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Tempering with 1857 centenary

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Jan 2, 2017, 12:00 am IST
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Jeay Sindh Freedom Movement chairman Sohail Abro

Jeay Sindh Freedom Movement chairman Sohail Abro

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A Page from History : 1957

 Vol. VI, No. 18       Pousha Krishna 9, 2013, January 7, 1957     Four Annas.  Air-/4/-

The country enters upon the year Nineteen Hundred and Fifty Seven with an air of expectancy. This year, two centuries ago, the British laid the foundation of their power in this country at Plassey. This same year a century ago the people shook that power to its very foundations. The year 1957 therefore at once rouses an admixture of fears and hopes. The scheduled general elections three months hence only lend an edge to this feeling. One can only trust the essential soundness of the national mind, and look forward to a year of achievement-of deliverance from mounting  totalitarianism, and initiation into an era of national fulfillment.

The self-appointed “Central National  Committee” for the celebration of the Centenary of India’s first struggle for freedom, at its first meeting held in New Delhi on December 30, decided that the celebrations should be held on August 15 and 16 1957 throughout the country.
We wonder whether the official Committee wants to celebrate the first fight for freedom against the British, or the failure of the same. Because, as is well known, this fight started on May 10,1857 and was nearly over by August 15, 1857. Such tampering with historic dates is un-understandable  except as a deliberate device to play down that great struggle, and play up the role of men associated with the date August 15.
Already efforts are being made to look as though August 15 and January 26 are the only days worth national celebration. To these egocentric gentlemen neither Divali nor Holi, neither Janamashtami nor Vijaya Dashmi have much meaning. Nothing in which they do not trot the stage as prima donna has interest for them.  Perhaps nothing illustrates the gulf between the People and  the Government so clearly as the fact that while the Nation would be celebrating the Glorious Centenary on May 10, the “democratic” Government would be doing so on August 15-16.   

During its terms of office the Congress has waged a veritable war on the people. Today the price level is the highest in living memory. Taxation reminds one of the extortionate days—and ways –of Henry VIII. There seems to be an attempt afoot to hammer out Great Hindu Society out of shape. And so we have had a series of “reforms”. The sanctity of marriage has been breached by the concession of divorce. The joint family institution is breached by giving even the married daughter a share in paternal property. Temple properties are threatened with non-dharmic use; text books are proposed to be written to Government order. The cow-whose sanctity roused Shivaji to action—is more slaughtered under our neo-Buddhism than under Aurangzeb. The very calendar of the Hindus is proposed to be counterfeited. The time-tried systems  of coinage, weights and measures are to go, and be replaced by the  cent, the metre, the gram and litre! Everything seems secondary to greater glory of “The Leader”. Moscow’s personality cult is over; Delhi’s personality cult casts a lengthening shadow across the country. Typical of this whole system of stunts is the slogan of “Socialism”. At the Avadi Session in 1954 the Congress resolved to establish a “Socialistic Pattern of Society”.
At the Amritsar session the Congress changed “Socialistic Pattern” to “Socialist Pattern”. Pt. Nehru discovered that there was no difference between the two expressions! And now in Indore the Congress has changed this further to a “full socialist order of society.” Obviously it is playing with words to hoodwink the unwary. Already the rot within the Congress organisation is reminiscent of the last days of the Kuomintang–with   this difference that the challenge to the Congress comes not from the Communists but from the Bharatiya Jana Sangha.
Last week’s plenary session of Jana Sangha revealed the great progress the party has made during the five brief years of  its career. Three thousand delegates came from all but two States. For three days and nights they discussed matters and reported progress with  a freedom and a confidence that bespoke strength. Their  manifesto read as the voice of the people. With the PSP reduced to a non-descript condition, and the C.P.I. in subsidiary alliance with the Congress at Moscow bidding, the Jana Sangha bids fair to emerge as the chief opposition and the second party in the country. The year 1957 seems destined to hasten the consummation of national aspirations as expressed by the Bharatiya Jana Sangha.               

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