Let there be no light in anyone's eye, let there be no determination in anyone's heart
Those who can't work, I'm just a handful.
One cannot imagine that the creator of these poems, Bahadur Shah Zafar, would have led the people of India in the first war of independence fought against the British in 1857.
The revolt began on May 10, 1857 in Meerut when the Bengal Lancer troops revolted and marched towards Delhi.
There was a very important research on the events of 1857
"There were rifles that had to be cut in the mouth and loaded into the gun," he said. At that time it was said that it contained cow and pig fat, so the Muslims were also reluctant to touch them and the Hindus were also reluctant to touch them.
There were other reasons why they were being sent to fight overseas. So the Brahmins believe that if they cross the water, that is, the sea, their caste disappears. Their development was only to a limited extent. Indian soldiers could not go beyond the governor. He had a lot of complaints like that.
Some called it treason, some called it the War of Independence. May 11, 1857 was a Monday. It was the 16th day of Ramadan and at seven in the morning, King Bahadur Shah Zafar was offering Ishraq prayers in the photo gallery of the Red Fort on the banks of the river. At the same time, they saw smoke rising from the Jumna Par toll house.
He immediately sent his team there to find out the reason and also summoned Prime Minister Hakeem Ehsanullah Khan and Captain Douglas, who was in charge of guarding the fort. At four o'clock the rebel leader sent a message to the king that he wanted to meet him. They gathered in the compound of Diwan-e-Khas and started firing in the air with their guns and pistols.
"The king's example was the same as that of the king after he was struck on the chessboard."
After a long silence, Bahadur Shah Zafar said, “Why is an old man like me being insulted so much? What is the cause of this noise? The sun of our lives has already reached its twilight. These are the last days of our lives. At the moment, we just want to be alone. "
Charles Metcalfe later wrote in his book Two Nations Narrative: Ehsanullah Khan told the soldiers that he had been working for the British and was accustomed to a fixed salary. The king has no treasure. Where will they pay you? '
The soldiers replied that we would bring the money of the whole country to your treasury. Bahadur Shah Zafar said that I have no army, no weapons and no money, so he said we only need your support. We will bring you everything. "
Bahadur Shah Zafar remained silent for a while. Not being able to make a quick decision was the biggest flaw of his personality but on that day Bahadur Shah Zafar did not delay in making a decision and said yes. He sat on a chair and all the soldiers took turns bowing before him and placing their hands on his head. The soldiers occupied the rooms of the fort and some even made their beds in the Diwan-e-Aam.
The king could neither control nor manage such a large army, so he himself came under the control of the army. Then came the sound of a large cannon being fired.
At first, the Delhiites did not extend a helping hand to the insurgents, but in some quarters they were opposed. Mehboob Farooqi, a well-known historian and author of the famous book 'Basij 1857: Voices of Delhi', explains that 'people were angry and people did not want to, and this was not an unheard of thing and we cannot draw any conclusions from it. That Delhiites did not want to fight against the British.
For one thing, every man would want to fight against the British at his own expense. No one would want 40 soldiers to come and sit on top of your house in the fight against the British.
When we were fighting the war of independence with Mahatma Gandhi or with the Congress party, with Bhagat Singh, there were tens of millions of people in India who did not want any fire in their house or the police in their house. Come on The same is true of 1857.
It is said that these incidents caused a lot of turmoil in the lives of Delhiites but Mehboob Farooqi believes that despite all the chaos, the system was still in place.
"It's said about 1857 that there was a lot of chaos, a lot of chaos, no organization, no control, no structure, but I'm trying to say that in my book," he said. That was never the case, there is control, there is order, there is structure. But it is obvious that if 70-80 thousand soldiers come among 1.5 lakh citizens, some kind of chaos will spread. What will happen to the city if 3 million soldiers come and sit in the population of Delhi today?
But despite this, what is very strange and strange is that if the Commander-in-Chief is telling Kotwal to catch the four soldiers who did not go on duty, and the four soldiers are caught and they come. And if they apologize, I think that's a great discipline. ‘
If you need four hundred beds on the battlefield and four hundred beds are being provided to you, this is a way of supply, it is not coming from the air, someone said, someone went, someone brought it and immediately Was paid. This is an example that fighting is not just about soldiers. Fighting When you fight, even today, if you need sackcloth, you need water, you need soil, you need heavy, you need fork, you need labor, they are all four laborers with one soldier. Where were they all coming from? '
On the morning of May 12, Delhi was completely emptied of the British, but a few British women took refuge in some rooms near the fort's kitchen. The rebels killed all of them despite the king's opposition.
