भारत की हार के कारण क्या थे, WHY INDIA WAS DEFEATED.

WHY INDIA WAS DEFEATED, OR CAUSES OF INDIA’S DECLINE AND ITS ILL EFFECTS (2864 words)
1. FAKE REASONS: SOME REASONS ARE assigned by foreigners, fake reasons are usually three namely, hot weather, which produces laziness and secondly,our caste system which gave birth of ill-will amongst each other, and prominently this feeling of untouchability etc, and this too sounds frivolous as it was our internal division of labour concept, and caste system was by not birth and not by one’s profession, and there never was a class-war because of this. The third reason assigned is that be lacked modernity in war fare and in arms and ammunition. It may be partially true because from the time immemorial we have been fond of ultramodern weapons, and Indian swords were famous throughout the world. One more reason is assigned, namely we always praised asceticism, or selfishness etc, and remained against financial opulence, and this was all due to our wrong concepts mentioned in our scriptures. It too sounds totally bogus charge,because in a country where Godess Lakshmi is worshipped every year, and where our forth Purusharaths consists,Dharam-Arath-Kaam- and Mokash, so where have our scriptures preached poverty and deficiency etc. Certainly not! Assigning such like baseless and laughable reasons, the foreigners were putting us on the wrong track and thus misguiding us. By taking hold of wrong reasons, real reasons could have further made the situations worst. Banta had taken opium in high doses and sleeping with Banta on the roof and were disturbed by rain. Banta was assisting in taking the charpai, wooden cot down floor and enquired that if he had taken grip of the cot, so that he may loosen his grip. Santa instead caught tightly the wooden frame of door i.e.chokhat of the door and said in loud voice, let it come, let it come, chod de, chod de,, and lo the cot hit badly his head. Banta cried and santa enquired why you said that you had made grip of the cot, Banta replied, that is still in my grip but why have you thrown the next cot! Oh we will catch the wrong reasons of decline, we will also meet the fate of Banta. Our Mahesh Sharma gives an other instance to prove this point. One man who is wearing his pant after a long time and feels tight and declares that the pants have squeezed, little admitting the real cause that he himself has become fatty and also appoints an enquiry committee to know the real cause of squeezing of pants, what results can we assume will accrue from such a fact finding committee. He affirms that such things ae actually happening in life. So we should not become a victim of foreigners trap of assigning fake reasons of our decline.
2. Actually five reasons are assigned for this. One lack of national spirit or say all India spirit in contrast to regionalism, second, with the adoption of Buddhism as a state religion, undue importance given tothe concept of ahimsa, or non-violence in the national affairs, third being over stress on virtues, called sadguna vikriti. Cow protection, ahimsa, loyality to the kings and that went to the foreigner rulers as well, fourth being lack of discipline as in the case of third battle of Panipat and Mangal Pandey disobeying the time schedule to start first war of Indian independence. Similarly the absence of Home Coming in the case of converted Muslims as in the case of people who drank the water polluted by beef, and Brahmins resistance to reconverting Muslims into Hindu fold etc. All these should kept in mind and also to realise that these things are still happening and ailing the nation even now, and remedies are to be given for them. Let us not forget the adage: the farthest backward we can see, the farthest forward we can look.
3. STRANGE THINGS: Dr. Hedgewar, in his adolescence, when saw the Peshwas’ fort with Union Jack also thought again and again that why foreign flag was hoisting on our forts and why it was the Englishmen from 6000 kilometers came and to subdue us. I think every patriot one day or the other is face to face with this question that why we were defeated by foreigners for the last 1000 years. I think you too might have faced a similar query from others or sometimes from your inner self that why our country suffered such humiliations from outsiders Mujhe marne a gam nahin, magar is baat ka gam hai, jis jahah pe duba wahan pani bahut kam hai. That why we defeated at the hands of marauders of inferior culture and other qualities as compared to our forefathers.
