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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->India did not achieve independence on 15th August, 1947 - We have been told from our school days that 15 August is India's Independence Day. This is a big fraud, a blot on our nation! On 15 Aug, 1947 India achieved Dominion Status not Independence. British Crown was still the head of the state and appointed the Governor General who was Lord Mountbatten. Jawaharlal Nehru on 15 Aug, 1947 was a mere caretaker interim prime minister with little powers and not elected by universal adult suffrage (vote). The second Governor General appointed by British crown was an Indian Chakravarty Rajagopalachari but had to report to British crown! All the chiefs of Army, Navy and Air force were British Officers reporting to British crown via Governor General and not to PM J.L. Nehru. In this condition many people accuse Nehru of mishandling the Kashmir issue but he had no real power to deal with the issue! Mountbattein ordered and Nehru refered the case to UNO when India was winning the war. This was because Pakistan remained a dominion till 1956 and though Jinnah was at slightly better position as Governor General overlording PM Liaqat Ali in Pakistan, the chiefs of Pakistani armed forces were also British and reported to British crown. British officers did not want to fight British officers of the other side! Thus 1/3rd Kashmir is still with Pakistan. India's real Independence Day is 26 January 1950 when we became free from British crown and Rajendra Prasad became the head of state as President. First election of independent India was on 1952. We should also come out of British Commonwealth which is a vestige of imperialism because British crown is its permanent head! Many erstwhile colonies including Ireland has left British Commonwealth. Let us all be united and demand scrapping of 15 August as India's Independence Day which is a big fraud and reinstatement of 26 January 1950 as both Republic and Independence Day.
Even a couple of years early in 1945 the over hyped Indian Army was an antinational force which had killed several freedom fighters and nipped in the bud many protests. Besides, it not only went all over the globe to fight WWII on behalf of Britain but did the worst crime of stopping the advance of Netaji Subhas and his INA at Nagaland and Manipur or else India would have been free in 1945 itself and without any partition if they had joined INA or stayed away.
A Karachi or Mumbai Mutiny influenced by Netaji in 1946 can't wash off their sin which has split India forever. And mind it, these revolts were by the Air Force and Navy while the Army solidly remained with the British colonialists till very end!
As in 1947-48 Kashmir war, most top and middle ranking officers of both Indian and Pakistani Army were British who were unwilling to fight their fellow countrymen under the banners and flags of India and Pakistan, naturally meaningless to them as soon they would pack upa nd leave for London with their pensions. Further, Gilgit Scouts a mostly British Regiment in Gilgit of Kashmir (now POK) got encircled by Pakistani and Indian troops and their frantic calls led Lord Mountbattein the CEO of India and representative of Dominion of India's Head of State - British Crown forced Nehru the puppet prime minister (as India was not free but only a British Dominion from 1947-50) to go to UN!
Hence Jinnah the master strategist unlike we cynical Hindus, instead of using Pakistani Army regulars sent Afridi tribal raiders and low ranking Muslim Jawans of Pakistani Army without uniforms to take over Kashmir.
To some extent another much hyped Sardar Patel succeeded as Home Minister as by Dominion Laws we were free internally but our Defence, Foreign Affairs and Communications were still under British control and Governor General Mountabattein and in reality British Crown was the supreme commandar of Indian Armed Forces! Our Laws came into effect when we really became independent on 26th January, 1950 - Republic Day.
Even today Indian Armed Forces are not a good integrated professional force lacking a much needed CDS (Chief of Defence Staffs for co-ordination) and split into independent Army, Navy and Air Force so that one could be used against another much like the hired mercenary pets of British! Further to make matters worse we are still following British model of dividing our national fighting machine into caste, regional and religious lines like Sikh Regiment, Jat Regiment, Madras Regiment, Rajputana Rifles, Assam Rifles, etc.
Gurkha Regiment a foreign mercenary unit from Nepal is also there instead of which several young Indians could have got jobs!
