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Dear all
I have uploaded a file[ "1857 - THE FIRST WAR OF INDIAN INDEPENDENCE Source: Dilip Singh Ahlawat- " Jat Viron ka Itihass"].
It is the Indian version of the first war of independence, which the British and Indian Marxist historians called the Sepoy Mutiny.
It is word .doc format, and is 28 pages long.
It may be accessed at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jathistory/files
1857warofindependence.doc
1857 First war of Indian Independence
1857- THE FIRST WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
THE 1857 SEPOY MUTINY OR WAS IT THE FIRST INDIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
1857?
British and most native Indian historians treat this event alike as a Sepoy mutiny, a mutiny of the British Indian native foot soldiers against their British officers. Brave and loyal Indians, among the princely states of Baroda, Jaipur, Bikaner, Patiala, Nabha, and Jind and Nepal, put this mutiny.
To get an idea of the treatment of the subject one has to only read a prescribed text in Indian Universities, the highly regarded text " An Advanced History of India-" by the esteemed Historians - R C Majumdar, H. C. Ray Chaudhary, Kalika Ranjan Dutta. Macmillan India, New Delhi republished this textbook first published in 1946, in its 4th edition in 1990.
It tells us that, the British were fortunate "to secure the loyalty of and receive valuable aid from the likes of Sir Dinkar Rao of GWALIOR, Sir Salar Jung of HYDERABAD, Jang Bahadur of NEPAL". Praise and thanks are bestowed on the Rajput princes of Rajastan and the Sikh princes of Punjab, Gulab Singh of Kashmir, all of whom were by then, little more then pensioners and tax collectors for the British. Scindia of Gwalior, Gulab Singh of Kashmir, are singled out for special praise. Of Scindia the British Historians wrote " he. Saved India for the British" and of Salar Jang (later Sir Salar Jang), as a " man whose name deserves to be ever mentioned by Englishmen with gratitude and admiration"
The cause is supposed to have been the adoption of fat filled cartridges in the newly introduced bullets. The fat was of Pigs and Cows, thus offensive to both Muslims and Hindus.
The revolt spread from Calcutta to Peshawar and Central India. To suppress it help came the quarters above.
A conspiracy, against the British, British, between Nana Sahib Peshwa the adopted son of Baji Rao II, the last Peshwa, and the Rani of Jhansi, Laxmi Bai and others is also suggested, and it is also suggested that the conspiracy existed even before the revolt.
At it end untold atrocities were committed on the Indian people in revenge.
The Bombay Telegraph reported, on the aftermath of the taking of Delhi by the British,
" All the city people found within the walls when our troops arrived were bayoneted on the spot; and the number was not inconsiderable, as you may suppose when I tell you that in some houses forty or fifty people were hiding"
When it was over, names like Laxmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi, Nana Sahib Peshwa, Tantia Tope, lived on in the minds of the Indian psyche, to be evoked as the precursors and role models of the freedom movement that came later, and led to the independence of India from the British in 1947.
However one is inclined to ask was this all, and was this cause enough for a major conflagration to envelope then known British India. ?
How is that such a well-coordinated effort existed from one end of the nation to the other?
Was the entire Indian population so enthralled that they would risk and not only risk but also give their lives?
Was all this to save a pension for Nana Sahib Peshwa, or so that Laxmi Bai's adopted son could ascend the throne?
The causes, the organizers, the organization, and the coordination were a little deeper, yet the story has not been told in full.
Names like Swami Omanand, Swami Purananand, Swami Virajanand, Swami Dayanand are nowhere mentioned.
There is no cognizance of names like Nahar Singh, Rao Tula Ram, and of sacrifices of the men and women of the Jat Sarv Khap. There is no mention in our histories of how the headmen of the Panchayat of each village in then Haryana were hanged to death, and entire villages were burnt to the ground.
Haryana as it then was not the miniscule Haryana, of toady, but a vast republic, which spread from the Sutlej in then Punjab, to Rajasthan to Madhya Pradesh to Western UP. Its supreme Panchayat governed this vast entire territory through its panchayat system. Formed in 600 AD by the Jat Emperor Harsh Vardhan Virk, it was headquartered at Shoron, district Muzzafarnagar, some 150 Kilometers north east of Delhi on the Delhi - Dehradun Road. This republic faced down the invaders like Ghazni, Ghauri, Timur and the Khiljis for over one thousand years.
When the 1857 war was lost, it was destroyed. Its people were punished. It was divided between the petty protectorates of the British, the princes of Rajasthan, Punjab, and one part to form the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, and one to create what later became the Union Territory of Delhi. The name Haryana was erased from history.