4. There are seven miracles in our country wherein comes Taj Mahal and others. Similarly there come to my mind some puzzles which I fail to understand. For example, (1)Muhammad bin Qasim with a small platoons of cavaliers was able to defeat one after the other forts of our country. I have heard this example several times and each time I wish it should be an exaggeration, but it is true. (2) That we failed in 1857 seven because we did not have the advanced topkhanas on our side. (3) That we forgave many times the same aggressor in the form of Muhammad Ghori and when once he is successful he takes out the eyes of Prithviraj Chauhan. Why we could not guess his bad intentions even in the beginning. (4) Where the scripture like Mahabharat clearly teaches every one that Lord Krishana even persuaded Bhima to hit the vulnerable part below the belt of Duryadhana even disobeying the rules of games and when Balram also comes to protest , Krishna silences him by asking where were he when such a treacherous move of killing Abhimanya, and dishonouring the modesty of Dropadhi was enacted in the presence of everybody in the day light and in the courtroom itself.(5) Why in such a country Alexander was able to perform a treacherous move of sending her beloved, Hellen,to get a promise from Poras in the form of binding Rakhi on his hands on the Raksha Bandhan day. When Alexandra was defeated in the same battlefield by Poras she begs the life of his lover and as such Alexander was rescued. Later on he killed several thousands of sisters of this country and rendered them husbandless. Why his hands not trembled when he was saving such a villain. (6) We are five and they are hundred, but if somebody from another country fights with us we are one hundred and five, where such words were uttered by Pandava, why it is that instances like the defeat of Third Battle of Panipat take place.(B) Similarly thousands of pilgrims go to the temple of Bhagwan Jagannath to take darshan, but due to indiscipline, die due to elbowing and consequent stampede.
5. Sadguna Vikriti: Cow is like our mother but how is that some Mughal rulers tie together a herd of cows and come attacking Hindus behind this herd, directing arrows on us and instead of taking positions to fight back we are silently adoring the attackers because we cannot kill the cows. Little imagining that after this victory the first thing the enemy was going to do was to kill all the cows in their presence and finishing all of this city and then shooting the Hindus. Is it what is called respect for our cows.
6. Indiscipline: Discipline does not only means that we should stand erect and be punctual in functions. It also means that we should obey the decision taken by everybody, although every body has not agreed to the decision. In the eventful year of 1761, ie. In the Third Battle of Panipat, on the one side Ahmadshah Abdali and on the otherside was Sadashivrao Peshwa. When Peshwa called a meeting to chalk out the strategy for this battle, a prominent Sardar Malharrao Holkar suggested vehemently to fight with guerrilla tactics which was turned down by Peshwa. So annoyed was he that he went to the extent of dissociating himself alongwith his battalion from the battle and remained a mere spectator to the whole battle and even he did not buzzed an inch when the Hindus were butchered to the level of annihilation. They were pleased to see the result of their disobeyance.
7. Similarly Sh. Guruji gives an exact example of Raja Karansingh of Karnavati, Gujarat. In a moment of weakness he usurped the wife of his chieftain. His religious minded Minister felt very much ashamed to not able to rescue that mishap. After repeated persuasions and requests when the King did not reciprocate, the said Minister felt so much annoyed that he went to the rival armies of Mughal for help. It is noteworthy to mention that Mughal armies were camping for so many years in the vicinity of this empire, but because of the bravery of this King could not find any chance. The Minister even went to Delhi with the help of these rival camps and requested him to punish the King. With his assistance and know-how the rival camps were able to defeat Raja Karansingh and also were able to go the extreme corner of Southern states, as this king was playing a very steadfast wall for these southern states.Guruji explains, the king was good in national character but weak in personal character. The minister was on the other hand, strong in personal character but weak in national character and that lead to the whole decline of the state.
8. Pseudo Non-violence: In a country where Lord Krishana admonishes Arjuna for his so called disgustment on seeing his relatives in battlefield. Arjuna is revered because he adhered to his preaching and fought the battle valiantly. Similar is the position of Ashoka after seeing the Kalinga Battle but he could not find a teacher like Krishna to preach. How strange is it that his sense of ignorance is taken as a bliss and revered everywhere. This cost us heavily and in almost every battle after Ashoka we were defeated by others. Though a Krishan like personality appeared only in the form of Shankaracharya who cleared the smoke created by Ashoka. Even in a discussion with Mundan Mishra and Shankaracharya, Mundan Mishra’s wife also takes the side of Shankaracharya, and both become his disciple. Such a role is adopted by Sangh as Shankaracharya has adopted at that time.
9. Even our former President APJ Kalam says that the main cause of decline of our country was that we forgot that peace is achieved only by power, and while analysing this defeatist mentality, he was not satisfied with the survey period of 150 years but insisted that we should take account of 1000 years to analyse this malady. Though himself an advocate of Nuclear weapons for the country, he clearly said that by power he means the power of common man, and thirdly that for energising the common man, some value based programmes should be popularised.
10. POWER POINTS OF NATION ARE ALWAYS ATTACKED; Whenever there becomes any power point for the nation, it is attacked by the evil powers. In Rama’s time Asharams of rishis were attacked by Rakshas, and at other times these Gurukuls were devasted and big universities like Nalanda and Takshila took birth, these were also attacked by marauders, later on people turned to temples and Babar only attacked the temples of Rama and Krishana, and in Shiva ji time, when all these things were not possible and Swami ram asked his disciple to make akharas the power point, these were also attacked. Now Shakhas are under attack, and what does this mean?
