Nawazish
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We think that Martin Luther King was one of the greatest heros of our time. He accomplished more than any of his contemporaries. Martin Luther King lived during troubled times. He was in search of turth and find a mentor in Thoreau. He was a Christian minister so he did believe in Jesus Christ.
Martin wanted to keep up the family tradition, so he decided to become a minister. He graduated from Morehouse College in 1948 and then went to Crozer Seminary to become a minister. It was at Crozer that Martin learned about the Disneyland version of Gandhi. He must have learned that Gandhi was an important leader in India. It is very doubtful if Dr. King did any depth study of Gandhis action in South Africa.
It is doubtful if The Reverend Martin Luther ever heard about Gandhis support for all the British wars, and that Gandhi was the self-proclaimed Recruiter in Chief for the Empire sending thousands to be used as connon fodder.
GANDHI ON BLACKS AND RACE RELATIONS (Zulus and Kaffirs were African tribes in South Africa)
A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir. (Reference: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Government of India (CWMG), Vol I, p. 150)
Regarding forcible registration with the state of blacks: One can understand the necessity for registration of Kaffirs who will not work. (Reference: CWMG, Vol I, p. 105)
Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian Location should be chosen for dumping down all the Kaffirs of the town passes my comprehensionthe Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. (Reference: CWMG, Vol I, pp. 244-245)
His description of black inmates: Only a degree removed from the animal. Also, Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals. Mar. 7, 1908 (Reference: CWMG, Vol VIII, pp. 135-136)
The Durban Post Office: One of Gandhis major achievements in South Africa was to promote racial segregation by refusing to share a post office door with the black natives.
Sergeant Major Gandhi: Learn how Gandhi became a Sgt. Major in the British Army and eagerly participated in the 1906 British war against the black Zulus.
Gandhi and South African Blacks: Gandhi wrote extensively about his experiences with the blacks of South Africa. He always termed them Kaffirs and his writings reveal a deep-seated disdain for these African natives
If Dr. King had known about about the Zulus (African tribe) and the Kaffirs (African tribe), he surely would have voiced his concern.Gandhi condones Zulu massacres and defends the British. Aug 4 1906
Dr. King may not have read Time Magazine and the explosive stories about Mr. Gandhis personal life. The sex life of Mr. Gandhi, and his failures as a politician
Dr. King probably knew only about the propoganda clips of Mr. Gandhi and never really new the man. The myth of Mohandas K. Gandhi debunked. He gets an F on South Africa, Salt Match, Non-Violence, and independence
Dr. King on moral high ground condemned wars. He would have been shocked to find out that Gandhi supported the British wars extending the British empire.Which war did Mohandas Gandhi support. All of them. There wasnt a war that the prophet of Non-Violence did not support. He was Sergeant Major in the British Army and won a medal for his war duties
Dr. King was probably unaware about Gandhis open racism.Gandhis racism. The truth behind the mask. Behold Sergeant Major Gandhi who supported the British during the Boer war, Zulu rebellion. Behold the prophet of peace who worked to stratify the South African society.
Dr. King did not know that Gandhi did not bring the British Empire down.
Dr. King would have been appalled if he knew that Gandhi insisted on calling Hitler his friend and that his advice to the Jews was horribe piece of Anti-SemitismGandhis letter to his friend Hitler.
Dr. King would have been horrified if he had known about Mr. Gandhis personal fetishes.Sex life of Mohandas Gandhi, his failures and sexual perversion
Martin Luther probably would be appaleed if he knew about what Gandhi said about Africans and blacks in South Africa.
The halo is rusted, tilted and falling down-under the sunlight of truth. Mohandas Gandhis admirers do not confront embarrassing facts about their favorite saint. His critics, by contrast, gleefully keep on reminding us of a few facts concerning the Mahatma which seem to undermine his aura of wisdom and ethical superiority. One of the decisive proofs of Gandhis silly lack of realism, cited by both his Leftist and his Hindutva detractors, is his attempted correspondence with Adolf Hitler, undertaken with a view to persuading Germanys dictator of the value of not attacking more countries. Gandhi was absolutely content with Nitler keeping the territories that he had already conquered. His advice to the Jews was the most horrible example of anti-Semitism in this century.
The American author Henry David Thoreau pioneered the modern theory behind this practice in his 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, originally titled Resistance to Civil Government. The driving idea behind the essay was that of self-reliance, and how one is in morally good standing as long as one can get off another mans back; so one doesnt have to physically fight the government, but one must not support it or have it support one (if one is against it). This essay has had a wide influence on many later practitioners of civil disobedience. In the essay, Thoreau explained his reasons for having refused to pay taxes as an act of protest against slavery and against the Mexican-American War.
