European Imperialism
For no other country in the world from east to west, faces
the agony that the Hindus in India
have to face. They are the injured party; but they are crucified by the 'so
called' secularists—most of them themselves Hindus—at every stage. No country
in the world has been so ravaged and raped by outside forces as India has been down the centuries: Not Japan, not China,
not Russia, none of the
European countries, neither the Arab nations and certainly not the United States of America.
Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagar Empire did not send his forces to Portugal
to tear down churches, use force to convert Christians to Hinduism and indulge
in religious terrorism. Prithviraj Chauhan did not invade Afghanistan nor Central
Asia and raise temples.
No Chola, Chera or
Pandya (Indian) rulers sent a fleet to Saudi Arabia to tear down the
Ka’aba and build a temple to Meenakshi on its ruins or even next to it to
demonstrate Hindu might. India
and Hinduism have been ravaged beyond belief. Hindu missionaries did not
accompany a conquering horde to Britain
and under their benign rule set to convert Scottish peasants to Hinduism—or
even Buddhism. According to author Ram Gopal " A band of dacoits may loot
a full busload of passengers at gunpoint but that does not make the dacoits
more intelligent, cultured or superior beings."
No blood has been shed
for religion in India
except by its invaders. Intolerance came with Islam and Christianity; the
Moslems proposed to buy Paradise with the blood of “infidels” and the
Portuguese, when they captured Goa, introduced the Inquisition into India.
IntroductionThe history of what is now India stretches back thousands of years, further than that of nearly any other region on earth. Yet, most historical work on India concentrates on the period after the arrival of Europeans, with predictable biases, distortions, and misapprehensions. Many overviews of Indian history offer a few cursory opening chapters that take the reader from Mohenjo-daro to the arrival of the Moghuls and the Europeans. India's history is ancient and abundant. The profligacy of monuments so testifies it and so does a once-lost civilization, the Harappan in the Indus valley, not to mention the annals commissioned by various conquerors. There is no shortage of good documentation for these thousands of years, however, there has been a shortage of scholars who know how to use it. In addition, there is a tendency to locate the source of social conflict in India's many religions - Historically, it was Europe, not India, which consistently made religion grounds for war. The spreading of European power and civilization over the entire surface of the globe in recent centuries can be viewed as a continuing series of intrusions into the cultures of non-European world. Nowhere in Asia have the effects of this penetration been more profoundly felt than in India.
"India did not till recently take to the cult of the nation. We did not make our country a national goddess, with an historic destiny, a sacred mission, and a right of expansion. We did not worship Mother India (Bharatmata) as others do, 'Britannia', 'La France', 'The Fatherland'. We did not tell the people that the enemy of India is the enemy of God and if the enemy had a god, he could only be a false god. Our leaders did not proclaim to be the finest people on earth, the chosen race of the universe"
(source: Eastern Religions and Western Thought - By Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan p. 54 and Sources of Indian Tradition - editor Wm. Theodore De Bary Volume II p. 1).
Faxian a Chinese
pilgrims to India
in the fourth century C.E. marveled a the peace, prosperity, and high culture
of the Hindus. Having grown up
in war-torn China,
he was deeply impressed by a land whose leaders were more concerned with
promoting commerce and religion than with slaughtering substantial portion of
the population.
(source: Hinduism
- By Linda Johnson p. 38).
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) was one of the most profound
philosophers of this century, author and educationalist. Radhakrishnan was also a professor of Eastern Religions at Oxford and later became the second President of free India. He has
observed:
“The intolerance of narrow
monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the
time when first the tribes of Israel
burst into the land
of Canaan. The
worshippers of the one Jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against
people of alien cults. They invoke Divine Sanction for the cruelties inflicted
on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity
and Islam. He went on to remark: “Wars of Religion which are the outcome of
fanaticism that prompts and justifies the extermination of aliens of different
creeds are practically unknown in Hindu India.”
The Christian desire
for world dominion transformed the simple faith of Jesus into a fiercely
proselytizing creed. After the time of Constantine, authorities, clerical and
secular, displayed systematic intolerance towards other forms of religious
belief, taking shelter under the words 'He that is not with me is against me,
and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth."
(source: The Hindu View of Life - By Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
p. 40 and Eastern Religions and Western Thought - By Dr. Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan p. 10 ). For more on Dr. S. Radhakrishnan refer to chapter on Quotes. Refer
to The War of
Religions and The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel
Refer to Christian
persecution against the Hellenes - ethnicoi.org. Refer
to Things They Don't Tell you about
Christianity and First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists - livescience.com
Refer to Radical Christian
Missionaries in Iraq and Islam – Christianity’s angry sibling?
- faithfreedom.org and The Jesus Police. For Cruelty inflicted
by Christianity - Watch Constantine's
Sword movie - By Oren Jacoby. Watch Why we fight (2005) documentary
- Imperial
and technological arrogance of world's Super power: describes the rise and maintenance of the United States
military-industrial complex and its involvement in the wars led by the United
States during the last fifty years, and in particular in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The film
alleges that in every decade since World War II, the American public has been
told a lie to bring it into war to fuel the military-economic machine, which in
turn maintains American dominance in the world.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1774) France's greatest writers and philosophers,
was atheist, and a bitter critic of the Church, which he looked upon as the
instigator of cruelty, injustice, and inequality, wrote, in a letter to Frederick
the Great (1712–86):
"Christianity
is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever
infected the world." Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know
that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm?' "Every
sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in
horror."
“You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the
birth of the Church, Rome
has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind
and annihilated reason.” “As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable
and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and
turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.”
In his 'Philosophical Dictionary', Voltaire
gave a time-defying verdict:
"Pagan
religion shed very little blood, while ours flooded the earth with it.
Christianity has deluged the earth with blood for the sake of sophisms'."
About the atrocities committed by the Roman Catholic Church in Goa in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, Voltaire in his 'Fragments of India's History' observed: 'Goa is sadly famous for its Inquistion, which is contrary to humanity as much as to commerce. The Portuguese monks deluded us into believing that the Indian populace was worshipping the Devil, while it is THEY who served him'.
(source: Letter to Frederick the Great,
quoted in the Encyclopedia of Unbelief
Prometheus Books, 1985, p. 715).
Will Durant 1885-1981) American
historian, would like the West to learn from India, tolerance and gentleness and
love for all living things. He had remarked about the plunder of India thus:
"...It was the
wealth of 18th century India
which attracted the commercial pirates of England
and France."
"It was this wealth that the East India Company proposed to appropriate.
Already in 1686 its Directors declared their intention to 'establish ....a
large, well-grounded, sure English dominion in India for all time to come."
"The British conquest of India was the invasion and
destruction of a high civilization by a trading company utterly without scruple
or principle, careless of art and greedy of gain, over-running with fire and
sword a country temporarily disordered and helpless, bribing and murdering,
annexing and stealing and beginning that career of illegal and 'legal' plunder
which has now gone on ruthlessly....It was a simple matter for a group of
English buccaneers, armed with the latest European artillery and morals, to
defeat the bows and arrows, the elephants and primitive musketry of the rajahs,
and bringing one Hindu province after another under the control of the British
East India Company."
(source: The Case for India - By Will Durant p. 7 - 9).
Refer to British Imperial
Secrets - By George Monbiot
Koenraad Elst
(1959 - ) a Belgian Indologist has pointed out: "Hindu Society has been suffering a sustained
attack from Islam since the 7th century, from Christianity since the
15th century, and this century also from Marxism. The avowed
objective of each of these three world-conquering movements, with their massive
resources, is the replacement of Hinduism by their own ideology, or in effect:
the destruction of Hinduism.
"This concern is not at all paranoid (as the spokespersons
of these aggressors would say), even if the conversion squads are remarkably
unsuccessful in India. Consider the situation in Africa: in 1900, 50 % of all
Africans practiced Pagan religion; today Christian and Islamic missionaries
have reduced this number to less than 10 %.
That is the kind of
threat Hinduism is up against."
(source: Negationism in India - By Koenraad Elst p
78 - 79). Refer to The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple - By
Ishwar Sharan. Watch The Crescent and the Cross
Refer to Islam – Christianity’s
angry sibling? - faithfreedom.org and The Jesus Police
Swami Aksharananda ( ) an Indian of Caribbean origin and
holds a Ph.D. degree in Hindu Studies from the University of Madison, Wisconsin
(USA) has observed:
"The concept that “All religions
are one” as propagated by Gandhi incessantly is the most destructive concept
that is affecting us all. It is not
only silly but dangerous fallacy to propagate the idea that all religions are
one. Hindus, who are
under severe attacks every day by the same forces of Allah and Christ. Hinduism
and other religions can’t be equated and called same because “religions” of the
world have been born in the environment of hostility.