We should have disbanded this anti-national pro-British force in 1947 or 1950 when we became free and made the INA of Netaji Subhas the national military. However, we can still rectify the past mistakes of our parents and grand-parents by emmulating the nationalistic principles of INA of Netaji for our defence.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
well, personally I don't agree to the last suggestion. INA was even more secularized than British Indian Army itself. Bose was as PC-conditioned and secular as Nehru, if not more. If inspiration for nationalistic Armed Force has to be taken -- take it from the model followed by the first two Peshwa-s.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->India did not achieve independence on 15th August, 1947 - We have been told from our school days that 15 August is India's Independence Day. This is a big fraud, a blot on our nation! On 15 Aug, 1947 India achieved Dominion Status not Independence. British Crown was still the head of the state and appointed the Governor General who was Lord Mountbatten. Jawaharlal Nehru on 15 Aug, 1947 was a mere caretaker interim prime minister with little powers and not elected by universal adult suffrage (vote). The second Governor General appointed by British crown was an Indian Chakravarty Rajagopalachari but had to report to British crown! All the chiefs of Army, Navy and Air force were British Officers reporting to British crown via Governor General and not to PM J.L. Nehru. In this condition many people accuse Nehru of mishandling the Kashmir issue but he had no real power to deal with the issue! Mountbattein ordered and Nehru refered the case to UNO when India was winning the war. This was because Pakistan remained a dominion till 1956 and though Jinnah was at slightly better position as Governor General overlording PM Liaqat Ali in Pakistan, the chiefs of Pakistani armed forces were also British and reported to British crown. British officers did not want to fight British officers of the other side! Thus 1/3rd Kashmir is still with Pakistan. India's real Independence Day is 26 January 1950 when we became free from British crown and Rajendra Prasad became the head of state as President. First election of independent India was on 1952. We should also come out of British Commonwealth which is a vestige of imperialism because British crown is its permanent head! Many erstwhile colonies including Ireland has left British Commonwealth. Let us all be united and demand scrapping of 15 August as India's Independence Day which is a big fraud and reinstatement of 26 January 1950 as both Republic and Independence Day.
Even a couple of years early in 1945 the over hyped Indian Army was an antinational force which had killed several freedom fighters and nipped in the bud many protests. Besides, it not only went all over the globe to fight WWII on behalf of Britain but did the worst crime of stopping the advance of Netaji Subhas and his INA at Nagaland and Manipur or else India would have been free in 1945 itself and without any partition if they had joined INA or stayed away.
A Karachi or Mumbai Mutiny influenced by Netaji in 1946 can't wash off their sin which has split India forever. And mind it, these revolts were by the Air Force and Navy while the Army solidly remained with the British colonialists till very end!
As in 1947-48 Kashmir war, most top and middle ranking officers of both Indian and Pakistani Army were British who were unwilling to fight their fellow countrymen under the banners and flags of India and Pakistan, naturally meaningless to them as soon they would pack upa nd leave for London with their pensions. Further, Gilgit Scouts a mostly British Regiment in Gilgit of Kashmir (now POK) got encircled by Pakistani and Indian troops and their frantic calls led Lord Mountbattein the CEO of India and representative of Dominion of India's Head of State - British Crown forced Nehru the puppet prime minister (as India was not free but only a British Dominion from 1947-50) to go to UN!
Hence Jinnah the master strategist unlike we cynical Hindus, instead of using Pakistani Army regulars sent Afridi tribal raiders and low ranking Muslim Jawans of Pakistani Army without uniforms to take over Kashmir.
To some extent another much hyped Sardar Patel succeeded as Home Minister as by Dominion Laws we were free internally but our Defence, Foreign Affairs and Communications were still under British control and Governor General Mountabattein and in reality British Crown was the supreme commandar of Indian Armed Forces! Our Laws came into effect when we really became independent on 26th January, 1950 - Republic Day.
Even today Indian Armed Forces are not a good integrated professional force lacking a much needed CDS (Chief of Defence Staffs for co-ordination) and split into independent Army, Navy and Air Force so that one could be used against another much like the hired mercenary pets of British! Further to make matters worse we are still following British model of dividing our national fighting machine into caste, regional and religious lines like Sikh Regiment, Jat Regiment, Madras Regiment, Rajputana Rifles, Assam Rifles, etc.
Gurkha Regiment a foreign mercenary unit from Nepal is also there instead of which several young Indians could have got jobs!
We should have disbanded this anti-national pro-British force in 1947 or 1950 when we became free and made the INA of Netaji Subhas the national military. However, we can still rectify the past mistakes of our parents and grand-parents by emmulating the nationalistic principles of INA of Netaji for our defence.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
well, personally I don't agree to the last suggestion. INA was even more secularized than British Indian Army itself. Bose was as PC-conditioned and secular as Nehru, if not more. If inspiration for nationalistic Armed Force has to be taken -- take it from the model followed by the first two Peshwa-s.