Some records survived, and Dilip Singh Ahlawat, after much research in the Sarv Khap records, wrote a History book in Hindi; Titled " Jat Viron ka Ithihass" published from Rohtak in1988.
His account of the first war of Independence of 1857 is a little different from the standard one
INDEX
Page
1 A summary of reasons for the war of 1857. 3
(a) The political reasons. 3
(b) Administrative reasons 4
© Economic 4
(d) Destruction on the Indian system of Education 4
(e) The policy of conversion of Indians to Christianity5
(f) The Army 5
(g) The English government opposes the Sarvkhap Panchayat. 7
2. The leaders of the movement 9
3.0 The four Vedic Yogic Sanayasis- organizers of the 1857 Independence struggle 10
3.1 Swami Omanand's speech at the 1855 assembly at Haridwar 11
3.2 The second assembly in 1855 at Garh Ganga. 11
3.2 The third assembly in the hills of Haridwar 1855. 11
3.4 The speech of swami Virajanand in the countryside of Mathura12
3.5 The sacrifice and effort of Swami Dayanand in the 1857 Independence movement. 13
4.0 The 1857 war: commencement and events 16
4.1 The account of Mangal Pandey and the Barrackpore revolt.16
4.2 Meerut 16
4.3 Delhi 16
4.4 The speech of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar to 1,000 members
of the Haryana Sarv Khap. 17
4.7 Bahadurshah Zafar's letter to the Sarv Khap. 17
4.6 The liberation of Delhi 18
4.7 The British assault on Delhi 18
4.8 The valour of 500 warriors (mulls) of the Haryana Sarv
Khap 19
4.9 The battle for Kashmiri gate and the fall of Delhi 19
4.10 The atrocities on Delhi 20
5.0 Nahar Singh, the Jat Raja of Ballabhgarh - his Valour and Sacrifice 22
6.0 The valour and sacrifice of the Jats of Haryana in the 1857
Independence struggle 24
7.0 The atrocities of the British on the population after the revolution was suppressed. 26
7.1 Shyamrdi - hanging of the village leader 26
7.2 Udhiram of Liwaspur 26
7.3 Murthal 27
7.3 Muhammad Ali, Bahdurjang and Abdurehman 27
8.0 The result of the war 28<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Dear all
I have uploaded a file[ "1857 - THE FIRST WAR OF INDIAN INDEPENDENCE Source: Dilip Singh Ahlawat- " Jat Viron ka Itihass"].
It is the Indian version of the first war of independence, which the British and Indian Marxist historians called the Sepoy Mutiny.
It is word .doc format, and is 28 pages long.
It may be accessed at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jathistory/files
1857warofindependence.doc
1857 First war of Indian Independence
1857- THE FIRST WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
THE 1857 SEPOY MUTINY OR WAS IT THE FIRST INDIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
1857?
British and most native Indian historians treat this event alike as a Sepoy mutiny, a mutiny of the British Indian native foot soldiers against their British officers. Brave and loyal Indians, among the princely states of Baroda, Jaipur, Bikaner, Patiala, Nabha, and Jind and Nepal, put this mutiny.
To get an idea of the treatment of the subject one has to only read a prescribed text in Indian Universities, the highly regarded text " An Advanced History of India-" by the esteemed Historians - R C Majumdar, H. C. Ray Chaudhary, Kalika Ranjan Dutta. Macmillan India, New Delhi republished this textbook first published in 1946, in its 4th edition in 1990.
It tells us that, the British were fortunate "to secure the loyalty of and receive valuable aid from the likes of Sir Dinkar Rao of GWALIOR, Sir Salar Jung of HYDERABAD, Jang Bahadur of NEPAL". Praise and thanks are bestowed on the Rajput princes of Rajastan and the Sikh princes of Punjab, Gulab Singh of Kashmir, all of whom were by then, little more then pensioners and tax collectors for the British. Scindia of Gwalior, Gulab Singh of Kashmir, are singled out for special praise. Of Scindia the British Historians wrote " he. Saved India for the British" and of Salar Jang (later Sir Salar Jang), as a " man whose name deserves to be ever mentioned by Englishmen with gratitude and admiration"
The cause is supposed to have been the adoption of fat filled cartridges in the newly introduced bullets. The fat was of Pigs and Cows, thus offensive to both Muslims and Hindus.
The revolt spread from Calcutta to Peshawar and Central India. To suppress it help came the quarters above.
A conspiracy, against the British, British, between Nana Sahib Peshwa the adopted son of Baji Rao II, the last Peshwa, and the Rani of Jhansi, Laxmi Bai and others is also suggested, and it is also suggested that the conspiracy existed even before the revolt.