(source: All religions are not same - By Swami Aksharanand -
theuniversalwisdom.org)
Sir V S Naipaul (1932 - ) Nobel laureate, He is the author of several
books including Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples,
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, and India: A Wounded Civilization says:
“India has been a wounded civilization because
of Islamic violence: Pakistanis know this; indeed they revel in it. It is only
Indian Nehruvians like Romila Thapar who pretend that Islamic
rule was benevolent. We should face
facts: Islamic rule in India was at least as catastrophic as the later
Christian rule. The Christians created massive poverty in what was a most prosperous
country; the Muslims created a terrorized civilization out of what was the most
creative culture that ever existed.”(source: OutlookIndia.com, 15 November 1999 and http://www.indpride.com/vsnaipaul.html). Refer to Evangelical Intrusions - By Sandhya Jain Rupa Publications.
Naipaul has remarked:
“How do you ignore history? But the nationalist movement, Independence
movement ignored it. You read the Glimpses of World History by Jawaharlal Nehru,
it talks about the mythical past and then it jumps the difficult period of the
invasions and conquests. So you have Chinese pilgrims coming to Bihar, Nalanda
and places like that. Then somehow they don’t tell you what happens, why these
places are in ruin. They never tell you why Elephanta island is in ruins or why
Bhubaneswar was desecrated.”
There is nothing either in the time-honored
doctrines or the hoary history of Hinduism, which resembles even remotely the
ideology, or history of Nazism, or for that matter, Christianity or Islam or
Communism. Hinduism has always been and remains a deep-rooted tradition of
spiritual, cultural and social pluralism with ample provision for all sorts of
skepticism and democratic debate. Far from creating any machinery for heresy
hunting and persecution of dissent. Hindus have given shelter to the persecuted
people from many lands and in all ages. But
what is most important, they have always regarded their own homeland as the
only playfield for their chakravartins, and never waged wars of conquest beyond
the borders of Bharata-varsha. India has been invaded by many foreign faiths,
only to be absorbed in the vast Indian humanity until the advent of Islam which
spread more by its fire and sword and later Christianity by more subtle means
of inducements and compulsions. It is important that Hindus remember the
atrocities of the past, for "Those
who forget history will be condemned to repeat it."Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) the English novelist and essayist, born into a family that included some of the most distinguished members of the English ruling class, author of Perennial Philosophy (ISBN 0060901918) also notices:
"Islam's black record of holy wars and persecution - a record comparable to that of later Christianity."
"The religions
whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with
eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political
practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed
with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have
preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing
religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic
oppression of colored people."
"Most European and American authors of books about
religion and metaphysics write as though nobody had ever thought about these
subjects except Jews, the Greeks Christians of Mediterranean Basin and Western
Europe. Like any other form of
imperialism, theological imperialism is the threat to world peace".
(source: The Perennial philosophy - By Aldous Huxley p. 194 - 204). For more on Aldous Huxley on refer to chapter on Quotes. Refer to Christian persecution against the Hellenes - ethnicoi.org. Refer to Things They Don't Tell you about Christianity and First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists - livescience.com. Refer to Islam – Christianity’s angry sibling? - faithfreedom.org and The Jesus Police
(source: The Perennial philosophy - By Aldous Huxley p. 194 - 204). For more on Aldous Huxley on refer to chapter on Quotes. Refer to Christian persecution against the Hellenes - ethnicoi.org. Refer to Things They Don't Tell you about Christianity and First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists - livescience.com. Refer to Islam – Christianity’s angry sibling? - faithfreedom.org and The Jesus Police
Watch The Crescent and the Cross. Refer to QuickTime trailer and Part One of
the film The God Awful Truth. Refer to Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress - By Howard Zinn
and Radical Christian
Missionaries in Iraq and 'Unholy Crusaders: The Role of Evangelicals in US Imperialism'
– By Iain Buchanan
For Cruelty inflicted by Christianity - Watch Constantine's Sword movie
- By Oren Jacoby and The Great Scandal: Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis
- Gregory S. Paul - christianaggression.org and Red Cross and the Vatican 'helped thousands of Nazis escape
M V Kamath (?) the Indian columnist has written eloquently:
"For no other country in the world from east to west,
faces the agony that the Hindus in India have to face. They are the injured
party; but they are crucified by the
secularists—most of them themselves Hindus—at every stage. No country in
the world has been so ravaged and raped by outside forces as India has been
down the centuries: Not Japan, not China, not Russia, none of the European
countries, neither the Arab nations and certainly not the United States of
America. Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagar Empire did not send his forces to
Portugal to tear down churches, use force to convert Christians to Hinduism and
indulge in religious terrorism. Prithviraj Chauhan did not invade Afghanistan
nor Central Asia and raise temples. '
"No Chola, Chera
or Pandya ruler sent a fleet to Saudi Arabia to tear down the Ka’aba and build
a temple to Meenakshi on its ruins or even next to it to demonstrate Hindu
might. India and Hinduism have been ravaged beyond belief. Hindu missionaries did not accompany a
conquering horde to Britain and under their benign rule set to convert Scottish
peasants to Hinduism—or even Buddhism."
(source: Help us bear the
burden of secularism - By M. V. Kamnath - organiser.org)
Archbishop Desmond
Tutu (1931 - ) is a South
African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an
opponent of apartheid. Tutu was the first black South African Anglican
Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. He was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1984."It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, (Heathens) who were responsible for the Holocaust.
It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ"
(source: Famous Quotes - crusadewatch.org). Refer to Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress - By Howard Zinn.
Refer to Christian
persecution against the Hellenes - ethnicoi.org and Radical Christian
Missionaries in Iraq .
Refer to QuickTime trailer and Part One of the film The God Awful Truth. Refer to World Conquering Creeds - By Dr. Koenraad Elst - chapter on Glimpses XVI
Might does not make it
right
Gore Vidal
(1925 - ) well known American writer, the eminent historian,
and a public figure for over fifty years, in his Lowell Lecture at Harvard
University given April 20, 1996 observed:
“When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago,… inspired by a
raging sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in
order to bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and
subtler religions. ………
“From a barbaric Bronze
Age text known as the Old Testament, three antihuman religions have evolved --Judaism, Christianity, Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are,
literally, patriarchal --God is the omnipotent father-- hence the loathing of
women for 2,000 years. The sky-god is a
jealous god, of course. Those who would reject him must be converted or killed
for their own good. Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of
politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal
nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one
King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family
home."
“I regard monotheism
as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in
Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on
a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race
…” “More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name
in the history of the world.” "Christianity is such a silly
religion."
(source: Lowell Lecture at
Harvard University given - By Gore Vidal - April 20, 1996 and
positiveatheism.com
and Gore Vidal, in Time magazine, September 28, 1992, p. 66, from James
A Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief). Refer to Jesus Christ:
Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel and Watch The Crescent and the Cros
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was the foremost disciple of Ramakrishna and a
world spokesperson for Vedanta. India's first spiritual and cultural ambassador
to the West, came to represent the religions of India at the World Parliament of
Religions, held at Chicago in connection with the World's Fair (Columbian
Exposition) of 1893. He observed:
“We who have come from the East here
have been told day after day in a patronizing way that we ought to accept
Christianity because Christian nations are the most prosperous. We look about
us and see England as the most prosperous nation in the world, with her foot on
the neck of 250 million Asiatics. We look back in history and see Christian
Spain's wealth beginning with the invasion of Mexico. Such prosperity comes
from cutting the throats of fellow men. At such a price the Hindu will not have
prosperity.”
(source:
Vivekananda quotes).
Trader, Tank and
Missionary Axis
"It
is the same ship that brought the Bible which also carried guns and alcohol to
Africa."- Michael Baffoe author of Demonizing African Culture in the Name of Christianity
Refer to QuickTime trailer and Part One of the film The God Awful Truth. Refer to World Conquering Creeds - By Dr. Koenraad Elst - chapter on Glimpses XVI.
Refer to Christian
persecution against the Hellenes - ethnicoi.org. Watch The Bible is Bullshit - Penn & Teller
examine the Bible. Refer to Oppose Christian Missionaries and Radical Christian
Missionaries in Iraq .
Watch How do we know that Christians are delusional?
Refer to Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress - By Howard Zinn
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German
social philosopher, the chief theorist of modern Communism, and author of Das Kapital, was not a sympathizer of imperialism
or capitalism.
In The British Rule in India he wrote:
“There cannot, however, remain any doubt but that the misery inflicted by the British on Hindustan is of an essentially different and infinitely more intensive kind than all Hindustan had to suffer before. They destroyed it ( India ) by breaking up the native communities, by uprooting the native industry, and by leveling all that was great and elevated in the native society. The historic pages of their rule in India report hardly anything beyond that destruction.”
