begoli hindu's communal book cause Bangladeshi prolonged bouts of side-splitting laughter.
VognoDuut750
Friday January 06 2006 13:38:16 PM BDT
M.Bokhari, Bangladesh Strategic & Development Forum
I must congratulate NFB for bringing Tathagrata Roy's fictitious and frankly
hilarious book on the Hindus of Eastern Bengal. I have so far only read
three chapters and it has already provided me with several prolonged bouts
of side-splitting laughter.
The mind of this communal West Bengali is full of Anti-Islamic hate and he
does allow historical facts, decency, morality or indeed logic to stand in
the way of his relentless and odious ramblings.
This is a book which will no doubt find its place of "honour" amongst the
Hindu-fanatics of RSS/VHP/BJP mould in our neighbouring country who sponsors
the likes of "Bongobhumi" movement which seeks to carve out a "Hindu"
nation-state from the body mass of Bangladesh.
For the readers of NFB who does not have the time to go through this idiocy,
I bring a few prize quotes from the first three chapters of this so called
book.
In the foreword the book is introduced as thus by Pratap Chnndra Chunder- a
minister of West Bengal....
"This book gives us the details of Hindu-Muslim relations in East Bengal
during the British Rule, followed by the Pakistani Government and finally
the Independent Bangladesh. The Hindus being a minority they were always at
the receiving end."
So much indeed for objectivity and scholarly work. The hypothesis has not
merely been made but has already been accepted as a given fact. It goes on
to elaborate the tired lies that the Indians have been sprouting since the
early eighties
"There has been a large scale infiltration of Muslims from Bangladesh in
adjoining States in India.... creating imbalance in India"
But I digress lets see what the author has to say for himself...He starts
promisingly enough-
"The purpose of the book is not, repeat not, to create disaffection between
Hindu and Muslim or between India and Bangladesh"
However as this book is really aimed towards the Hindu-fundamentalists the
like of those who burned Muslim women and children in Gujarat and pulled
down the Babri Mosque for electoral purposes, he needed to build his
credentials, thus he gives his credentials...
"I am into active politics, in the Bharatiya Janata Party to be specific,
where I head the West Bengal state unit. I have had no formal training in
historical, political or sociological research."
Well it is my personal contention that the two statements he has made is
mutually exclusive and contradictory. As a BJP politician by very nature he
is a Anti-Muslim communalist, and as to him having no formal training
enabling him to tackle the subject of the book.....believe me it shows as I
quote from only the few chapters that I have read so far.
Chapter 1-THE BACKGROUND : PRE-PARTITION BENGALI SOCIETY
On intellectual superiority of the Hindus
"The Probashi magazine in the 1930s, a respected Bengali monthly of those
days, published a survey which showed that it was in only two occupations
out of some twenty-odd that Muslim outnumbered Hindus : the common
cultivator and the beggar"
"there was no middle class worth the name among the Muslims"
"Unlike among the Hindu intellectuals mentioned, there was not a single
religious reformer among the Bengali Muslims."
On Bengali Muslims self-identity
"The Bengali Muslim in those days was embarrassed of the fact that he spoke
Bangla, and not Urdu which was the written language of all Muslims"
On political Parties..(Hindu Mahashaba is precursor to modern day BJP)
"On the political front the Congress party, and Fazlul Haq's Krishak Proja
Party, though generally identified with Hindus and Muslims respectively,
tried to preach amity, however half-heartedly or ineffectively, between the
communities, while the Muslim League was unabashedly anti-Hindu. The Hindu
Mahasabha, led by Syama Prasad Mookerjee was a pro-Hindu party, but did not
preach anti-Muslimism in any way"
Chapter 2- THE COUNTDOWN : POLITICS OF BENGAL BETWEEN THE TWO PARTITIONS,
1905-1947
The author did not abide by the title and the timeframe there in.
On the cold calculated destruction of the Babri Mosque apparently lead to a
Hindu pogrom in Bangladesh
"The year 1992 had seen unspeakable horrors against Hindus once again, in
the wake of demolition of a disused mosque built on the birthplace of the
legendary Lord Rama at Ayodhya in India."
On Jinnah
"the uncrowned king of Bombay, idolized by the youth for his sturdy
nationalism. How did such a person become the narrow sectarian leader that
we know him to be? Chagla holds two factors to be primarily responsible.
First, wherever he was, he had to be the leader, and he saw no chance of
this with the Congress being in the total grip of Gandhi. Second, his
personal life : he had married Ruttie, a Parsee Zoroastrian girl many years
his junior, daughter of his friend Sir Dinshaw Petit. It was an incompatible
match, and had resulted in an unhappy marriage, but Jinnah truly loved her.
Ruttie was an avid nationalist, and a good influence on Jinnah, politically
speaking. Ruttie died early, and after that Jinnah's only companion at home
was his unmarried sister Fatima who was as communal-minded as Ruttie was
liberal. Chagla has specifically remarked that she enjoyed Jinnah's
diatribes against the Hindus, and if anything, injected an extra dose of
venom into them. What followed, of course, is history"
On Gandhi and Nehru
"An anti-Muslim riot was another matter. Then the Congress and the Muslim
League would vie with each other to get tough with the rioters. Thus, during
the Noakhali carnage where Hindus were butchered, their women raped and
brutalised by the hundreds, and families forcibly converted to Islam by the
villageful, all that Jawaharlal Nehru did was to meekly follow Gandhi from
village to village. What Gandhi did in his turn was to visit villages once
inhabited by Hindus with the message that they should come back to their
homes. Or rather what had once been their homes, and were now charred
remains thereof. But during the Bihar riots that followed in retaliation,
where Hindu killed Muslim, the selfsame Jawaharlal Nehru seriously suggested
that the Royal Indian Air Force should be brought in to strafe Hindu
villages, and Gandhi of course threatened a fast unto death"
Chapter 3 - THE THREE HORRORS OF THE FORTIES
On Suhrawardy call for direct action in retaliation for numerous Muslim
pogroms carried out by Hindus across India and Bengal. Firstly he apparently
set the scene by Muslimising the Calcuttan police force.
