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Dear Chakraborty Dada,
We perhaps need a trikaldorshi person to tell us what would
have happened to India
if Prithiviraj chauhan was not defeated by the Muslim invaders in the battle of
Tarain in 1192. It's impossible to imagine precisely what time had in its
store. From the historical perspective we can vaguely say that if there was no
foreign invasion India
would remain a fractured land ruled by many kings and nobles, its march towards
the modern age would have been slow, democracy would have taken much more time
to usher and the present artery of the railways may not have been here now. From
the intellectual point of view many of our thinkers, social reformers or
politicians or great literary geniuses would not have been here too. Gautama
Buddha and Shankarachariya would have been the last great persons to be
reckoned with but Ghalib, Tagore and Gandhi would not have been here in the way
as we know them now. From the political perspective India
as a united nation as we see it today would have needed a towering personality
to unify this fractured land.
There is no doubt that India's
serenity was greatly disturbed by the Muslim invasion. India
had, and still has in a much smaller form, a dreaded cast system but Islam's
principles of fraternity and equality did very little to help it. On the other
hand the conversions of the natives to Islam did brought variety but its
overall effect was negative. The political fall out of the Muslim rule in India
was the division of India
in 1947. The politics of hatred and its culmination into a bloody finale does
not make us very happy.
The British rule in India
which started in Bengal in 1757 was brutal but it gave
us the sense of nationalism which was hitherto unknown to us. They brought this
vast land into one centralised rule which brought us together and helped us to
discover a unity in diversity. The enlightenment we enjoy today was a direct
result of the colonial rule which opened the bridge between the east and west.
Akbar Hussain
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