“Did they not, in India , to borrow an expression of that great robber, Lord Clive himself, resort to atrocious extortion, when simple corruption could not keep pace with their rapacity?
“There cannot, however, remain any doubt but that the misery inflicted by the British on Hindustan is of an essentially different and infinitely more intensive kind than all Hindustan had to suffer before. They destroyed it ( India ) by breaking up the native communities, by uprooting the native industry, and by leveling all that was great and elevated in the native society. The historic pages of their rule in India report hardly anything beyond that destruction.”
“Did they not, in India , to borrow an expression of that great robber, Lord Clive himself, resort to atrocious extortion, when simple corruption could not keep pace with their rapacity?
While they prated in Europe
about the inviolable sanctity of the national debt, did they not confiscate in
India the dividends of the rajahs, who had invested their private savings in
the Company's own funds? The devastating effects of English industry, when
contemplated with regard to India , a country as vast as Europe , and
containing 150 millions of acres, are palpable and confounding.”
(source: CPI(M) and Karl
Marx - By Dipak Basu - indiacause.com).
Gideon Polya, a professor at La Trobe University in Victoria,
Australia, made the following observation:
“The wartime Bengal Famine has become a
‘forgotten holocaust’ and has been effectively deleted from our history books,
from school and university curricula and from general public perception. To the
best of my knowledge, Churchill only wrote of it once, in a secret letter to
Roosevelt dated April 29th 1944 in which he made the following remarkable plea
for help in shipping Australian grain to India: ‘I am no longer justified in
not asking for your help.’ Churchill’s six-volume History of the Second World War fails to mention the
cataclysm that was responsible for about 90% of total British Empire casualties
in that conflict, but makes the extraordinary obverse claim: ‘No great portion
of the world population was so effectively protected from the horrors and
perils of the World War as were the people of Hindustan. They were carried
through the struggle on the shoulders of our small island.’”
(source: How Sir Winston Churchill Starved 4 Million Indians - By Ramtanu Maitra). Watch European Imperialism and Colonialism in 10
Minutes: The Scramble For Africa and Introduction to Colonialism in Africa
Refer to Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India
during World War II - By Madhusree Mukerjee and The Flaws in the Jewel: Challenging the Myths of British India -
By Roderick Matthews
Rabindranath
Tagore (1861-1941) poet, author, philosopher, Nobel prize laureate. Tagore was deeply critical of the British
Raj in India. He also made some statements to the press about the
ghastly book by Katherine Mayo called Mother India, which was then a huge
bestseller in the U.S. He wrote:“The chronic want of food and water, the lack of sanitation and medical help, the neglect of means of communication, the poverty of educational provision, the all pervading spirit of depression that I have myself seen to prevail after over a hundred years of British rule make me despair of its beneficence.”
“Rudely shaken out of my dream I began to realize that perhaps in no other modern state was there such hopeless dearth of the most elementary needs of existence. And all the time before our eyes Japan has been transforming herself into a mighty and prosperous nation. I have also been privileged to witness the unsparing energy with which Russia has succeeded in steadily liquidating ignorance and poverty wiping off the humiliation from the face of a vast continent. I cannot help contrasting two systems of governance: one based on cooperation and the other on exploitation. Thus, while these other countries were marching ahead, India smothered under the dead weight of British administration lay static in her utter helplessness”.
(source: A Hundred Years of Rule, The Manchester Guardian, Friday 2 October 1936 and Crisis of Civilization’ - By Rabindranath Tagore). Refer to Loot: in search of the East India Company - By Nick Robins and How India became poor - indiarealist.co
Dharampal
(1922 - 2006) a
Gandhian and author of several books including The Beautiful Tree and
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth century.
He wrote extensively of the
damage the British Raj inflicted on India and Indians:
"The conquered in their view, had ultimately to
disappear, if not wholly physically, at least as a culture and civilization. In
Australia, and New Zealand practically all the local inhabitants were wiped out
soon enough; in North America near complete elimination happened, over 300-400
years, and in Ireland only partially. The indigenous population of the Americas
had been estimated at 112 to 140 millions in 1492.
In India a large
number perished by British brutality and deliberate creation of famines,
violation of persons bodies and dignity; in
Palnad in Andhra, half of the population was said to be have perished every ten
years, during several decades after the subjugation of the areas by
Britain. It seems as if the
intellectuals and leaders of Britain hated India, and felt outraged that in
spite of all their brutalities, smashing of Indian institutions, high extortions,
and tortures, men made famines and expropriation of Indian resources to the
British state, and thus the all round breakdown of Indian society, the Indians
on the whole, could not be wiped out that easily. "
(source: Despoliation and Defaming of India – By Dharampal published by Bharat Peetham, Wardha Other India Press, Goa p. 1 - 17). Refer to Loot: in search of the East India Company - By Nick Robins and How India became poor - indiarealist.com
(source: Despoliation and Defaming of India – By Dharampal published by Bharat Peetham, Wardha Other India Press, Goa p. 1 - 17). Refer to Loot: in search of the East India Company - By Nick Robins and How India became poor - indiarealist.com
Atrocity Literature
and blaming Native Culture
Justification for Colonial Rule in India
Rajiv Malhotra
( ? ) founder of The Infinity
Foundation, a non-profit organization in Princeton, New
Jersey and author of the book, Breaking India: Western Inventions
and Dalit Faultlines has observed:Justification for Colonial Rule in India
"Atrocity literature played its part in downgrading
women’s right, too. Veena Oldenburg’s
seminal book, Dowry Murder,
gives details on how the British encouraged the Indians to dish out cases of
atrocities that could then be blamed on
the native cultures. They systematically compiled these anecdotes,
mostly unsubstantiated and often
exaggerated and one-sided. This became a justification to enact laws that
downgraded the rights of common citizens. The book shows how the dowry
extortions that have become so common in middle-class today, were actually
started when women’s traditional property rights were taken away by the British
through convoluted logic."
(source: Breaking India: Western Inventions
and Dalit Faultlines - By Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan p. 5). Refer to
chapter on Women in Hinduism
and British aristocracy ‘ate human flesh’
Christianity,
Commerce, and Civilization or Gold, God and Glory
Note: Refer to Scramble for Africa - Six European powers
sliced up Africa like a cake. In 1885 Berlin Conference - Britain, France,
Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Italy partitioned Africa among themselves and
acquired 30 new colonies and 110 million subjects. - The "dark
continent" was systematically raped by Europe. At center stage are a
motley band of explorers, politicians, evangelists, mercenaries, journalists
and tycoons blinded by romantic nationalism or caught up in the scramble for
loot, markets and slaves to make a fortune, all in the name of the "3 Cs": Christianity, Commerce, and
Civilization. The "3 Cs" served as the foundation for most
European imperialist of the time.
(source: The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876-1912 – By Thomas Pakenham).
Noam Chomsky (1928 - ) is an American linguist, philosopher, political
activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor and professor
emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is
author of several books including Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global
Dominance (American Empire Project).
His book, Year
501: The Conquest Continues is a
devastating and scathing critique and indictment of Western capitalism. It is
the essential book for understanding the reasoning and motives behind the
annihilation of the indigenous population of the world and the countries that
were enriched by it.
He has observed that:
'Places like India and
Bengal ( Bangladesh ) which were highly advanced industrial societies by the
mid-1700's but all of the industries which were superior to their counterparts
in Britain were deliberately undermined or simply forced out of existence by
the British colonisers. India and Bangladesh became extremely poor, feudal
agricultural countries supplying Britain with raw materials and as a captive
market for British goods."
(source: Year 501: The Conquest Continues - By Naom
Chomsky). Refer to It's Imperialism, Stupid - By Noam Chomsky. Refer to Iraq: The Hidden Cost and Iraq ’s
erasure and Asian racial delusions - By Dr Gautam Sen - The Americans set out to destroy Iraq, which is why they began a
calculated genocidal war against it. The mere removal of Saddam Hussein, whom
they themselves had put into power decades earlier and nurtured cynically, was
clearly inadequate for their goal of dismantling Iraq comprehensively. The
moment the Americans destroyed Iraq ’s museums and libraries it was clear that
the contemporary descendants of the Mongol scourge, Hulegu (destroyer of
Baghdad in 1251AD) had arrived. The killing of Iraqis on a massive scale by
Bush and his Leftist British minions has been accompanied by the targeted
elimination of professionals. The destruction of Iraqi civilisation is being
completed by erasing its historical records and cultural artefacts, the
conduits of collective historic memory. The brutal Romans, though more
civilised than modern Americans, would have recognised the imperial logic of
scorched earth to secure rule). Prince Andrew rebukes US on Iraq - He said the US should have learned lessons
from British colonial history and he added that there had been
"occasions when people in the UK would wish that those in responsible
positions in the US might listen and learn from our experiences". Watch No end in sight
documentary (2007) and refer to The Looting of Baghdad museum: US
government implicated in planned theft of Iraqi artistic treasures - The pillaging of the Baghdad Museum is a tragedy that has
no parallel in world history; it is as if the Uffizi, the Louvre, or all the
museums of Washington D.C. had been wiped out in one fell swoop. Some compare
the event to the burning of the Alexandria Library. Eight thousand years of
human history has been erased in two days.
