The British History of India is marred with many moles whose loyalty to their British masters affected the fight for independence at every step. While we remember the revolutionaries and satyagrahis it is also important to recognise and remember those who served their foreign masters and did disservice to Bharat Mata.
The Revolutionary part has been practically wiped out of our history books. Had history been written by a different set of people, then perhaps our vocabulary would have been different. For whom we call the ‘Revolutionaries’ now, we’d probably call ‘Nationalists’.
And those who have usurped the word ‘nationalists’, we’d call them the ‘loyalists’.
Sanjeev Sanyal on the Revolutionaries and the collaborators – the India we (often) forget.
About the Speaker:
Shri Sanjeev Sanyal is an Indian economist and popular historian. He is a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. Shri Sanyal is also a well-known urban theorist and write and has authored several books on Indian history and civilization. Prior to his present post he was Principal Economic Advisor to the Government of India and has also represented India on a number of international forums.
Subtopics:
0:00 The collaborators during British rule
2:00 Govt. officials that worked directly under British
3:05 Sir Girija Shankar Vajpayee misrepresented India in the USA
4:45 Political class too was subservient to the British like W. C. Bonnerjee
6:50 Lal, Bal, Pal and Shri Aurobindo Ghosh - Purna swaraj VS Dominion status
8:38 1897- Armed resistance and Chapekar brothers
10:58 Vinayak Sarkar at India House, London in 1907
12:20 Scotland Yard's infiltrator at India House
14:00 The mole at India House caught sending regular report to police
16:40 Key leader of revolutionary movement Rash Bihari Bose in 1910
17:38 Basant Biswas in 1920 and the deception
20:00 Hanging of the revolutionaries
22:55 Finding loyalist Sikhs from Gurudwara in Canada to create a Hindu Sikh divide
23:50 Bela Singh and Arjun Singh - two key collaborators
25:30 Meva Singh's trial and Hanging
27:20 Gurudwara head and M. K. Gandhi recruiting Indian young men during First World War
29:00 Village boys dragged by contractors to fight the war
32:20 Kirpal singh's report made British Indian soldiers replaced with British guards to defoil the Gadharites plan
33:58 The atrocities by Indian Jail wardens at Kala pani
35:00 Rowlatt Act - Reason and results
36:15 Hindustan Republican Army
38:30 How did the British know that Azad was in Alfred Park - Yashpal's role
39:57 1960- Dharmendra Gaud found letters that revealed Yashpal's deceit
41:30 By 1930s both Violent and Non-violent freedom movement had exhausted
42:45 Marxism used as tool by British to convert revolutionaries in Jail
43:30 The communist movement in India was controlled by the British communists
44:14 Bose's memory subsided by CPI in his home state
Question Answers:
45:40 Who was called the butcher of Lal Bazaar?
46:42 Why legacy of Bhagat Singh is appropriated as communist?
51:57 Do you think Chandrashekhar Azad didn't get his due?
53:45 Who in your opinion were the last resisters?
54:00 Where would you trace the roots of present Khalistan movement to?
55:50 The Marathas gave British a very different experience
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