Lets recall our bravehearts on the special occasion of our 73rd Republic Day.
As wisely said by Ray Bradburry
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture,just get people to stop reading them
India is the huge social laboratory and british during colonial rule exploited our emotions attached to it but they forgot to look after that our ideologies divides us but emotions doesn’t.
Our culture reflects holism in diversity and thus our forefathers drew the strength from the teachings of our culture, thereby challenging British rulers by the strong vision to attain National Identity that british had trapped by their crucial intentions of Historical Amnesia to destroy our tolerance.
Indian Meliorists worked together to spread the ideas of swaraj.
The Great Revolt of 1857 was the first large-scale uprising against British rule in India.
Many prominent leaders like Rani Laxmibai, Kunwar Singh, Nana Saheb had contributed to the revolt.
It failed because the English had used Indian soldiers to conquer India by their crucial policies.
The introduction of the Government of India Act, 1858 which abolished the rule of British East India Company and marked the beginning of British raj that bestowed powers in the hands of the British Government to rule India directly through representatives.
The brutal suppression of the Revolt of 1857 was the cause of much hostility against the British.
Between 1858 and 1905 British rule in India was at its strongest. England had become the centre of an empire that included one-quarter of the world’s area and population and India was its most valuable possession, and that hold on our country seemed permanent. But during this same period, a wave of national feeling began to flow through India.
After 1857 the new ideologies began to rise that led the growth of new leadership and ideas like Brahmo Samaj and the famous among those leaders was Raja Rammohan Roy who spreaded the ideas of fatherhood of God and brotherhood of mankind.
British officials passed a kind of fake proposals time to time to include Indian representatives in
decision making. They passed Rowlatt act Bills so called ‘lawless laws’ which was just passed by British for the intention to establish their supremacy amongst Indians.
The framing committees of these laws did’nt even involved any Indian Members.
This led to many mass agitations which was holded by people under the leadership of prominent leaders
like Mahatma Gandhi who proposed the idea of Satyagraha to protest against british without any
violence and these agitations developed into a nationwide campaign that soon outgrew its original
concern with ‘lawless laws’ and lifted Indian nationalism to a higher level.
The arrests of the national leaders Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr Satya Pal on 10th April 1919 in connection with the protests against the Rowlatt Act led to pervasive agitation among the people of Punjab.
On 13th April 1919 which was the occasion of Baisakhi, people gathered at Jallianwala Bagh to peacefully celebrate the festival and discuss the further roadmap to release those arrested leaders.
The military commander of Amritsar, General Dyer passed an order to his coordinating soldiers to open fire on the people and in that incident many innocent people was killed.
First World War added to the misery of the Indian people. Heavy taxes, high prices, famines and
epidemics made people’s life miserable.
Mahatma Gandhi in his famous book “Hind Swaraj” said that British rule was established in India with the cooperation of Indians and had survived only because of this cooperation.
In 1920 Mahatma Gandhi declared the Non cooperation movement in which people had resigned their jobs from Government Institutions, surrendered their titles which was awarded to them by British Government and also refused to use British goods but soon after an angry mob murdered police officers
in the village of Chauri Chaura Gandhiji himself called off the movement.
In 1927 Simon Commission was setup under Sir John Simon The aim of the commission was to enquire into the working of the Government of India act of 1919 and to suggest further reforms in the system of administration but since this commission did not involved any single member from India so people called protests against this commission.
In 1930 Gandhiji put some demands to British Government on the behalf of Indian National Congress but on the refusal of these demands by Britishers Gandhiji called Civil Disobidience Movement in which people did’nt followed any rules passed by colonial government and intentionally broke the laws by making salt from sea water and this act of salt making by breaking salt laws was also called the famous Dandi March or Salt March.
People broke most of the laws, boycotted foreign clothes and picketed liquor shops.
Upon Negotiations between Gandhi and British Government, a pact called Gandhi Irwin pact was signed between Lord Irwin and Gandhiji.
Lord Irwin was the viceroy of India at that time.
On 8 August 1942 All India Congress Committee In a session in Bombay declared the Quit India
Movement.
Many Leaders of congress was arrested and put in jail and British Government refused to move out until the end of second world war.
By the end of the Second World War, Britain's place in the world had changed dramatically and the
demand for independence could no longer be ignored.
The Indian Independence Bill was introduced in the British House of Commons on July 4, 1947, and passed within a fortnight. It provided for the end of British rule in India on August 15, 1947. After that, India became a free country with the bifurcation of India and Pakistan.
And finally On January 26, 1950, the Preamble of the Constitution of India came into effect. This
completed the country's transition to a sovereign republic.
India will never forget the bravehearts who sacrificed their lives into the long history of our pain striking Independence.
India believes in the philosophy of Vasudev Kutumbakam that reminds us that our whole world is one family.
Now India is celebrating its 73rd Republic day and its 75th Independence day under the theme of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’.
The Prime Minister announced that this Mahotsav will be celebrated as a ‘Jan-Utsav’ in the spirit of ‘Jan-Bhagidari’. He added that ‘Azadi ka Amrit’ means elixir of the energy of independence and stands for the inspiring stories of our freedom fighters, of new-age ideas and pledges the spirit of Aatmnirbharta.
Subhash Chandra Bose said that
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives
India is that never ending and perpetual idea itself.
Happy Republic Day to all of my beloved Indians.
--------Your Host Yash Tyagi.
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