11. IMMITATIVE NATURE or lack of self-respect: In the case of English people, they destroyed out self respect and started imitating everything from England. Guruji recalls a similar quotation from one of our Ambassador, who while praising Pope, said that by the time a copy of Sermon on Mount is available, there is no danger that all the scriptures like Gita are thrown into fire! And the instance of Vijay lakshmi Pandit is also worth mentioning. After independence of our country when she was appointed the Ambassador to Russia she presented his credentials in English, where upon the authorities returned it saying that English is not a language of protocol with your country and so please present the credential in Hindi. Hastily a credential in Hindi was also presented which too was returmed with the complaint and there were so many grammatical mistakes iin Hindi. The country was full of shame on that occasion.
Lack of National Character: In the shakha today I asked about the cause of our downfall. One said lack of Unity and the second said greediness of our people. When I asked them if these shortcomings were not in the intruders, both said yes. Then why with these shortcomings we were defeated and they became the conquerors? I said the reign of Kind Ashoka did a lot of difference as he for the first time made Buddhism the State Religion and the policies of common man were applied on the State as a whole. Individual respect for non-violence is OK but applying it on the state was wrong. One after the other intruders which hitherto were frisked away by our soldiers came to occupy our territories after that. Everybody has listened to this aspect that Gupta period was the Golden Period of our History and the territories were extended to the maximum and after Kind Ashoka, all these squeezed to the minimum, one by one. Secondly I gave the reason of lack of national character. They, the intruders were also susceptible to such human weaknesses like greed, but when the question of nation comes, they sacrificed these. Here stress on personal purity overpowered our national character concept. Even now this thing is visible everywhere. America is one such example. Opposition parties are there and they quarrel over each and everything, but when the question of nation as a whole comes, they are one. They showed their solidarity even at the time of twin tower fall. Their newspapers never criticised the government. Here in case of Mumbai attack the tone of media and leaders were different. Israel, German and some other countries are spectacular examples of this National character. In the name of Human Rights always there are people who are criticising every aspect of police while dealing with hardened criminals. Human right concept starts and ends with Naxalism and innocent people are massacred in J&K they remain silent. Such people cann’t be hooked in the right way and some stratagem has to be applied while dealing with such criminal. It is a type of Sadguna Vikrity that we should have mercy for the sufferers or the downtrodden, but it is wrong to help in the name of human rights, such hardened criminals who are taking undue benefit from the shortcomings of legal systems. (it is here that the topic is becoming somewhat relevant to the present context and thus intellectually interesting. National characters’ examples of foreign countries, and human right hoax, and everybody understands it with the present context.
(FROM HISTORY BOOK TO SHOW THAT THE DEFEAT OF DAHIR WAS NOT CAUSAL )
After making elaborate preparation, Mohammad-Bin-Kasim, the son-in-law of Hajjaj, was sent with a well equipped army. He advanced to Makran and laid siege to Debal in 711 A.D. The capital was captured then, Muhammad advanced along the Indus to conquer the whole area. It appears that very often trachery led to the Arab conquest of Sind Muhammad advanced against Multan and succeeded in capturing it. According to Chachanam, Muhammad himself advanced to the frontier of Kashmir.
The triumph and career of Bin Kasim was suddenly cut short by political changes at home. Since the new Caliph was the sworn enemy of Hajjaj. Muhammad was taken prisoner, insulted and tortured to death.
This development made Jaisimha, the son of Daher, to re-occupy Bahmansbad. The Caliph sent an army to subdue the rebels. They even parleyed with Jaisimha. Junaid, the Governor of Sind, defeated Jaisimha and took him prionser. Thus ended the dynasty of Daher and the independence of Sind.
The comperatively easy conquest of Muhammad, son of Kasim, should not make us forget the long resistance offered by Sind to the Arabs.
Later, Junaid sent several expeditions to the interior of India. They were signally defeated by the Pratihara kng Nagabhatta - I Pulakesin, the Chalukya chief of Gujarata, and probably also by Yasovarman. These defeats forced the Arabs to confine themselves to Sind. The Arabs lost control of Sind during the last years of Umayyids. The Abbasid Caliphs once again started to re-establish their power in Sind. A claim was made. The Arabs once again conquered Multan and Kashmir bu the evidence shows that Lalitadiya thrice defeated the Arabs. It was some time between 800 and 830 A.D. that the Arabs fully re-conquered the lost areas. It was during this period that the Arabs forces probably advanced as far as Chittor but the resistance offered by Indian kings probably forced them to retreat.
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