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“War demoralizes those who are trained for it. It brutalizes men of naturally gentle character. It outrages every beautiful canon of morality. Its path of glory is foul with the passions of lust, and red with the blood of murder. This is not the pathway to our goal”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Understanding the Founding Fathers: An Enquiry into the Indian Republic's Beginnings
“launching a satyagraha before training a cadre to keep it non-violent was ‘a Himalayan miscalculation’ on his part.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“Though the Mongols stopped (or were stopped) before reaching Delhi, they destroyed much of Punjab.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“Churchill could not become Gandhi’s idol, for the premier did not accept Indians as equals or as being worthy of independence”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Understanding the Founding Fathers: An Enquiry into the Indian Republic's Beginnings
“Like Guru Nanak after him, Baba Farid suggested that at a basic level a Muslim and a Hindu were the same, sharing the joy and pain of being human.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“In 1919, when loyalist Sikhs were willing, even after the Amritsar massacre, to honour Dyer, other Sikhs formed a new pro-independence body, the Sikh League, with the Sialkot-born Baba Kharak Singh (1868-1963), who had been galvanized by the massacre, as its chief.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“when World War I started, and Turkey aligned itself with the Empire’s foe, Germany, India’s Muslims felt even more conflicted.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“Nalwa rose from his sickbed and led a counter-attack. In gory battles fought along the Khyber Pass, about 6,000 Punjabis and 11,000 Afghans were killed, but Nalwa and a son of Dost were among the dead.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“Jabbar Khan blundered by persecuting Hindu Kashmiris. Many of them left the Valley,”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“White Punjabis like Nicholson often took a close and continuing interest in a servant or subordinate, but other ‘subjects’ were usually ignored and no ‘subject’ was seen as an equal.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“Muhammad Ali Jauhar, who for three remarkable years (1919-1922) championed Hindi-Muslim partnership, dismissed the ‘divide-and-rule’ explanation for India’s problems. ‘They don’t divide,’ Jauhar pointed out. ‘We divide and they rule.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Understanding the Founding Fathers: An Enquiry into the Indian Republic's Beginnings
“These saints and their associates/disciples converted most of the Rajput/Jat tribes [of Punjab]…to Islam. This process of conversion, begun in the early 13th century, continued till the close of the 19th century.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“In some villages near Allahabad, British soldiers killed aged men, women and children for alleged association with the rebels. Many were simply ‘burnt to death’.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“Guru Nanak named as his successor a disciple, Lehna, a Khatri of the Trehan clan, who became known as Guru Angad.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“Jallianwala Bagh’s dead and dying spent the 13th night with dogs and vultures.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“at times several misls together formed a dal khalsa to launch an attack on an Afghan post.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“the sword was of value only when a person of courage and restraint protected life with it.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Understanding the Founding Fathers: An Enquiry into the Indian Republic's Beginnings
“When given military control over a suba, the mansabdar was called a nazim or governor. If given financial control as well, he was something like a viceroy and called the subahdar.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“Dalhousie proved staunch in his imperialist and modernizing convictions and resolute in his conclusion, quickly formed, of Indian inferiority.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“If it came to a fight with the Empire—Gandhi had smelt that possibility—he wanted Indians to hold the moral high ground, yielding which had been part of the folly of 1857.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“the Empire assured Muslims and other minority ‘elements in India’s national life’ that Britain would never allow ‘their coercion into submission’ to a majority government”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Understanding the Founding Fathers: An Enquiry into the Indian Republic's Beginnings
“As the Punjabis were thrown into a collision course, the departing British more or less abdicated responsibility. Returning home at the earliest became the dominant desire of most British soldiers, policemen and civilians.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Understanding the Founding Fathers: An Enquiry into the Indian Republic's Beginnings
“In March 1748, different Sikh jathas or groups agreed to form a Dal Khalsa, an army of the Singhs, under the leadership of another Jassa Singh—Jassa Singh Ahluwalia81—who advanced the idea that the Khalsa should one day govern Punjab.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“Guru Nanak was born in 1469 into the Bedi clan of the Khatri caste of Hindus in a Punjab which had seen Timur’s brutal invasion only seventy years earlier.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“Recruit new soldiers for the Empire’s armies from rural Punjab but underscore every recruit’s distinct religion and caste,”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“four separate columns launched into Delhi through breaches in the city’s northern and western walls, between Kashmiri Gate and Lahori Gate.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“In the spring of 1759, a year after the Marathas, Sikhs and Adina had pushed Timur and Jahan Khan out of Punjab, Alamgir II wrote to Abdali:”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“400 mutineers were hanged simultaneously, while British officers seated beneath sipped whiskies and sodas and regimental bands played.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab
“this separate electorate, introduced in 1909 by the Earl of Minto, the viceroy at the time, was a knowingly divisive move was acknowledged a quarter-century later in a book written by the Earl of Minto’s widow.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Understanding the Founding Fathers: An Enquiry into the Indian Republic's Beginnings
“Defiance of Sikh rule would, however, continue in the Pashtun country, at times supported by Kabul.”
Rajmohan Gandhi, Punjab

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