based on an unnamed American official's 1921 criticism
of English policy vis-a-vis Islam and its related colonies,
as transcribed/translated from an Ottoman Turkish
translation of the original essay.
The author sees the imminent independence of Egypt,
Arabia and India from Britain, but, in fact, true
independence for these countries was still 30-40 years
away.
The American author's outrage about Britain's colonial
conduct was probably a reflection of the more benign
Wilsonian view of world affairs in 1921. America's
subsequent defacto assumption of Britain's "world's
policman" role during the 20th century and beyond
stands in stark contrast to the author's prudish pique.//
The Increase
in Deaths
On the one
hand, you have the flood of money from India
flowing to England, and on the
other, you have the
victimization of the populace and maladministration to the
point where the
number of famines is increasing all the time
and thousands die from contagious
diseases and hunger. In
a speech given
by one of the Indian statemen, Gokal, at the
last session of the national
assembly in December 1915, he
stated
that the 24 percent death rate in
1883-1884 rose to 34
percent in the following 10 years. Plague is considered a
solution sent by God
to control India’s increasing population.
So consider that while the laws and courts in India try to
prevent
murders and massacres among the people, England
look at the plague as a divine
remedy that kills millions of its
citizens?!!
Idleness Under English Rule
The degree
of ignorance that aflicts the Indians after a century
and a half of English
rule is quite a stain on the haughty
English nation. In the newspaper “Âlem-i Hind” (World of
India) published in Calcutta, the following was written: “If
India has still
not achieved the capacity to administer itself
under a policy of freedom then
this is certainly not its own
fault. The fact that India is today no different than it was at
the beginning of the
Middle Ages after 150 years of English
rule, is rather unfortunate proof of the
state of English
civilization.”
When the
English came to India this nation was living in the
finest period of Asian
civilization and all of the East was
availing itself of India’s wealth of
knowledge and culture.
At that time no
one knew anything about Japan but Japanese
civilization blossomed in a period
of 50 years and began an
era of ascendency.
On the other hand, the fact that after 150
years under English
civilization India has still not rid itself of
foreign occupation is quite
astonishing. And who is to blame?
On one hand,
the Engish government gave the European
governments an ultimatum about stopping
the slave trade from
Africa but, on the other, it deems it permissible to keep
300
million Indians in slavery. Yet,
Europe says nothing about
this!!! So
here we have English policy and European
civilization!
English retribution for the Mutiny of 1857.
India and
Colonialism
At no time
should India be held up as an example on the
subject of colonialism because the
British, who proclaim
their own virtues and their wondrous services to the
world’s
civilization, have never been capable of letting the populace
live
under a just administration.
The English
implemented various actions in India but the
compensation they extracted for
these has been remarkably
high. While
the English make claims about their subjects
living in peace and happiness, at
the same time they have
sent millions of Indians to their graves. With considerable
pride, the English assert
that they have reformed the courts
and the police, but the statistics prove
that they have raped
the country down to its threads!!!
Although the
word ‘rape’ might be a bit strong, it is difficult
to describe the malignancy
of current method of English
administration any other way. The
conscience of the English
people, who claim to be Christians, does not want to
hear the
cries for help from an India moaning under this chained
enslavement. One wonders when the Anglo-Saxon talk of
brotherhood and solidarity will be applied in India, the
largest of England’s
colonies.
I have read
the entire work written by American leader
Mr. William Jenks about what he saw,
heard and sensed
during his trip to India, which was done with the permission
of the English government and which was aimed at helping
him implement policies
for America’s possessions. This
pamphlet
is comprised of one third of his memoir.
King George and Queen Mary in Delhi in 1911.
The Spiritual Benefit of
the Great War in India
From the
January 1919 edition of the “Omanita” magazine
published in Paris: “Only the people of India’s spiritual
benefits increased because of the Great War.”
Although
there were some number of intellectuals in India prior to the
Great War, but the majority of people were suffering in
ignorance and idleness
under English policy and
administration.
The Indian people were bereft of knowledge
about world affairs and the
status of people in the countries
of Europe because the English forbade
newspapers from
Europe and the Islamic world from entering India. The
Moslems cannot even possess a small knife
to butcher sheep.
And all the Indians think that the entire world is ruled in the
same way that England rules
India.
At the time
of the Great War, the English government sent
many Indians to Europe to
fight. But while there, the Indians
saw
different civilizations, freedoms and administrative
methods and when they
returned to India they longingly
related these things to their fellow
citizens! As of that time,
a
revolutionary feeling took hold among the Indians and the
sparks of hatred and
loathing toward the English began to
shoot out!
1.5 million Indians served in World War I.
The
Current War in India
The Indian
people became aware of European civilization,
other forms of administration and
world affairs and thus
began their intellectual ascendency. The Indians now
understood how dangerous and
harmful were the ideas and
efforts of the English government for them. Formerly secret
societies now began to
operate in the open and for the first
time in India’s history Moslems and
Hindus have united
under Gandhi and Muhammed Ali Jinnah to free the East
from Western oppression.
For example, Moslems
who had previously butchered
thousands of cows - sacred for the Hindus - for
their feast
of sacrifice, began to butcher sheep instead, based on the
recommendations of their clergy. And
for the first time
ever Moslems and Hindus began to visit each other during
holidays.
By
developing this affection and sincerity between
themselves, the Indians have blunted
the English policy of
divide and rule, leaving the British flustered. Sensing the
chance to throw off 150 years of
slavery and degradation,
and seeing the
disrespectful English treatment of the Islamic
Caliphate in occupied Istanbul,
the rebels got hold of bombs,
dynamite and thousands of guns left over from the
Great War
and have begun to fight the British in Bengal, in the east, and
around
Delhi, in the north, to gain their freedom.
At the time of the publication of this
pamphlet, all parts of
India have risen up in revolt and the English
government,
Lloyd George, in particular, is like a captain who’s lost his
ship’s compass. (A Reuters News Agency
telegram
subsequently admitted as much.) There is no
longer any
doubt that the East and India will soon breathe the scent of
freedom
from oppression and slavery. Only then
will the
brotherhood of nations that the English claim to believe in
come true.
Get going!
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