Early uses of the term
Thoreau did not coin the term civil disobedience, nor did he ever use it. However, after his landmark 1848 lectures were published in 1849, the term civil disobedience began to appear in numerous sermons and lectures relating to slavery in the United States. Early examples of these include:
The Gospel Applied to the Fugitive Slave Law [1850]: A Sermon, by Oliver Stearns (1851);
The Higher Law, in Its Application to the Fugitive Slave Bill: by John Newell and John Chase Lord (1851);
The Limits of Civil Disobedience: A Sermon, by Nathaniel Hall (1851);
The Duty and Limitations of Civil Disobedience: A Discourse, by Samuel Colcord Bartlett (1853).
Thus, by the time Thoreaus lectures were first published under the title Civil Disobedience, in 1866, four years after his death, the term had achieved fairly widespread usage.
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Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity By G. B. Singh Reviewed by Baldev Singh
Truth comes out breaking the walls of a fortress is a Punjabi saying. For the lovers of truth G. B. Singh has exploded the Gandhi myth apostle of peace, emancipator of untouchables and liberator of India by peaceful means from the British yoke by publishing his labor of love, Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity. G. B. Singh studied Gandhi for over twenty years collecting Gandhis speeches, writings and other documents, which the promoters of Gandhi left out intentionally to create a twentieth century messiah by fusing Jesus Christ and Vishnu. The oppressors the proponents of colonialism, slavery, racism and casteism have imposed their own version of history on the victims through manipulation, deception and hypocrisy. For example there is holocaust museum in the capital of United States in the memory of six million Jews who fell victim to the atrocities of Nazis in World War II. It is commendable and such museums should be built in every capital in the world to remind people of the heinous crimes of the Nazis. But why not a museum about the genocide of native Americans or a museum about slavery in the capital of United States? It takes moral courage to look into the face of truth! In order to avoid the obligation to intervene in Rwanda, the Western powers led by President Clinton put pressure on the United Nations Security Council not to characterize the mass murder of Tootsies as genocide.
The making of Gandhi myth stared in South Africa by white Christian clergy. Rev. Joseph J. Doke, a Baptist Minster was the first to write the biography of M. K. Gandhi. Soon many other European and American clergymen and writers rushed in to make their input. John H. Holmes, a Unitarian pastor from New York praised Gandhi in his writings and sermons with titles like: Gandhi: The Modern Christ, Mahatma Gandhi: The Greatest Man since Jesus Christ, Mahatma Ji: Reincarnation of Christ and Gandhi before Pilate. Romain Rolland, French Nobel Laureate in literature looked at Gandhi not only as a Hindu saint, but also another Christ. He wrote Gandhis new biography in French. The English translation of this book opens with: He is the One Luminous, Creator of All, Mahatma. Impressed with lavish propaganda about Gandhi in the West, the Hindu propaganda machine came into action and it churned out a plethora of literature to elevate Gandhi to the status of twentieth century Hindu god The seventh reincarnation of Vishnu, Lord Rama, proclaimed Krishnalal Shridharni. Portraits of Gandhi depicted him as Hindu avatar and Christian saint. The Indian government under Prime Minister Indra Gandhi financed one-third the cost of the production of the movie Gandhi for the portrayal of Gandhi as an absolute pacifist.
The Christian clergy had an ulterior motive in building the Gandhi myth. They thought that by elevating Gadhi to a 20th century messiah and then converting him would open the flood gate for evangelizing Hindu masses. Little did they realize that Gandhi hoodwinked them with his insincere statements about Christianity? He was a die-hard Hindu, a true believer and defender of the caste order the essence of Hinduism?
Gandhi apologists indulged in gross deception by claiming that Gandhis Satyagrah in South Africa was in the defense of the rights of native people. Nothing could be further from truth than this bald lie. How could Gandhi, a diehard supporter of the caste system think of the welfare of African blacks he regarded lower than the Untouchables of India slightly above the animal level? His Satyagrah was for the better treatment of Indians, who, according to Gandhi were treated the same way as savage Kaffirs (native people) were. In his stay of twenty years in South Africa, he had no social contacts with the Kaffirs, as he did not see any common ground with them in the daily affairs of life. He was horrified when he was lodged with natives in the same jail ward. He did not like wearing the same clothes with label N born by the natives, nor he liked their food and sharing lavatory with them. It was the jail experience, which brought out his racism in the open. Kaffir and Chinese prisoners are wild, murderous and given to immoral ways. Kaffirs are as a general rule uncivilized the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animal.