Refer to Islam –
Christianity’s angry sibling? - faithfreedom.org and The Jesus Police and Radical Christian
Missionaries in Iraq
Arthur
Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German
philosopher and writer. He was one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th
century. He was the first Western philosopher to have access to translations of
philosophical material from India, both Vedic and Buddhist, by which he was
profoundly affected. Counted among his disciples are such thinkers as Nietzsche
and Wittgenstein, as well as Sigmund Freud, who takes a large part of his
psychological theory from the writings of Schopenhauer.He comments on the atrocities inflicted on the Hindus
"...on the fanaticism and endless persecutions, the religious wars, that sanguinary frenzy of which the ancient had no conception! Think of the crusades, a butchery lasting two hundred years and inexcusable, its war cry 'It is lasting two hundred years and inexcusable, its war cry 'It is the will of God,' Think of the orgies of blood, the inquisitions, the heretical tribunals, the bloody and terrible conquests...in three continents, or....in America, whose inhabitants were for the most part, not looked upon as human! And above all, don't lets forget India, the cradle of the human race, or at least of that part of it to which we belong, where first.. were most cruelly infuriated against the adherents of the original faith of mankind. The destruction or disfigurement of the ancient temples and idols, a lamentable, mischievous and barbarous act still bear witness to the monotheistic fury...carried on from Mahmud, the Gahaznevid of cursed memory, down to Aurengzeb, the fratricide, whom the Portuguese...have zealously imitated by destruction of temples and the auto defe of the Inquisition of Goa..."For the sake of truth, I must add that the fanatical enormities perpertrated in the name of religion are only to be put down to the adherents of monotheistic creeds...We hear nothing of the kind in the case of the Hindoos and Buddhists."
(source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - By T. Bailey Saunders p. 42 - 43). Watch The Crescent and the Cross
Refer to Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II - By Madhusree Mukerjee and The Flaws in the Jewel: Challenging the Myths of British India - By Roderick Matthews
Friedrich Max Muller
(1823-1900) German philologist and Orientalist. He repeatedly drew attention to
the uniqueness of the Vedas and awakened interest in Indology among educated
people.
He did more than any other scholar to popularize philology
and mythology, e.g., his lectures Science of Language. Muller is
best known for his series Sacred Books
of the East.
"Christianity is
a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the
world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death."
(source: crusadewatch.org). Refer to
Loot: in search of
the East India Company - By Nick Robins and How India became poor - indiarealist.com. Refer
to Evangelical Intrusions - By Sandhya Jain Rupa
Publications.Cannibalizing Cultures - Pests from the West
Religion, money and armed might, the unholy trinity of Neo-Imperialism.
Sesha Samarajiwa ( ? ) from Sri Lanka is interested examining foreign religious agents’ role as Fifth Columnists of neocolonialism/neoimperialism. He has written:
"Evangelists belong to a long line of pests from the West who have come and keep coming like locusts to colonize our souls and cannibalize our cultures.
The latest incursions are merely a continuation of the 500-year-old sorry saga of Asia, Africa and South America , which began with the arrival of the Portuguese and the Spaniards. Some have never recovered from the machinations of their priests and the savagery of their conquistadors. The baton of imperialism has passed from the Europeans to the Americans. That is not to say that the rest of the West has dropped out. They have not. They are very much in the game. It’s just that the Americans are in the lead, the new Romans on the rampage.
We know well how the Europeans won the West. They won it through mass genocide of the native populations in North and South America . In South America , hundreds and thousands of natives who resisted conversion were garroted. There is a poignant painting depicting such conversions. It shows armored Spanish soldiers garroting native priests, while a Spanish priest holds up a large cross. More terrified natives await their turn. On the side, another Spanish priest feeds stacks of ancient gold-leaf books of the Mayans into a fire. On the face of the Mayan priests, a look of utter sadness mixed with resignation.
In places like India and Sri Lanka , they were no better. They too faced abject horrors. In his book, Christianity's scramble for India, Navaratna Rajaram says that “the Christian Missionary is neither a Christian nor a missionary. In fact, he is a racist and a white supremacist in priestly guise.” Their Buffalo Bills and their Wild Bills, their Custers and their Cortezes, and the long line of predators and priests made sure that the sorry remainder of once-proud nations would remain so, while they ruled the roost in lands drenched with native blood. Many weaker cultures succumbed to the relentless onslaught from the West. They either slaughtered those who resisted or they sowed the seeds of abjection and their eventual self-destruction. Even today, we see the pathetic dregs of once-noble nations staggering around native reservations and barrios in North and South America, in Australia , in Canada , in New Zealand . They have lost their spirit. They have lost their will to live. They seem embarrassed to be alive. They are self-destructing. At best, they are performing monkeys titillating whites with a thirst for the exotic. These are abject peoples, vanishing tribes. Now, not satisfied with ruling their large chunk of raided real estate, they are hell-bent on extending their hegemony over the whole world. They howl in protest when the natives resist. Human misery is happy hunting grounds for these spiritual cartels. They strike when their targets are at their weakest or bomb them to submission to make sure they are at their weakest. Thus softened up, they are susceptible to inducements and brainwashing. They are canny. To ‘convert’ people, you must first make them despise and reject what had sustained their people for millennia. So they vilify their faith or convince them it is a spent force or dark superstition. In so doing, they make us spit on our heritage.
(source: Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing - By Sesha Samarajiwa - Asian Tribune October 9, 2007). Refer to First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists - livescience.com
C K Raju (1954 - ) holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Statistical
Institute. He taught mathematics for several years before playing a lead role
in the C-DAC team which built Param: India ’s first parallel supercomputer. His
earlier book ‘Time: Towards a Consistent Theory’ set out a new physics with a
tilt in the arrow of time. He has been a Fellow of the Indian Institute of
Advanced Study and is a Professor of Computer Applications.
He has observed that:
"Doctrine of
Christian Discovery - According to which only Christians could be regarded as
discoverers.
The church decreed that ownership of a piece of land must
go to the first Christian to spot it. (Hence, the claim that Columbus
“discovered” America , or that Vasco da Gama “discovered” India). The people
already living on the land did not matter, and the church encouraged their
killing on a mass scale, where possible, as actually happened on three
continents.
This doctrine was made into a law by the US supreme court,
and that is where the current US law on land-ownership vis-a-vis the “Red
Indians” stands."
(source: Newton as Theologian
- By C K Raju). Refer to Five Hundred Years
of Injustice
Note: The Doctrine of Discovery provided that by law and divine
intention European Christian countries gained power and legal rights over
indigenous non-Christian peoples immediately upon their “discovery” by
Europeans. Various European monarchs and their legal systems developed this
principle to benefit their own countries. Refer to Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis &
Clark, and Manifest Destiny - By Robert Miller
Christian Europe has
always believed that it has the divinely ordained mission of bringing all
heathendom under the domain of the Church; similarly
at the dawn of modern period, Imperial Europe felt heavily the “white man’s
burden of civilizing the world”.
Edmund Gustav Albrecht
Husserl (1859 – 1938) German
philosopher says:
“Naturally the “Europeanization of all foreign parts of
the world” is the destiny of the earth. God made Europe in His own image and
now the rest of mankind will be made in the image of Europe .”
Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976) Raised as a Roman Catholic, a German
philosopher and author of Being and
Time, also refers to the “complete Europeanization of the earth and of
mankind.”
(source: On Hinduism – By Ram Swarup p. 120 - 123).According to author Ram Gopal
" A band of dacoits may loot a full busload of passengers at gunpoint but that does not make the dacoits more intelligent, cultured or superior beings."
(source: Hindu Culture During and after Muslim Rule - By Ram Gopal p. 63). Refer to Evangelical Intrusions - By Sandhya Jain Rupa Publications.
Dr Charles
Sabillon ( ?) author of
several books, has observed in his article Christianity and Islam: Which is the Worst?
"The origins of both religions are based on the
claims of two men, Jesus and Mohammed, and both men proved equally incapable of
demonstrating their divine mandate. From that perspective, the two creeds are
equally based on false propositions and can be classified as nothing more than
lies. Mohammed ordered his followers to
do it by the sword, and that is what they did once he died. They
launched into one of the most enthusiastic conquering ventures the world has
ever seen and forged an empire that extended from Central Asia to the southwest
of Europe.
