Who does not love the place and soil in which they were born, played, grew up and ate? Who would want to leave behind the buildings built by their own hands or by their ancestors? Leaving behind one’s farms and fields, migrating far away forever, leaving behind everything one has, life-long contacts, money, gold and silver, and every happiness that generations have earned through their tireless efforts.
In fact, the scene that emerged in the newly formed Pakistan after the partition of India in 1947 was similar, where non-Muslims were being brutalised, and people were forced to flee for their lives. There are many such stories recorded in the pages of history, which even today force one to sob! You can try your best, but you cannot stop the tears from falling from your eyes. Those who were Indians till yesterday, now their identity was linked with some other country. The belief that united India was divided into two pieces due to the insistence of the Islamic religion not to live together with the Hindus who believed in Sanatan Dharma also proved to be false. The British had left, and new Governments had been formed on both sides. But non-Muslims were finding themselves cheated again.
For example, Congress’s support to the Khilafat movement and the subsequent massacre of Hindus in the crisis arising out of its failure. Even though the leftist historians and the history written by the Congress in independent India have called the outburst of anger of Muslims on Hindus after the failure of the Khilafat movement as an agricultural revolt or it has been called a workers’ revolt, the truth could not remain hidden. The consequences of this Khilafat Movement have been recorded in many pages of history as the Hindu Genocide, which even today is no less than a great human stain on civilised society.
Then Mahatma Gandhi was also proved wrong!
Mahatma Gandhi would never have imagined that the Khilafat Movement, which he was supporting to promote Hindu-Muslim unity, would prove to be exactly the opposite in reality. This shows how confident he was about his thinking. In fact, one of those who doubted the logic of Gandhiji’s experiment was Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, the founder of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Once, he even met Gandhiji and asked him: “In fact, in our India there are people of different religions like Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Judaism. So what is the point in talking only about Hindu-Muslim unity instead of talking about the unity of all these people?” Gandhiji replied, “Through this, my idea is to create love for this country in the minds of the Muslims here. Have to do, and don’t you see the spectacle of fighting shoulder to shoulder with others for India’s freedom?” The doctor, who was not satisfied with this answer, then said, “Even before this slogan was raised, many Muslims like Barrister Jinnah, Ansari, Hakim Ajmal Khan etc. were active in the freedom movement under the leadership of Lokmanya Tilak. And I fear that this slogan will create divisive tendencies in the minds of Muslims.” Gandhiji ended the meeting abruptly by saying, “I have no such fear.” (Dr. Hedgewar Charita, Nah. Palkar: Page 99).
Then ‘Mahatma’ regretted his decision
Dr M G S Narayanan, former President, ICHR, New Delhi, writes, “Gandhiji was politically innocent at that time in the context of British India to believe that the poor and uneducated Muslim community in India could easily be drawn into active political struggle against British power. To appease the Muslims, he supported the cause of the moribund Khilafat movement, which the British had abolished in Turkey at the end of 1st World War. Mahatma Gandhi later regretted the folly of sponsoring the Khilafat, but by then, it was too late – the damage had been done. Instead of inspiring Muslims to social reform and modern education, the Khilafat movement legitimised their conservative religious tendencies and aroused their fear and suspicion of the outside world. “It strengthened their communalism, which was based on hatred against Hindu infidels that had been dormant since the days of Alauddin Khilji and Aurangzeb.” (In the introduction to Chettur Shankaran Nair’s book Gandhi and Anarchy, page 2).
Constitution maker Dr Ambedkar had warned
Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar writes, “The (Khilafat) movement was started by the Muslims. This was taken up by Gandhi with a firmness and confidence which would have surprised many Muslims themselves. There were many people who doubted the moral basis of the Khilafat movement and tried to prevent Gandhi from taking part in the movement, the moral basis of which was very doubtful. (Pakistan or Partition of India, pages 146,147).
In fact, the movement, which Dr Ambedkar considered questionable on moral grounds, turned out to be true in the future. The basic result of this movement was that thousands of Hindus started being killed with the failure of this Khilafat movement. Ambedkar further makes this point more clear; he wrote, ‘The brave and God-fearing Moplas were fighting for their religion according to their religious principles as they understood them.’ (Dr. Ambedkar, Pakistan or Partition of India, page 148).
Dr Ambedkar writes, “What the Moplah Muslims did to the Hindus of Malabar is astonishing. The Hindus of Malabar suffered a terrible fate at the hands of the Moplas. Genocide, forced conversion, demolition of temples, crimes against women, incidents of stomachs of pregnant women being torn, all this happened. All cruel and uncontrolled barbarity happened to Hindus. The Moplas did all this openly with the Hindus, until the army reached there.” Babasaheb Dr Bhimrao refused to accept it as a Hindu-Muslim riot and said that there is no data on Hindu deaths, but this number is very large.
Understand from this one incident; How terrible was the Hindu massacre, many such incidents happened
A gruesome incident of this period may be mentioned here, which occurred on September 25, 1921, on a barren hill between Thuvur and Karuvayakandi in Northern Kerala, where Chamberassery Imbichi Koithangal, one of the Khilafat leaders, killed more than 4,000 of his followers. A rally was also taken out, and during this, more than 40 Hindus were caught. Their hands were tied behind their backs, and they were taken to where 38 were murdered. Of these 38, 3 were shot, and the others were beheaded and thrown into the Thuvur well. All these Hindus were accused of helping the army against Moplah fundamentalist jihadists. The book The Moplah Rebellion, 1921, written by Dewan Bahadur C Gopalan Nair, Deputy Collector of Calicut, Malabar, contains a detailed account of that fateful day of September 25. Gopalan has written this entire incident in detail on page 56 of the book.
