Who was then Isa Khan, one of the 'baro bhuiyans'
(twelve rulers) of Bengal during the Mughal supremacy
in Delhi?
=Asok Dasgupta=
--- Robin Khundkar <rkhundkar@earthlink.net> wrote:
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Dear Mr. Hafiz:
Thank you for the correction. I apologize for the
mistake. Isha khan was an Afghan who resisted Akbar
during his attempts to subdue Bengal and sieze it from
the Afghan Sultans who were in power at the time.
There is another Isa Khan Niyazi (not sure if he is
the same figure as the nom de plume taken by our
"modern day' Isa Khan who posts so frequently on this
chat group) who served with Sher Shah Suri and who is
buried near Humayun's Maosoleum in Delhi.
Robin Khundkar
-----Original Message-----
From: shahid hafiz
Sent: Mar 23, 2008 6:52 AM
To: rkhundkar@earthlink.net
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Bengal reunification movement
: A new game to delete Bangladesh
Isha khan was never governor of a Mughal emperor( it
was Shaesta Kha )
Shahid Hafiz
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To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: rkhundkar@earthlink.net
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:44:08 -0400
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Bengal reunification movement
: A new game to delete Bangladesh
Dear Mr. Isha Khan
Very interesting!
But I am curious is Mr. Zainal Abedin a real person or
a psuedonym. What is his background? Where does he
work & for which media outlet. Nobody seems to have
ever met him or seen him. And yet he seems to write
quite voraciously with such great imagination. Like
Don Quixote the character from Cervantes novel who
rages and battles windmills while imagining them to be
exaggerated caricatures of his enemies.
Robin Khundkar
PS: Incidentally are you by any chance a descendent of
the famed (or notorious based on your point view)
Mughal Governor of Bengal Isa Khan who conquered
Bengal for the Delhi based Emperor Aurangazeb.
Or is that a psuedonym too! And if it is why the
choice of such a name. i would have thought a more
nationalistic name would have suited better.
-----Original Message-----
From: Isha Khan
Sent: Mar 13, 2008 7:42 AM
To: khabor@yahoogroups.com, rehman.mohammad@gmail.com,
alochona@yahoogroups.com, mbimunshi@gmail.com,
dhakamails@yahoogroups.com,
notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Bengal reunification movement : A
new game to delete Bangladesh
Bengal reunification movement : A new game to delete
Bangladesh
By Mohammad Zainal Abedin
It is very strange to note that Indian government
through its intelligence agency ‘RAW’ (Research
and Analysis Wing) started a new game to reverse
history of the subcontinent to pre-‘47 era by
deleting the sovereign and independent status of
Bangladesh. To reunify British India, a small group of
people of West Bengal of India initiated ‘Bengal
reunification movement’.
To attract public opinion these people that
prominently include a minister of West Bengal Murtaza
Hossin belonging to Muslim community and MLA Haripad
Biswash belonging to Hindu community, outwardly
initiated the movement through a ‘March to the
Bangladesh-West Bengal Frontiers.’ They declared to
organize public gatherings from February 1 to 12 ! in
more than 62 key rural bordering points inside West
Bengal adjoining Bangladesh territory. The movement
works under the banner of ‘People’s Forum’ whose
ultimate goal is to form so called
Bangladesh-Bharart-Pakistan Federal Administration. It
is claimed that a number of Indian political parties
and groups including
Janata Dal, Janata Party, Jamiatee Ulema-e- Hinnd,
PDF, West Bengal Muslim league, extended their support
to the movement. General Secretary of Forward Block
Devabrata Biswash was the Chairman of ‘March towards
Frontier Programme.’ All these information unveil
one truth that the movement enjoys the blessings of
Indian government. None would have ever dared to
undertake such an ambitious and most risky step unless
they would not have had the blessings of Indian
government. Indian government generally implements
such ugly anti-Bangladesh designs through its
intelligence agency ‘RAW’.