He proclaimed that the British Empire was for the welfare of the whole world and he accepted the superiority and predominance of white race. But he reminded the white people that upper caste Indians share with the Europeans a common heritage the blood of the noble Aryan race. According to him it is Aryan blood, which is responsible for the advancement of human civilization. He suggested to Rev, Doke to civilize the Kaffirs by converting them to Christianity and by infusing Aryan blood into their race. He told the white colonists that the preservation of racial purity (Apartheid) was as important to the Indians as to Europeans.
He urged the colonial authorities to raise a volunteer militia of Indians to fight for the Empire. He told the Natal authorities that it would be a criminal folly if they did not enlist Indians for the war. He was rebuffed with sarcastic and derogatory comments about the fighting ability of people like Gandhi. However, his persistence persuaded the authorities to form a volunteer ambulance corps of Indians under the command of Sergeant-Major Gandhi during the Boer War and Zulu Rebellion. He urged the Indian community to show their loyalty to the British Empire by raising funds for the War. He reminded them that they were in South Africa due to the courtesy of the Empire. It is not for us to judge whether the Kaffir revolt is justified or not. We are co-colonists with whites of this land whereas the black savages are as yet unfit to participate in the political affairs of the colony.
He was a mean spirited parochial Hindu. Sergeant- Major Gandhi selected only Gujrati Hindus as his assistants, three Sergeants and one Corporal in spite of the fact the ambulance corps (20-24 men) was made up mostly of non-Gujratis with substantial number of Muslims.
The Russian Revolution of 1914 spurted national movements against colonial rule. The British brought Gandhi back to India to sabotage Indian national movement against British rule. The congress Party dominated by Gandhi was set up under the patronage of the British authorities. The apostle of peace urged the Indian people to support the British by enlisting in the army during World War I. In his letter he wrote to the Viceroy in1930, he said, One of his reason for launching the Civil Disobedient Movement is to contain the violence of revolutionaries.
On the advice of white promoters of Gandhi, black clergy and civil rights leaders traveled to India to seek Gandhis advice about solving the problem of segregation and civil rights of blacks. How little did they know that Gandhi regarded the black people slightly above the animal level? Moreover, they were ignorant of the fact that caste system was originally imposed, as racial discrimination (Varna Ashrama Dharma) similar to the Apartheid system, on the black natives of India by their Caucasian conquerors. But later on due to emergence of new racial groups due to miscegenation between the two groups, Varna Ashrama Dharma evolved into caste system tied to hereditary occupations. Untouchabilty is as integral a part of Hindu faith as anti- Semitism of the Nazis. It is noteworthy that not a single black leader met Dr. B. R. Ambedkar M. A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, M.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees from London University and Bar-at-Law from Greys Inn, London who was the undisputed leader of the Untouchables at that time. Gandhi propaganda machine manipulated the visit of black leaders, as it did not want them to find truth about Gandhis views on the caste system. I believe in Varnashrama (caste system) which is the law of life. The law of Varna (color and / or caste) is nothing but the law of conservation of energy. Why should my son not be scavenger if I am one? He, Shudra (lowest caste) may not be called a Brahmin (uppermost caste), though he (Shudra) may have all the qualities of a Brahmin in this birth. And it is a good thing for him (Shudra) not to arrogate a Varna (caste) to which he is not born. It is a sign of true humility.
In 1921, Gandhi delivered violent speeches inciting racial hatred against the British. During bloody demonstrations and riots against the visit of Prince of Wales, William Francis Doherty, an American citizen working in Bombay was murdered. Gandhi personally got involved in the cover up of this gruesome murder through bribery and intimidation, as he was concerned that the details of this murder would tarnish Gandhis image in the West.
It is a cruel joke and one of the biggest fabrications of the twentieth century that Gandhi won Indian freedom without spilling a drop of blood. The truth is that it was the devastating effect of World War II that forced the British government to dismantle its Colonial Empire. Moreover, it was Gandhi and his Hindu dominated Congress party that engineered the partition of the country on communal lines, as the Muslim dominant states stood in the way of high caste Hindus to set up their Ram Raj (mythical Hindu kingdom) based on caste ideology. Additionally, the Partition of India in 1947 is one of the major upheavals of the twentieth century. In the State of Punjab alone, 11-12 million people lost their homes and hearths where their ancestors had lived for centuries. May be as many as one million people perished in the communal frenzy and thousands of young women were kidnapped while Gandhi was reciting the murderous sermons from his favorite scripture Bhagvad Gita. He kept insisting up to the last moment that the country would be partitioned only over his dead body!
The ascetic in loincloth used to sleep in buff with naked young girls to perform experiments to test his celibacy. Dr. Sushila Nayar told Ved Mehta that she used to sleep with Gandhi as she regarded him as a Hindu god. The man, who had taken vow of poverty, demanded and got even in jail the same comforts enjoyed by British high officials in India.