Nations were
ruthlessly converted to Christianity by the sword just like Islam converted
Arabia, Central Asia, and Africa by the sword. With his armies, Charlemagne preached the
Gospel of the cross to the Saxons, the Germans, the Bohemians, and the
Hungarians. This was not the only evangelizing military operation. There
were also the infamous Crusades
from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, the Inquisition, and the conquest
of the American continent from the sixteenth century onwards. Throughout
the Middle Ages in Europe, the Christian
Church was the most militarily powerful organization in that continent.
Being the largest landowner and the biggest tax collector provided the Pope
with huge amounts of money, which were used to solidify his power by
establishing a potent armed force.
(source: Christianity and Islam: Which is the Worst? - By Charles
Sabillon - americanchronicle.com). Refer to Things They Don't Tell you about
Christianity. Refer to First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists -
livescience.comRefer to Radical Christian Missionaries in Iraq and Stolen Kingdom: An American Conspiracy - By Budnick, Rich (1992). Honolulu: Aloha Press. For more refer to chapter on Glimpses XIX
Refer to Holy warriors in the US armed forces and Christian embassy and Officers Christian fellowship and Ambassadors for Christian Dominion in Uniform. Watch Why we fight (2005) documentary - Imperial and technological arrogance of world's Super power: describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex and its involvement in the wars led by the United States during the last fifty years, and in particular in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The film alleges that in every decade since World War II, the American public has been told a lie to bring it into war to fuel the military-economic machine, which in turn maintains American dominance in the world.
Civilizational Graveyards? Modus Operandi of Christianity around the Globe
Trader, Tank and Missionary Axis - Pax Britannica to Pax Americana ?
Andrew Jon Rotter, an American historian, and
professor at Colgate University, writes:
"Most Westerners
see expansion as the logical extension of power, if you have it use it.
Westerners imagine space as available, beckoning those outside to occupy it,
settle it, master it.
“The history which
Europeans constructed for themselves was part of a growing process of control
over space.” – writes Bernard S Cohen.
Beginning with the 17th century, European
settlers saw space as an opportunity. Americans moved West if they failed in
the east, for the West would allow them to start life over again. Space was a
necessity. Space was exciting, democratic, more liberated and more dangerous
than what passed for civilization in the East. Space was a White American
right, and Native Americans who challenged the right of a White American to
move west must be removed or destroyed. “Expansion
lies at the center of the American Weltanschauung (world
view)."
(source: Comrades at Odd: Culture and Indo-US relations 1947-1964 – By
Andrew Kotter p. 40). Refer to The Sole Superpower in Decline - By Dilip Hiro August 20, 2007. Refer to The Empire is over – By Charlie Reese and How Super Was Our Power Anyway?
- thenation.com. Refer to Hooked on War:
Thomas Friedman's Deadly Addiction - New York Times Thomas
Friedman is the man who called invading Iraq "one of the noblest things
this country has ever attempted abroad." Also refer to USA - What does the Constitution say
about religion? - WBIR.com 8 December, 2007. Refer to Iraq ’s erasure and Asian racial delusions - By
Dr Gautam Sen
Refer to What Every "Ugly American" Must Know about the "Civilized
British - www.larouchepac.com. Refer to
Mandela Slams Bush - "What I am condemning is
that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think
properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust." And that
wasn't all. He attacked America for its record on human rights and for dropping
atomic bombs on Japan World War II. "If there is a country that has
committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of
America . They don't care."
Radha Rajan
is editor of vigilonline. In her article
titled - European, American Museums:
Fortified Havens For Plunder From India she has remarked
that: "Should the people of India, Greece, Egypt and Africa, and Native American peoples succeed in getting American and European museums and libraries to ret urn all objects which constitute the tangible roots of ancient civilisations, and thousands of years of history pre-dating the cults of Jesus and Mohammed, then the Louvre, British Museum, Smithsonian, Vatican and the Kunsthistoriches Museum to mention just five, would be emptied of all their prized possessions.
European and American museums and libraries are no more than fortified thieves’ dens and state-sponsored and supported safe havens for Abrahamic plunder; they house the spoils of Christian war and genocide against African peoples, against the nations of now extinct and almost extinct Native American peoples, colonial loot from Asia, and from archaeological and anthropological pseudo-science expeditions, which European marauders undertook across continents. "
(source: European, American Museums: Fortified Havens For Plunder From India - By Radha Rajan - organiser.org)
William Dalrymple (1965 - ) author of The Last Mughal, and award-winning travel writer and historian, says:
'Islamic fundamentalism and Western imperialism have often been closely and fatally intertwined'
"You see so many parallels. The evangelical politicians, including George W Bush, cast their opponents and enemies in the role of 'incarnate fiends' as the British did the mutineers in 1857. The Western politicians also conflate armed resistance to invasion and occupation with 'pure evil' as the British did in 1857. Like the British in 1857, Western powers today are stubbornly blind to the effects their policies have on the wider world... they are not examining their own policies."
(source: Islamic fundamentalism and Western imperialism have often been closely and fatally intertwined - rediff.com). Refer to A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption - By John Perkins and The American Empire page - thirdworldtraveler.com. Refer to Iraq: The Hidden Cost.
Refer to Holy warriors in the US armed forces and Christian embassy and Officers Christian fellowship and Ambassadors for Christian Dominion in Uniform
John Shelby Spong, Episcopal Bishop of Newark (NJ) in 'Why Christianity
Must Change or Die' writes:
“The familiar Christian God acknowledged by almost
all of our European ancestors not only blessed the imperialistic and colonial
expansion of those nations in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth
centuries but also declared that this colonialist domination of the
underdeveloped peoples of the world was the very will of the Christian deity. So under the banner of Christ, native
population in what we today call the third world were subjugated and converted,
while the resources of those conquered nations were being extracted from their
soil to bring wealth to the Europeans".
(source: The Ethics of Proselytizing - By Rajiv Malhotra). Refer
to Jesus Christ:
Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel. Refer to Loot: in search of
the East India Company - By Nick Robins and How India became poor - indiarealist.com
Due acknowledgement must be done for the massacres of
millions of our ancestors, so that the wounds can finally heal. Their deaths
and untold suffering were by and large solely due to their being Hindus,
Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs. These non-Semitic Indic faiths have a great
affinity for true secular practices and this rapport will not be threatened by
letting truth prevail.
On the contrary, true
secularism is undermined and damaged when the leadership - political and
intellectual - conspire to hide historical truth under the festering scab of
pseudo-secularism.
Sheldon Pollock Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Columbia
University has said,
"Colonialism
nearly killed India's capacity to know its past; globalization threatens
to destroy its will."
(source: Digital Memory
- By Sugata Srinivasaraju - outlookindia.com).
Atanu Dey economist at Netcore Solutions in Mumbai has remarked that
the British were not some sort of saviors for India:
"The British did not manage India. They colonized India and did what it took to
extract and exploit India ’s resources. Colonizers do that and when they have
extracted and exploited as much as they can, they leave. The British left.
The British did not “develop” India
because it was not worth the effort and moreover, developed populations don’t
docilely accept their colonial overlords.
Whatever
“development” the British did was to ensure that they could effectively exploit
the country. They “built” railroads so that they could move stuff (cotton to
the British mills, for example) and for administering the large population they
built a rudimentary telecommunications system. They “built” an education system
that was just about adequate to churn out clerks that were needed for office
work. They needed mid-level management (there were only so many Englishmen for
the job) and so they created the Indian Civil Services. If I was the colonizer, I would do precisely what the
British did. It is rational and sensible thing to do for a colonizer. What the
British also did — and very effectively at that — is to create an education
system that churns out people who have no idea of how rapacious the British were."(source: India needs a New Set of Rules, not Rulers - By Atanu Dey - deesha.org).
Sore Losers of Empire?
British would prefer the Balkanization of India
British would prefer the Balkanization of India
The subconscious memories
of the former British empire inspire some UK elements that want to see
India balkanized. Sporadic voices near the centers of power seem to want to
push India towards violence and fragmentation.
For example in 1991, within a week of the brutal
assassination of Rajiv Gandhi by LTTE, the Times of London, a voice for the British Foreign Office, wrote an
editorial stating that India faced ‘the same bloody strains and ignored
solutions’ that had resulted in the breaking up of the Soviet Union. It
compared India with the former Soviet Union and recommended that ‘the way
forward’ without ‘murders and riots’ was to allow States and sub-states their
own economic policies, and bring in as much foreign investment and as many
free-market principles as they like.’
This separatist message disguised as the economic
independence of ‘states and sub-states’ was further developed and articulated
into full-blown balkanization by
Max Madden, a member of the
British parliament. Speaking in Denmark at a conference on Kashmir, Madden demanded
India’s self-annihilation.
