Saturday, July 17, 2010

Where our revolutionaries failed?

It is written in our History books that our revolutionary freedom fighters have tried to set up Secreat socities like Yugantar party and established underground units for manufacturing arms. At that time(1910-1930) the communication network was not as advanced as today.Yet they failed to establish effective parallel governments like the communist organization of Modern India doing in underdeveloped areas. Moist are able to evade the security forces,even with such modern technology and elaborate administrative setup at the disposal of the Indian Government.

That exposes the shortsightedness of of our revolutionaries. They failed to see tribal and dalits as a potential partners in the war of  Independence. They never tried to build a mass movement.That's why those movements are short lived and British govt was able to fizzle out  those movements.

What were the reason for this failure of our freedom fighters?

 If they had roped in Dalits and Tribal,they could have ejected the British from the major portion of the subcontinent.But they never saw the tribal as Human beings,leave alone 'partners'.

 None of the leaders who led our independence movement before the appearance of Gandhi ever considered the downtrodden people as potential partners in the war of Independence.It simply shows that they are not willing to share the fruits of freedom with those poor, illiterate people.

 

- KeshavaPrasad


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