The apostle of peace, who counseled a Jewish delegation to oppose the evil of Nazism by soul force by committing mass suicide, was all praise for annexing Kashmir by armed aggression.
He told his Sikh followers that rusty sword is useless in the age of Atom Bomb. The development of nuclear weapons by India a country that ranks among the poorest in the world and is near the bottom of human development index chart of the United Nations exposes the real face of the absolute pacifist and the nation that calls him father. After all didnt lord Krishna tell Arjana during the battle of Mahabharata Victory is truth.
Although, the Indian people have started peeking at the man behind the mask of divinity, there is no let up in the perpetuation of Gandhi myth in the West, especially the United States.
G. B. Singh rightfully deserves the accolades for bringing out the truth about Gandhi from Gandhis own mouth. http://www.sikhsundesh.net/gandhi.htm
Why dont you go to India and see for yourself what the Mahatma, whom you so admire, has wrought, friends told Martin Luther King Jr, after the successful conclusion of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956. By the time he accepted Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehrus invitation to visit India in 1959, the civil rights activist saw himself as a pilgrim to Gandhis land. This year is the 50th anniversary of Kings month-long visit to India. It will have special significance at a time when the frustrated aspirations of millions are expressed through terrorism and intergroup violence rather than the constructive alternatives of Gandhi and King.
When he arrived in India, King was assured that Gandhis influence in India was felt in almost every aspect of life and public policy, but his tour also revealed the profound changes that had occurred in India since Gandhis assassination. After reaching Delhi on Feb. 10, 1959, King and his wife, Coretta, discussed Gandhis legacy during a dinner with Nehru and Lady Mountbatten at Teen Murti Bhavan. Although Nehru assured the Kings that he still believed that India should never stop promoting Gandhian principles, he added that, as a head of government, it would be folly for him to lead India further down that road alone. The Kings learned that Nehru had already abandoned Gandhis model of local economic sufficiency in favor of western-style industrial development. They could not have known that Nehru was considering the possibility that Indias ambitious nuclear power program (which was then consuming a third of the nations research budget) could someday produce nuclear weapons. King recalled that Nehru was confident that India could avoid the pitfalls of industrialization, if the state kept a watchful eye on development.
Nehrus commitment to Gandhian principles was more evident in his policies regarding the untouchables. Contrasting Indias policies of preferential treatment for the lowest castes with pervasive racial discrimination in the U.S., King applauded the fact that Indias leaders were exerting their moral power against caste discrimination. He noted that in the U.S. some of our highest officials decline to render a moral judgment on segregation, and some from the South publicly boast of their determination to maintain segregation.Despite Nehrus wavering support of Gandhian idealism, King was nonetheless impressed that he was at least enthusiastically welcomed by Nehru and other Indian political leaders at a time when he lacked similar access to Americas top leaders.As his tour continued, King was able to visit several ashrams and rural development experiments that reflected Gandhis influence. Especially memorable was his visit to the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, where Gandhi had begun his 1930 Salt March to the sea. Another high point of Kings tour was his meeting on March 3 with Gandhian disciple Acharaya Vinoba Bhave, leader of the Bhoodan movement.
As his visit came to an end, King acknowledged that many Indians wanted their nation to become more westernized and modernized. King, however, placed his hopes in those who equated westernization with the evils of materialism, which would only raise the living standards of the comparative few workers who get jobs while the greater number of people will be displaced and will thus be worse off than they are now.In his farewell statement on March 9, King admitted that he could not presume to know India after a single visit, but he nonetheless offered a gratuitous suggestion for Nehrus government. It may be that just as India had to take the lead and show the world that national independence could be achieved nonviolently, so India may have to take the lead and call for universal disarmament. When he arrived in India, King was a novice protest leader whose activities were only beginning to expand beyond Montgomery, Ala.
Afterward, he would increasingly speak of the African American civil rights struggle as part of a global struggle of minority and colonial peoples in America, Africa and Asia struggling to throw off racialism and imperialism. Still seeing himself as a student of Gandhian principles, he would soon inherit Gandhis mantel as the worlds most influential advocate of nonviolence. Fifty years after Kings pilgrimage to India, the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the U.S. will provide a new test of the durability of Gandhis and Kings nonviolent principles. President-elect Obama often echoes Kings words and applauds his courage, but he will face Nehrus dilemma of choosing between pursuing the ideal of global peace with social justice while also confronting a world afflicted with endemic violence and poverty. Carson is director of the Martin Luther King Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Obamas Link with King and Gandhi By CLAYBORNE CARSON
We think that Martin Luther King was one of the greatest heros of our time. He accomplished more than any of his contemporaries. Martin Luther King lived during troubled times. He was in search of turth and find a mentor in Thoreau. He was a Christian minister so he did believe in Jesus Christ.
