Fabulous. The intra-Bengal political set up needs to be understood before simplistic/binary interpretations are applied. The attacks on Churchill are in ignorance of a wide range of other factors and actors in the terrible story of the famine. History is more complicated than the binarists wish it to be.
Thanks Rob. It's a very complicated history. I am still searching for more primary data and would be very grateful if any further suggestions are available. Fazlul Haque I feel deserves far more attention.
The key lies in Churchill' s anti India views. If you read Narinder Singh Sarila you know how keen the British Establishment was to put up Pakistan as a pro West buffer state. Tuker's memoir shows clearly how hemmed in he felt by not being able to intervene.
The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.
In the chapter entitled The Great Calcutta Killing, Tuker mentions deploying troops into that city. But I take your point and wonder if he disobeyed orders.
My reading is that as an upright officer he felt increasingly frustrated at having to hold back...As I said I am researching this era and hope to gain more insights..in case you would like to share please feel free. My email is sayantani15@gmail.com
Fabulous. The intra-Bengal political set up needs to be understood before simplistic/binary interpretations are applied. The attacks on Churchill are in ignorance of a wide range of other factors and actors in the terrible story of the famine. History is more complicated than the binarists wish it to be.
Thanks Rob. It's a very complicated history. I am still searching for more primary data and would be very grateful if any further suggestions are available. Fazlul Haque I feel deserves far more attention.
Churchill held strange views concerning empire. Andrew Roberts delves into that in his excellent Churchill biography.
The key lies in Churchill' s anti India views. If you read Narinder Singh Sarila you know how keen the British Establishment was to put up Pakistan as a pro West buffer state. Tuker's memoir shows clearly how hemmed in he felt by not being able to intervene.
“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are deceptive nomenclatures employed for the concealing of truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School . . .
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the
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The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.
https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/
I have read Tuker's While Memory Serves. Tucker and the Indian Army did everything reasonably possible in the circumstances.
I am researching this period. Police records are showing the deliberate inaction of the Home department.
Interesting, my sense is from Tuker is communalism overran the police in Calcutta and elsewhere.
Anglo Indian as in mixed race- Eurasian so you would expect them to be non communal and pro British
He doesn't bell the cat directly..but I am reading currently accounts of Anglo Indian policemen which throws up lots of details..
On Direct Action Day August 16th
बलात्कार जिहाद का प्रमुख हथियार है। मुसलमानों ने औरतों से बलात्कार करके ही अपनी संख्या बढाई थी।
यहूदियों और मुसलमानों की जड़ें और रीति-रिवाज समान हैं।
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/67b
Read the chapter on the 46 riots and the subtext of how the army was kept in the barracks
In the chapter entitled The Great Calcutta Killing, Tuker mentions deploying troops into that city. But I take your point and wonder if he disobeyed orders.
My reading is that as an upright officer he felt increasingly frustrated at having to hold back...As I said I am researching this era and hope to gain more insights..in case you would like to share please feel free. My email is sayantani15@gmail.com
I am UK trained myself in history.
“'It is not a good fancy,' said the llama . . . 'What profit to kill men?'
. . . Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Very original analysis ! Illuminating indeed.