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Britain's pioneering independent
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Founding Editor
Mr.Vallabh Kaviraj is a longstanding Indian journalist, Poet and
writer in London, who is the fouding Editor-Publisher-Owner of
the pioneering first independent Indian Asian English newspaper-The
AEN which he has founded in London 1973, and The AEN-The Asian
Express Newspaper is published on World Wide Web daily.
He is also founding Editor-Publisher-Owner of Global Business
Focus.com and The AEN News Diary.com, which are published on World
Wide Web daily
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India
since Independence
marching on
for prosperity
and world peace
in this New Age
By Vallabh Kaviraj
in London
*India, the glorious ancient land with full of resources, manpower,
rich culture and a considerable wealth of all kinds, is now seen
globally as the land of opportunities for prosperity and world
peace in this New Age.
*India is many-but it is a great one nation with over one billion
people who have different languages, different religions, traditions
and customs though culturally they are one people who have lived
together culturally for centuries, that is the beauty of the great
country India.
*Looking to its ancient concept, the existing archeological evidence
indicates that the Vedic literatures, inscriptions, coins as well
as the great traditional stories in Puranas, which had been memorised
for centuries and collected many centuries later, kept the rich
Indian culture alive and flourishing always.
*However, India suffered enough for several centuries because
of the various foreign invasions which had broken up the paramount
country into different regions and divided the great one Indian
society into many groups and castes, subcastes system, which had
been imposed by foreign invaders in 1500 BC.
*Also, later India's wealth had been robed often in 8th century
by foreign rulers from Middle East and central Asia, who had created
political instability in India then. But they could not stop country's
economic prospect until some of them had made their political
bases to rule and to meet their religious, socio-economic and
political ends. Those who had made their power basis to rule they
had also played divisive and cunning power games, and the consequence
of that, Indian people at large had suffered a lot economically,
politically and socially.
*Later the communal element with narrowmindedness had been created
in the entire Indian society which had ended up with communalism
and that had caused grave social unrest often.
*Moreover, the dynasty oriented Indian kingdoms within the country,
created a jealousy among themselves, that had caused disunity
and eventually wars, which had invited foreign rulers to take
an advantage of the political situation. Consequently, India as
a whole had been seen politically weakened then.
*Lastly Europeans had discovered India and had come by sea route
to the country as traders and it had become the world trade centre.
The European trading companies then had created a problematic
battlefield using power muscles and India had been later ruled
by British for over 150 years.
*As the wind of political change had started to blow during the
British Raj in India, an Indian National Congress had been founded
at last by a retired Englishman, in end of December 1885, at Bombay
in India to campaign for a self rule.
* Also, a committee of the Indian National Congress had been established
in London, together with Indian residents including Dadabhai Navrodji
who had been later elected as an Member of Parliament (MP) from
the Liberal Party to British Parliament in 1892. He had then raised
a voice in British Parliament in London, concerning a self rule
in India.
*During the lengthy foreign rule, India had suffered a lot. The
structure of the Indian society had been broken completely and
the country had been seen in complete mess economically.
*It was the Freedom Movement which had been led by Mahatma Gandhiji
had awaken the grassroot level people of India. Gandhiji had devoted
his whole life and marched on to achieve India's Independence.
After a long political struggle he had at last succeeded in achieving
Independence without bloodshed.
*But Mohammed Ali Jinha's political self ambition to become a
prime minister had provoked communal riots in the country.
*The Labour Attlee Government of Great Britain, sent Lord Mountbatten
to India and he had become the first Viceroy of the Independent
India. He saw that Mr. Jinha's demand for partition of India,
was a dangerous political game. He had seen that the plan which
had been discussed needed to be put into action immediately rather
than to wait for the arranged transfer in June 1948. He had reluctantly
agreed to Jinha's demand. At last, the plan had been agreed to
be accepted to create a partition of the country.
*Independence had been granted to India on 15th of August 1947.
It was a jubilant Day for people of India, but on the other hand,
sad Day for mother India which was partitioned for no good reason
but had to do it simply on communal ground.
*Lord Mountbatten had left India in June 1948. Mahatma Gandhiji
then saw that India needed a prime minister who had the links
with all Indian people rather than the leader with simply community
oriented ideology. He chose Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime
Minister of India and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as the Deputy Prime
Minister in the Nehru Government. Both were educated in England
but with different backgrounds.
