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ऑगस्ट १९४७ हा काळ भारताच्या दृष्टीने अत्यंत महत्त्वाचा ठरला. एक ते १५ ऑगस्ट या स्थित्यंतराच्या काळातील आणि भारताचे भवितव्य ठरविणाऱ्या १५ दिवसांची गाथा प्रशांत पोळ यांनी ‘ते पंधरा दिवस’मधून कथन केली आहे.
याची सुरुवात होते ती एक ऑगस्ट १९४७ रोजी महात्मा गांधी यांचा काश्मीर दौरा आणि गिलगीटच्या हस्तांतराच्या घटनांनी. त्यानंतर दोन ऑगस्टला ब्रिटिशांकडून होणाऱ्या हस्तांतराची सुरू झालेली धावपळ, पं. नेहरू, सरदार पटेल, डॉ. राजेंद्र प्रसाद यांचे काम, पुणे, श्रीनगर, तत्कालीन मद्रास या भागातील घडामोडी, तीन ऑगस्ट रोजी गांधीजींच्या काश्मीर दौऱ्याचे फलित, बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर यांना कायदेमंत्री म्हणून नियुक्त केल्याचे नेहरूंचे पत्र, चार ऑगस्ट रोजी व्हॉइसरॉय माउंटबॅटन यांच्या बैठकी, राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघाचे सरसंघचालक गुरुजी यांचा सिंध दौरा, अशा दररोजच्या घटनांचे चित्रण यात आहे. १५ ऑगस्टला भारतात स्वातंत्र्याची पाहत उगवली. त्या दिवसाचे वर्णन, विविध ठिकाणची परिस्थिती, नेत्यांची अवस्था याचा मागोवा घेतला आहे.
याची सुरुवात होते ती एक ऑगस्ट १९४७ रोजी महात्मा गांधी यांचा काश्मीर दौरा आणि गिलगीटच्या हस्तांतराच्या घटनांनी. त्यानंतर दोन ऑगस्टला ब्रिटिशांकडून होणाऱ्या हस्तांतराची सुरू झालेली धावपळ, पं. नेहरू, सरदार पटेल, डॉ. राजेंद्र प्रसाद यांचे काम, पुणे, श्रीनगर, तत्कालीन मद्रास या भागातील घडामोडी, तीन ऑगस्ट रोजी गांधीजींच्या काश्मीर दौऱ्याचे फलित, बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर यांना कायदेमंत्री म्हणून नियुक्त केल्याचे नेहरूंचे पत्र, चार ऑगस्ट रोजी व्हॉइसरॉय माउंटबॅटन यांच्या बैठकी, राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघाचे सरसंघचालक गुरुजी यांचा सिंध दौरा, अशा दररोजच्या घटनांचे चित्रण यात आहे. १५ ऑगस्टला भारतात स्वातंत्र्याची पाहत उगवली. त्या दिवसाचे वर्णन, विविध ठिकाणची परिस्थिती, नेत्यांची अवस्था याचा मागोवा घेतला आहे.
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First published April 20, 2019
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August 26, 2023
The more I read on India's partition, the more I realized how our history has been hidden from us. The writer did extensive research to write book on partition that focuses on last 15 days before India got independent. This book is a faithful account of day-to-day occurrences in parts of Bharat during the critical period of 1947 when the fate of India was being decided by its leaders and at a time when Hindus and Sikhs underwent untold miseries and hardship. It is an important document for understanding the circumstances and facts during Partition.
Whenever I read book on partition, they just focus on Punjab and Bengal. They don't even talk about Nizam, Sindh, Bikaner, Jodhpur, Junagarh, Bhopal and Jammu Kashmir. Fortunately this book covers all that. This book kinda felt like fast narrative, it doesn't bore the hell out of you. It also doesn't indulge in appeasing anyone and show us the reality of what it was. I am glad that this book doesn't only focus on Congress. It shows various point of view, be it Jinnah, Muslim league, Britishers and non congress leaders. This book also talks about Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Rashtra Sevika Samiti(RSS for women), Hindu Maha Sabha, Golwalkar, Savarkar and Muslim National guard which are not written in many partition books.