The press report of such movement drew the attention
of the conscious sections! of the Bangladeshis living
in home and abroad. Many of them expressed their
extreme anguish and anxiety apprehending the gravity
of such movement. They questioned who let loose these
Indians, who also named an unknown Bangladeshi, to
start such movement to merge an independent and
sovereign Bangladesh with a province of India.
Reunification of divided territories or countries is
not new. People around the world welcomed the
reunification of South and North Vietnam, East and
West Germany, North and South Yemen. All these
countries were divided due to super power rivalry.
Still they retained their independence and sovereignty
when they were divided. But reunification of an
independent country with a non-independent territory,
which is a part of another country, has no precedence
in human history. Reunification of divided Vietnams or
Germanys or Yemen is not applicable in case of
Bangladesh and West Bengal. Vietnam, Yemen and Germany
were divided against the will and hopes and
aspirations of the people of those countries. Such
separations or divisions were the outcome of external
interference or conspiracy.
But the British Bengal was divided according to the
blue print, demand, guideline, and guidance of the
then Hindu leaders. When the Bengalee Hindus of West
Bengal being instigated by Nehru and other Hindu
leaders opted to divide Bengal and merged the Hindu
majority West Bengal with India, the then Muslim
leaders, even some Hindu leaders like Sarat Basu,
tried to save Bengal from division and they tried to
have an Independent United Bengal without joining
India or Pakistan. Gandhi and Nehru publicly demanded
and declared if India was to be divided Bengal, Assam
and Punjab must also be divided, so that the divided
parts of Bengal and Punjab or Assam that would join
Pakistan could return to India soon. Members of the
then Bengal Legislative Assembly were divided on the
status of Bengal. Muslim MLAs voted in favour of
United Bengal having its capital in Kolkata providing
equal rights and privileges to the
Hindus. But the Hindu MLAs opted for partition of
Bengal to merge its Hindu-dominated areas with India
apprehending that the Muslims in an Undivided
Independent Untied Bengal would be slightly majority
over the Hindus (106:100). Hindus were never ready any
wellbeing of the Muslims. The opposition of the Hindus
frustrated all the efforts of keeping Bengal undivided
and united.
To comply with the demand of the Hindus the British
Bengal was divided on the basis of referendum on the
basis of the religious identity of the Muslims and the
Hindus. The division was not imposed on them. They
voluntarily divided their country and Hindu- majority
West Bengal merged with India and Muslim majority East
Bengal became a part of Pakistan naming it as East
Pakistan that emerged as sovereign and independent
country naming as Bangladesh in 1971.
Dismemberment of Pakistan changed the status of East
Pakistan that led to the emergence of Bangladesh as an
independent country. Bangladesh since 1971
strengthened its independence and sovereignty and it
is a viable country having equal status like all other
independent countries of the world. On the other hand,
West Bengal remained under India as its province and
never tried to emerge as an independent country out of
India. How a group of people of West Bengal who are
not independent can propose and work to merge
independent Bangladesh with a province of India?
In fact, India since 1947 continues its efforts to
materialize the dream of reunifying British India
which was divided on the basis of the demand of two
major communitiesâ€"Hindus and Muslims ( The India
Doctrine, MBI Munshi, Bangladesh Research Forum, Dhaka
) Partition of British India became inevitable when
the Hindu leaders like Nehru, Gandhi, Patel etc., were
not ready to provide equal status and privileges to
the Muslims. The Hindus compelled the Muslim leaders
to opt for separate homelands for the Muslims. But the
Hindu leaders failed to consume the partition and they
keep their efforts continued to crush the Muslim
countries of the subcontinent.
In 1971 they assisted the emergence of Bangladesh
mainly to keep it under their occupation, but their
blueprint failed to be implemented. So they took many
more heinous designs to undo Bangladesh. The slogan of
‘Epar Bangla Opar Bangla’, ‘Bangabhumi’,
‘United Bengal’ etc all are directed to
materialize their design of keeping Bangladesh under
Indian paw.
