Mike_Brando
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Dada,i know what i said there might not be exactly true but the fact is that i was trying to pay him back in his own coins for his deliberate attempt to malign Netaji or for that matter the entire Bengali community.You know that i consider myself as an Indian first and then a Bengali but i was forced to counter him after he started this mud slinging contest against Netaji for apparently no reason at all.This has got nothing to do with Bengali nationalism.I would have defended any other freedom fighter in the same manner like the way i tried to defend Netaji.Our freedom fighters(irrespective of their caste,creed and religion) fought against the mighty British empire for the sake of our Motherland and i believe it's our moral duty to honor and respect their contribution to our freedom struggle.That's all!!First part of your post may not be entirely true, ordinary Bengalis didn't want Mir Jafar as their ruler, but they were barely involved in the Nawabi politics. We still label anyone doing any act of treachery or back-stabbing as "Mir Jafar"!
History books deals with each fragment of events in such details that the whole picture goes missing. Check the museum of the Victoria Memorial, on its wall the entire history of British Raj is nicely presented by breaking it year on year and highlighting the major events in brief, with pictures, quotes, etc. If you go through it from the beginning, you won't feel like we are getting occupied in the initial years, by the time British started taking administrative control of entire India, they were deeply entrenched everywhere. It was a clever step by step process, in the initial years even British didn't know that eventually they will take control of the entire country, it happened as they keep on growing like a damn pimple like thing grows into cancer.
Btw,how's voting going on in your area??Have you cast your vote yet?? I have already cast mine and have successfully persuaded my mom to go and cast her vote as well