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Zara Yaad Karo Qurbani… By Aleem Faizee
The year-long celebrations to mark 150 years of the First War of Independence fought in 1857 came to an end on Saturday, May 10, 2008. Ummid.com tries to explore the history for its readers at this momentous instant. |
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But soon it all vanished. “On the
morning of September 21st 1857, a royal salute at sunrise
proclaimed that Delhi was once more a dependency of the British
crown”, as Edward Rotton had observed in The Chaplain’s Narrative.
And then what happened in next few
days in Delhi, the world is yet to witness it again. “It was
literally murder. I have seen many bloody and awful sights lately
but such a one as I witnessed yesterday I pray I never see again”,
William Dalrymple has quoted 19-year old Edward Vibrat in his
celebrated tome The Last Mughal.
After days of massacre in Delhi, what
remained there can be best described by Fred Robert. “Dead bodies
were strewn about in all directions in every attitude that the death
struggle had caused them to assume, in every stage of
decomposition”, Dalrymple has quoted him observing in his book.
Today, 150 years after this tragedy
the question that still haunts one’s mind is, after the unbelievable
success where exactly we had failed. “United we stand in calamity
but are poles-apart in prosperity. These words, I suppose, best
describes we Indians’ nature if we closely monitor the events from
the period when the British invaded the country to this day”, says
Laila Khaledain who is researching on the historical moments of
1857. “Had it not been to our very own people who shamelessly
betrayed for their own personal interests, the British would never
have succeeded in ruling the nation for so long”, she adds.
Stating that it was the same behavior
that gave way to the partition of the country and adding, “Even
today people with the same attitude exist in the country who are
playing the same old game of divide and rule”, Laila says, “I am
very sorry to say that when it warranted to take actions against the
black sheep within ourselves, we have miserably failed.” Following the same line, renowned journalist and lyrics writer Hasan Kamal observes, “There lay plenty of lessons in the events that followed after 1857. And if learnt properly, we can definitely build a totally new India where co-existence prevails everywhere.” |
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Sare Jahan Se Accha Hindustan Hamara |
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In 1905 more than 100 years from today, when Iqbal was a lecturer at the Government College, Lahore he was invited by his student Lala Hardayal to preside over a function. Instead of making a speech, Iqbal sang Sare Jahan Se Accha Hindustan Hamara in his style. Iqbal compiled this poem in praise of India and the poem preaches the communal harmony that had unfortunately started ceasing in India by that time. Each and every word in this poem depicts an Indian’s respect and love for the motherland and the values the Indian society inherited for long...Read Full |
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Will
Indo-Pak peace bring peace to 
‘Advising
Restraint, work for the Revival of the Community’:
Fascism
and Terrorism: Two Sides of 
Inquilab
1857 to Sacchar Report-Nothing has changed for Indian Muslims:
The preparations were underway since
last few months. The whole country was abuzz with the underground
activities to overthrow the colonial forces that, after almost
occupying their motherland, were now up to hurt their religious
feelings. At last the sepoys after mutinying in Meerut, knocked on
the doors of Delhi on May 11, 1857, and to the horror of the
British, swiftly captured the capital of their motherland. The
Indian Government under Bahadur Shah Zafar was well in place. 
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