THE HOLOCAUSTS IN INDIA

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THE HOLOCAUSTS IN INDIA

By Satish Chandra

 

During the Mughal period everywhere the Muslim population in India

grew from a few thousands to more than 50 millions. At the same time

a continuous stream of Muslims migrated to India from every where.

 

April is remembered as holocaust month in USA. In April 1945, the

liberating allied forces in Germany brought the human killing

factories to the attention of the world. More than 11 millions

people including 6.5 million Jews were systematically killed in

scores of Nazi concentration camps.

 

The world remembers only what you let the world not forget it. The

story of Hindu holocausts is of such a magnitude that over the

centuries it has reduced the Hindu lives of lesser significance.

These thoughts were triggered last month by a visit to the Gadar

Memorial Center, San Francisco. This Reflection is a corollary to

the article that I recently did on the Spirit of the Gadar.

 

Few remember how the forces of Temur butchered the entire Meerut

city of nearly 300,000 population. His anger was ignited when one of

his soldiers was beaten to death for raping a Hindu woman. In 1398,

Temur invaded India on the pretext that `the Muslim sultans of Delhi

were showing excessive tolerance to their Hindu subjects'. Mind it,

the Hindus were living in their own homeland!

 

The trails of Hindu carnage particularly in Panipat and Delhi during

three months (Sep to Dec) were so devastating that Delhi took 100

years to rebuild it. The Hindu mothers used to hush their crying

babies to silence by Temur's name. The Hindukush (means the killing

field of the Hindus) in Afghanistan is a living testimony of Hindu

genocide when the region was Islamicised.

 

Under the Mughals, the atrocities over the Hindus reached new

heights during 48+7 year reign of Aurannzeb and his son. It was a

cultural genocide. SAVA MANN JANEU JALANA (nearly 1000 Lbs. of

sacred thread worn underneath by `baptised' Hindus put to flame

every day) is proverbially etched in the memories. The Hindus had to

pay two separate taxes for living in Hindustan! It was during this

period that the Muslim population in India grew from a few thousands

to more than 50 millions. At the same time a continuous stream of

Muslims migrated to India from every where.

 

The British fully understood the psyche of the Indians drawn from

three politically active religions viz. Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism.

Their major thrust was to cut the vital roots of Hindu culture by

spreading nonsensical theories on the origin of the Hindus, Vedic

interpretations, and imposing damaging systems on education,

agriculture and flourishing cottage industry. After quelling India's

1857 Rebellion, they imposed extraordinary levies on land and

special taxation that gradually broke the will of the people to live.

 

This is the approach that the Germans took in working the inmates of

the concentration to death while keeping them under nourished. The

new diseases of plague, small pox, tuberculosis and typhoid not

existing in India before the advent of the British started wiping

the Indian populace in hundreds and thousands a day. It also

happened to the native populations in many countries in North and

South America when the European colonisers occupied them. It is the

world's first biological warfare!

 

According to the British Gazetteer, 19 millions died of famine. 15

millions died of plague and malaria according to Sir William Digby

during 1891-1900. Hundreds died in Bankura, Bengal and Rajputana in

the famine 1915-16. 7,251,257 (Yes, more than 7 millions!) died from

plague during 1897-1913.The actual numbers may be double. These are

the most recent holocaust of India, and the Hindus were the worst

hit.

 

The Gandhi movie captures this human condition when Gandhi after his

return from South Africa, tours India during 1915-18. During my 1987

tour of Rajasthan, I often wondered at the absence of tall and

strong men who could carry 100 Lbs. of battlefield armor of Maharana

Pratap as displayed in Agra Fort during 1980's. What happened to the

generations of such sturdy men? The same was observed in Gujarat and

Bihar. Most men and women were hardly 5' tall and weighing 80 Lbs.

Orissa, Bihar and Bengal are still worse. Imagine the lost

generations during 1880's through Independence in 1947.

 

In half of his autobiography, My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi has

tangentially mentioned how in South Africa the British treated the

Muslims as a race better than the Hindus. But the most glaring

example of Hindu racial inequity is the crime punishment schedule in

Saudi Arabia. There are numerous instances that go to prove that the

Hindu life comes cheap.

 

When a member of Nazi death squad was asked, "How could you shoot at

the innocent Jews?" The answer was, "Because they don't resist!" A

similar question was posed to Gandhi, "Do you believe that your non-

resistance policy would work against the Germans?"

 

The Sikhs faced the gruesome genocide after Banda Bahadur Bairagi.

It is incredible that his torture-to-death moved Nobel Laureate

Tagore 200 years later to compose a poem.

 

According to one reliable source, 43% of the Sikh population in

Punjab was literally hunted down during 1716-1738. This holocaust is

called Ghalughara in Sikh history. Every Sunday the Sikhs are

reminded of it!

 

I owe it to my name, my scholarship and my lofty Hindu heritage for

bringing these buried holocausts out so that the present generations

stand up to political events in India and overseas. The awareness of

these historical monstrosities shall awaken the racial self-esteem

of the Hindus. The Hindus in India will emerge strong like the Jews

in Israel. The time is ripe for making a documentary on the

holocausts of India. I have broached this subject to a young

documentary producer, Arti Jain.

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