India that is Bharat and thus starts of the constitution of this Great Nation and with that the brutal past of colonisation was left behind OR those great leaders thought so!!
Where only after World War 1 the concept of a Nation came to the rest of the world, the land from Indian Ocean in the South upto the Himalayas at the North has already considered as one Nation since time immemorial.
But due to the very short history of some 800 years only which is just 8% of her 10,000 years old glorious history the habitants of this land otherwise had very good access to knowledge and hence wealth and prosperity.
Those 800 years could be considered as the darkest in any human history which proved how a mind that when liberated can land on the moon, the mind that could not see from the naked eyes reached those planets, and the same mind that when not allowed to act independently can remain under the influence of anyone be it human or idea or philosophy.
Bharat was always the land of seekers, not believers. We did not believed anyone till we experience that. A fantastic philosophy.
Gita in chapter 18, shloka 63 says that Thus, I have explained to you this knowledge that is more secret than all secrets. Ponder over it deeply, and then do as you wish.
But then same mind is allowed not to think and act independently as stated in Invaders religions for example Quran chapter 33, verse 36 And it behoves not a believing man and a believing woman that they should have any choice in their matter when Allah and His Apostle have decided a matter; and whoever disobeys Allah and His Apostle, he surely strays off a manifest straying.
So what happens…
You have many people mourning the demise of Queen Elizabeth.
They came, they massacred us, they looted us, they made us their slaves.
So, it seems Bharat got independence physically but India remained the mental slave!!
It is this control of the mind that is frightening.
On one hand, a section of Bharat are happy and cheering the removal of the Raj Path but at the same time others on very next day are shedding tears on the death of a far land monarch who prospered by looting us both in terms of knowledge, dignity and wealth.
History it is said if not followed and understood then will repeat.
Just read below to see the atrocities committed by the Britishers on us apart from massacres elsewhere in the world which if compared to even the Holocaust will give some relief to Hitler and his team.
Eminent Indian economist Professor Utsa Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University) has estimated that Britain robbed India of $45 trillion between 1765 and 1938, however it is estimated that if India had remained free with 24% of world GDP as in 1700 then its cumulative GDP would have been $232 trillion greater (1700-2003) and $44 trillion greater (1700-1950). Deprivation kills and it is estimated that 1.8 billion Indians died avoidably from egregious deprivation under the British (1757-1947).
(Reference: Britain robbed India of $45 trillion & Thence 1.8 billion Indians died from deprivation | MR Online )
Shashi Tharoor in “Inglorious Empire”: “The British left a society with 16 percent literacy, a life expectancy of 27, practically no domestic industry and over 90 percent living below what today we would call the poverty line.”
This comes to the life expectancy of 27 years corresponding to about 10 million Indian avoidable deaths from deprivation per year.
So if your head was raised just a few days back on Aug 15 then don’t keep your head down today for the passing of someone who still considered herself and her lineage to be the ruler of yours!!