Martin wanted to keep up the family tradition, so he decided to become a minister. He graduated from Morehouse College in 1948 and then went to Crozer Seminary to become a minister. It was at Crozer that Martin learned about the Disneyland version of Gandhi. He must have learned that Gandhi was an important leader in India. It is very doubtful if Dr. King did any depth study of Gandhis action in South Africa.
It is doubtful if The Reverend Martin Luther ever heard about Gandhis support for all the British wars, and that Gandhi was the self-proclaimed Recruiter in Chief for the Empire sending thousands to be used as connon fodder.
GANDHI ON BLACKS AND RACE RELATIONS (Zulus and Kaffirs were African tribes in South Africa)
A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir. (Reference: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Government of India (CWMG), Vol I, p. 150)
Regarding forcible registration with the state of blacks: One can understand the necessity for registration of Kaffirs who will not work. (Reference: CWMG, Vol I, p. 105)
Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian Location should be chosen for dumping down all the Kaffirs of the town passes my comprehensionthe Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. (Reference: CWMG, Vol I, pp. 244-245)
His description of black inmates: Only a degree removed from the animal. Also, Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals. Mar. 7, 1908 (Reference: CWMG, Vol VIII, pp. 135-136)
The Durban Post Office: One of Gandhis major achievements in South Africa was to promote racial segregation by refusing to share a post office door with the black natives.
Sergeant Major Gandhi: Learn how Gandhi became a Sgt. Major in the British Army and eagerly participated in the 1906 British war against the black Zulus.
Gandhi and South African Blacks: Gandhi wrote extensively about his experiences with the blacks of South Africa. He always termed them Kaffirs and his writings reveal a deep-seated disdain for these African natives
If Dr. King had known about about the Zulus (African tribe) and the Kaffirs (African tribe), he surely would have voiced his concern.Gandhi condones Zulu massacres and defends the British. Aug 4 1906
Dr. King may not have read Time Magazine and the explosive stories about Mr. Gandhis personal life. The sex life of Mr. Gandhi, and his failures as a politician
Dr. King probably knew only about the propoganda clips of Mr. Gandhi and never really new the man. The myth of Mohandas K. Gandhi debunked. He gets an F on South Africa, Salt Match, Non-Violence, and independence
Dr. King on moral high ground condemned wars. He would have been shocked to find out that Gandhi supported the British wars extending the British empire.Which war did Mohandas Gandhi support. All of them. There wasnt a war that the prophet of Non-Violence did not support. He was Sergeant Major in the British Army and won a medal for his war duties
Dr. King was probably unaware about Gandhis open racism.Gandhis racism. The truth behind the mask. Behold Sergeant Major Gandhi who supported the British during the Boer war, Zulu rebellion. Behold the prophet of peace who worked to stratify the South African society.
Dr. King did not know that Gandhi did not bring the British Empire down.
Dr. King would have been appalled if he knew that Gandhi insisted on calling Hitler his friend and that his advice to the Jews was horribe piece of Anti-SemitismGandhis letter to his friend Hitler.
Dr. King would have been horrified if he had known about Mr. Gandhis personal fetishes.Sex life of Mohandas Gandhi, his failures and sexual perversion
Martin Luther probably would be appaleed if he knew about what Gandhi said about Africans and blacks in South Africa.
The halo is rusted, tilted and falling down-under the sunlight of truth. Mohandas Gandhis admirers do not confront embarrassing facts about their favorite saint. His critics, by contrast, gleefully keep on reminding us of a few facts concerning the Mahatma which seem to undermine his aura of wisdom and ethical superiority. One of the decisive proofs of Gandhis silly lack of realism, cited by both his Leftist and his Hindutva detractors, is his attempted correspondence with Adolf Hitler, undertaken with a view to persuading Germanys dictator of the value of not attacking more countries. Gandhi was absolutely content with Nitler keeping the territories that he had already conquered. His advice to the Jews was the most horrible example of anti-Semitism in this century.
The American author Henry David Thoreau pioneered the modern theory behind this practice in his 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, originally titled Resistance to Civil Government. The driving idea behind the essay was that of self-reliance, and how one is in morally good standing as long as one can get off another mans back; so one doesnt have to physically fight the government, but one must not support it or have it support one (if one is against it). This essay has had a wide influence on many later practitioners of civil disobedience. In the essay, Thoreau explained his reasons for having refused to pay taxes as an act of protest against slavery and against the Mexican-American War.
