Resumo de Righting The Wrongs

Righting the Wrongs

October 30,1928 was one of the balckest days of the British Raj I India. It Demonstrated the reality of the Raj as being more of a mailed fist than as having any touch of velvet. The day was witnessto a brutal attack ona n indian leader,lala lajput raj known as the lion of the Punjab. By a british policeman named scott. The location was the lahore railway statin. The ostracised by indians all white simon commssin apointed to look ito costitutional reforms for India was due to arrive by train at lahore. Lala Lajput rai and Pandit madan Mohan Malviya were leading a black flag demonstratin to gie a point to the rejection of the commissin by indians. The police asked the demonstrators todisperse. Ontheir refusal, a lathi charge was ordered and scott used his aton equipped with a metalboss to viciously attack the aged ad ailing lajput Rai repeatedly on the back and the chest. The vehemence of the brutalpolce attack on unarmed and peaceful demonstrators succeeded in breaking up the procession. The demonstrators regrouped and Lajput Rai addressed them with the words. ?Every blow that was hurled at us ths after noon was a nail in the coffin of the British Government. Lajput Rai?s death,18 days later 17,1928 spurred young men like bhagat singh totake up a gun to right the wrongs and settle scores ona one o one basis. ON december 17,at 4 pm, a white police officer role out of the police headquarters on a red motorcycle. He was mistake for scott and shot dead. The assailants escaped. Bhagat Singh and his colleagues couldnot be trced by the police and reamined at large. On april 8,1929 Bhagat singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly to draw attentin to theplight of India under British Misrule. They took care that there would be no shrapned in injure anyone. Their trial was otprove one of the great forces of British justice in India. It is hoped that the British will make amends in time sotha the anniversaries observed in 2007 are amiable. The historyof British rule in India is a saga of apartheid and of the repressin of indians,besides that of visiting most barbarous brutality upon any indianwho dared to protest at the injustice and inquity of the rule,Each and evryone of theleaders,whether apostles of non-violence such as Bhagat Singh were subjected tophysicalasault and longperiod of incarceration. The Gemanys and the Japanese have apologised for their atrocities on thepeople they ruled. This has helped salve hurts and improved the image of the concerned countrires. It is hoped that good sense will dawn upon the British before the year 2007. This year will see the centenary of the birth of Bhagat Singh(born september 27,1907),Plassey(June 23,1757),the Great Indian Uprising (May 11,1857) and the Divide and Quit outrage of 1947. These significant events all have their anniversaries in 2007 and it should be possible to believe that the British like everyone else including the Japanese and the Germans do have a conscience and a heart.To show the genuinesness of their apoplogy for the long and unreientingbrutalisatin and looting of india the apology for the long and unrelenting brutalisation and looting of india the apoogy to the indians, pakistanis and bangladeshis should be accompanied with the restoratin of some f the looted artefacts such as the shah Jahan Badshahnama, the Kohinoor diamond,the jewelled huma bird form the throneof Tippusultan,the solid gold throne of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the gold crown (Bahadurshah Zafar and other such objects, which are mere opbjects for the British Indian craftsmen can make copies, so that the display in British museums inunaffected.

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