The biggest tragedy of secular India was in 1930:a moderate secular Jinnah losing out to Gandhijis direct action community based approach;that marked the end of moderate gokhales dream for undivided India pre 1947, the second biggest tragedy was gandhis dream of Hindu Muslim unity losing out to jinnahs post 1930 British stooge avatar; that marked the end of jinnahs dream to stamp out separate electorates which treated one eye as different from the other....what a contradiction is India...pig eating Jinnah...a Muslim hero being supported by a mosque breaking advani who in turn is criticised by congress leaders for supporting Jinnah vs Nehru et.al.
Sometimes... remaining silent when someone is attacked is as dangerous as opposin; Gandhijis response to jinnahs disagreement of direct action was always: anyone is free to resign, if they disagree! I am afraid that a careful reading of Indian history, brings me to the conclusion that: the precipice of the Nagpur Congress in 1920 to which Jinnah was brought could have been avoided...
between 1920 to 1930 leading upto the nagpur congress, bapu did not sufficiently allow his opponents like jinnah and subhash space
in the 1920's a section of the muslim elite was already following the footsteps of 19th century British stooges among the Muslim community, onwards from Syed Ahmed khan... a distancing of Muslims from Hindus had already begun that is why...Bapu should have sensed the portents...the undercurrents of Seperatism...which were very much there...Hindu nationalism among Hindus and Muslim consolidation among Muslim elite...alas Bapu did not keep Hindu-Muslim consolidation as a political priority till too late though it was a concern for him....
Sometimes... remaining silent when someone is attacked is as dangerous as opposin; Gandhijis response to jinnahs disagreement of direct action was always: anyone is free to resign, if they disagree! I am afraid that a careful reading of Indian history, brings me to the conclusion that: the precipice of the Nagpur Congress in 1920 to which Jinnah was brought could have been avoided...
between 1920 to 1930 leading upto the nagpur congress, bapu did not sufficiently allow his opponents like jinnah and subhash space
the Father of the Nation did not nurture all his children equally...although none could have foreseen partition...its portents were visible...there was a dire need for consolidation of secular forces...not a business as usual " like it or lump it" approach with other leaders allowing them to fall away if they "did not agree" or "were losers to begin with after all"....
in the 1920's a section of the muslim elite was already following the footsteps of 19th century British stooges among the Muslim community, onwards from Syed Ahmed khan... a distancing of Muslims from Hindus had already begun that is why...Bapu should have sensed the portents...the undercurrents of Seperatism...which were very much there...Hindu nationalism among Hindus and Muslim consolidation among Muslim elite...alas Bapu did not keep Hindu-Muslim consolidation as a political priority till too late though it was a concern for him....
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