1. How and why did the British come to use religion as an instrument of command and control in India ?
2. Why did they make religion the central peg of their new found policy and came to use the policy of 'Divide and Rule' as their spinal policy in the sub-continent ?
3. Why and how did the Indian Politicians start thinking that India is their ancestral property?
4. Here is a brief but precise take on all these questions by your's humbly.
5. Very few people can have the courage to accept acknowledge and respect it, but the truth is that before 1857, British loved and patronized loyalty, valor, chivalry, character, grit, determination etc etc, as the most desirable qualities in their native associates.
6. Mangal Pandey and people like him represented all this and were the hot favorites of British Officers and their masters in Madras, Calcutta, or London..
7. But, during and after the uprising of 1857 popularly known as Sepoy Mutiny, the British realized that Indians are more loyal to their religious beliefs, as unfounded as some of them may come, rather than to their masters or their nations.
8. It is worth mentioning here that more than 550 nation states, existed in Indian sub-continent in those days, ruled by different Rajas or Nawabs, some as big as any large state of India, and some as small as a district or a tehsil. But one thing quite common to all these states were largely common cultural and religious beliefs, practices and festivities, both Islamic and Hindu.
9. Thus, after the mutiny of 1857, the British decided to use an Indian native's loyalty towards his religion as the instrument of dispersing, any and all disillusionment that the native could have towards his British officers.
10. That is when a new policy to administer Indian troops and India at large was devised.
11. British made it a well established policy where all people with loyalty, valor, chivalry, character, grit, determination etc etc, were recruited into Native British army, commanded by directly appointed young british officers, called the commissioned officers, who in turn commanded the troops via native troop commanders, risen from amongst the ranks, called Junior Commissioned Officers.
12. British encouraged their troops to uphold their respective religious symbols and ensured a strict adherence to them in name of discipline and loyalty. Symbols like turban, namaz, dietary restriction and what ever it takes to be symbolically very very religious, were religiously established and enforced by the British.
13. Most of the native lot in forces came from poor illiterate rural India, which was vast in its expanse.
14. On the other hand people with similar qualities like loyalty, valor, chivalry, character, grit, determination etc, but literate and aware, namely people like Bhagat Singh, C.S. Azad, Raj Guru, Bismil and their likes were deliberately marked as possible threats to empire and finished off.
15. Most of this lot, namely threats to British Empire, came from the then Indian Middle class which was very less in numbers.
16. The British, made sure that the symbols of religion are glorified beyond a rational point by building an irrational commitment to those symbols, over and above mutual brotherhood.
17. They encouraged and exploited to their best advantage the devotion that Indians had for their respective religions. The modus operandi was to ask the loyalty from native troop's to their immediate command by masking it as loyalty for their respective religions.
18. Sikhs became their loyal followers. This was a direct result of a culture where religion and its symbols were deliberately elevated to build a fulcrum around which an army battalion's life would rotate.
19. So much so that a paltan on march would carry SGGS ji on its head where ever it went, even in war. Similarly a hindu Paltan would carry Thakur Ji or Devi Maa's statue or painting etc etc. Temple, Gurdwara and Masjid 'parade' [Official praying Session], became a well established tradition.
20. Every British commanding officer made sure that he and his officers attended the temple parade as per the strict orders and norms laid out by policy makers. Even if a British Officer failed to Salute SGGS ji, or rise from his chair, he would be punished or even suspended.
21. Thus respect for their respective religions by Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and all was encouraged amongst the troops and exploited to the hilt by the British to their own best advantage.
22. For their civilian set up the British encouraged the sly calculative cowardly brown-nosers to come forward and serve them to the extent of pimping for them.
23. A well thought out importance started being given to sly, scheming, well read, British educated, calculative and manipulative class of Indians, who later emerged as bureaucrats or political leaders of masses, with support of the then British Media.
24. Tragedy of India is that when British left they made sure the country gets divided on Hindu Muslim basis, and the army gets divided on similar basis too, and the civilian setups of both India and Pakistan, power gets passed on to sly pimps who continued the policy of religious and class divide in India to rule it, and then passed it to their next generation, as if India and it's political set up was their ancestral property.
25. Most of these idiots became politically powerful and resource rich. The time has come to pull the carpet from under their feet, because this ugly practice of making politics a preserve of a few manipulative families has today not only centralized power in some singular families, but also promoted corruption and criminalization of politics.
26. Using Religion as a tool of politics is also a huge curse of India, as it is enough to ensure that India never ever emerges as a truly united nation.
27. It is sad to notice that the incumbent BJP government, had promised to do away with 'Parivar-vaad' but has repeatedly failed to deliver on it, as a new level of Parivar-vaad has already begun to rise in this party aswell. To expect religious-less politics from BJP is to expect a bull to grow wings and fly. Modi is my only hope amongst the Bhajpa leaders. He can think and act out of box, so I still hope that he has a vision for a truly united India, free from bile of religion and curse of Parivaar-vaad
28. So all changes have to come from public initiative by opposing both Parivaar-vaad aswellas use of religion as a tool of politics.
