06-01-2007, 04:14 PM
Hi Everyone
Has the topic 'The Royal Indian Navy Uprising' of 1946 ever been discussed on this forum?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_I...avy_Mutiny
A particular para from this particular article caught my attention:
However, probably just as important remains the question as to what the implications would have been for India's internal politics had the mutiny continued. This was became a movement characterised by a significant amount of inter-communal co-operation. The Indian nationalist leaders, most notably Gandhi and the Congress leadership apparently had been concerned that the mutiny would compromise the strategy of a negotiated and constitutional settlement, but they sought to negotiate with the British and not within the two prominent symbols of respective nationalism- the Congress and the Muslim League.[9]. By March 1947, the Congress had limited partition to only Punjab and Bengal (thus Jinnahâs famous moth-eaten Pakistan remark). However, that raises the question as to why, when granted the God-given chance for a cross-religious unifying factor like the RIN Mutiny in 1946, they chose to denounce it as a leaderless and futile agitation instead of granting it political legitimacy.
Has the topic 'The Royal Indian Navy Uprising' of 1946 ever been discussed on this forum?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_I...avy_Mutiny
A particular para from this particular article caught my attention:
However, probably just as important remains the question as to what the implications would have been for India's internal politics had the mutiny continued. This was became a movement characterised by a significant amount of inter-communal co-operation. The Indian nationalist leaders, most notably Gandhi and the Congress leadership apparently had been concerned that the mutiny would compromise the strategy of a negotiated and constitutional settlement, but they sought to negotiate with the British and not within the two prominent symbols of respective nationalism- the Congress and the Muslim League.[9]. By March 1947, the Congress had limited partition to only Punjab and Bengal (thus Jinnahâs famous moth-eaten Pakistan remark). However, that raises the question as to why, when granted the God-given chance for a cross-religious unifying factor like the RIN Mutiny in 1946, they chose to denounce it as a leaderless and futile agitation instead of granting it political legitimacy.