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Gargi #Decolonization 🇮🇳 Profile picture
@JoshiGargiGoyal
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We are planning to visit the Shakti Peethas in #HimachalPradesh and then a short, relaxing, laid back stay somewhere in the mountains!

While exploring, I came across this beautiful place McLeod Ganj.

As always, I got distracted and started researching history of this name - Image
It is named after Sir Donald Freill McLeod who fell in love with this place. Ganj means neighborhood in Farsi.

More about McLeod: He was such a great Christian that a native gentleman gave him a “compliment” that “If all Christians were like Sir Donald McLeod, there would be no Image
Hindus or Mahommedans.”

He devoted his life to civilize the heathens of India, who were in idolatrous darkness! ImageImage
He understood the importance of India to the English with her great wealth, and created awareness of the need of increasing missionary activities in India so that it is possible for a handful ppl to rule India, whose ppl can do little by themselves. Image
He ensured that the Government does not depart from its secular character.

Grants of money in aid of “secular education” carried in schools established and conducted by Christian missionaries, might be made by Govt without any risks of giving rise to “evils”. ImageImage
While he encouraged mingling with the natives and educating them in the robust mental habits, and imbued with enlightened views of the West, which inevitably they will imbibe, he alluded to allowing but little, if any, real share in management of their own social and municipal ImageImage
affairs, which they feel is a great indignity and injustice. But this was a blessing to them as they could do very little by themselves.

Point is - I still haven’t decided where to vacation in Himachal because I read this horrible person’s biography after whom we still have… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Another name we should change in Himachal is Dalhousie!

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May 2
Classic example of how an egocentric attitude makes a person hypocrite-

When Nehru visited Naga Hills, some people wanted to present him with a memorandum in the public meeting demanding a separate independent Naga State. But the local authorities did not allow it. As a Image
protest, about three thousand Nagas rose in a body and left the meeting when Nehru was about to address them.He took it as a personal affront and began to say that the foreign Christian missionaries in this country were playing a dirty anti-national game and so on. Till then
he used to go about praising their “humanitarian” activities and even proclaiming that it was a great go out done to our country when shone local bishop was make a cardinal!

Ramchandra Guha’s book “Savaging the Civilized” says that Nehru did not consider Nagas amongst his
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Mar 14
Like always, before posting this I asked my husband to read the whole thing (read - made my husband 🙈).
Yesterday, after reading this post, my happy husband was not very happy because it’s a depressing post. We then discussed what’s the point of talking about this?

Point is-
1. When we decide which heroes from the history to worship, we try to emulate them. So History is very much connected with our present and future. It’s important we know who the real heroes are.

2. Real heroes, who have great vision, proper understanding of history, politics,
tend to be visionary. Studying their outlook of the world will help us understand our current environment also.

3. If we lose perspective, do not understand the consequences of emulating a loser, we will meet the same fate.

4. History always repeats in different ways, we
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Mar 13
Gandhi said if we cooperate with the British they will show ‘mercy’ and listen to our plea of Swarajya or self governance.
Using this logic, he got Indians to do many things, die in Wars of British, cooperate with them even after Image
Jallianwala massacre because some “reforms” were introduced, etc etc.

How can we call this man learned and a Mahatma, when he clearly had no sense of history and zero understanding of the reality of the cruelty with which British ‘Governed’ the colonies!

Let’s look at
an incident from History which was recorded by British themselves- Kaye and Malleson’s History of the Indian Mutiny and Charles Ball’s Indian Mutiny Vol 1. They also say ‘it is better not to write anything about General Neil’s revenge!’ Only some incidents
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Mar 12
Below is a compilation of some of my tweets on various topics:

1. Nathuram Godse's statement - 7 conditions by Gandhi to break his fast:
2. Salt Satyagraha: A failed Satyagraha, which raises many questions on the real intentions:
3. Bardoli Satyagraha: Under leadership of Sardar Vallabhai Patel, what a successful satyagraha looks like. What we can learn from the strategies he implemented:
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Mar 6
Khilafat Movement

What #History Books tell us- Jallianwala Bagh massacre led to the birth of the Non-cooperation movement.

What they should have told us-
As the facts present themselves, in the Amritsar Congress held in 1919, barely five months after the
genocide, Gandhi himself advocated complete cooperation with the British in the wake of the reforms initiated in the royal proclamation and the Government of India Act, 1919. Khilafat Movement saw the birth of the Non-Cooperation movement. Swarajya was just a
by-the-way add-on.
➔ 13th April 1919: Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
➔ Dec 1919: 34th Congress Session Amritsar. Gandhi called for complete cooperation with British in the wake of “reforms” initiated by royal proclamation and Govt of India Act, 1919
➔ 1920: After WW1, the
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Feb 10
Secrecy – A Revolutionary Policy

What our History Books taught us:
1857 ‘mutiny’ happened because of some upset sepoys whose religion was defiled due to use of cartridges greased with Cow blood and pig fat. Then just randomly some others joined in.

What History Books
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War of Independence to be concluded successfully.
It started in London where Azimullah Khan (representative of Nana Sahib, to contest refusal of claim to the Peshwa gadi by the British due to sudden unacceptability of the Hindu Law of
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