🕊 तत्तसत्त श्रीअकाल📿
©✒ Guru Balwant Gurunay ⛩
2. Why did they make religion the central peg of their new found policy and came to use the policy of 'Divide and Rule' as their spinal policy in the sub-continent ?
3. Why and how did the Indian Politicians start thinking that India is their ancestral property?
4. Here is a brief but precise take on all these questions by your's humbly.
5. Very few people can have the courage to accept acknowledge and respect it, but the truth is that before 1857, British loved and patronized loyalty, valor, chivalry, character, grit, determination etc etc, as the most desirable qualities in their native associates.
6. Mangal Pandey and people like him represented all this and were the hot favorites of British Officers and their masters in Madras, Calcutta, or London..
7. But, during and after the uprising of 1857 popularly known as Sepoy Mutiny, the British realized that Indians are more loyal to their religious beliefs, as unfounded as some of them may come, rather than to their masters or their nations.
8. It is worth mentioning here that more than 550 nation states, existed in Indian sub-continent in those days, ruled by different Rajas or Nawabs, some as big as any large state of India, and some as small as a district or a tehsil. But one thing quite common to all these states were largely common cultural and religious beliefs, practices and festivities, both Islamic and Hindu.
9. Thus, after the mutiny of 1857, the British decided to use an Indian native's loyalty towards his religion as the instrument of dispersing, any and all disillusionment that the native could have towards his British officers.
10. That is when a new policy to administer Indian troops and India at large was devised.
11. British made it a well established policy where all people with loyalty, valor, chivalry, character, grit, determination etc etc, were recruited into Native British army, commanded by directly appointed young british officers, called the commissioned officers, who in turn commanded the troops via native troop commanders, risen from amongst the ranks, called Junior Commissioned Officers.
12. British encouraged their troops to uphold their respective religious symbols and ensured a strict adherence to them in name of discipline and loyalty. Symbols like turban, namaz, dietary restriction and what ever it takes to be symbolically very very religious, were religiously established and enforced by the British.
13. Most of the native lot in forces came from poor illiterate rural India, which was vast in its expanse.
14. On the other hand people with similar qualities like loyalty, valor, chivalry, character, grit, determination etc, but literate and aware, namely people like Bhagat Singh, C.S. Azad, Raj Guru, Bismil and their likes were deliberately marked as possible threats to empire and finished off.
15. Most of this lot, namely threats to British Empire, came from the then Indian Middle class which was very less in numbers.
16. The British, made sure that the symbols of religion are glorified beyond a rational point by building an irrational commitment to those symbols, over and above mutual brotherhood.
17. They encouraged and exploited to their best advantage the devotion that Indians had for their respective religions. The modus operandi was to ask the loyalty from native troop's to their immediate command by masking it as loyalty for their respective religions.
18. Sikhs became their loyal followers. This was a direct result of a culture where religion and its symbols were deliberately elevated to build a fulcrum around which an army battalion's life would rotate.
19. So much so that a paltan on march would carry SGGS ji on its head where ever it went, even in war. Similarly a hindu Paltan would carry Thakur Ji or Devi Maa's statue or painting etc etc. Temple, Gurdwara and Masjid 'parade' [Official praying Session], became a well established tradition.
20. Every British commanding officer made sure that he and his officers attended the temple parade as per the strict orders and norms laid out by policy makers. Even if a British Officer failed to Salute SGGS ji, or rise from his chair, he would be punished or even suspended.
21. Thus respect for their respective religions by Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and all was encouraged amongst the troops and exploited to the hilt by the British to their own best advantage.
22. For their civilian set up the British encouraged the sly calculative cowardly brown-nosers to come forward and serve them to the extent of pimping for them.
23. A well thought out importance started being given to sly, scheming, well read, British educated, calculative and manipulative class of Indians, who later emerged as bureaucrats or political leaders of masses, with support of the then British Media.
24. Tragedy of India is that when British left they made sure the country gets divided on Hindu Muslim basis, and the army gets divided on similar basis too, and the civilian setups of both India and Pakistan, power gets passed on to sly pimps who continued the policy of religious and class divide in India to rule it, and then passed it to their next generation, as if India and it's political set up was their ancestral property.
25. Most of these idiots became politically powerful and resource rich. The time has come to pull the carpet from under their feet, because this ugly practice of making politics a preserve of a few manipulative families has today not only centralized power in some singular families, but also promoted corruption and criminalization of politics.
26. Using Religion as a tool of politics is also a huge curse of India, as it is enough to ensure that India never ever emerges as a truly united nation.
27. It is sad to notice that the incumbent BJP government, had promised to do away with 'Parivar-vaad' but has repeatedly failed to deliver on it, as a new level of Parivar-vaad has already begun to rise in this party aswell. To expect religious-less politics from BJP is to expect a bull to grow wings and fly. Modi is my only hope amongst the Bhajpa leaders. He can think and act out of box, so I still hope that he has a vision for a truly united India, free from bile of religion and curse of Parivaar-vaad
28. So all changes have to come from public initiative by opposing both Parivaar-vaad aswellas use of religion as a tool of politics.
🕊 तत्तसत्त श्रीअकाल📿
©✒ Guru Balwant Gurunay ⛩
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