Rana Safavi says that when they attacked and attacked the British on 11th and 12th, many British had fled the city at that time and they even killed many. Some women took refuge in the fort. There they killed 56 people in hostilities. Most of them were women and children, including one or two men.
When the trial against Bahadur Shah Zafar took place, the biggest charge against him was that he killed him. However, if you read Zaheer Dehlavi's book, you will find that there were eyewitnesses in the fort at the time of the 1857 mutiny. They say that the king had said a lot that it is not written in any religion that you should kill innocent people.
But after a few days, the rebels' footsteps began to falter and the British, driven out of Delhi, returned. The troops from Anbala turned the tide and the British would once again enter Delhi.
Two rebels are executed on May 10, 1857
In 1857, however, there was chaos, and even if you are fighting a massive world power and superpower, we cannot expect the city to continue as it was. Obviously, there was an atmosphere of intense terror in the city, there was an atmosphere of suspicion, if there was a fight going on, there would be such an atmosphere.
What is even more significant is what happened after 1857, the way the city and its citizens were oppressed after 1857, and all the people of the city were kept out of the city of Khidr for six months. They stayed open for months in the winter and in the rain, and their houses were looted.
Mirza Ghalib was so horrified that he wrote a total of 11 ghazals in the remaining 12 years of his life since 1857. That is, not a single ghazal of a year comes out. So the poet Mirza Ghalib and the artist Mirza Ghalib or whatever that whole consignment ended after 1857. 'Since 1857, Indians have never been able to meet or speak to the British with the confidence that they had before. The battle of 1857 was the last battle fought by the Indians on their own terms. This does not mean on our weapons, but on our mental conditions, our psychological conditions.
What they see is a smile on their faces
They think the patient is well
Bahadur Shah Zafar sat on his palanquin from behind the Red Fort and first went to the shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin and then to the tomb of Humayun. There, on September 18, 1857, he was arrested by Captain William Hutson.
He later wrote in a letter to CP Saunders: "The king, Mirza Elahi Bakhsh and Maulvi came out on a palanquin. Behind him, Begum went out with her son Mirza Jawan Bakht and father Mirza Qali Khan. Then the palanquins stopped and then the king sent a message that he wanted to hear from me that his life would be spared.
I got off my horse and I assured the king and his wife that we guarantee your life provided no effort is made to save you. I also told him that he would not be disrespected and that his dignity would be upheld.
Bahadur Shah Zafar was spared but his three sons were shot dead at Point Blank Range. The king was kept like a simple prisoner in a cell in the Red Fort.
Lieutenant Charles Griffith, who was stationed there at the time, wrote in his book, Sage of Yogurt: He had a long white beard that reached to his stomach. He was wearing a white cloth and a clean tie of the same color. Behind them stood two artillerymen who were fanning themselves with peacock feathers. Not a word came out of his mouth, his eyes were fixed on the ground.
Bahadur Shah Zafar
A British officer was sitting on another bed three feet away from the king. On either side of them stood English oranges with bayonets. They were ordered to kill the king immediately with their own hands if they tried to save him.
King Bahadur Shah Zafar was so disrespected that groups of British people used to come to see how Bahadur Shah Zafar looked.
Since the capture of Bahadur Shah Zafar, he was kept in a cell of the Red Fort where the British tourists used to come and see him in the same way as you go to see the Red Fort today. Bahadur Shah Zafar).
So the man who was the king of India in Delhi, it is obvious that he spent the rest of the year longing for his death. From here he was sent to Rangoon and around him the king of Rangoon was sent to Ratnagiri in Maharashtra.
It was the British rule all over the world that the trade of kings was going on here and there. His last days are sad and painful. To which he said, "How unfortunate is Zafar for burial ..." Not even two yards of land was found in Koi Yar.
What happened to them, I think, happened to them during and after the year 57. What could be worse than the fact that you have kept the Timurid successor and king of India in a cell and British women and children are coming to see that it was good (Bahadur Shah Zafar) -!
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