Early uses of the term
Thoreau did not coin the term civil disobedience, nor did he ever use it. However, after his landmark 1848 lectures were published in 1849, the term civil disobedience began to appear in numerous sermons and lectures relating to slavery in the United States. Early examples of these include:
The Gospel Applied to the Fugitive Slave Law [1850]: A Sermon, by Oliver Stearns (1851);
The Higher Law, in Its Application to the Fugitive Slave Bill: by John Newell and John Chase Lord (1851);
The Limits of Civil Disobedience: A Sermon, by Nathaniel Hall (1851);
The Duty and Limitations of Civil Disobedience: A Discourse, by Samuel Colcord Bartlett (1853).
Thus, by the time Thoreaus lectures were first published under the title Civil Disobedience, in 1866, four years after his death, the term had achieved fairly widespread usage.
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Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity By G. B. Singh Reviewed by Baldev Singh
Truth comes out breaking the walls of a fortress is a Punjabi saying. For the lovers of truth G. B. Singh has exploded the Gandhi myth apostle of peace, emancipator of untouchables and liberator of India by peaceful means from the British yoke by publishing his labor of love, Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity. G. B. Singh studied Gandhi for over twenty years collecting Gandhis speeches, writings and other documents, which the promoters of Gandhi left out intentionally to create a twentieth century messiah by fusing Jesus Christ and Vishnu. The oppressors the proponents of colonialism, slavery, racism and casteism have imposed their own version of history on the victims through manipulation, deception and hypocrisy. For example there is holocaust museum in the capital of United States in the memory of six million Jews who fell victim to the atrocities of Nazis in World War II. It is commendable and such museums should be built in every capital in the world to remind people of the heinous crimes of the Nazis. But why not a museum about the genocide of native Americans or a museum about slavery in the capital of United States? It takes moral courage to look into the face of truth! In order to avoid the obligation to intervene in Rwanda, the Western powers led by President Clinton put pressure on the United Nations Security Council not to characterize the mass murder of Tootsies as genocide.
The making of Gandhi myth stared in South Africa by white Christian clergy. Rev. Joseph J. Doke, a Baptist Minster was the first to write the biography of M. K. Gandhi. Soon many other European and American clergymen and writers rushed in to make their input. John H. Holmes, a Unitarian pastor from New York praised Gandhi in his writings and sermons with titles like: Gandhi: The Modern Christ, Mahatma Gandhi: The Greatest Man since Jesus Christ, Mahatma Ji: Reincarnation of Christ and Gandhi before Pilate. Romain Rolland, French Nobel Laureate in literature looked at Gandhi not only as a Hindu saint, but also another Christ. He wrote Gandhis new biography in French. The English translation of this book opens with: He is the One Luminous, Creator of All, Mahatma. Impressed with lavish propaganda about Gandhi in the West, the Hindu propaganda machine came into action and it churned out a plethora of literature to elevate Gandhi to the status of twentieth century Hindu god The seventh reincarnation of Vishnu, Lord Rama, proclaimed Krishnalal Shridharni. Portraits of Gandhi depicted him as Hindu avatar and Christian saint. The Indian government under Prime Minister Indra Gandhi financed one-third the cost of the production of the movie Gandhi for the portrayal of Gandhi as an absolute pacifist.
The Christian clergy had an ulterior motive in building the Gandhi myth. They thought that by elevating Gadhi to a 20th century messiah and then converting him would open the flood gate for evangelizing Hindu masses. Little did they realize that Gandhi hoodwinked them with his insincere statements about Christianity? He was a die-hard Hindu, a true believer and defender of the caste order the essence of Hinduism?
Gandhi apologists indulged in gross deception by claiming that Gandhis Satyagrah in South Africa was in the defense of the rights of native people. Nothing could be further from truth than this bald lie. How could Gandhi, a diehard supporter of the caste system think of the welfare of African blacks he regarded lower than the Untouchables of India slightly above the animal level? His Satyagrah was for the better treatment of Indians, who, according to Gandhi were treated the same way as savage Kaffirs (native people) were. In his stay of twenty years in South Africa, he had no social contacts with the Kaffirs, as he did not see any common ground with them in the daily affairs of life. He was horrified when he was lodged with natives in the same jail ward. He did not like wearing the same clothes with label N born by the natives, nor he liked their food and sharing lavatory with them. It was the jail experience, which brought out his racism in the open. Kaffir and Chinese prisoners are wild, murderous and given to immoral ways. Kaffirs are as a general rule uncivilized the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animal.
