Boddhisatya Tarafdar
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Boddhisatya Tarafdar is a Banker, a History-Enthusiast and a Blogger from Kolkata, India. He has also made a few short documentaries on the Indian Liberation Movement. Boddhisatya is a highly optimistic person, having great faith in God.
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World War II & India
The aspect of Second World War was a strange chapter in Indian history. The war which continued from 1939 till 1945 had left its deadliest marks on mankind not only in India but in the entire world. India at that time was under the British colonial rule and the whole of Indian subcontinent and its people had no connections at all with the war. But the colonial masters made the Indians fight on their behalf and the Indian men fought bravely at various battle fields of the world and gave their lives at the command of their British masters. The Bengal province witnessed one its worst disasters in the form of the Great Bengal Famine during WW-II. The famine took the lives of around 3 million Bengalis and remained as an infamous example of man-made devastations.
By Boddhisatya Tarafdarabout a year ago in History
How 'they' occupied India!!
Even in India, there are people who are of the opinion that the colonial British created the idea of a political union called India and provided the tools and institutions needed to hold the union together. However, we need to keep in mind a few points that the concept of “Bharatvarsha” was mentioned in the epic of Mahabharata and Bharata or India was described as a single cultural and also a large political entity. In famous ancient text of India the “Vishnu Purana” specifically describes this land as the ‘Varsha’ (which means piece of land) which is ‘Aasamudra Himachal’ i.e surrounded by Himalayas in the north and by sea in the south, so if anybody sees the map of India can easily relate to that. Then, under the emperor Ashoka in 300 BCE, large parts of the subcontinent enjoyed cultural and administrative unity. On the other hand, 200 years colonial rule did not unite the Indians, instead, they took every possible step to divide us, so that, it becomes easy for them to rule us. The Hindu caste system became more rigid and the communal lines between Hindus and Muslims deepened during British rule in India. Their cruel taxation system destroyed Indian economy and made Britain rich enough to prosper and rule a large portion of the globe as British colonies. Railways, post offices were established so that this large country may be properly administered by them and not for the welfare of the native Indians. We experienced the massacres like Jalianwalabag and deaths of millions of Indians in the man-made famines during the rule. Finally, at the time of leaving India the colonial masters partitioned the Indian subcontinent on communal lines in to India and Pakistan.
By Boddhisatya Tarafdarabout a year ago in History