Remembering the disintegration of the Soviet and British empires, he
wondered: ‘Why should the Union of India and its present boundaries continue
forever?’ He questioned India’s status as the world’s largest democracy in the
world; many of us question that very fundamentally’. Madden suggested that the
United Nations should oversee Kashmir’s independence, a role that could be
extended beyond Kashmir: ‘And it may involve the whole region. So be it.’ Such
suggestions are kept alive to this day. For example, in the website www.countercurrents.org, a
decade old Times of London article was extensively quoted to conclude that India’s best course from the beginning would have
been to split into a hundred Hong Kongs.
(source: Breaking India: Western Inventions
and Dalit Faultlines - By Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan p. 297 -300).
Barbarians at the Gate
Two
Chapters in India's history are most noted for its atrocities against Hinduism:Islamic Onslaught
European Imperialism
Religious Conversion has been a Foreign policy
objective of the Christian West.
Conversion is political conquest, which is why
faith and empire have always gone hand-in-hand.
"I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human"
- Hugo Grotius (1583- 1645) Dutch legal scholar, playwright and poet. One of the pioneering natural rights theorists of the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
"Every aspect of the Empire was an aspect of Christ" - James Morris author of Pax Britannica: Climax of an Empire. Refer to Loot: in search of the East India Company - By Nick Robins and How India became poor - indiarealist.com
(source: hamsa.org. Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel. Refer to World Conquering Creeds - By Dr. Koenraad Elst - chapter on Glimpses XVI
" Evangelism was on the ascendant in the
19th century as the dominant ideology of the British Empire builders
in India. Evangelists equated the material superiority of the West with the
moral superiority of Christianity."
- Partha Mitter, author of Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art
p. 238. Refer to Think tank alleges
British MPs involved in promoting evangelism in India -
hinduvoice.co.uk. Refer to Things They Don't Tell you about
Christianity and Radical Christian
Missionaries in Iraq. Watch An Invasion
through Conversion - youtube.com .
“Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to
war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
Forward into battle see His banners go!"
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
Forward into battle see His banners go!"
- wrote Rev. Sabine
Baring-Gould (1834 – 1924). Refer to British Imperialism: Gold God Glory - By Robin W Winks.
The motives for classical imperialism were frequently associated with the three
G’s - Gold, God and Glory. Refer
to First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists - livescience.com
"Baptize the nations, far and high
The triumph of the cross record
The name of Jesus glorify
Till every kindred call him Lord. "
The triumph of the cross record
The name of Jesus glorify
Till every kindred call him Lord. "
- An Anglican hymn.
"Onward Chartered Soldiers, on to heathen
lands,
Prayer books in your pockets, rifles in your hands.
Take the glorious tidings where trade can be done,
Spread the peaceful gospel --- with a Maxim gun.
Tell the wretched natives, sinful are their hearts,
Turn their heathen temples into spirit marts.
And if to your teaching they will not succumb,
Give them another sermon with the Maxim gun...
When the Ten Commandments they quite understand,
You their Chief must hocus, and annex their land;
And if they misguided call you to account,
Give them another sermon --- with a Maxim from the Mount."
Prayer books in your pockets, rifles in your hands.
Take the glorious tidings where trade can be done,
Spread the peaceful gospel --- with a Maxim gun.
Tell the wretched natives, sinful are their hearts,
Turn their heathen temples into spirit marts.
And if to your teaching they will not succumb,
Give them another sermon with the Maxim gun...
When the Ten Commandments they quite understand,
You their Chief must hocus, and annex their land;
And if they misguided call you to account,
Give them another sermon --- with a Maxim from the Mount."
- When Cecil
Rhodes embarked on war with Lobengula in Matebele, his troops used a new
"secret weapon:" the Maxim which could fire 500 rounds a minute. In
1893, in the battle of Shangani River, 1,500 Matebele warriors were killed
while only four British died. The English Liberals penned a bitter satire on
the victory, which Rhodes ' men --- the Chartered
Company Volunteers then cynically adopted as their anthem.
"Jesus Christ" functions as a
symbolic cloak for several hidden agendas .
- Robert M Price, author of The
God Who Wasn't there. Refer to Oppose Christian Missionaries and Radical Christian
Missionaries in Iraq .
"Evangelical
Christianity, born in England and nurtured in the United States, is leaving
home."
- Paul Nussbaum, author of Evangelical Christianity shifting outside West - Philadelphia
Inquirer Feb 20, 2006. Refer to First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists - livescience.com.
Also
refer to USA - What does the Constitution say
about religion? - WBIR.com 8 December, 2007 and Iraq ’s erasure and Asian racial
delusions - By Dr Gautam Sen.
“Christianity has been--and continues to be--a
religion of empire.” - By Tim Mitchell
"When the missionary came he had the
Bible and we had the land; now we have the Bible and he has the land." - An African has said. That pretty well sums up the fact
that capitalism follows the Bible-thumper and destroys not only the culture,
but the economic basis of the country. - By Roy Brown.
Refer to Why Evangelical Christians march on the Iraq warpath - ReligionNewsBlog.com and Onward Christian soldiers - By Max Blumenthal - salon.com. Watch the movie - Indoctrination in Jesus Camp. Refer to Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power:
US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush's Middle East
policy - By George Monbiot Tuesday April 20, 2004 The Guardian. Refer to Planet Pentagon: Ownership of the earth, the seas and the skies - By Nick Turse - Le Monde
Diplomatique and commondream.org. For more refer to chapter
on Glimpses XIX and Iraq: The Hidden Cost
The British East India Company’s trademark lethal weapon to
Pauperize the colonies
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To Shake the Pagoda
Tree
Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeran (1760-1842)
says: “India has been celebrated even
in the earliest times for her riches.”
The wealth, splendor and prosperity of India had made a
strong impression on the mind of Alexander
the Great, and that when he left Persia for India, he told his army that
they were starting for that “Golden
India” where there was endless wealth, and that what they had seen in
Persia was as nothing compared to the riches of India.
Chamber’s Encyclopedia says” “India has been celebrated during many ages for its
wealth.” The writer of the article “Hindustan” in the Encyclopedia Britannica remarks that India “was naturally reputed
to be the seat of immense riches.”
John Milton (1608 - 1674) English poet most famous for his epic Paradise Lost, voiced the popular
belief when he sang of the wealth of India:
“High on a throne of
royal state which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormuz and of Ind (India)
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
Showers on her kings barbaric, pearl and gold.”
Outshone the wealth of Ormuz and of Ind (India)
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
Showers on her kings barbaric, pearl and gold.”
(source: Hindu Superiority – By Har Bilas Sarda p 427 - 430).
William
Finch ( ? ) who came to India
in 1608-11, first described Hindu temples as "pagods, which are stone images of monstrous men feareful to
behold. He mentioned the temples in Ajmer, "three faire Pagodes richly
wrought with inlayd works, adorned
richly with jewels. Domingo Paes has left a valuable account of the
great Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar. He saw outside the city very beautiful
pagodas, the chief among them was the temple of Vitthalasvamin which was begun
by Krsnadeva Raya. Edward Terry, the chaplain to Sir Thomas Roe, King James's
emissary described the temple of Nagarkot as 'most richly set forth, both scaled and paved with plate of pure
gold." The wealth of the temples stirred Jean Thevenot (1633 - 1667) a French traveller, imagination and he wrote about the temples of Benares and Puri that 'nothing can be more magnificent than these Pagodes...by reason of the quantity of gold and many jewels, wherewith they are adorned."
Most foreigners came to India in search of her fabulous wealth. No traveler found India poor until the nineteenth century, but foreign merchants and adventurers sought her shores for the almost fabulous wealth, which they could there obtain.
'To shake the pagoda tree' became a phrase, somewhat similar to our modern expression 'to strike oil' or to get rich quick.
(source: Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art - By Partha Mitter p. 1 - 45). For more refer to chapter on Greater India: Suvarnabhumi and Sacred Angkor
American Historian Will Durant (1885-1981) would like the West to learn from India, tolerance and gentleness and love for all living things. He has observed:
"It was the wealth of 18th century India which attracted the commercial pirates of England and France . This wealth was created by the Hindus’ vast and varied industries and trade. It was to reach India of fabulous wealth that Columbus sailed the seas."
(source: The Case for India - By Will Durant Simon and Schuster, New York. 1930 p.1 - 17). Refer to Loot: in search of the East India Company - By Nick Robins and How India became poor - indiarealist.com
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) in his Lives of The English Poet, describes
1498, the year of Vasco da Gama’s voyage to India and Columbus’s arrival on the
American mainland as
“a year hitherto
disastrous to mankind.”