He proclaimed that the British Empire was for the welfare of the whole world and he accepted the superiority and predominance of white race. But he reminded the white people that upper caste Indians share with the Europeans a common heritage the blood of the noble Aryan race. According to him it is Aryan blood, which is responsible for the advancement of human civilization. He suggested to Rev, Doke to civilize the Kaffirs by converting them to Christianity and by infusing Aryan blood into their race. He told the white colonists that the preservation of racial purity (Apartheid) was as important to the Indians as to Europeans.
He urged the colonial authorities to raise a volunteer militia of Indians to fight for the Empire. He told the Natal authorities that it would be a criminal folly if they did not enlist Indians for the war. He was rebuffed with sarcastic and derogatory comments about the fighting ability of people like Gandhi. However, his persistence persuaded the authorities to form a volunteer ambulance corps of Indians under the command of Sergeant-Major Gandhi during the Boer War and Zulu Rebellion. He urged the Indian community to show their loyalty to the British Empire by raising funds for the War. He reminded them that they were in South Africa due to the courtesy of the Empire. It is not for us to judge whether the Kaffir revolt is justified or not. We are co-colonists with whites of this land whereas the black savages are as yet unfit to participate in the political affairs of the colony.
He was a mean spirited parochial Hindu. Sergeant- Major Gandhi selected only Gujrati Hindus as his assistants, three Sergeants and one Corporal in spite of the fact the ambulance corps (20-24 men) was made up mostly of non-Gujratis with substantial number of Muslims.
The Russian Revolution of 1914 spurted national movements against colonial rule. The British brought Gandhi back to India to sabotage Indian national movement against British rule. The congress Party dominated by Gandhi was set up under the patronage of the British authorities. The apostle of peace urged the Indian people to support the British by enlisting in the army during World War I. In his letter he wrote to the Viceroy in1930, he said, One of his reason for launching the Civil Disobedient Movement is to contain the violence of revolutionaries.
On the advice of white promoters of Gandhi, black clergy and civil rights leaders traveled to India to seek Gandhis advice about solving the problem of segregation and civil rights of blacks. How little did they know that Gandhi regarded the black people slightly above the animal level? Moreover, they were ignorant of the fact that caste system was originally imposed, as racial discrimination (Varna Ashrama Dharma) similar to the Apartheid system, on the black natives of India by their Caucasian conquerors. But later on due to emergence of new racial groups due to miscegenation between the two groups, Varna Ashrama Dharma evolved into caste system tied to hereditary occupations. Untouchabilty is as integral a part of Hindu faith as anti- Semitism of the Nazis. It is noteworthy that not a single black leader met Dr. B. R. Ambedkar M. A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, M.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees from London University and Bar-at-Law from Greys Inn, London who was the undisputed leader of the Untouchables at that time. Gandhi propaganda machine manipulated the visit of black leaders, as it did not want them to find truth about Gandhis views on the caste system. I believe in Varnashrama (caste system) which is the law of life. The law of Varna (color and / or caste) is nothing but the law of conservation of energy. Why should my son not be scavenger if I am one? He, Shudra (lowest caste) may not be called a Brahmin (uppermost caste), though he (Shudra) may have all the qualities of a Brahmin in this birth. And it is a good thing for him (Shudra) not to arrogate a Varna (caste) to which he is not born. It is a sign of true humility.
In 1921, Gandhi delivered violent speeches inciting racial hatred against the British. During bloody demonstrations and riots against the visit of Prince of Wales, William Francis Doherty, an American citizen working in Bombay was murdered. Gandhi personally got involved in the cover up of this gruesome murder through bribery and intimidation, as he was concerned that the details of this murder would tarnish Gandhis image in the West.
It is a cruel joke and one of the biggest fabrications of the twentieth century that Gandhi won Indian freedom without spilling a drop of blood. The truth is that it was the devastating effect of World War II that forced the British government to dismantle its Colonial Empire. Moreover, it was Gandhi and his Hindu dominated Congress party that engineered the partition of the country on communal lines, as the Muslim dominant states stood in the way of high caste Hindus to set up their Ram Raj (mythical Hindu kingdom) based on caste ideology. Additionally, the Partition of India in 1947 is one of the major upheavals of the twentieth century. In the State of Punjab alone, 11-12 million people lost their homes and hearths where their ancestors had lived for centuries. May be as many as one million people perished in the communal frenzy and thousands of young women were kidnapped while Gandhi was reciting the murderous sermons from his favorite scripture Bhagvad Gita. He kept insisting up to the last moment that the country would be partitioned only over his dead body!
The ascetic in loincloth used to sleep in buff with naked young girls to perform experiments to test his celibacy. Dr. Sushila Nayar told Ved Mehta that she used to sleep with Gandhi as she regarded him as a Hindu god. The man, who had taken vow of poverty, demanded and got even in jail the same comforts enjoyed by British high officials in India.
