4 Temmuz 2019 Perşembe

TNT History Archives: American Scolds Britain's Islam Policy (1921)/Part III-B/FINAL

//Ed. Note:  Herewith the final portion of this TNT series
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.// 



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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 
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!

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       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.

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   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! 

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               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.

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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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