Communal riots in 1947: who were the architects & why?
BY Mohammad Zainal Abedin
I had the opportunity to go through the write-up of TILAK R.SIKRI'
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/22/AR2008032201714_pf.html)that
referred to the untold sufferings of the people who were the victims
of communal riots that made
millions of people homeless and hundreds of thousands of them killed.
In recalling the fateful scar of communal riot he how the Hindus
suffered, but he did not mention what happened to the Muslims who
suffered more tragically, as they (Muslims) were minority and the
victims of the Hindus and their Sikh allies in Punjab. Tilkar failed
to mention who were the masterminds of that communal riot that made
the partition of the subcontinent inevitable. Muslims, even their
leader Mohammad Ali Jinnah, could be happy if the subcontinent
remained undivided. They opted for a separate homeland for the Muslims
when Hindu leaders denied to provide equitable rights to Muslims in
independent India.
Hindu leaders agreed on partition of the subcontinent, as they thought
and hoped that dismember of India would be a temporary arrangement and
reunification of India was a matter of time. History says that the
riot of 1947 was masterminded to divide Bengal and Punjab, which were
Muslim majority provinces at that time. Riots would not have occurred
if they were not politically motivated. Neither innocent people would
have been displaced or massacred; if Nehru, India's first Prime
Minister and his preceptor Gandhi would not had set a pre-condition
that division of India "must mean a division also of Bengal and
Punjab." (See Nehru's letter written on May 23, 1947, to Ashraffuddin
Ahmad Chowdhury, the Congress President of Tripura, now Comilla, and
district.) Nehru also did not keep secret the goal of his demand. He
in the same letter informed Ashraffuddin, "That is the only way to
have a United India soon after. If we have a United India straightway,
without such division that will, of course be very welcome."
It is known to all that the Sikhs of Punjab and the Bengalees of
Bengal wanted to have independent Punjab and Bengal. Sikhs of the
Punjab were incited to stand against the Muslims and they were
instigated that they would become the slaves of the Muslims if they
would side with the Muslims for an independent sovereign Punjab, as
the Muslims were slightly Majority over the Sikh in Punjab. Hindus
joined hand with the Sikhs in anti-Muslim riot in Punjab. In this way
division of Punjab was made inevitable.
When a joint movement of the Bengalee Hindus and Muslims in favour of
United Independent Bengal got momentum, both Gandhi and Nehru
vehemently opposed the idea. To break the unity of the Bengalee
Muslims and the Hindus Nehru and his disciples warned that Muslims
would dominate the Hindus, if Bengal remained undivided. They demanded
that Hindu majority region of Bengal Must merge with India. Nehru
publicly declared, each village, even each house of Bengal would have
to be divided on communal line. To disunite the Bengalee Muslims and
the Hindus and deter the emergence of United Independent Bengal
communal riots were masterminded. It is easily understandable who were
behind the riots of 1947. There were originated due to anti-Muslim
communal feelings of the anti-Muslim cliques. Hundreds of thousands of
anti-Muslim riots that occurred in India since 1947 unequivocally
justify who were and are communal and terrorists. Tilak though in his
write-up condemned communal riot, utterly failed to rise above his
communal feelings, which was amply exposed in his writing.*
(Mohammad Zainal Abedin is a Bangladeshi researcher & journalist. E
Mail : noazabd@gmail.com)
http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=192711
BY Mohammad Zainal Abedin
I had the opportunity to go through the write-up of TILAK R.SIKRI'
(http://www.washingtonpost.com
referred to the untold sufferings of the people who were the victims
of communal riots that made
millions of people homeless and hundreds of thousands of them killed.
In recalling the fateful scar of communal riot he how the Hindus
suffered, but he did not mention what happened to the Muslims who
suffered more tragically, as they (Muslims) were minority and the
victims of the Hindus and their Sikh allies in Punjab. Tilkar failed
to mention who were the masterminds of that communal riot that made
the partition of the subcontinent inevitable. Muslims, even their
leader Mohammad Ali Jinnah, could be happy if the subcontinent
remained undivided. They opted for a separate homeland for the Muslims
when Hindu leaders denied to provide equitable rights to Muslims in
independent India.
Hindu leaders agreed on partition of the subcontinent, as they thought
and hoped that dismember of India would be a temporary arrangement and
reunification of India was a matter of time. History says that the
riot of 1947 was masterminded to divide Bengal and Punjab, which were
Muslim majority provinces at that time. Riots would not have occurred
if they were not politically motivated. Neither innocent people would
have been displaced or massacred; if Nehru, India's first Prime
Minister and his preceptor Gandhi would not had set a pre-condition
that division of India "must mean a division also of Bengal and
Punjab." (See Nehru's letter written on May 23, 1947, to Ashraffuddin
Ahmad Chowdhury, the Congress President of Tripura, now Comilla, and
district.) Nehru also did not keep secret the goal of his demand. He
in the same letter informed Ashraffuddin, "That is the only way to
have a United India soon after. If we have a United India straightway,
without such division that will, of course be very welcome."
It is known to all that the Sikhs of Punjab and the Bengalees of
Bengal wanted to have independent Punjab and Bengal. Sikhs of the
Punjab were incited to stand against the Muslims and they were
instigated that they would become the slaves of the Muslims if they
would side with the Muslims for an independent sovereign Punjab, as
the Muslims were slightly Majority over the Sikh in Punjab. Hindus
joined hand with the Sikhs in anti-Muslim riot in Punjab. In this way
division of Punjab was made inevitable.
When a joint movement of the Bengalee Hindus and Muslims in favour of
United Independent Bengal got momentum, both Gandhi and Nehru
vehemently opposed the idea. To break the unity of the Bengalee
Muslims and the Hindus Nehru and his disciples warned that Muslims
would dominate the Hindus, if Bengal remained undivided. They demanded
that Hindu majority region of Bengal Must merge with India. Nehru
publicly declared, each village, even each house of Bengal would have
to be divided on communal line. To disunite the Bengalee Muslims and
the Hindus and deter the emergence of United Independent Bengal
communal riots were masterminded. It is easily understandable who were
behind the riots of 1947. There were originated due to anti-Muslim
communal feelings of the anti-Muslim cliques. Hundreds of thousands of
anti-Muslim riots that occurred in India since 1947 unequivocally
justify who were and are communal and terrorists. Tilak though in his
write-up condemned communal riot, utterly failed to rise above his
communal feelings, which was amply exposed in his writing.*
(Mohammad Zainal Abedin is a Bangladeshi researcher & journalist. E
Mail : noazabd@gmail.com)
http://newsfrombangladesh.net
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