Muslim contribution in Indian Independence
Much can be written on the sacrifice of Muslims for the Freedom of India, but unfortunately, the prevalence of prejudiced historiography that strives to conceal these truths may ensure that these Muslim heroics are always sidelined – or even erased – from the pages of Indian history.
The famous writer, Mr. Kushwant Singh, once wrote: “Indian Freedom is written in Muslim blood, since their participation in the freedom struggle was much more, in proportion to their small percentage of the population.”
The sacrifices of Muslims for the Indian freedom struggle were purposely hidden. Let’s look into Indian History for knowing the truth. Every Indian should know the innumerable facts in this regard and teach our children the truth!
Please read fully and share with every Indian you know:
- The first freedom struggle against the British in eighteenth-century India was by the Mysorean ruler, Hyder Ali and his son, Tipu Sultan, during the 1780s and 1790s. Mysorean rockets were the first iron-cased rockets, successfully deployed for military use. Hyder Ali and his son, Tipu Sultan, used rockets and cannons effectively against the British invaders during the 1780s and 1790s.
- Everyone knows that Rani of Jhansi fought to get the kingdom for her adopted child but how many of us know that Begum Hazrat Mahal was the unsung heroine of the first war of Independence, who shot the British ruler, Sir Henry Lawrence, and defeated the British army in a decisive Battle at Chinhat on 30thJune, 1857.
- Do you know that the organizer and leader of the “First Indian freedom struggle” were Moulavi Ahamadullah Shah – many were killed, among them 90% were Muslims!
- Ashfaqulla Khan was the first to be hanged at the age of 27 years for conspiring against the British Raj.
- Maulana AbulKalam Azad was an Indian scholar and the senior Muslim leader of the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement.
- In the picketing protest against ‘liquor shops’ by Mahatma Gandhi, ten participants were Muslims out of nineteen participants!
The last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, was the first to strongly fight for Indian freedom which led to the 1857 independence struggle. Former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi wrote at Bahadur Shah’s grave thus: “Although you (Bahadur Shah) do not have land in India, you have it here; your name is alive… I pay homage to the memory of the symbol and rallying point of India’s First War of Independence….”- K.M. Ameer Hamza donated multi-million rupees for Indian National Army (INA), and he headed the Azad library reading propaganda of INA. His family is now poor, living in a rented house at Ramanadhapuramin Tamil Nadu.
- Memon Abdul Habeeb Yusuf Marfani donated almost his entire fortune of one crore rupees to the Indian National Army – a princely sum in those days by completely donating his entire assets to Netaji’s INA.
- Shah Nawaz Khan was a soldier, a politician, and a Chief Officer and Commander in the Indian National Army (INA).
- Netaji’s ministry had nineteen ministers; out of these, five were Muslims.
- Mother Beevimma, a Muslim lady, donated over 30 lakhs rupees for the Indian freedom struggle.
- Abul Kalam Azad, Jinnah, Nawab of Bihar were the three who made the plans for total independence.
- Suraiya Taiyabji (a Muslim lady) designed the current Indian National Flag.
- Muslims used Masjids for the freedom struggle. When an Imam was addressing about Indian freedom in a Holy Masjid in Uttar Pradesh, British Army shot all the Muslims in that Masjid –you can still see the dried blood of the freedom fighters shed on the walls of that
- Muslims ruled India for over 800 years and they didn’t steal anything from India as the British, the Dutch and the French did.
- Muslims lived here, ruled here, and died here. They developed India into a unified and civilized country by bringing in abundant knowledge in literature, architecture, judicial and political structure, Government body, and management structure, which is still used in Indian management strategy!
- In Tamil Nadu, Ismael Shaheb and Maruda Nayagam fought against the British for seven continuous years. They made the British fear like hell.
- We all know V. O. Chidambaram (Kappalotiya Tamizhan), popularly known as VOC– the pioneering founder of the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company which he set up to compete against the monopoly of the British India Steam Navigation Company as part and parcel of the Indian independence movement. But how many know that it was a Fakkir Muhammed Rawther who donated VOC his first ship?!
- When VOC was arrested, it was certain Muhammad Yaseenwho was shot dead by British police for his demonstration to release VOC.
- Tiruppur Kumaran (Kodi kata Kumaran) participated in the Indian independence movement. With Kumaran seven other participants were arrested – all were Muslims: Abdul Latheef, Akbar Ali, Mohideen Khan, Abdul Rahim, Vavu Shaheb, Abdul Latheef, and Sheikh Baba Shaheb.
