5 Things We must Know about Mahatama .

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The most auspicious personality of India, Mahtma Gandhi . He popularly known as Bapu : father of Nation. Indian  have a complex array of thoughts, ideas, perception and opinion about Bapu. Mahatma is one of the strongest personalities on earth that walked to earth. There were so many people who religiously follow him. Crores of Indian do not understand the logic behind his action but follow blindly for them Mahatma’s word is absolute command .For rural masses illiterate people Mahatma brought freedom to common people .contrary there were so many people who found his idea of non violence and peace bogus they criticise him for Partition, for Bhagat singh hanging after Gandhi – Irwin pact, roll back of non cooperation moment. He is being criticised by Hindu masses for taking stand with Muslim people. British top brass was so terrified with him. He literally put Britain govt in position of utter complexity more than often. He is free then, He must be preparing for some moment If he is in prison then people out of prison are uncontrollable.
I am quoting here a letter written by Gandhi jee to Lord Irwin “The Government had put an excise tax on salt which brought an enormous amount of money to the treasury. Moreover, the Government had the monopoly of manufacturing salt.

The salt tax was to be attacked and salt laws were to be broken. The very simplicity of Gandhi's choice made the issue more dramatic.

On March 2, 1930, Gandhi wrote a long letter to the new Viceroy, Lord Irwin, about the deplorable condition of India under British rule.

British rule', he said, 'has impoverished the dumb millions by a system of progressive exploitation, and by ruinously expensive military and civil administration which the country can never afford. It was reduced us politically to serfdom. It has sapped the foundation of our culture.

He requested the Viceroy to see him and discuss the matter with him in person.

'But If you cannot see your way to deal with these evils,' he went on, 'and my letter makes no appeal to your heart, on the eleventh day of this month I shall proceed with such co-workers of the Ashram as I can take, to disregard the provisions of the salt laws. It is I know; open to you to frustrate my design by arresting me. I hope there will be tens of thousands ready in a disciplined manner, to take up the work after me.”

Weather people criticise him, appraise him but cannot ignore him. We cannot imagine our freedom fighting history without him.

Here I am to talk about the 5 top most criticisms against Mahatma Gandhi that people blame him in fashion.
I am not here to defend Gandhi or offend. I just want to produce the complete picture; you must take your stand only after knowing the complete scenario.

1.      Gandhi let the execution of Bhagat singh happen :

People say He let the execution of Bhagat sigh happen. If he wanted he must have saved him .I am quoting here the specific points of Gandhi Irwin pact.

In January 1930, Gandhiji issued an eleven point ultimatum to Lord Irwin, combining some general and specific demands, 

• Total prohibition
•  release of political prisoners 
• cuts in army expenses, civil services salaries 
• changes in Arms Act 
• reform of the C.I.D 
• lowering of rupee-sterling rate 
• textile protection 
• reservation of coastal shipping for Indians
•  a fifty percent reduction in land revenue
•  abolition of both salt tax and government salt monopoly

Release of Political prisoner is the condition under which the debate for release of Bhagat singh is supposes to happen. British Govt was ruling then and they didn’t consider Bhagat singh a Political prisoner because He was named in conspiracy of British Govt official and bombing inside the assembly.

2.      Giving 55 crores to Pakistan :

In Spite of the Pakistani aggression in Kashmir,Gandhiji fasted to compel the Government of India to release an amount of Rs.55 Crores due to Pakistan.

The matter regarding release of Rs. 55 crore to Pakistan towards the second instalment of arrears to be paid to it under the terms of division of assets and liabilities requires to be understood in the context of the events that took piece in the aftermath of partition. Of the 75 crore to be paid the first installment of Rs. 20 crore was already released. Invasion of Kashmir by self-styled liberators with the covert support of the Pakistani Army took place before the second installment was paid. Government of India decided to withhold it. Lord Mountbatten was of the opinion that it amounted to a violation of the mutually agreed conditions and he brought it to the notice of Gandhiji. To Gandhiji's ethical sense the policy of tit for tat was repugnant and he readily agreed with the Viceroy's point of view. However, linking his stand in this matter with his fast he undertook, as you will find in the following lines, is an intentional mix-up and distortion of facts of contemporary history.

         3.Gandhi Let Partition happens: 

I am quoting some text from Freedom at Midnight “Mountbatten said to Gandhi , You told me to leave the choice to Indian People and this plan did . It was the provincial , popularly elected assemblies. Which could decide India’s future? Each provinces assemblies would vote on whether it wished to join India or Pakistan. Gnadhi had argued the British to quit India as soon as possible. Dominion status was going to accomplish that. “ If by some miracle the assemblies vote for unity” Mountbatten told Gandhi,” you have what you want if they don’t agree . I’m sure you sure you don’t want us to oppose their decision by force of arms.”

Gandhi was still vhemelently opposed to partition, yet he was shaken by the viceroy’s vigorous plea. Approching 78 , for the first time in 30 years Gandhi was uncertain of his grip on India’s masses.

In evening prayer He replied to people on evening prayer “ It was no use blaming the Viceroy for partition, he said . Look to yourselves and in your own hearts for an explanation of what has happened.

4. Experiment of Celibacy:

Gandhi became a brahamachari (celibate) when he was thirty-six. As a brahamachari, he would normally have been expected to eschew all contact with women, but instead he took naked women to bed with him. Amongst those who slept with him were Sushila Nayar, Sucheta Kriplani, Abha and Manu. Gandhi viewed the practise as an experiment in brahamacharya. For him this was a sure way to test his mastery of celibacy. He believed that if he could succeed in his brahamacharya experiment, he would be able to vanquish Muhammad Ali Jinnah with his spiritual power and foil his plan for India's partition.

During his Noakhali tour of 1946, Gandhi used to sleep with the nineteen-year-old Manu. When Nirmal Bose, his Bengali interpreter, saw this he protested, asserting that the experiments must be having bad psychological effects on the girl. In his Book My Days with Gandhi, published in 1953 with great difficulty and at his own expense, he offers a Freudian interpretation to Gandhi's experiments.

It is generally believed that Gandhi started sleeping with women toward the close of his life. According to Sushila Nayar, he started much earlier. However, at the time he called it 'nature cure.' She told Mehta, 'long before Manu came into the picture I used to sleep with him just as I would with my mother. He might say my back aches. Put some pressure on it. So I might put some pressure on it or lie down on his back and he might just go to sleep. In the early days there was no question of calling this a brahamacharya experiment. It was just part of nature cure. Later on, when people started asking questions about his physical contact with women, the idea of brahamacharya experiments was developed. Don't ask me any more questions about brahamacharya experiments. There is nothing to say, unless you have a dirty mind like Bose.'

5. Non cooperation moment role back:

One of the first series of non violent protests nationwide was the non cooperation movement started by Mahatma Gandhi. This movement officially started the Gandhian era in India. In this freedom struggle, the non cooperation movement was basically aimed at making the Indians aware of the fact that the British government can be opposed and if done actively, it will keep a check on them. Thus, educational institutions were boycotted, foreign goods were boycotted, and people let go off their nominated seats in government institutions. Though the movement failed, Indians awakened to the concept of going against the British. Gandhi rolled back the moment after crowd turned violent in Chauri chaura accident. Crowd was not mature enough to stay along with democracy. If India would have been free after non cooperation moment then again we would have been in provincial situation where the Landlord’s and Provincial and princely state were free not you and me.

Source of Information : India's struggel for Independence by Bipin Chandra
                                     Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
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