The apostle of peace, who counseled a Jewish delegation to oppose the evil of Nazism by soul force by committing mass suicide, was all praise for annexing Kashmir by armed aggression.
He told his Sikh followers that rusty sword is useless in the age of Atom Bomb. The development of nuclear weapons by India a country that ranks among the poorest in the world and is near the bottom of human development index chart of the United Nations exposes the real face of the absolute pacifist and the nation that calls him father. After all didnt lord Krishna tell Arjana during the battle of Mahabharata Victory is truth.
Although, the Indian people have started peeking at the man behind the mask of divinity, there is no let up in the perpetuation of Gandhi myth in the West, especially the United States.
G. B. Singh rightfully deserves the accolades for bringing out the truth about Gandhi from Gandhis own mouth. http://www.sikhsundesh.net/gandhi.htm
Why dont you go to India and see for yourself what the Mahatma, whom you so admire, has wrought, friends told Martin Luther King Jr, after the successful conclusion of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956. By the time he accepted Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehrus invitation to visit India in 1959, the civil rights activist saw himself as a pilgrim to Gandhis land. This year is the 50th anniversary of Kings month-long visit to India. It will have special significance at a time when the frustrated aspirations of millions are expressed through terrorism and intergroup violence rather than the constructive alternatives of Gandhi and King.
When he arrived in India, King was assured that Gandhis influence in India was felt in almost every aspect of life and public policy, but his tour also revealed the profound changes that had occurred in India since Gandhis assassination. After reaching Delhi on Feb. 10, 1959, King and his wife, Coretta, discussed Gandhis legacy during a dinner with Nehru and Lady Mountbatten at Teen Murti Bhavan. Although Nehru assured the Kings that he still believed that India should never stop promoting Gandhian principles, he added that, as a head of government, it would be folly for him to lead India further down that road alone. The Kings learned that Nehru had already abandoned Gandhis model of local economic sufficiency in favor of western-style industrial development. They could not have known that Nehru was considering the possibility that Indias ambitious nuclear power program (which was then consuming a third of the nations research budget) could someday produce nuclear weapons. King recalled that Nehru was confident that India could avoid the pitfalls of industrialization, if the state kept a watchful eye on development.
Nehrus commitment to Gandhian principles was more evident in his policies regarding the untouchables. Contrasting Indias policies of preferential treatment for the lowest castes with pervasive racial discrimination in the U.S., King applauded the fact that Indias leaders were exerting their moral power against caste discrimination. He noted that in the U.S. some of our highest officials decline to render a moral judgment on segregation, and some from the South publicly boast of their determination to maintain segregation.Despite Nehrus wavering support of Gandhian idealism, King was nonetheless impressed that he was at least enthusiastically welcomed by Nehru and other Indian political leaders at a time when he lacked similar access to Americas top leaders.As his tour continued, King was able to visit several ashrams and rural development experiments that reflected Gandhis influence. Especially memorable was his visit to the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, where Gandhi had begun his 1930 Salt March to the sea. Another high point of Kings tour was his meeting on March 3 with Gandhian disciple Acharaya Vinoba Bhave, leader of the Bhoodan movement.
As his visit came to an end, King acknowledged that many Indians wanted their nation to become more westernized and modernized. King, however, placed his hopes in those who equated westernization with the evils of materialism, which would only raise the living standards of the comparative few workers who get jobs while the greater number of people will be displaced and will thus be worse off than they are now.In his farewell statement on March 9, King admitted that he could not presume to know India after a single visit, but he nonetheless offered a gratuitous suggestion for Nehrus government. It may be that just as India had to take the lead and show the world that national independence could be achieved nonviolently, so India may have to take the lead and call for universal disarmament. When he arrived in India, King was a novice protest leader whose activities were only beginning to expand beyond Montgomery, Ala.
Afterward, he would increasingly speak of the African American civil rights struggle as part of a global struggle of minority and colonial peoples in America, Africa and Asia struggling to throw off racialism and imperialism. Still seeing himself as a student of Gandhian principles, he would soon inherit Gandhis mantel as the worlds most influential advocate of nonviolence. Fifty years after Kings pilgrimage to India, the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the U.S. will provide a new test of the durability of Gandhis and Kings nonviolent principles. President-elect Obama often echoes Kings words and applauds his courage, but he will face Nehrus dilemma of choosing between pursuing the ideal of global peace with social justice while also confronting a world afflicted with endemic violence and poverty. Carson is director of the Martin Luther King Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Obamas Link with King and Gandhi By CLAYBORNE CARSON
