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Sometimes, I still wonder, what if all the states of India had come together for this one cause, what kind of history would I have read at school and what kind of India would I have been living in today. It's unimaginable.
Coming back to the present, its sad to see that our successive governments, our people don't take lessons from the past and first think about our country, rather keep thinking about their own selfish gains, which benefit them only in the short run, but which always has disastrous consequences in the long run. This attitude of ours, had already made us subject to a foreign ruler many times in the past. Its time for at least once, to think about our country.
Its always when we secure our country, that we have a future, in return makes us secure and gives us a future, in turn making our children secure and providing them with a better future, later making them the future of this country,making it secure.
Pictures: Starting from Top to bottom: (Mangal Pandey, the Jhansi fort at the time of Rani Lakshmibai's rule, Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar on his death bed(only photograph ever taken of a Mughal emperor), The Red Fort in 1857, another picture of a gate at the Red Fort, Tatya Tope handcuffed, war heroes being hung and blown away by cannon.)
You are right. Rani Chennamma of Kittur and Rani Laxmibai of Jahansi DID NOT FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE but to retain the right to coronate their adopted sons.
ReplyDeleteBeing called the Sepoy Mutiny is supression of actual facts by the British who were ruthless.
History has always been written by the victors and not by those defeated.