Archive for August, 2008
How Islam came to India and why now it needs to go from India -11: economic decline under Islam – the strange case of the horse
The Thaparian hypothesis of the important cause of ruin of the Indian economy from excessive import of horses from the West of India by feudatoty chieftains inside India for luxury and internecine warfare serves two purpose – first it provides one convenient internal scapegoat to which the general economic decline could be attributed to, and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Kandhmal-indictment of India’s reservation politics
Swami Laxmanananda was actively involved in a contest to preserve indigenous tribal traditions from aggressive Christian evangelists in the state’s tribal belt since 1966. He was killed in his crowded ashram at Jalespata, Kandhmal district, while performing Janmastami prayers. The murder followed a threat letter warning he would suffer for preventing Hindus from converting to Christianity. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How Islam came to India and why now it needs to go from India – 10: economic decline of India under Islam
In contrast to the so called “very friendly relations” that Indian merchants and princes apparently had with Arab Muslim traders in the early part of the Islamic invasions, based on a few references to “cordial meals” or dinners being given by a Arab merchant to his Indian counterpart at Hormuz, all references to any hostile [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How Islam came to India and why now it needs to go from India-9 : The economic decline of India under Islam
Most historians writing on the economic aspects of the subcontinent at least agree that many indicators of economic activity in India appear to decline beginning in the 7th century. The Thaparite School of Indian history ascribes this to primarily two factors – (1) excessive expenditure on import of good quality horses from the middle [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The heroic face of Islamic militancy in Kashmir- killing unarmed non-protesting civilians and taking children and women as hostage
The great Gazis and Shahids and Jihadis of Islam in history have always used their Prophet’s injunction that “war is deception”, and a common tactic for Muslims has always been to capture something of great emotional value to non-Muslims and use that not only to preserve themselves from retaliation after unprovoked acts of looting, massacre [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )How Islam came to India and why now it needs to go from India – 8 – cultural destruction of non-Muslims
Continued from part 7:
(46) Tarikh-i-Khan Jahan Lodi: The author, Niamatullah, was a historian in the court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir (CE 1605-1628). His Tarikh is practically the same as his Makhzan-i-Afghani except for the memoirs of Khan Jahan Lodi which have been added. Khan Jahan Lodi was one of the most illustrious generals of [...]
Jammu and Kashmir – Article 370 and the future
Sometime ago, I was asked by a reader as to what were my concrete suggestions about the “Kashmir problem” given my insistence on winning the “cultural war” on Islam in the Valley and combine this with economic measures. Having been forced to trawl through my source material for the “How Islam came to India…” [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How Islam came to India and why now it needs to go from India – 7 : cultural destruction of non-Muslims
Continued from part 6:
(39) Muntakhabut-Tawarikh :The author, Mulla Abdul Qadir Badauni son of Muluk Shah, was born at Badaun in CE 1540 or 1542. A scholar introduced to the court of Akbar by the father of Abul Fazl and Faizi he was employed by Akbar for translating Sanskrit classics into Persian, a work which he [...]
Jammu and Kashmir – repeal the outdated and temporary Article 370
Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir signed the accession papers on October 26, 1947 under which the state acceded to India. The accession of Jammu and Kashmir with India was carried out following the common pattern as drafted for other states acceding to India or Pakistan. Nehru I the Great took it upon himself to force [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )How Islam came to India and why now it needs to go – 6 – cultural destruction of non-Muslims
Continuing with the Islamic chronicler’s claims of the destruction of the cultural icons of non-Muslims : if not true as claimed by the Thaparite School of Indian History, it then raises the obvious question as why all these opium or other drug-fuelled feverish narratives allways seem to find destruction of cultural icons of non-Muslims such [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )How Islam came to India and why now it needs to go from India – 5 – cultural destruction of non-Muslims
What about the Thaparite fable of natural decay and ruin by forces of nature alone of all cultural centres of non-Muslims in India and the construction of Islamic sites on these ruins an act of love and gratitude for enlightenment by the peacefully and voluntarily converted into Islam ex-non-Muslims?
The Thaparite school of Indian History is [...]
