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July 25, 2008
BrassTacks Policy Paper India reports Series
Myth of United India&Democracy or Hypocrisy?
By
Maryam Mehboob
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© 2008 BrassTacks. All rights reserved.This document is protected by copyright. No part of it may be reproduced, or transmitted, in any formor by any means, electronic or otherwise, without the written permission of BrassTacks.The information in this document is furnished for informational use only. Great care has been taken tomaintain the accuracy of the information contained in this document. However, neither BrassTacks northe authors can be held responsible for errors or for any consequences arising from the use of theinformation contained herein.brasstacks@dsl.net.pk 
 
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MYTH OF UNITED INDIA
OVER TWO DOZEN FREEDOM STRUGGLES IN PROGRESS IN INDIA
efore the Muslim conquests to the Indian subcontinent, little was known aboutIndia or her dwellers. Historians concede “
the historical phase of India beganwith the Muslim invasion. Muslims were India's first historians.” (Gustave Le Bon)
. Thereafter how the Muslims contributed to the culture of the Indiansubcontinent, is all too well known. Muslim reign lasted for around 1000years, before they met their waterloo at the hands of the British.The English plunder of the Indian land is too gruesome for words. They robbed Indiaof everything that there was, right from their gems and jewels to their culture andlanguage. They went further. They mercilessly divided India along ethnic lines for thesake of their own convenience. The mess that the Indian subcontinent finds itself intoday is a gift by her imperial rulers.The rise of Hindus to the realm of Indian politics occurred while the British ruled.They had long served under the Muslim charge, and now saw their way to the top bylicking the boots of their new
gora
masters. What a pity! They shamelessly stabbedtheir Muslim brethren in the back who in their rule of 1000 years had treated them asequals. Whereas the British enslaved them, brutally murdered them and trampledover their customs and values.But if nothing else, one is forced to acknowledge the shrewd mentality of thesedisciples of Chanakya. After the British departure from India had become imminent,these Hindu politicians began to chant slogans of right of self determination andliberation of India. Muslims, who by that time were well aware of the despicableaspirations of these politicians, had been insisting on the creation of an independenthomeland. The Hindu politicians under the banner of congress played their cards veryintelligently. They convinced the world to have single-handedly rescued their landfrom the clutches of their colonial occupiers only to have been beaten by a fewtraitors who in their greed for power imposed the dissection of their beloved motherIndia.Six decades onwards, they play along similar lines. Their politicians, mediaand intelligentsia are all part of an age long campaign to demonize Pakistan, a failedstate plagued with terrorism and at the verge of a collapse. At the same time, they arequick to remind how India in all these years has risen as the world’s largest seculardemocracy, where people of all castes, religions, color and creed co exist in harmony.
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