EXCELLENT TEN STARS !
FOR YEARS WE HAVE BEEN MADE TO BELIEVE THAT WINSTON CHURCHILL HAS BEEN A HERO,
BUT THIS BOOK WRITTEN BY MADHUSREE MUKERJEE DEMYSTIFY THIS, HIS ACTION DURING
WORLD WAR TWO IN INDIA, IN WHICH THREE MILLIONS PERISHED IN A FAMINE ( ESPECIALLY
IN THE BENGAL REGION), SHOWS THAT CHURCHILL WAS ONE OF THE MOST EVIL FIGURES IN
THE TWENTY CENTURY NOT DIFFERENT THAN HITLER, STALIN, MAO AND CASTRO.
THE BRITISH COLONIZATION IN INDIA COULD BE DESCRIBED AS A PUNISHMENT; AS THE AUTHOR
POINTS OUT BENGAL ( TODAY BANGLADESH), WAS A PROSPEROUS COUNTRY BEFORE THE
BRITISH CAME IN THE LATE EIGHTEEN CENTURY, INDIA ITSELF WAS RULED BY THE MOGULS
WHO HAVE SHORTCOMINGS AND ACHIEVEMENTS, THE HINDUS AND MOSLEMS COEXISTED,
ALL OF THESE CAME TO AN END WHEN THE BRITISH TOOK OVER, FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY
THE COUNTRY WAS RAVAGED, THERE WERE PERIODS OF FAMINE, IN FACT THE BEGINNING OF
THE COLONIZATION STARTED WITH A FAMINE.
THE COLONIAL RULE SOWED ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS DIVISIONS, THAT HAVE LEFT AFTER 1947, THE YEAR
OF THE INDEPENDENCE AND PARTITION ;A LEGACY OF INTERCOMMUNAL VIOLENCE THAT PERSISTS
TO THIS DAY IN ALL SOUTH ASIA.
THE YEAR 1943 WAS THE WORST, IN SPITE THAT THE STOCKPILES WERE PLENTY OF FOOD THEY WERE
DELIBERATELY WITHHELD FROM THE BENGAL POPULATION WITH THE EXCUSE THAT IT WAS NEEDED
FOR THE WAR, THE AUTHOR POINTS OUT THAT INDIA WAS THE MAIN SOURCE NOT ONLY IN MATERIAL
RESOURCES BUT IN TROOPS FOR THE PROSECUTION OF THE WAR NOT FOR ITSELF BUT ON BEHALF
OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, STILL CHURCHILL REGARDED THE INDIANS ESPECIALLY THE HINDUS WITH
THE UTMOST DISRESPECT.
THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS HEADED BY MAHATMA GHANDI AND JAWAHARAL NEHRU ACTED
WITH PATRIOTISM AND LOVE FOR THEIR COUNTRY BY NOT COOPERATING WITH THE COLONIAL
AUTHORITIES IN THE WAR EFFORT AS OPPOSED TO THE COMMUNISTS THAT WERE SERVILE TO THE
SOVIET IMPERIALISM ( CHURCHILL AND STALIN WERE ALLIES AT THAT TIME) ; HOWEVER THE
GREATEST OF ALL THE INDIAN PATRIOTS AND I WILL ADD THE QUINTAESSENTIAL OF PATRIOTISM AND
LOVE AND DEDICATION FOR HIS COUNTRY WAS THE NATIONALIST LEADER SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE,
LEADER OF THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY FROM 1943 TO 1945 ( IT WAS FOUNDED
IN 1942 BY MOHAN SINGH) , THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY (INA) FOUGHT VALIANTLY AND CORAGEOUSLY ALONGSIDE THE JAPANESE ARMY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA; IN SPITE THAT THEY NEVER
ENTERED INDIA, ITS STRUGGLE WITH BOSE AT THE HEAD SERVED AS AN EXAMPLE FOR THE INDIAN
PEOPLE TO THROW OUT THE YOKE OF BRITISH COLONIALISM AFTER WORLD WAR TWO.
THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY WAS COMPOSED OF HINDUS, MOSLEMS AND SIKHS, THEY WERE UNITED
UNDER THE BANNER OF INDEPENDENCE, ALL OF THEM FELT PART OF THE INDIAN NATION REGARDLESS
OF THEIR RELIGION IN CONTRAST TO THE DIVISIVE AND SECTARIAN POLICIES OF THE COLONIAL AUTHORITIES.
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TARAK CHANDRA DAS AND THE BENGAL FAMINE
Although I have not yet read the book by Madhusree Mukherjee but through a reading of the dedates with Sen and Tauger in New York review of books, I find it interesting and is eager to buy it for my reading.I am not sure whether the author has read a lesser known but solid enthnographic monograph(the only existing first hand report on the famine) by a pioneer anthropologist Tarak Chandra Das(1898-1964) who wrote the book "Bengal Famine (1943): as revealed in a survey of the destitutes of Calcutta." Published by Calcutta University in the year 1949.This book is one of the major sources of data for both Sen and Tauger who has opposing views on the famine.The book is long extinct ! I myself have written a book recently on T.C.Das' contributions in Indian Anthropology in a book available in Amazon http://www.amazon.in/Tarak-Chandra-Das-Unsung-Anthropology/dp/9385883011/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1456602572&sr=1-10 Had I read Madhusree Mukherjee's book before writing the book on T.C.Das, I would definitely have been benefitted.
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