10-13-2006, 12:59 AM
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Brits entered India thru Bengal and even named it as 'East India co.'. I leave it to u to draw ur own conclusions. There is not going to come out anything out of war of attrition. Look towards Gandhi who united Indians in the freedom struggle of India and following his footsteps:
Let us unite all Indians.
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brits entered india through a lot of places, not just Bengal. places like Madras and some places in western india had brits before bengal did.
Bengalis were the first to see the british presence as a cultural and military liberation from the grip of islam (bengal had the highest muslim population for any indian state back then). remember when the brits defeated nabab shirajuddlah of bengal there was no attempt by the natives to reinstall him. Quite unlike Oudh, where the removal of the nababs of lucknow resulted in an attempt to reinstall the muslims back in power. an attempt better knoiwn as the mutiny of 57. Bengal started opposing and fighting the the brits (both politically and on the streets) only when they realised that the cultural and millitary liberation had come at the terrible price of economic loot and plunder.
Bengal was the center of most of the european influence on india, as was Delhi the capital of islamic india (in that it was till before "Luyten's delhi" was built, up to its neck in islamic influence)
and since you yopurself say that nothing comes out of a war of attrition, how does gandhi's ahimsha tactics become effective??
also remember Gandhi had minimal fan folowing in maharashtra, punjab and bengal - the three states at the forefront of the independence movement.
oh and btw, "east india company" has nothing to do with the fact that bengal is on the eastern end of india. al of india is called east india to differenciate it from west indiies, the "india" that columbus found on the western side of europe. take such "un-par"/illiterate interpretations somewhere else.
Brits entered India thru Bengal and even named it as 'East India co.'. I leave it to u to draw ur own conclusions. There is not going to come out anything out of war of attrition. Look towards Gandhi who united Indians in the freedom struggle of India and following his footsteps:
Let us unite all Indians.
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brits entered india through a lot of places, not just Bengal. places like Madras and some places in western india had brits before bengal did.
Bengalis were the first to see the british presence as a cultural and military liberation from the grip of islam (bengal had the highest muslim population for any indian state back then). remember when the brits defeated nabab shirajuddlah of bengal there was no attempt by the natives to reinstall him. Quite unlike Oudh, where the removal of the nababs of lucknow resulted in an attempt to reinstall the muslims back in power. an attempt better knoiwn as the mutiny of 57. Bengal started opposing and fighting the the brits (both politically and on the streets) only when they realised that the cultural and millitary liberation had come at the terrible price of economic loot and plunder.
Bengal was the center of most of the european influence on india, as was Delhi the capital of islamic india (in that it was till before "Luyten's delhi" was built, up to its neck in islamic influence)
and since you yopurself say that nothing comes out of a war of attrition, how does gandhi's ahimsha tactics become effective??
also remember Gandhi had minimal fan folowing in maharashtra, punjab and bengal - the three states at the forefront of the independence movement.
oh and btw, "east india company" has nothing to do with the fact that bengal is on the eastern end of india. al of india is called east india to differenciate it from west indiies, the "india" that columbus found on the western side of europe. take such "un-par"/illiterate interpretations somewhere else.