It details about the lack of clear vision of then leaders of Indian National Congress about united India and the mistakes which lead to division of Indian population based on the religion. The seeds our leaders sowed before Independence will help you understand the complexities of present-day politics in India. Our leaders back then were not even serious about partition situation. They had messiah complex and they were thinking that they are doing great jobs. Hindus and Sikhs were late in asking for transfer of population in June 1947 when Jinnah had asked for the same two years ago and Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar had suggested this 7 years before that basis similar transfers had happened in the history in Turkey but the congress leaders kept their heads buried in sand assuming that the storm won't come and hence they were responsible for massacre of Lakhs of Hindus and Sikhs. Even Sardar Patel asked for the complete transfer of population but as usual Gandhi and Nehru don't even want considered the idea.
The glow of freedom is certainly not found on their faces. They have lost their everything; their homes and hearths, their kith and kin, their properties, moveable and immovable, their religious shrines and sacred places hallowed by the blood of their martyrs and their accustomed ways of life and living.
The hundreds and thousands of unfortunate Punjabis, Sarhadis, Sindhis and Bengalis who, putting faith in the statements that everything will 'stand still', tarried too long behind and perished in the conflagration, unwept, unsung, unhonoured, but certainly not unremembered.
This book gives us a glimpse of the hell which the prosperous and proud people of Hindu and Sikhs in Punjab, Sindh, North West frontier and Bengal had to suffer in those critical days and to appeal to the leaders to learn from their past mistakes and hope they don't do the same mistake. Our country was partitioned on the basis of religion. Seven decades later, we are slowly going back to square one.
This book has extensive bibliography and black & white photographs. This book deserve a read. Recently Prashant Pole was bestowed with the MP Sahitya Akademi's Mahadevi Verma Award for this book. It is also available in Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Assamese and English. I also hope it becomes available in other languages as well.
Whenever I read book on partition, they just focus on Punjab and Bengal. They don't even talk about Nizam, Sindh, Bikaner, Jodhpur, Junagarh, Bhopal and Jammu Kashmir. Fortunately this book covers all that. This book kinda felt like fast narrative, it doesn't bore the hell out of you. It also doesn't indulge in appeasing anyone and show us the reality of what it was. I am glad that this book doesn't only focus on Congress. It shows various point of view, be it Jinnah, Muslim league, Britishers and non congress leaders. This book also talks about Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Rashtra Sevika Samiti(RSS for women), Hindu Maha Sabha, Golwalkar, Savarkar and Muslim National guard which are not written in many partition books.
It details about the lack of clear vision of then leaders of Indian National Congress about united India and the mistakes which lead to division of Indian population based on the religion. The seeds our leaders sowed before Independence will help you understand the complexities of present-day politics in India. Our leaders back then were not even serious about partition situation. They had messiah complex and they were thinking that they are doing great jobs. Hindus and Sikhs were late in asking for transfer of population in June 1947 when Jinnah had asked for the same two years ago and Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar had suggested this 7 years before that basis similar transfers had happened in the history in Turkey but the congress leaders kept their heads buried in sand assuming that the storm won't come and hence they were responsible for massacre of Lakhs of Hindus and Sikhs. Even Sardar Patel asked for the complete transfer of population but as usual Gandhi and Nehru don't even want considered the idea.
The glow of freedom is certainly not found on their faces. They have lost their everything; their homes and hearths, their kith and kin, their properties, moveable and immovable, their religious shrines and sacred places hallowed by the blood of their martyrs and their accustomed ways of life and living.
The hundreds and thousands of unfortunate Punjabis, Sarhadis, Sindhis and Bengalis who, putting faith in the statements that everything will 'stand still', tarried too long behind and perished in the conflagration, unwept, unsung, unhonoured, but certainly not unremembered.
This book gives us a glimpse of the hell which the prosperous and proud people of Hindu and Sikhs in Punjab, Sindh, North West frontier and Bengal had to suffer in those critical days and to appeal to the leaders to learn from their past mistakes and hope they don't do the same mistake. Our country was partitioned on the basis of religion. Seven decades later, we are slowly going back to square one.
This book has extensive bibliography and black & white photographs. This book deserve a read. Recently Prashant Pole was bestowed with the MP Sahitya Akademi's Mahadevi Verma Award for this book. It is also available in Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Assamese and English. I also hope it becomes available in other languages as well.