How Islam came to India and why now it needs to go from India – 4 : Sufis
The Islamic conversion in India of non-Muslims into Islam has been declared to have been done by Sufi preachers who were always a very tolerant, integrative, and peaceful interpretation of Islam always using peaceful means to convert Hindus. Let us see, what the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )The N-Deal in a Mess, Left in West Bengal in a mess, Congress in Kashmir in a Mess
The N-Deal is in a Mess now, and as I had predicted the greatest difficulty would be getting agreement at the NSG. The strongest opposition will come from EU member states who have strong economic ties with the Middle East and China. Europe’s extensive economic ties with the Middle East have been seen as a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How Islam came to India and why now it needs to go from India -3
The sack of Somnath in particular came to be considered a specially pious exploit because of its analogy with the destruction of idol of Al Manat in Arabia by the Prophet. This explains the lavish panegyric of Mahmud by Nizam-ul-Mulk Tusi, and especially the early Sufi [who were very peaceful converters of Indians to Islam [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 7 so far )How Islam came to India and why now it needs to go from India -2
The peaceful Islamic traders who came to India on annual holidays with holiday security and with whom the vast millions of caste-repressed Indians immediately fell in love-The Thaparite position on advent of Islam in India, in spite of the fact that there has been no records of trauma by the victims of caste repression in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 49 so far )N-deal’s greatest hurdle to be crossed on US shoulders and Gujarat, Jammu shows Hindu political maturity
As I had discussed before, the IAEA episode was actually a very small and rather the easier step compared to the current hurdles of unanimous passage through the NSG. The non-proliferation lobby is led by countries strongly dependent economically on NWS’s – the Nuclear Weapons States – US, UK, France, Russia and China. Therefore, their [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How Islam came to India and why now it needs to go from India – 1
Islam’s record in India has been always controversial. For a long time a particular reconstruction of Islam’s role in India has been pushed through because of political reasons, and by a regime dependent and supported group of official historians, whose best iconic representation is Prof. Romila Thapar, a lady of Hindu origin who completed her [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 15 so far )Musharraf resigns : strange days coming for Pakistan and India
So Musharraf has finally resigned. What does this mean for Pakistan? This simply means that the coalition partnership between the emotional Nawaz and cold and calculating Zardari will now be increasingly under strain. In spite of Nawaaz being the more popular, his emotional approach to politics will ultimately put him in a very dangerous position, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Hurriyat pulls the strings and New Delhi dances while Gujarat catches small fish
Hurriyat did not realize that it was shooting itself in the feet when it took on the mantle of champion of economic rights of Kashmiri Muslims by demanding trade across the LOC in Kashmir. I had written awhile ago in these columns that for Pakistan to agree to open the trade routes across the LOC [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The wonder that is Kashmir : where Minorities become Majorities and Majorities become Minorities and then nonexistent
While speaking in the Rajaya Sabha on 17-08-2006 Dr. Farooq Abdullah had questioned the Government of India on the steps being taken by it after Pakistan refused to grant permission to Kashmiri Pandits for visiting Hindu Shrines or places of religious importance in Muzaffarabad. Dr. Man Mohan Singh appreciated Farooq Abdullah for raising the question [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hindu Muslim marriages – 1 : Rizwanur in Kolkata, Raimah Bibi in Kualalampur, and Shah Jahan in Kashmir
There is a lot of talk about Hindu Muslim marriages, and most of the reports I come across in the media appear to conclude that Hindus are fanatical religious bigots who object, oppose, and kill in order to prevent “love” matches between Hindus and Muslims. I will start this sequence of posts with two modern [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )Leftist Islam or Islamic Left : Rizwanur properly vindicated and Tasleema properly exiled
The CBI has recommended chargesheets to be drawn against suspected abettors of the “suicide” of Rizwanur, husband of a daughter of an influential and prosperous Hindu Todi “business” family currently residing in Kolkata. The case was initially tried by the media, with widespread public anger expressed against the Todi family which stopped just short of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Kashmir Valley Muslims boycott Indian Independence Day : Islam in Despair
The Indian Independence Day of 15th August, was boycotted in the Kashmir Valley after a call by separatists to do so. It is possible that people were scared of the separatists. It is more likely however, that the tactical moves of the separatists, Islamic fundamentalists, and the Pakistani Islamo-political elite for the last couple of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Ek gul Do Mali – (One bud nursed by two gardeners) – the new love story from Pakistan
Musharraf and Nawaz (with the reluctant Zardari in tow) are now fighting it out like the “hirsute machos” of old Hindi and Urdu movies over the love of the shy bride the Pakistani army top brass under Kiani, who only talks in romantic whispers from behind semitransparent curtains into the ears of the eager Pakistani [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Urbanization, Industrialization Versus Farmers in India: an unnecessary battle
Noida farmers are up in arms against developers and apparent breach of promises of “fair” market price for their land. This is part of a general conflict in the whole of India characterized by increasingly militant resistance against government take-over of land for urbanization or industrialization as well as private or corporate purchase of land.
