05-20-2005, 04:08 AM
gangajal,
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In a way, 1857 is more significant for Indian nationhood and history than even the 1947 "tryst with destiny." The British imperialists who understood the significance and import of that uprising ensured that it was ridiculed and downgraded as a "Sepoy mutiny," as a sporadic and limited uprising of soldiers ignited by obscurantist factors such as an aversion to `pig fat' in the cartridges. Marxist thinkers also tended to play it down as a "reaction." In a series of articles published in 1857, Karl Marx termed it as an army revolt, "a military mutiny"but of national proportion only because "the natives' apprehension" that the government might otherwise interfere with their religion. It was only in 1957 that the Marxist writer P.C. Joshi corrected the perspective.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
In 1857, First time in Indian history when Indians realized need to unite country against foreign religion and aggressor. Realization of nationhood was formed breaking religious boundaries. Itâs a most significant period for Indians when they started planning and identifying their weakness and strength after failure of uprising against British. During same time revival of Vedanta was in full swing, which was to unite Hindus and decline of Mughal or Muslim culture and conversion. Elite like every country look for money or status but 1857 changed or sowed seed for change in their attitude.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In a way, 1857 is more significant for Indian nationhood and history than even the 1947 "tryst with destiny." The British imperialists who understood the significance and import of that uprising ensured that it was ridiculed and downgraded as a "Sepoy mutiny," as a sporadic and limited uprising of soldiers ignited by obscurantist factors such as an aversion to `pig fat' in the cartridges. Marxist thinkers also tended to play it down as a "reaction." In a series of articles published in 1857, Karl Marx termed it as an army revolt, "a military mutiny"but of national proportion only because "the natives' apprehension" that the government might otherwise interfere with their religion. It was only in 1957 that the Marxist writer P.C. Joshi corrected the perspective.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
In 1857, First time in Indian history when Indians realized need to unite country against foreign religion and aggressor. Realization of nationhood was formed breaking religious boundaries. Itâs a most significant period for Indians when they started planning and identifying their weakness and strength after failure of uprising against British. During same time revival of Vedanta was in full swing, which was to unite Hindus and decline of Mughal or Muslim culture and conversion. Elite like every country look for money or status but 1857 changed or sowed seed for change in their attitude.