Sunday, July 8, 2012

How the British conquered us and why we got independece

Being an Indian my blood boils whenever I think about the British. But then I started thinking in the other direction. Should we hate them for ruling us? This question which kept cropping up now and then in my mind has led to this post. After a lot of contemplation I have come to the conclusion that the British didn't really betray us. It is we who betrayed ourselves and continue to do that. The British came to India as businessmen. They came here to make money. And they did what any clever businessman would ve done. The Westerners knew that India had plenty of wealth. But they probably never happened to stay here long enough to decide on the psychology of Indians. It took them many centuries to convert the satisfied souls here into dissatisfied ones. The muslim invaders never had a strategy when they invaded india. Their intention was to spread Islam and for that they needed a kingdom. Though they succeeded to some extent they never managed to conquer us completely because the people were still ideological. They still believed in the concept of good and bad. The British knew that the main hurdle to looting this country was this belief. They knew that once the people get isolated from their ideology they can be purchased. So they started out by making people believe that a person in Western outfits is respected. They gave respect to people in Western outfits. They called such a person "gentleman". It was not difficult for them to buy a few indians to wear their outfits and sport them in front of their family and friends. But they didn't stop there. Hindus were in majority then. But many were poor too. Any poor person gets the feeling that God is not helping him out of poverty. So the British gave these people money and told them false stories that they will become rich if they follow Chritianity. They gave them jobs in their army etc. So now they slowly started getting people to follow them. But still their intensions were not met. The self belief and patriotism of indians had to be suppressed. So they decided to bring in a new education system. THEIR education system. It consisted of teaching children THEIR language, THEIR ideologies. To make this popular they used media. They  made people feel that only those who take up their education  are truly educated. To support this claim they gave jobs for students. Thus now these people who had taken up jobs in British raj started lowly treatment of others. The British chose brahmins for this as brahmins then were primarily the custodians of sanatan dharma. With the root poisoned it was now very easy to start looting. It is very well known that they used divide-and-conquer strategy to take hold of india. Surprisingly the majority of soldiers in the British army were indians. The british had many selfish Kings under their control and these kings had let their soldiers to serve the british.

The British finally left India in 1947. Not because they were tired of Gandhi and Congress. But because they knew that there was nothing left to loot here. Moreover they knew that they had enslaved almost every Indian knowingly or unknowingly. Indians then were greedy to make money. They had become cowards unwilling to fight thanks to the ahimsa preached by gandhi. What more, they were happy that most Indians had no self identity. Now being born from these Indians how can we possess any self morale? How can we be patriotic? That is the reason behind corruption. That is the reason behind all our woes. Let us shun the money-based education system introduced by the British to enslave us and produce only accountants. Let us get back to our roots. Let us become truly independent!!

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