The [...]
Musharraf’s Kashmir card: If Pak drags Kashmir to the UN – India should happily accompany with Balochistan
Kashmiri Muslims in the valley have defied curfew and come out on the streets in large numbers during the funeral processions to bury their dead. Business interests, building and infra-structure contractors panicking at the possibility of land-transfer to “outsiders” who may not award contracts to them, might have been behind the Kashmiri agitation to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Jammu and Kashmir : needed an iron fist in velvet gloves
Untimely death is unacceptable. A leader of the Hurriyat conference had been shot dead among a score others. I don’t have any sympathy for the brand of Islam now being projected on the subcontinent, but my heart grieves for the ordinary Indian Muslim, whom I see only as Indians and not as Muslims. I [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Jammu and Kashmir – armed forces and politicians bungle things up
Time and again we have talked about why things always go wrong when politicians call in the army to solve the mess they have created. The army is trained to think of every action in a “disturbed” area as a confrontation with the “enemy”. Thus their actions create irreparable psychological damage in the collective consciousness [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )The battle for the hearts and minds of Jammu and Kashmir – a wrong war
Today, traders from Kashmir Valley fruit markets swelled in ranks by political activists and villagers amounting to around 50,000 marched towards the Uri sector in their official intent of breaking through the LOC for economic reasons. The state police failed to stop them as expected, and it now falls to the Indian Army to stop [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Some Indian Hindu’s need for the supreme and pure divine: the Army – always secular, and without any regional or ethnic bias
Recent comments from obvious Indian “Hindus” who think that any negative criticism of aspects of the functioning of the Indian Army is a critcism inspired by “blindly communal” feelings, prompted me to look into the apparent need in some Hindu minds to construct a supreme “divine”, an ultimate icon of reliability and “purity” making up [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Musharraf’s departure will signal increased Pakistani support of terror in India, and Jammu agitators will be disappointed.
It is possible that Kiani can decide to “divorce” his patron, Musharraf. Kiani rose through handling the ISI at a period when ISI had been the key inspiration, motivator, and maintainer of terror in India through Islamic militants as well as indirect connections to other separatist and insurgent groups. At the moment, Musharraf is perhaps [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Indian Army warns agitating Hindus in Jammu – good job! Hindus are not the Chinese Army or Islamic Militants and they deserve to be warned.
The Indian Army has warned the agitating Hindus in Jammu, that it will “use force if necessary in Jammu”. This is quite consistent with past behaviour of the army and quite expected also. The Congress led UPA has now an overwhelming array of Islamic sympathisers, people who fell head over heels in love with “SIMI”, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Musharraf, Nawaz-Zardari, Army – the classic love triangle
Musharraf, Nawaz-Zardari, Army – the classic love triangle in Pakistani politics. It is a “ek phool do mali” situation (one flower/flowering plant tended by two gardeners), where the “flower” – the lady is the Army, being hotly pursued by two macho suitors – Musharraf on one side, and Nawaz Zardari on the othe other side. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The never ending saga of Nandigram : communist chickens coming home to roost
The communist program of an agrarian revolution both in economic as well as political sense, started after the apparent success of Mao and Chu Teh’s peasant army in China. In contrast to the Bolshevik revolution which was almost entirely launched and brought to completion by non-communist Cronstadt sailors and army units won over by Bolshevik [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Musharraf’s impeachment, Loc violations, Kabul Indian Embassy blasts – all connected together?