“The Europeans,”
Johnson says resoundingly, “have scarcely visited any coast but gratify avarice
and extend corruption: to arrogate dominion without right and practice cruelty
without incentive.”
(source: Under
Western Eyes - By Balachandra Rajan p. 83). Refer to Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress - By Howard Zinn
.
Henrich Heine (1797-1856), a late German Romantic lyric poet, whose
influence was enormous not only in Germany but in most countries of the Western
world. He remarked:
“The Portuguese, Dutch
and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the
treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been
left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of
spiritual knowledge.”
(source: India and World Civilization By D. P. Singhal - Pan Macmillan
Limited. 1993 part II p. 234).
Unlike Great Britain’s Empire of colonizing greed Chancellor Count Otto von Bismarck
(1815 - 1898) had vowed that Germany
would not carry any colonial policy’ in 1881.
*** Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) British historian, has stated: "India is one great non-western society that has been, not merely attacked and hit, but overrun and conquered by Western arms, but ruled, after that, by Western administration. India's experience of the West has thus been more painful and more humiliating than China's..."
(source: Civilization on Trail and the World and the West - By Arnold Toynbee - Meridian Books. p. 257).
Civilizational Graveyards? Modus Operandi of Christianity around the Globe
Pitrim Alexandrovitch Sorokin (1889-1968) Russian-American sociologist of Harvard University had said:
"During the past few centuries the most belligerent, the most aggressive, the most rapacious, the most power-drunk section of humanity has been precisely, the Christian Western world. During these centuries western Christendom had invaded all other continents; its armies followed by priests and merchants have subjugated, robbed or pillaged most of the non-Christians. Native Americans, African, Australian, Asiatic populations have been subjugated to this peculiar brand of Christian "love" which has generally manifested itself in pitiless destruction, enslavement, coercion, destruction of the cultural values, institutions, the way of life of the victims and the spread of alcoholism, venereal disease, commercial cynicism and the like."
(source: History of Hindu-Christian Encounters - By Sita Ram Goel ISBN 9990049173 p. 370). For more refer to chapter on Conversion. Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel and Refer to QuickTime trailer and Part One of the film The God Awful Truth. Refer to World Conquering Creeds - By Dr. Koenraad Elst - chapter on Glimpses XVI.
Refer to Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress - By Howard Zinn
Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843-1911), a Liberal politician and apologist for colonialism who presented Britons as a benevolant master race, described Indians in Volume 2 of his book Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-speaking Countries During 1866 and 1867 thus:
“naked barbarians, plunged in the densest ignorance and superstition, and safe only from extermination because the European cannot dwell permanently in the climate of their land”.
In Volume 1 he described the genocide of indigenous populations:
“The Saxon is the only extirpating race on earth. Up to the commencement of the now inevitable destruction of the Red Indians of Central North America, of the Maories, and of the Australians by the English colonists, no numerous race had ever been blotted out by an invader”.
(source: Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-speaking Countries During 1866 and 1867 - By Charles Wentworth Dilke).
Will Durant (1885-1981) American historian, would like the West
to learn from India, tolerance and gentleness and love for all living things:
"At Elephanta the
Portuguese certified their piety by smashing statuary and bas-reliefs in
unrestrained barbarity; and almost everywhere
in the north the Moslems brought to the ground those triumphs of Indian
architecture, of the fifth and sixth centuries, which tradition ranks as far
superior to the later works that arouse our wonder and admiration today. The
Moslems decapitated statues, and tore them limb from limb; they appropriated
for their mosques, and in great measure imitated, the graceful pillars of the
Jain temples; time and fanaticism joined in the destruction, for the Hindus
abandoned and neglected temples that had been profaned by the touch of alien
hands.”
"Even in its ruins the Temple of Shiva at Elephanta,
with its massive fluted columns, its “mushroom” capitals, its unsurpassed
reliefs, and its powerful statuary, suggests to us an age of national vigor and
artistic skill of which hardly the memory lives today."
"No blood has
been shed for religion in India except by its invaders. Intolerance came with
Islam and Christianity; the Moslems proposed to buy Paradise with the blood of
“infidels” and the Portuguese, when they captured Goa, introduced the Inquisition
into India.”
(source: Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage - By Will Durant
MJF Books. 1935. p. 524 – 600).
“In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the
eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic
Church until 1816. "The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.”
(source: The Demon-Haunted World - By Carl Sagan).
Sardar Kavalam
Madhava Panikkar (1895-1963) Indian
scholar, journalist, historian from Kerala, administrator, diplomat, Minister
in Patiala Bikaner and Ambassador to China, Egypt and France. Author of several
books, including Asia and Western Dominance, India Through the ages and India and the Indian Ocean.
He wrote:
"In 1543 Goa was made a Bishopric with authority extending over the entire Far
East. Special instructions were issued to the Portuguese Viceroy to root out
the infidels. Hindu temples in Goa were
destroyed and their property distributed to religious orders (like the
Franciscans) in 1540. "
He has further observed:
"The Portuguese,
we are told, came to India with a Cross in the one hand and a sword in the
other. Their own pretensions in the East were
based first on the Bull of Nicholas V, dated January 8th 1454, by
which Affonso V was given, by virtue of the pontifical and apostolic authority
of the Pope, exclusive rights to all the countries that might be discovered by
the Portuguese in Africa and India . The conversion of the inhabitants of the
lands so discovered was to be one of the objects of Portuguese policy. In fact,
Don Joao II, who was the real originator of the expedition, had much of this
evangelistic spirit in him. To the
pious Kings of mediaeval Europe conversion of the heathens seemed to be an
imperative duty."
Sigmund Freud in his book, Moses and Monotheism, reasoned that a militant and
exclusive God Jehovah was
“suited to a people who were starting out to occupy new
homeland by forces,“ and who promised them “a land flowing with milk and
honey,” while urging them to
exterminate its inhabitants “with the edge of the sword.”
In Deut. 7.1-6, Jehovah says: “Thou shalt smite them, and
utterly destroy them..thou shalt destroy their altars, and break down their
images, and cut down their grooves…For thou art an holy people unto the Lord.”
"King Joao III
(1557-1578) was particularly anxious about the spread of Christianity and wrote to the Viceroy Joao de
Castro demanding that all power of the Portuguese should be
directed to this purpose.
"The great concernment which lies upon Christian
princes to look to matters of Faith and to employ their forces for its
preservation makes me advise you how sensible I am that not only in many parts of India under our subjection but in our
city of Goa, idols are worshipped, places in which our Faith may be more
reasonably expected to flourish; and being well informed with how much liberty
they celebrated heathenish festivals WE command you to discover by diligent
officers all the idols and to demolish and break them up in pieces where they
are found, proclaiming severe punishments against anyone who shall dare to
work, cast, make in sculpture, engrave, paint or bring to light any figure of
an idol in metal, brass, wood, plaster or any other matter, or bring them from
other places; and against who publicly or privately celebrated any of their
sports, keep by them any heathenish frankincense or assist and hide the
Brahmins, the sworn enemies of the Christian profession. It is our
pleasure that you punish them with the severity of the Law without admitting
any appeal or dispensation in the least."
"An influential school of history holds that the
benefits, that India has received from the direct contact with Europe, are of
such a nature that, in spite of all their faults, the Portuguese should be considered
as the pioneers of civilization and as the forerunners of the British Empire .
It may be permitted however, to question the correctness of the point of view,
wrongly called historical, which thus tries to import retrospective values into
events of an earlier date. Even accepting that the connection with Europe has
been beneficial to India , it is open to doubt whether a century and a half of barbarous outrages, of unscrupulous plunder and
of barren aggression, is not too great a price to pay for the doubtful
benefits of having the way opened for other European traders. India ’s own
direct trade was ruined, and, in its place, there was established a monopoly by
alien races, which had the effect of draining the wealth of India into Europe .
The Portuguese of the 16th
and the 17th century had nothing to teach the people of India except
improved methods of killing people in war and the narrow feeling of bigotry in
religion. The relations between Portugal and India were barren of cultural or
political results, and there is in that history nothing which any civilized
nation can be proud of. A host
of imaginative historians, anxious to sing the glory of their fatherland, have
pictured to us the heroic story of a small nation going forth to conquer India
and holding it under sway for 150 years, fighting and winning battles against
great hordes and conquering heathen worlds for Christ. "
(source: Malabar and the Portuguese - By K M Panikkar
Voice of India, New Delhi, 1977 p. 183 - 213 and Asia and Western Dominance, Somayya Publications, Mumbai, 1999, p.
280)
Refer to Why Indians Should Reject St. Thomas And Christianity - By Koenraad Elst George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Nobel Laureate in Literature. Famous British Author and Playwright, declared that:
"There is no power in the world more completely imbued of its dominance than the British empire."
