Kasturba asserted her own individuality & resisted his arbitrary demands.
He had resisted her on the question of the education of her sons, untouchability, khadi & the harsh life in the ashrams.
Rana was born on the auspicious day of Shree Rama Navami on
10th April, 1870, a classmate of MKG at school, Rana finished his graduation from Elphinstone & Fergusson College, where he came in contact with Lokmanya Tilak & Surendranath Banerjee.
Rana Passed the Bar-At- Law examination from London. Received his degree of Barrister in 1900.
He served as a translator to Jivanchand Uttamchand, a jeweller from Cambay who was in Paris for World Trade Show. He became an expert and began a jewellery business trading in pearls.
He was a founder member of ‘India House’ at London. Along with Pandit Shyamji Krishnavarma,
“The nation is regarded as the Mother while women are forbidden to crusade for her cause”.
In fact, it’s not the Right, but the Leftists should worship him, his works were way, way ahead of his time especially about the woman characters, but what to do, he wrote BandeMataram.
On his Punyatithi, I’m deliberating how #BankimChandraChatterjee became a voice for millions of women with his works.
In his sociological essay “Samya”, Bankimchandra offers a breathtaking and penetrating analysis of inequality in India's caste system, gender inequality and
that of the establishment of the supreme truth of equality between men and women. He bitterly condemns inequality in Hindu society making gender oppression his focus of attack, since sexual hypocrisy is most blatant. It permits male polygamy while demanding from woman chastity