I hope what I fear is not going to come to pass. There are strong rumours of a move to impeach President Musharraf of Pakistan by the PPP led by Zardari, with support from Nawaz Sharif. A few days back, there was a blast at the Indian Embassy in Kabul, killing a diplomat and a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )SIMI – Sadistic Islamic Marauders of India – found not-guilty
SIMI followed Deobandi Islam’s revivalist movement that was the declared inspiration for the Taliban government. SIMI’s slogan is “Allah is our Lord, Qur’an is our constitution, Muhammad is our leader, jihad is our way and Sahahdat is our desire”. Among its various objectives, SIMI aims to counter what it believes is the increasing moral degeneration, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Jammu : everyone wants to shout but no one wants to listen
The Amarnath Shrine board has partly dissolved itself in order to reinvent itself hopefully in a more acceptable and workable garb. But the two main agitation groups represented by the muslim Hurriyat Conference, as well as the pro-transfer Sangharsh Samiti are against the all party talks being held at New Delhi.
The Jammu agitation [...]
Have you heard !!! Jammu is suddenly becoming dangerously communal?
All of a sudden, the ruling elite of India, including the Governor of the state of Jammu and Kashmir have found alarming traces of “communalism” in the Jammu “pro-land transfer” agitation. This follows a few days after the ex-CM of the state Farookh Abdullah lamented the lack of firmness [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Continued threat of terror inspired by Islam – 4 – historical never-Neverland of Pakistan
What is now Pakistan, was the corridor attached to the main gate of the extended mansion called India for a long long time. We will consider two important junctions in the history of the subcontinent connected to the ancient land now called Pakistan.
The first one was Alexander’s trip through Multan and Sind in late 4th [...]
Surjeet and Solzhenitsyn passes away – lives coming back in full circles
Harkishen Singh Surjeet, one of the the architects of centre-left coalition governments in its Indian form has passed away. So has, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the most intriguing voice of Russian dissidence against the Soviet Government. Surjeet started his political career as a teenage Congress enthusiast who risked being shot by forces under the British to raise [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Rahul Gandhi to “learn” microcredit from Bangladesh : start building the “future leader” image
Rahul Gandhi has found out from his two day tour, that on an average, the levels of rural poverty in Bangladesh is much lower than in India. He has tasted tea from a roadside tea-stall giving his “Z” security minders the slip. These are two significant observations that indicate what this visit was all about.
From [...]
Farookh Abdullah thinks Jammu is a law and order problem – deja vu?
Sometime ago I had speculated that the Jammu agitation, led and inspired definitely by the non-Muslim majority in the Jammu portion of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, will be learning from the successful Kashmiri Muslim agitation to assert the right of religions to claim territories and virtually cleanse areas ethnically. However, they will not [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 11 so far )Of fatwas and Deoband – who rules Indians – mice or men?
On 1st June, 2008, the Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh praised the recent ‘fatwa’ issued by Darul Uloom Deoband describing any attempt at “breach of peace and killing of innocent persons” as “most inhuman crimes.” The Deoband ‘fatwa’ was read out and approved by Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind leaders at an anti-terrorism and Global Peace Conference. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )IAEA approves India-specific safeguards by consensus – inflated importance
The IAEA approved the India specific safeguards by consensus- subject to grumbles of “concerns” from Ireland, and Switzerland. (What happened to Finland – an important co-founder of the NPT movement with Ireland ?). Ireland’s concerns as the leading member of the NPT movement was expected. It is a pity that Ireland has not pressed for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Rahul Gandhi to “learn” microcredit from Bangladesh under heavy security and in a few days
Rahul Gandhi, a possible future Congress PM candidate, has landed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, purportedly to “learn” micro-credit. He has been, and will presumably be provided with heavy security cover, and we hope he will learn it within the few days he can spare at maximum given the current [...]
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