January 8, 2022
वे पन्द्रह दिन, प्रशान्त पोले जी द्वारा भारत की स्वतन्त्रता और विभाजन के दौरान अगस्त के उन महत्वपूर्ण पन्द्रह दिनों पर एक ऐतिहासिक दृष्टि। इस तरह कि मैंने ये पहली ही पुस्तक पढ़ी है जो विभाजन के समय भारत के अलग अलग क्षेत्रों में हो रही छोटी बड़ी गतिविधियों पर इतनी बारीकी से लिखा हो।
बहुत से लोग अक्सर हिंदू महासभा की महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका को नकारते हैं। परंतु पोले जी अपनी पुस्तक के माध्यम से तत्थियों के द्वारा उन्न दिग्गजों और उनके कार्यकर्ताओं के काम का विवरण पाठक को देते हैं।
ये पुस्तक हर उन पाठक के लिए है जो भारत के इतिहास में रुचि रखते हैं या फिर उस पर प्रश्न चिन्ह लगाते है। वे पन्द्रह दिन जब भारत विभाजन के ग्रहण में स्वतंत्र हो रही थी तो हमारे देश के भविष्य के संरक्षक और दूसरे स्वतंत्रता सेनानी क्या कर रहे थे? देश किस तरह जल रहा था और अपने ही देश में स्वतंत्रता कि राह देखने वाले मासूम हिंदू अपने ही देश में रातों रात कैसे शरणार्थी बन कर रह गए?
ये पुस्तक पढ़ने और विवेचना करने के लिए है, इसे ज़रूर पढ़ें।
बहुत से लोग अक्सर हिंदू महासभा की महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका को नकारते हैं। परंतु पोले जी अपनी पुस्तक के माध्यम से तत्थियों के द्वारा उन्न दिग्गजों और उनके कार्यकर्ताओं के काम का विवरण पाठक को देते हैं।
ये पुस्तक हर उन पाठक के लिए है जो भारत के इतिहास में रुचि रखते हैं या फिर उस पर प्रश्न चिन्ह लगाते है। वे पन्द्रह दिन जब भारत विभाजन के ग्रहण में स्वतंत्र हो रही थी तो हमारे देश के भविष्य के संरक्षक और दूसरे स्वतंत्रता सेनानी क्या कर रहे थे? देश किस तरह जल रहा था और अपने ही देश में स्वतंत्रता कि राह देखने वाले मासूम हिंदू अपने ही देश में रातों रात कैसे शरणार्थी बन कर रह गए?
ये पुस्तक पढ़ने और विवेचना करने के लिए है, इसे ज़रूर पढ़ें।
August 21, 2023
A must read for every Bharatiya.
The book focuses on the last 15 days of India’s independence.
It talks about the blunders which led to partition based on religion, INC - it’s decision making leaders and their lack of vision for independent India, Nehru’s stubborn opinions on the North West Frontier Province, Gandhi’s fanaticism, Jinnah’s politics, British demands and tactics in choosing a man who had no inkling of the subcontinent to draw the lines of partition, Muslim National Guard and goondas who raped, looted and killed Hindus and Sikhs in Sindh, Punjab, Bengal, Awadh and RSS’s work in protecting those oppressed and persecuted!
Hindu holocaust is real! And we might never talk about it…
This part of Indian history may never be in textbooks but make sure to pass it on to the younger generation.
The book focuses on the last 15 days of India’s independence.
It talks about the blunders which led to partition based on religion, INC - it’s decision making leaders and their lack of vision for independent India, Nehru’s stubborn opinions on the North West Frontier Province, Gandhi’s fanaticism, Jinnah’s politics, British demands and tactics in choosing a man who had no inkling of the subcontinent to draw the lines of partition, Muslim National Guard and goondas who raped, looted and killed Hindus and Sikhs in Sindh, Punjab, Bengal, Awadh and RSS’s work in protecting those oppressed and persecuted!
Hindu holocaust is real! And we might never talk about it…
This part of Indian history may never be in textbooks but make sure to pass it on to the younger generation.
February 25, 2022
Excellent to read and lessons to be learned from our past blunders not by ordinary citizens but by those who matter for the country. A very revealing book of the other side of popular politicians who are projected to be iconic by the exploiters of their popularity. It brings scholarship to the partition and shafts fact from the secular fictional narrative that has attempted to whitewash the whole religious identity based secularism.
February 19, 2022
A must read book to know what their and our leaders were doing in last 15 days before Independence. Also read it to know what commoners were feeling at that times in various parts of Bharat.
