03-18-2006, 09:05 AM
"since this is a "traitor" thread, might i add the name of the Sindhia family of Gwalior. ek numbur ka traitor, helped the poms nip the revolt of '57 in the blood."
In a sense its good they did it, the revolt was going to be used by the cunning Muslims to reestablish their long gone Mughal empire and the foolish Hindus would have agreed to it also, already at places where the revolt succeeded Muslims began to turn their ire towards Hindus, this is quoted in R.C Majumdar's volumes, I forgot which but at any rate the revolt also had the restoration of Mughal empire as one of its objectives, maybe you want to live under the Mughal empire but I don't. The only saving grace of the revolt was the good massacres of the Brit colonisers and a sound warning to Christians to stay away from their Holy War upon native religions, the vision Shivaji had and Peshwa Bai Rao tried to make into a reality (bringing Hindustan under Hindu rule) the later Marathas didn't and they squandered everything away by intercine struggles and plundering of other Hindu states which alienated other Hindus. Under Peshwa Baji Rao they were known as the defenders of Hindus (which was why Hindus invited him to come and liberate Basseign from Portuguese occupation which he did) but later they managed to squander away any goodwill they had. By 1857 Nana Sahib Peshwa seems to have completely lost this vision and was talking about restoration of the old Hindu and Muslim kingdoms as one of the objectives of the rebellion (Muslim kingdoms!!!) in a letter he wrote where he also warned Hindus against conversions to Christianity.
In a sense its good they did it, the revolt was going to be used by the cunning Muslims to reestablish their long gone Mughal empire and the foolish Hindus would have agreed to it also, already at places where the revolt succeeded Muslims began to turn their ire towards Hindus, this is quoted in R.C Majumdar's volumes, I forgot which but at any rate the revolt also had the restoration of Mughal empire as one of its objectives, maybe you want to live under the Mughal empire but I don't. The only saving grace of the revolt was the good massacres of the Brit colonisers and a sound warning to Christians to stay away from their Holy War upon native religions, the vision Shivaji had and Peshwa Bai Rao tried to make into a reality (bringing Hindustan under Hindu rule) the later Marathas didn't and they squandered everything away by intercine struggles and plundering of other Hindu states which alienated other Hindus. Under Peshwa Baji Rao they were known as the defenders of Hindus (which was why Hindus invited him to come and liberate Basseign from Portuguese occupation which he did) but later they managed to squander away any goodwill they had. By 1857 Nana Sahib Peshwa seems to have completely lost this vision and was talking about restoration of the old Hindu and Muslim kingdoms as one of the objectives of the rebellion (Muslim kingdoms!!!) in a letter he wrote where he also warned Hindus against conversions to Christianity.