"The constables of the Calcutta Police were, as a rule, recruited according
to what was known as the A.B.C.D. rule which meant that they were drawn
all from the districts of Arrah, Balia, Chhapra and Deoria. These are
districts around the boundary of the United Provinces and Bihar, in the area
generally known as Bhojpur. People from this area are well-built, tough and
loyal almost ideal police constable material. There was just one problem
that Premier Suhrawardy had with them. They were all devout Hindus, and
moreover, worshippers of Lord Hanuman, the Hindu God who personifies
strength, manliness and undying loyalty to his master, Lord Rama. They,
therefore, could not be trusted to carry out the designs that Suhrawardy had
in mind.
In order to get round this problem Suhrawardy turned to Niaz Mohammed Khan,
the ICS officer who, while District Magistrate of Midnapore, had carried out
Herbert's nefarious designs of crackdown on the participants in the Quit
India movement. The idea was to Muslimise the Calcutta Police. Why the
Calcutta Police in particular? Because Calcutta had already been chosen by
the Muslim League as the theatre of the bloodbath that had been scheduled on
16th August 1946, in what they would call 'Direct Action', and what the rest
of the world would eventually call the Great Calcutta Killings.
Niaz Mohammed Khan, under Suhrawardy's orders journeyed to the Northwest to
recruit Punjabi Muslim and Pathan constables for the Calcutta Police.
Pathans are Pashto-speaking Muslim tribesmen inhabiting the barren hills of
the frontier, and are divided into a large number of tribes such as Afridi,
Mohmand, Waziri, Khattak, Yusufzai etc. These tribes are by nature extremely
fierce and cruel in fact they had been extensively used in British jails
in India for application of third-degree methods..
Hence..after Muslimizing the Culcutta police force Suhrawardy let loose a
riot to kill hindus
From the next day however, that is August 18, Suhrawardy's goons and
compatriots (some of whom had nothing to do with the riots) started getting
a taste of their own medicine. The lead was taken by the Hindu Kalwars
(ironmongers and scrap dealers) from Bihar and U.P., who were then joined by
Sikhs and Hindu Bengalis. Armed with crowbars, Kripan (the Sikh dagger),
swords and other lethal weapons they set out to avenge the last two days'
depredations. In this they showed an incredible ferocity that was not
hitherto known to exist in them. As with Hindu dwellings, there was also
widespread torching in Muslim areas. Suhrawardy was probably not prepared
for any reprisals from Hindus whom he must have taken as followers of
Gandhi, and therefore necessarily incapable of violence.
The massacre of Muslims in retaliation therefore took him by complete
surprise. It is primarily these reprisals that forced him to call a halt to
the devilry that he had, by unspeakable abuse of state power, unleashed.
Meanwhile the atrocities rolled on to the 19th, by which time the Hindus had
more than evened the score. A senior Imperial Police officer told Ashok
Mitra that on the 18th Suhrawardy was found sitting forlornly at the
Lalbazar control room table, mumbling to himself 'My poor, innocent Muslims'!
So what happened to these ferocious police force of pathans. Did the Hindus
beat them as well. Surely after setting the scene so well, the authors
description of events simply does ring true. Calcutta a Hindu majority city
could not have been chosen by anyone other than Hindus to act as a
flashpoint between Muslims and Hindus. The fact of the matter was the Hindus
went on a rampage and the Muslims fought back. It was one of the only areas
where this had happened. As soon as the minority Muslims fought back Gandhi
was there with this fasting to protect the Hindu interest.
Well this ranting obviously continues on for many a chapter, which I shall
peruse through and hopefully bring you the highlights. However I just could
not help myself from scanning the final chapter, where the author suggests
possible courses of actions available to Hindus and India, surprise,
surprise, here is the conclusion from the Hindu Fundamentalist, BJP Activist
author-
"India making a public declaration that if Bangladesh, despite all the
pressure, cannot or does not ensure the security of its religious or ethnic
minorities, then India, despite all best intentions, may also find it
equally difficult to do so. The result may be a movement of refugees from
India towards Bangladesh - unless Bangladesh decides to rein in its
Hindu-baiters. It is not as if Bangladesh has never seen such reverse
movements. Myanmar had driven out a large number of Rohingiya Muslims from
its Arakan area across the Naf River into Bangladesh."
Well BSF push-ins of Indians are the result of such racism given form and
communalism and Hindu-fundamentalism are now part and parcels of politics of
BJP/VHP/RSS goons.
My thanks gain to NFB for bringing this book to our attention. As
Bangladeshis we must be eternally vigilant against Anti-Bangladesh and
Anti-Islamic propaganda.
M.Bokhari
Bangladesh Strategic & Development Forum
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