December 2, 2024
A classic read on India's partition. Kudos to the author for his extensive research. A compelling read, a page turner with no dull moments.
February 19, 2022
One of the best books. Well researched, it show us the reality of last 15 days before Independence. Unbiased, engaging, effective writing. Loved it. A Must read!
February 26, 2022
A really revealing and educative book with numerous nuggets not covered in various books on the same subject. Very very interesting and very well reasearched. It was a fabulous & a mind boggling revelation of the back room intrigues being played by the people you trust the most. Go for it.
August 29, 2024
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July 7, 2025
Those Fifteen Days
Thanks to my dear friend @Ashish iyer who had been constantly suggesting that I read this book sooner.
First and foremost stop calling neru and gandy with Ji behind their names. They are not worth it.
A fast paced novel kind of story that takes place in the dreadful days of Partition of the continuous and Ancient civilizations in the world.
Hindus got a secular country. Where the community that asked for a separate nation stayed back obviously for wealthy reasons.
Muslims got a secular islamic country. Where sikhs and Hindus were thrown out and their women were taken away as trophies. Continued with a huge genocide and ethnic cleansing that goes in even to this day.
It's 1947 August and a country was being torn into pieces.
Guess what was Routine of Gandy :
1. Wake up early
2. Do some non sense prayer.
3. Walk a mile in a muslim league infested area where they massacred Hindus the other night.Feel sad. oh your poor thing.
4. Go to a Hindu gathering ask them to not retaliate. Give your life if need be.
5.Call muslims innocent.
6. Sleep with his granddaughter.
7. Spin a yarn.
8. Rinse Repeat.
You might have heard the stupidest comments by rascal politicians when a women is physically harassed or assaulted.
She might have been wearing inappropriate clothes while in public.
Now go back to 1947.
Congressi turd Sucheta Kripalani was giving sermons to Hindu and Sikh women to wear appropriately so that Muslim men would not take them as trophies. Yeas she literally said that to the women who were in already great fear of being taken away by beasts of Muslim league.
Reading the freedom struggle history itself has become more a struggle for us.
It's packed with betrayal and cowardice of the Hindus.
It's been more than 150 years Dhindus have not woken up nor will they anytime soon.
Read this for few good reasons:
1. To know the real motive of congress.
2. To know what the so called Mahatma was doing to Hindus.
3. RSS and their struggles to get back Hindus and Sikhs from this terror state.
5. Blunders of Nehru(Not in detail but it's a start)
Highly recommend this book to everyone..
Thanks to my dear friend @Ashish iyer who had been constantly suggesting that I read this book sooner.
First and foremost stop calling neru and gandy with Ji behind their names. They are not worth it.
A fast paced novel kind of story that takes place in the dreadful days of Partition of the continuous and Ancient civilizations in the world.
Hindus got a secular country. Where the community that asked for a separate nation stayed back obviously for wealthy reasons.
Muslims got a secular islamic country. Where sikhs and Hindus were thrown out and their women were taken away as trophies. Continued with a huge genocide and ethnic cleansing that goes in even to this day.
It's 1947 August and a country was being torn into pieces.
Guess what was Routine of Gandy :
1. Wake up early
2. Do some non sense prayer.
3. Walk a mile in a muslim league infested area where they massacred Hindus the other night.Feel sad. oh your poor thing.
4. Go to a Hindu gathering ask them to not retaliate. Give your life if need be.
5.Call muslims innocent.
6. Sleep with his granddaughter.
7. Spin a yarn.
8. Rinse Repeat.
You might have heard the stupidest comments by rascal politicians when a women is physically harassed or assaulted.
She might have been wearing inappropriate clothes while in public.
Now go back to 1947.
Congressi turd Sucheta Kripalani was giving sermons to Hindu and Sikh women to wear appropriately so that Muslim men would not take them as trophies. Yeas she literally said that to the women who were in already great fear of being taken away by beasts of Muslim league.
Reading the freedom struggle history itself has become more a struggle for us.
It's packed with betrayal and cowardice of the Hindus.
It's been more than 150 years Dhindus have not woken up nor will they anytime soon.
Read this for few good reasons:
1. To know the real motive of congress.
2. To know what the so called Mahatma was doing to Hindus.
3. RSS and their struggles to get back Hindus and Sikhs from this terror state.
5. Blunders of Nehru(Not in detail but it's a start)
Highly recommend this book to everyone..
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