To Bre-oust or not to Bre-oust / That was Gandhi's Albatross: The havoc of Seditious Tabloids (en Inglés)
Reseña del libro "To Bre-oust or not to Bre-oust / That was Gandhi's Albatross: The havoc of Seditious Tabloids (en Inglés)"
What cannot be said may be pennedWhat may be called the commonsense view of history? History consists of a corpus of ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in paper ammunition like leaflets, pamphlets and tabloids just like fish on the fishmonger's slab. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation. During the first half of the 20th Century: Every house of nationalists, mushrooming with dailies, weeklies and monthlies of yellow journalism had become a publishing house. This so called paper war was waged both in India and abroad, both overtly and covertly, both on indigenous and exotic fronts. Such an stampede and avalanche of writers and articles created confusion and consternation in the alien ruling establishment. This war of words had pierced and pricked a thousand holes in the mindset of the colonial rulers. Apparently looking small and insignificant trivia, these intellectual penned-bombs struck a shattering blow to the already tottering imperial edifice shaking it to its foundations. And the rulers felt the pinch of paper-warfare which disturbed the mindset of the ruling aliens - as in the Shakespearean parlance: It was Viceroy's lifeTo have his balmy slumberWaked with strifeThe basic anomaly and irony of Indian Freedom Struggle is this that the Congress leaders wittingly or unwittingly riding on two horses - the native and the alien, the indigenous and the exotic, the moderate and the militant, the latter whipped the horses in opposite directions. The monolithic congress party was split into two hostile groups - pro patriotic and pro-colonialists, the latter was headed by Mahatma Gandhi, projecting and propaganding it as an all-India status party. In fact it was maneuvering to grab the Delhi throne after the Brexit. In their stride they sided and allied with the ruling alien government to the great disadvantage of the nationalists. Gandhi and his congress party overtly and publicly stood for India's cause but covertly preserved, prolonged and protected the British empire as they demanded not absolute or complete independence but only an ersatz independence of the dominion type so that British connection will not be snapped. This book illustrates how for the sake of total and 'complete independence' nationalists in India endeavoured day and night in adverse conditions to overthrow the British empire by leaflets, pamphlets and letters and radical newspaper while suffering physical and fiscal hardships. But all in vain, when the dawn of independence in 1947 came with the dominion status of our homeland, our motherland, our holyland our homeland and even that dominion status nicknamed as Independence was fraught with flawed independence decimated by fragmentation. The quit India ended up into vivisection of our United India. The fiasco of quit India, culminated into split India