C Gopalan Nair writes in his book that many of the people who were thrown in this manner were not dead. But escape was impossible. There are no stairs to get out of the well. It is said that even on the third day of the massacre, some people were shouting from the well. They must have died a particularly gruesome death. At the time the massacre was carried out, it was the rainy season, and there was some rain during the week, but now there is drought. And any visitor can witness this horrifying scene. Its lower part is completely filled with human bones. Pandit Rishi Ram of the Arya Samaj Missionary, who was standing near me, counted 30 skulls. One skull deserves special mention. It is said to be the skull of an old man named Kumara Panikkar, whose head was slowly cut into two parts with a saw. So terrible was the horror of this Moplah rebellion.
Foreign historians also acknowledged how painful this time was for Hindus.
Historian Stanley Wolpart, who was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and other universities, has written in his book ‘Jinnah of Pakistan’ (1984) that ‘After the end of the Khilafat, everywhere in India, Muslims vented their anger on Hindus. There they committed murder, rape, forced conversion, mutilation and brutal atrocities. Officially, more than 10,000 Hindus were murdered by Muslim radicals. This is the figure of the then-British Government, but in reality, this number would have been much higher.
The madness of Ghazwa-e-Hind was speaking in the heads of Jihadis.
If seen, countless such incidents are recorded in history. The Muslim League’s call for direct action and the subsequent mass massacre of Hindus, religious conversion, and atrocities against women and even children were not spared by these Jihadis. There are many books and many incidents in history. Even the British atrocities of that time in undivided India had become secondary in front of this horror. The madness of Ghazwa-e-Hind was so prevalent among the then Islamists that wherever they were in the majority, no non-Muslim was safe anywhere. The killing of thousands of Hindus in Noakhali is a strong example of this.
The result was that the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. According to this Act, British-ruled India was divided into two parts (India and Pakistan). This Act was presented in the British Parliament on July 4, 1947, and approved on July 18, 1947. On August 15, 1947, India was divided into two parts.
Then, divided India chose the path of secularism for itself
The special thing in this is that partition on the basis of religion was wanted by the Muslim leaders (Muslim League) living in undivided India. He got it. Pakistan became a Muslim nation during the partition. However, the rest of India still did not accept becoming a Hindu nation for itself, despite having a majority of Hindus. India chose the path of secularism. It did not become a religious state like Pakistan. That is why at the time of the partition of India, when the Muslims living among the Hindu settlements in India were moving to the newly formed Pakistan out of fear of the future, the majority of Hindus of India stopped them and said, what difference does it make, your method of worship is different. You don’t need to go anywhere. This country is as much yours as it is ours, And thus, a large number of Muslims continued to live among the majority Hindus. He is also a common citizen of India, just like other Hindus. But this did not happen in Pakistan and Afghanistan. At the time of the partition of India, 44 lakh Hindus and Sikhs left everything and came to India in plunder.
Statistics testify to how much Hindu population has decreased in Pakistan-Bangladesh
Despite this, the large Hindu and Sikh settlements in Pakistan, where they lived in large numbers, continued to be victims of the Islamic administration’s oppression and are being made even today. Sharia law is in force. Forced conversion and abduction of girls by Islamists. If they protest, they are killed. Otherwise, in the name of blasphemy (insulting the Quran-Prophet Mohammed), work is done to get punished and put in life imprisonment. There have been continuous attacks on Hindu and Sikh places of worship, attempts to destroy them, and even Hindu cultural heritage thousands of years old has been destroyed and is still being done.
The figures are testifying. At that time, the number of Hindus in West Pakistan alone was 15 per cent; today, it has come down to only 1.6 per cent. The same is the condition of Bangladesh. In the first census of Bangladesh, the population of Hindus was 9,673,048, and hence, in the next five decades, this number should have increased beyond two crores, i.e. to 20,219,000, but their number kept on declining, and their number reduced to only 12,730,650.
The origin and fatherland of Hindus has always been India.
In such a situation, to save their culture, many people fled from Pakistan and later Bangladesh and came to India to take refuge. They kept pleading with the Indian Government, and generations changed. Many families reached the fourth generation but were still refugees in India. He is saying this repeatedly: his origin and fatherland have always been India. They did not become Muslims to protect their tradition and culture, so give us protection for humanity. His ancestors did not want the partition of India. Those who wanted it got it. Then why are we being punished? India should accept us as its citizens.
67 years long struggle, then the Modi Government took care of all the refugees
Years passed, Governments came and went, but no one felt the pain of those millions of refugees. Then, when the Narendra Modi Government came to power at the Center in 2014, it started taking care of all these refugees. Continuous brainstorming began as to what legal solution could be found on this issue, the result of which has now emerged in the form of the Citizenship Amendment Act, i.e. CAA.
It is good that now people from Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who came to India after being persecuted on religious grounds from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh before December 31, 2014 can be given citizenship. Like the common citizens of India, they, too, will now be able to breathe in the open air with self-respect. Now, all of them will no longer be refugees in India. And will not be called illegal.
Tilak, garland, Dev puja, Ganga, Gayatri, Kirpan, Guru Granth Saheb puja for all of them. Practice worship and rituals of Buddhism. Jainism 24 Tirthankara worship, six Aryakarmas of householders – Ijya, Varta, Datti, Swadhyaya, Samyama and Tapa. Worship of Lord Arhant. The worship of Ahura Mazda by considering the fire of the Parsis to be extremely sacred, and the prayers in Christian churches will continue to resonate equally in secular India. There is nothing to be said about the citizenship of those Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and followers of other beliefs, sects and religions who are already living in India; they are always Indians.
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