*The veteran politicians of India had learnt a lot of the past
political lessons of the country. They wanted to see the country
more unionly unified as one nation.
But the partition provoked unexpected riots. Mahatma Gandhiji
had tried his best to resolve it with peaceful means, but that
did not help the situation, and Gandhiji was assassinated on 30th
January 1948 by a fanatic in India.
*Many critics said then that the partion of India was a big mistake
and would cause a permanent damage to the Indian subcontinent.
*Alongside the communal troubles and the vast refugee problem
created by the partition, the Nehru Government wanted to integrate
more than 500 independent princely states into the Indian Union.
It was very complex situation because of the Hindu Maharaja in
Kashmir and Muslim Nizam in Hydrabad.
*Eventually Hydrabad issue had been resolved with some difficulties.
But the Kashmir crisis provoked a war with Pakistan in October
1947. The Kashmir issue had provoked other two wars too between
two countries, and yet the issue remained unresolved. It is a
big headache for India today.
*India's first Prime Minister Pandit Nehru had a big task to implement
his new policies to build the new India's economy. His first priority
was to create a policy which would keep India in peace. It was
his non-alliance policy which had led him to march for a peace
worldwide and his hard work for the world peace made him a world's
great peace maker statesman.
* Under the Nehru Government, India had been through a number
of changes. After remaining in the Commonwealth in 1949 as Republic,
Indo-British connection had started to build up better relations.
*Since the Nehru Government, India had made a considerable progress,
and the Congress ruled the country with great value of democracy,
but Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi's emergency rule damaged
her popularity. She was defeated and Janata Party formed a government
under the leadership of Mr. Morarji Desai who brought India into
limelight again with the vision to develop villages and the cottage
industry in the country. But Janata government lasted two years
only because the coalition failed, and Mrs Indira Gandhi came
to power again with the vision to remove poverty in the country.
Since then India's domestic political game had been played with
rivary among politicians.
*The strange political culture then began to emerge and voters
confused themselves, and eventually coalition governments had
been produced often.
*However, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coalition government led
by Atal Bihari Vajpayee completed five year term, showing country's
considerable strength in the world, but failed to win general
election again because of domestic political rivary.
* Now, the Congress coalition government under the premiership
of Dr.Manmohan Singh, seems to be making a considerable economic
progress in this globalised world.
*India had been through ups and down since its Inependence but
survived with great strength and political wisdom, and it is well
recognised as the largest democracy on earth.
*The world is coming closer than ever before and fast changes
are occuring. The wind of economic changes began for the global
prosperity, and the global economies seem to be linked greatly
to make the world better place in this New Age.
*Now the economic strength of India is emerging, the country is
marching on with knowledgeable manpower as well as a considrable
support from Indians settled worldwide, and the world is believing,
India will be the great economic power in 2010.
*India today seems to be a promising land for prosperity and world
peace, and the country is marching on to achieve its glorious
past in this New Age.
*Now, there are debates going on concerning the partition, and
many moderate critics in India, Pakistan and overseas believe
that the partition would be unnecessary as the global economies
would flourish because future global citizens would be more matured
economically, politically and socially, seeing the world is one
family of nations in this advanced modern New Age.
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(*The author of this article, Mr.Vallabh Kaviraj is a longstanding
Indian journalist, a poet, writer and newspaper editor. He founded
the pioneering independent Indian Asian English newspaper The
AEN-The Asian Express Newspaper in London 1973, to promote better
understanding and harmony among peoples globally.
*And also he founded GBF-Global Business Focus and The AEN News
Diary publications in London. He has written a number of articles
on global economy, global environment issues, current affairs
and Asia affairs in general. He has worked hard to build up his
newspaper which is being published on Internet.
*He is the man of all peoples. He has composed his own poems in
two languages: in English and in Gujarati and published those
poems in a book form called 'Inspiration' the first of its kind
in London 1973 and added a novelty in the field of literature
in Britain.
*He served as a parent governor in a secondary school in London
for six years, contributing considerably to the field of education
in London.
*His parents had a family business in Gujarat though he prefered
teaching there. He was formerly a teacher in Gujarat, India, before
he came to Britain in mid 1950's.
*He studied Business courses, law and journalism in London.
*He is now known as one of the pillars of the Asian society in
Britain.)
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