10-01-2004, 12:03 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Sep 30 2004, 05:20 PM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Sep 30 2004, 05:20 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--> He feels that the ambitions of the likes of Governor-General Wellesley and the power vacuum following the disintegration of the Mughal empire were behind the steady expansion of the Empire in India <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I glanced through Judd - he has some interesting vignettes worth noting. But it should be clarified that there was <b>NO</b> power vaccuum following the end of the Mogol Empire. The Maharattas, due the great counter-offensive launched by Balaji Vishvanath and his son Bajirao, rolled back the Mogol empire and were on the verge of dethroning it. But the immense prestige of the names of Chingiz Kha'Khan and Timur prevented them from doing so. But there was broken up and the void was effectively filled in by the Maharatta rule which was pressing ahead. The British who where trying to get a look in quickly realized the danger of the national character of the Hindu revival under the Maharatta the danger it possed to their ambitions. So they sided with different Moslem power-grabbers to tie down the Hindus. They were on Abdali's side when he defeated the Maharattas. So the British were neither mere night watchmen nor plain abetters of a "Hindu-Moslem" conflict. They were actively siding with the Moslem to curtail their true competitor in the form of a potential Hindu revival. The Hindus had to call on the Mohammedans to wage Jihad on the British to enlist them in the 1857 war, not any concept of "Indian Nationalism". The "Indian Nationalism" is very vague figment of a small Anglescized group of Hindus. In reality there is only Hindu Nationalism and Islamic Ummahism and weaker and rootless Christian versions of the same (As in Nagaland).
The same policy of projecting the Moslem thugs against Hindus was pursued by the Americans after they took up leadership of the Anglosphere.
I glanced through Judd - he has some interesting vignettes worth noting. But it should be clarified that there was <b>NO</b> power vaccuum following the end of the Mogol Empire. The Maharattas, due the great counter-offensive launched by Balaji Vishvanath and his son Bajirao, rolled back the Mogol empire and were on the verge of dethroning it. But the immense prestige of the names of Chingiz Kha'Khan and Timur prevented them from doing so. But there was broken up and the void was effectively filled in by the Maharatta rule which was pressing ahead. The British who where trying to get a look in quickly realized the danger of the national character of the Hindu revival under the Maharatta the danger it possed to their ambitions. So they sided with different Moslem power-grabbers to tie down the Hindus. They were on Abdali's side when he defeated the Maharattas. So the British were neither mere night watchmen nor plain abetters of a "Hindu-Moslem" conflict. They were actively siding with the Moslem to curtail their true competitor in the form of a potential Hindu revival. The Hindus had to call on the Mohammedans to wage Jihad on the British to enlist them in the 1857 war, not any concept of "Indian Nationalism". The "Indian Nationalism" is very vague figment of a small Anglescized group of Hindus. In reality there is only Hindu Nationalism and Islamic Ummahism and weaker and rootless Christian versions of the same (As in Nagaland).
The same policy of projecting the Moslem thugs against Hindus was pursued by the Americans after they took up leadership of the Anglosphere.