In denying such an identity for the people of the subcontinent, the British wished to take credit for the formation of the modern political nation state called India and perhaps more to the point, to deny an independent civilizational status to the Indics. It would become very inconvenient to explain to the British public that given the antiquity of the cultural and civilizational status of the Indics, there was any need for the British to exert the role of Colonial overlord in the continent much less a role where they assumed absolute suzerainty over the people of the subcontinent.
The grossly overrated Subhas Chandra Bose, who loved to pay homage at the tomb of Bahadur Shah Zafar in Burma, effectively aspired to re-unite India under Mughal tutelage. During one of his repeated visits to the emperor?s Rangoon tomb Bose melodramatically recited a couplet by him in which he pondered an Islamic Ghazi conquest of London. The descendants of Bose around the world have remained faithful to the family goal of restoring the Islamic Caliphate in India ever since, enlisting Anglo-American imperialists and assorted Pakistani Hindu-baiters to achieve it. Of course the British imperialists had become the great patrons of Islam in India by the early twentieth century in an attempt to fend off Indian nationalism. Soon after India?s bloody partition the Americans joined the cynical conspiracy to nurture Islam in South Asia, seeing in Pakistan a reliable anti-Communist Jihadi outpost, ready to provide military bases from which the Middle East could be overawed....