At it end untold atrocities were committed on the Indian people in revenge.
The Bombay Telegraph reported, on the aftermath of the taking of Delhi by the British,
" All the city people found within the walls when our troops arrived were bayoneted on the spot; and the number was not inconsiderable, as you may suppose when I tell you that in some houses forty or fifty people were hiding"
When it was over, names like Laxmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi, Nana Sahib Peshwa, Tantia Tope, lived on in the minds of the Indian psyche, to be evoked as the precursors and role models of the freedom movement that came later, and led to the independence of India from the British in 1947.
However one is inclined to ask was this all, and was this cause enough for a major conflagration to envelope then known British India. ?
How is that such a well-coordinated effort existed from one end of the nation to the other?
Was the entire Indian population so enthralled that they would risk and not only risk but also give their lives?
Was all this to save a pension for Nana Sahib Peshwa, or so that Laxmi Bai's adopted son could ascend the throne?
The causes, the organizers, the organization, and the coordination were a little deeper, yet the story has not been told in full.
Names like Swami Omanand, Swami Purananand, Swami Virajanand, Swami Dayanand are nowhere mentioned.
There is no cognizance of names like Nahar Singh, Rao Tula Ram, and of sacrifices of the men and women of the Jat Sarv Khap. There is no mention in our histories of how the headmen of the Panchayat of each village in then Haryana were hanged to death, and entire villages were burnt to the ground.
Haryana as it then was not the miniscule Haryana, of toady, but a vast republic, which spread from the Sutlej in then Punjab, to Rajasthan to Madhya Pradesh to Western UP. Its supreme Panchayat governed this vast entire territory through its panchayat system. Formed in 600 AD by the Jat Emperor Harsh Vardhan Virk, it was headquartered at Shoron, district Muzzafarnagar, some 150 Kilometers north east of Delhi on the Delhi - Dehradun Road. This republic faced down the invaders like Ghazni, Ghauri, Timur and the Khiljis for over one thousand years.
When the 1857 war was lost, it was destroyed. Its people were punished. It was divided between the petty protectorates of the British, the princes of Rajasthan, Punjab, and one part to form the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, and one to create what later became the Union Territory of Delhi. The name Haryana was erased from history.
Some records survived, and Dilip Singh Ahlawat, after much research in the Sarv Khap records, wrote a History book in Hindi; Titled " Jat Viron ka Ithihass" published from Rohtak in1988.
His account of the first war of Independence of 1857 is a little different from the standard one
INDEX
Page
1 A summary of reasons for the war of 1857. 3
(a) The political reasons. 3
(b) Administrative reasons 4
© Economic 4
(d) Destruction on the Indian system of Education 4
(e) The policy of conversion of Indians to Christianity5
(f) The Army 5
(g) The English government opposes the Sarvkhap Panchayat. 7
2. The leaders of the movement 9
3.0 The four Vedic Yogic Sanayasis- organizers of the 1857 Independence struggle 10
3.1 Swami Omanand's speech at the 1855 assembly at Haridwar 11
3.2 The second assembly in 1855 at Garh Ganga. 11
3.2 The third assembly in the hills of Haridwar 1855. 11
3.4 The speech of swami Virajanand in the countryside of Mathura12
3.5 The sacrifice and effort of Swami Dayanand in the 1857 Independence movement. 13
4.0 The 1857 war: commencement and events 16
4.1 The account of Mangal Pandey and the Barrackpore revolt.16
4.2 Meerut 16
4.3 Delhi 16
4.4 The speech of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar to 1,000 members
of the Haryana Sarv Khap. 17
4.7 Bahadurshah Zafar's letter to the Sarv Khap. 17
4.6 The liberation of Delhi 18
4.7 The British assault on Delhi 18
4.8 The valour of 500 warriors (mulls) of the Haryana Sarv
Khap 19
4.9 The battle for Kashmiri gate and the fall of Delhi 19
4.10 The atrocities on Delhi 20
5.0 Nahar Singh, the Jat Raja of Ballabhgarh - his Valour and Sacrifice 22
6.0 The valour and sacrifice of the Jats of Haryana in the 1857
Independence struggle 24
7.0 The atrocities of the British on the population after the revolution was suppressed. 26
7.1 Shyamrdi - hanging of the village leader 26
7.2 Udhiram of Liwaspur 26
7.3 Murthal 27
7.3 Muhammad Ali, Bahdurjang and Abdurehman 27
8.0 The result of the war 28<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->