The grounds and reasons that led to the partition of
Bengal or the subcontinent still persist. The Hindus
always treated the Muslims as their slaves. They never
counted Muslims as their equal, rather their
subservient, who did not allow sitting on chair,
putting on shoe or using umbrella palanquin. They
desired that Muslims should work for their wellbeing
and comfort as their agricultural workers, boatmen,
porters. Hindus never tolerated minimum wellbeing of
the Muslims. This anti-Muslim, communal and inhuman
sentiment still persists among the Hindus till date.
For this reason after the 61 years of partition of
Bengal or the subcontinent, Indian Hindus still
endeavour to undo the separate homelands of the
Muslims mainly to halt the prosperity of the Muslims
and encage them to the slavery of the Hindus. The
slogan of reunification of Bengal or ‘Akhand
Bharat’ is raised out of this sentiment.
How an independent country can merge with a province
of other country. This is only possible if West Bengal
can achieve independence out of India. Then the two
independent countries West Bengal and Bangladesh can
work together to make an Independent United Bengal.
But independent Bangladesh can neither merge with West
Bengal nor India. We are ready to accept West Bengal
if its people desire to merge with Bangladesh. Such
initiative should be taken by the people of West
Bengal, if they really desire so. Let them have their
independent and sovereign country first and then come
forward to make a United Bengal.
But such sentiment prevails in West Bengal. There is
no any symptom of Bengalee nationalism in West Bengal.
The Hindus of West Bengal believe in Indian Hindu
nationalism. They accepted Hindi as their ‘state
language’. Bengali has already withered away from
the urban areas of West Bengal. Even the rural people
of West Bengal now use Hindi as their main language.
They prefer to educate their children in English and
Hindi. Bengali films and literary works have little
market in West Bengal. There is no protest against the
injustice and exploitation that are committed against
the people of West Bengal. The industrially developed
richest West Bengal of the
British period now is the poorest State in India.
Murtaja Hosen and Haripad Biswash and their
accomplices propose to merge flourishing Bangladesh
with this poor State West Bengal of India. They are
subservient to the non-Bengalee Marwaris and Hindi
speaking rulers.
The proposal in its present form is not acceptable. It
is a deep conspiracy against the separate identity,
existence and independent and sovereign status of
Bangladesh. The proposal is directed to degrade
Bangladesh to the status of West Bengal people who are
ruled by the non-Bengalee rulers under Indian
nationalism. Indian nationalism is antagonistic to
Bengalee nationalism.
For the last 37 years it was repeatedly proved that
Indian government and its communal people cannot
tolerate the existence of independent prosperous
Bangladesh. Even the Hindus of West Bengal do not have
any sympathy for Bangladesh and its people. There is
no protest in West Bengal when the Indian government
blockades the waters of the international rivers and
does not release waters during the dry season when we
need it badly for good crops, but let loose water
during the rainy season to flood Bangladesh that
inundates the country and damages its crops, roads and
highways, industrial units and dwelling houses. We
never heard of any protest in West Bengal when BSF
without any legal reason kills our people living in
the bordering areas. People of West Bengal, including
its Chief Minister, become happy when India squeezes
Bangladesh and designs to undermine our sovereignty
and independence. West Bengal Chief Minister to please
his New Delhi mentors frequently threatens Bangladesh
without logical grounds.
How can Bangladesh merge with West Bengal which is not
only dependent and where high anti-Bangladesh
sentiment prevails all along? We heartily desire that
West Bengal should get out Indian claws and be an
independent and sovereign country. We are ready to
provide moral support to the Bengalees of West Bengal
if they sincerely try to get their homeland released
and independent. We are ready to help them to upgrade
them as sovereign nation. That will upgrade their
status. We will be happy if they become independent
whether they merge with us or not. That will be matter
of mental satisfaction for us. Bangladesh cannot merge
with those people so long they are ruled by the
foreigners. Untill and unless West Bengal is
liberated, any movement or proposal of merging
Bangladesh with West Bengal will be considered as
anti-Bangladesh conspiracy.*
http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=191002
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