One can write thousands of pages as books, on the sacrifice of Muslims for the Freedom of India, but unfortunately, the domination of communal extremists who strive to hide these truths and misrepresent history in Indian history books. In fact, distorted history is rewritten to divide people for securing votes.
Patriotic Indians should be cautious not to fall prey to those with vested interests and work towards uniting all citizens for a strong and progressive Nation.
SOURCE(YMD)
Muslim role in 1857 revolt against British
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major, but ultimately unsuccessful, uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. [4][5] The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the Company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Delhi (that area is now Old Delhi). It then erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions chiefly in the upper Gangetic plain and central India,[a][6][b][7] though incidents of revolt also occurred farther north and east. [c][8] The rebellion posed a considerable threat to British power in that region,[d][9] and was contained only with the rebels' defeat in Gwalior on 20 June 1858. [10] On 1 November 1858, the British granted amnesty to all rebels not involved in murder, though they did not declare the hostilities to have formally ended until 8 July 1859. Its name is contested, and it is variously described as the Sepoy Mutiny, the Indian Mutiny, the Great Rebellion, the Revolt of 1857, the Indian Insurrection, and the First War of Independence. [e][11]
The Indian rebellion was fed by resentments born of diverse perceptions, including invasive British-style social reforms, harsh land taxes, summary treatment of some rich landowners and princes,[12][13] as well as skepticism about the improvements brought about by British rule. [f][14] Many Indians rose against the British; however, many also fought for the British, and the majority remained seemingly compliant to British rule. [g][14] Violence, which sometimes betrayed exceptional cruelty, was inflicted on both sides, on British officers, and civilians, including women and children, by the rebels, and on the rebels, and their supporters, including sometimes entire villages, by British reprisals; the cities of Delhi and Lucknow were laid waste in the fighting and the British retaliation. [h][14]
After the outbreak of the mutiny in Meerut, the rebels quickly reached Delhi, whose 81-year-old Mughal ruler, Bahadur Shah Zafar, was declared the Emperor of Hindustan. Soon, the rebels had captured large tracts of the North-Western Provinces and Awadh (Oudh). The East India Company's response came rapidly as well. With help from reinforcements, Kanpur was retaken by mid-July 1857, and Delhi by the end of September. [10] However, it then took the remainder of 1857 and the better part of 1858 for the rebellion to be suppressed in Jhansi, Lucknow, and especially the Awadh countryside. [10] Other regions of Company-controlled India—Bengal province, the Bombay Presidency, and the Madras Presidency—remained largely calm. [i][7][10] In the Punjab, the Sikh princes crucially helped the British by providing both soldiers and support. [j][7][10] The large princely states, Hyderabad, Mysore, Travancore, and Kashmir, as well as the smaller ones of Rajputana, did not join the rebellion, serving the British, in the Governor-General Lord Canning's words, as "breakwaters in a storm."[15]
In some regions, most notably in Awadh, the rebellion took on the attributes of a patriotic revolt against British oppression. [16] However, the rebel leaders proclaimed no articles of faith that presaged a new political system. [k][17] Even so, the rebellion proved to be an important watershed in Indian and British Empire history. [l][11][18] It led to the dissolution of the East India Company, and forced the British to reorganize the army, the financial system, and the administration in India, through passage of the Government of India Act 1858. [19] India was thereafter administered directly by the British government in the new British Raj. [15] On 1 November 1858, Queen Victoria issued a proclamation to Indians, which while lacking the authority of a constitutional provision,[m][20] promised rights similar to those of other British subjects. [n][o][21] In the following decades, when admission to these rights was not always forthcoming, Indians were to pointedly refer to the Queen's proclamation in growing avowals of new nationalism. [p][q][23]
SEE THE COMMANDERS NAME IN THE BELOW CHART WHO LEAD THE MUTINY,(SOURCE-WIKIPEDIA)
thousands of Muslims died and suffered harsh consequences of mutiny for their motherland.
| Indian Rebellion of 1857 | |||||||||
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 A 1912 map showing the centres of the rebellion | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Victoria Maj. Gen. Sir Henry Havelock † Jung Bahadur Rana[1] | |||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
6,000 British killed[3] As many as 800,000 Indians and possibly more, both in the rebellion and in famines and epidemics of disease in its wake, by comparison of 1857 population estimates with Indian Census of 1871.[3] | |||||||||
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