15th Aug 1947 - how many
of you believe this was a glorious day in the history of India? Well most of us
think like that because we are made to think like that. For me and many of my
Bolshevik friends it was yet another miserable day in the history of India. It
was miserable because of many reasons firstly India was divided into India and
Pakistan with disputed borders which resulted into Kashmir problem. Secondly a
civil war broke out within the nation which was the aftermath of partition
killing more than five thousand people (our great leaders accepted partition in
order to avoid civil war but instead they got both). Third and the most important
point is that no changes occurred in the structure of the state just the power
of the state was transferred from an imperialistic colonial government to the
higher/ruling class of Indian society or the bourgeois society of India. As
Lenin has said state is an instrument of oppression of one class by the other.
The British Raj was one such instrument which used its power for the oppression
of working class or the proletariats by the imperialistic powers. When the same
machinery was handed over to the higher class of India they made minimal
changes into it in order to use for the oppression of working class. Most of
these so called liberators of the country who claimed to be fighting for the
poorest of the poor where born in high class of India and even did not had the
stomach to carry on the struggle. If anyone was the hero of independence movement
it was the common man of India who was deceived every time in such movements
whether you take Non Cooperation, Civil Disobedience or Quit India. The people
fought every time with everything they had but these great leaders always
cheated them. During the non-cooperation movement the Holy Ghost said do not go
to schools, quit jobs and do not pay taxes and then bear the consequences on
your own account then what right he had to call off the movement. In 1942 Quit
India movement was started the masses where told “Do or Die” was it a joke did
the Holy Ghost had any action plan other than just starting the movement and
then quietly going to jail.
One thing I would like to ask each
one of you did you ever wondered why Britishers left India in 1947 when the
Quit India movement was badly crushed within three months. Our father of nation
took retirement from active politics after the movement then what happened that
Britishers left the country. Believe me they could have ruled us for another
150 years if the world war had not taken place resulting in dramatic changes in
the world scenario. There were many reasons which resulted in the so called
liberalization of this country besides Quit India movement and the great
sacrifices of Gandhi and Nehru. Some important reasons are resistance of Indian
masses against the Raj and education and awareness of the Indian youths made it
difficult for the government to administer the country. India was being
represented on world platform by people like Rabindranath Tagore, S N Bose, CV
Raman etc hence the world came to know about the culture and heritage of India.
The Britishers had already exploited too much natural resources from India. The
Pakistan movement lead by Jinnah was getting stronger leading to a chaotic
scenario which the Britishers didn’t wanted to indulge in as a civil war like
situation was being created because of it. Europe itself was going through a
very chaotic situation as it was the time of Second World War. United Nations
was formed just after Second World War and US emerged as a superpower of
capitalist nations. Both UN and US had anti-colonial policies. In the
post-World War elections Conservative party was defeated and the anti-colonial
Labour Party lead by Clement Atlee took control UK. This new government was
more interested in development of the country rather than maintaining colonies.
Lastly formation of INA by Subhash Chandra Bose motivated other Indian soldiers
of British army to join the freedom struggle.
So are these points enough for you
to believe that it wasn’t just the quit India movement or some holy ghost or
someone born with silver spoon in his mouth that liberated us it was we the
masses and most importantly the situations in UK and Europe that ultimately
gave us the so called independence i.e. transfer of power from a colonial
government to bourgeois class of India. At last I would like to thank Adolf
Hitler for taking a stand and without whom it couldn’t be done.
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