1. In 1857,the freedom loving soldiers of Hindustan had gathered before the rampart of the Lal Qilla in 1857 without any central direction, as if pulled by a magnetic attraction. The Sepoys were from all over, but mostly from the Bengal Army. They were Muslims and Hindus (Brahmin and Khatrya). When the frail old Emperor Bahadur Shah appeared on the rampart, the Sepoys broke into a slogan so loud and emotional that Delhi had never seen/heard before. The cry:
"Khalq e Khuda/
Takht e Padshah/
Huqumat e Sipahee"
had sent chill down the spine of the English Co from Calcutta to London. The English had written off the Mughal emperor as irrelevant in SA affairs.The Christian Church was mortified. Their sole objective in SA appeared jeopardized. The allegiance of all in SA - Hindus and Muslims, to the Mughal Emperor, a Muslim, was involuntarily and instantaneous.
2. This Hindu-Muslim unity was to terrify the British again during the Khilafat Movement. The stalwarts of that trend, C R Das and Netaji Subash, were exiled from Congress by the British stooges. Later when Jinnah showed such tendencies, he was also hounded out.
3. The English / British / Christian missionaries now set about immediate, midterm and long term measures to divide the population of Hindustan into acrimonious religious groups. Today we are slaughtering each other in the post long term phase. The crooked and cunning British has left us in a shape from which we may never recover in the foreseeable future. In essence the imperialists haven't left at all. That is why:
a.We are using his language abandoning Urdu, later exiled into Pakistan. Otherwise today there would be 2 blln Urdu speakers.
b. Throughout our life we try to speak/write good English, adopt English culture/custom and behave like Englishmen. But alas, eventually we fail. It is as if we were uncivilized/uncultured/pagans before the filthy English arrived to bathe in warm waters and eat human food.
c. We have adopted English common law as if we are English commoners. We use their jurisprudence,colonial administrative system, and system of governance.Was none of this present or unsuitable before they came? Then what did Sher Shah, Akbar and Jahangir give us? Is there a single instance of miscarriage of justice in the Shariah law we were following?Was there any Nand Kumar like incident in the entire Sulanate and Mughal era?
4. All these I mention because,sadly, v sadly, today Hindu India is allied to the sworn enemies of Islam/Muslims. In global polarization the Hindus should have been with the Muslim diaspora.
