Partition Of India To India/pakistan In 1947

[Bharatvarsh2]

In a new light



A.J. THOMAS



"I would not be surprised if this novel turns out to be his magnum opus eventually."



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Partitions, Kamleshwar, translated by Ameena Kazi Ansari, Penguin India, 2006, p.369+xi, Rs.350.



Against prejudice





Beginning with Gilgamesh, the narration proliferates, spanning several centuries of known history with Time and Space as the main characters: Other characters turn out to be rivers and dates like 1947, sharing space along with real and imaginary historic characters. Open the book at random and you are sure to find one shocking revelation or the other, tearing the mask off established history, or bringing to spotlight what has been dimmed or blurred through usage or prejudice. For instance, every Muslim-baiter in this country would harp on the theme of Muslim marauders like Chengiz Khan, Timur and Babur laying waste our motherland. But Chengiz Khan was not even a Muslim. He was a Mongol idol worshipper! Though this is known to historians, the layman has to be sensitised to this fact.



Another incident involves Aurangazeb's sacking of Kashi Vishwanath Temple. Kamleshwar borrows the authority of Pattabhi Sitaramaiah, President of Indian National Congress (1938) to assert that Aurangazeb did what he did to retrieve the wife of one of the Hindu Rajahs in his entourage who had visited the temple and whom some of the priests there had abducted and raped! Scores of such instances crop up in the book.



The brahminical partitioning of the body and soul based on the caste system, in which genuine religion and spirituality are subjugated to cast-iron structures, the Upanishads ending up as apologies for the upper castes — all these come under the scanner in the court of human consciousness.



http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/06/04/stori...110300.htm

Here is an article by Elst debunking this myth peddled by Sitaramaiah and other scumbags of his ilk about Aurangzeb's reasons for demolishing the Kashi Vishwanath mandir:



http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/artic...anath.html



And I don't see any Hindus claiming that Genghis was Muslim but what can you expect from a Galilaean scumbag (going by reviewers name) except lies.



Wish Kamleshwar got tortured to death by his beloved sullas.