"It is clear that the British ruling classes do not contemplate the ending of the era of imperialism; at the most they think in terms of modernizing their system of colonial rule. For them the possession of colonies is 'a necessity of greatness and wealth.'
(source: The Discovery of India - By Jawaharlal Nehru p.538).
"Bear in mind that the Commerce of India is the Commerce of the World, and he who can exclusively stock of precious metals then owned in Europe. - Article VIII of the Will, of Peter the Great.
Much of the wealth that made possible Britain's Industrial Revolution was earned, fairly or unfairly, within her Indian empire. In seventeenth century India had been far wealthier than England, the relative positions were sharply reversed by the end of the nineteenth century. Then, too, the British policy of free trade tended to prevent the development within India of the mechanized industries then coming into being in the West. Densely populated, with no new land to exploit and with a centuries-long history of invasions, India faced severe economic handicaps at independence. Ironically, India was seen by Western travelers in classical times and in the Middle Ages as a land of fabulous wealth.
(source: India: A World in Transition - By Beatrice Pitney Lamb p. 71 & 358). For more refer to chapter on Greater India: Suvarnabhumi and Sacred Angkor
India, said Lord Robert Clive, was a country of inexhaustible riches."
Lord Curzon (1859-1925) Marquis of Kedleston, a British statesman, was a Conservative Party politician. He was viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905, and later became chancellor of Oxford University. Curzon re-entered politics during World War I (1914-1918). He became a member of Lloyd George's war cabinet in 1916. In an address delivered at the great Delhi Durbar in 1901:
"Powerful Empires existed and flourished here [in India] while Englishmen were still wandering painted in the woods, and while the British Colonies were a wilderness and a jungle."
"India has left a deeper mark upon the history, the philosophy, and the religion of mankind, than any other terrestrial unit in the universe."
"It is such a land that England has conquered and is holding as a dependency. It is such a people that she is ruling without giving them any voice whatever in the shaping of their own destiny."
(source: India in Bondage: Her Right to Freedom - By Jabez T. Sunderland p. 7 and theatlantic.com).
For more refer to chapter on Greater India: Suvarnabhumi and Sacred Angkor
E M Forster (1872 - 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is most famous for his novels, most of which have been filmed. His most famous novel was A Passage to India (1924) .
He wrote:
“The Englishman in India has been trained “in the fine tradition of paternal government” and “In India we have done much good and have a right” and “our sudden withdrawal would be disastrous.”
(source: The Raj Syndrome: A Study in Imperial Perceptions - By Suhash Chakravarty. Penguin Books. 1991 p. 248).
Canon Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845) a clergyman, essayist and social reformer,
founded the Whig Edinburgh Review in 1802. For the next twenty-five years he
used this periodical as an organ for his liberal views on educational reform,
the slave trade and the Irish situation. Although later appointed Canon of St
Paul's Cathedral, his hopes for a bishopric were frustrated by his public
reputation as an enlightened Whig and a member of the 'Holland House Circle'.
He wrote in the Edinburgh Review (April 1809, p. 45)
“If the Bible is diffused in Hindustan, what must be the
astonishment of the natives, to find that we are forbidden to rob, murder and
steal; we, who in fifty years, have
extended our Empire over the whole (Indian) peninsula, and exemplified in our
public conduct every crime to which human nature is capable. What matchless
impudence, to follow up such practice with such precepts.”
(source: Recovery
of Faith - By Dr. S. Radhakrishnan p. 25). For more refer to chapter on Greater India:
Suvarnabhumi and Sacred Angkor. Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel and
Refer to QuickTime trailer and Part One of the film The God Awful
Truth.
Note: Anglo-Israelism - is that Great Britain is the geographical home of the Lost tribes of Israel . The immediate
implication of this belief is that it identifies the present day Anglo-Saxon people as God's Chosen People.
The basic reward, and primary source of appeal, that British-Israelism provides
to its Anglo-Saxon advocates, is its affirmation that biblical prophecy be
directed to them specifically. For many Anglo-Saxons, it has been supremely
desirable to have such a covenant with God. Essentially, Imperial British-Israelism had one goal above all others: the
justification of the Empire. The early millennial period found followers
within evangelical portions of the Anglican Church, as well as inside American
Methodism. The later period of millennialism finds its primary proponents among
fringe Pentecostal groups, as well as in the teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong
and the White-Supremacist Identity Movement of Richard Girnt Butler. Today it has
followers in USA. The Christian Identity movement - The
roots of the Identity movement began in England in the late 1800s as
Anglo-Israelism.
Nicholas B. Dirks ( ? ) is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and
Professor of History Columbia University. He is the author of The Scandal of
Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, which is
not only a severe indictment of the rise, foundation and total condemnation of
the concept of Empire itself, but also shows that Empire-making is essentially
exploitation and oppression by using devious means of seizing authority and sovereignty
over millions of people, alien in race, nationality, customs and manners.
He has observed that
the British Intrusive behavior was
recast as a civilizing mission in India.
(source: The British Rule in India: Tale of Loot and plunder – By V. N.
Datta - tribuneindia.com).
George Orwell (1902 – 1985) born in India, was a British author and
journalist.
Noted as a novelist, as a
critic and as a political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most
widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century.
He once wrote that imperialism
consists of the policeman and soldier holding the “native” down while the
businessman goes through his pockets.”
Prof Suhash
Chakravarty of University of Delhi and author of the book The Raj Syndrome:
A Study in Imperial Perceptions has astutely observed:
"India has
continued to haunt the British sensibility down to the days of Mountbatten, nay
till date, as the sought for playing field of the chivalrous knight-errants of
the Empire ‘that spread its wings wider than Rome’. It was power, autocracy and
social Darwinism. It was glamour, snobbery and the basis of imperial economy.
It was a certain indicator of imperial might. It was the principal signpost of
Britain ’s sun-lit empire where ‘boxwallah, missionary, clerk, lancer, planter’
carried maxims or gospels to lighten a dark continent.’ The Raj was the cult of
Christian military heroes."
(source: The Raj Syndrome: A Study in Imperial Perceptions - By Suhash
Chakravarty Penguin Books. 1991 p. 203).
Anne Sebba author of several books including Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image has noted:
"The great expansion of missionary activity came
during the nineteenth century, coinciding with the spread of British colonial rule throughout India
and with a variety of efforts by the other governments of Europe to turn India Christian.
Bu the end of the century there were at least twenty-two different Protestant
Missionary Societies with as many printing establishments to disseminate the
vernacular Gospel.
There is no doubt
that, in the fight to deliver Christianity to the heathen, both Protestants and
Catholics sent their best brains to India , rather than Africa or China . This
implied a recognition of the inherent spirituality of Hinduism, which demanded
more than average sophistry and persuasion to win converts. There was a belief that India had a high degree of ancient
civilization which by the late eighteenth century, as the Moghul Empire was
fading, had allowed decadence to seep in, offering Christianity the chance to
fill the gap. Annie Besant,
proponent of the philosophy of Theosophy, gave many a lecture in which she
aired her views that India was a victim of the mischief wrought by Christian
missionaries. A friend of Swami Vivekananda, Mrs. Besant was trying to lead Indians back
to their own gods and arouse their sense of self-respect and pride in the
greatness of their religions."
(source: Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image - By Anne Sebba p.
22 - 25).
Author John
Newsinger is Senior Lecturer: History. School of Historical and Cultural
Studies at the Bath Spa University, UK.
He has written in his book, The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire:
“Imperialism has two dimensions: firstly, the competition
between the great imperial powers, competition that in the 20th
century produced two world wars and the Cold War. This competition is the
driving force of modern imperialism, and it has wreaked terrible damage on the
world, consuming millions of lives.”
“Imperial occupation inevitably involves the use of
violence and that, far from this being a glorious affair, it involved
considerable brutality against people who were often virtually defenseless.”
“It is worth remembering that the much trumpeted, “Shock and Awe” that the United States promised to
inflict on Iraq in 2003 had been inflicted by the British on
city after city throughout the world in the course of the 19th and
20th centuries. If it has
been British cities shelled by an invader, the story would have been very
different.”
(source: The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire
- By John Newsinger p. 1 - 9). Refer to Oppose Christian Missionaries and Radical Christian
Missionaries in Iraq. Refer to Holy warriors in the US armed forces and Christian embassy and Officers Christian fellowship and Ambassadors for Christian Dominion in Uniform.
Om Tat Sat
(Continued...)
( My humble Pranam, Honour
and also gratefulness to
Ms. Sushma Londhe ji for her noble, magnanimous and eminent
works on the peerless Wisdom of our Sacred Scriptures)
(My
humble salutations to , H H Swamyjis, Hindu Wisdom, great Universal
Philosophers, Historians, Professors and Devotees for the
discovering collection)
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