 | IN 1886-94, DURING THE SANTHAL UPRISING (THE UPRISING OF ADIVASI,INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AGAINST BRITISH COLONIALISM AND ITS COMRRADOR ) BIRSA MUNDA,THE LEADER OF THE MOVEMENT WAS MURDERED BY THE BRITISH RULERS AND THEIR PUPPET INDIANS,BY TAGGING HIM TO BE ''TYRANT'', ''BARBARIAN'' ,'' TRAITOR'' AND ''UNCIVILIZED GOON''..AS HE LED THE SANTHALS IN AN ARMED RESISTANCE TO UPROOT THE COLONIAL POWER AND OTHER REPRESSIVE CLASSES AS THE BENGALI ,MARWARI PEOPLE WHO WERE GIVING THEIR HANDS TO HELP THE BRITISH TO DISPLACE AND EXPLOIT THE SANTHALS...HE WAS LARGELY REBUKED AS A ''REPRESENTATIVE OF DARK-UNDERDEVELOPED SOCIETY'' AFTER HIS DEATH AND TILL LONG AFTER INDIA'S SO-CALLED INDEPENDENCE.
BUT HE WAS A MODERN MAN,HE POSSESSED A PROGRESSIVE MIND TO RATIONALIZE HOW & WNY THE INEQUALITY PERPETRATES AND WITH WHOM...THUS HE WAS PROTESTING..THUS HE GOT AN ORAL TRADITION IN THE SANTHALS...IN THE REPRESSED, MARGINALIZED PEOPLE FYTING 4 THE RIGHT DEED. THOUGH PEOPLE FAILED TO UNDERSTAND HIM...HIS FELLOW INDIANS KILLED HIM FOR THE SAKE OF ''MODERNITY'', WHICH WAS DEFINED BY THE IMPERIALISTS..
BIRSA WAS MODERN...HE COULD FEEL THE HEART BEAT OF THE REPRESSED PEOPLE..AND THAT WAS FELT BY THE IMPERIALISTS AND THE COMPRADOR RULING CLASS TOO....THATS WHY THEY KILLED HIM...
BIRSA WAS MODERN ...RATHER APT TO SAY..HE WAS AN ANACHRONIST.HIS FELLOW INDIANS WERE NOT ABLE TO UNDERSTAND HIM...THATS A TRAGEDY OF OUR HISTORY AND OUR CIVILIZATION...
BIRSA WAS MODERN...SO DOES ALL THE FALLEN HEROES AND ALL THE PEOPLE STANDING STILL IN FRONT OF THE IMPERIALIST AGRESSION...
THEY WERE AND ARE MODERN...ITS US..WHO CANT UNDERSTAND THAT...SO IN EVERY BLOODSHED,ITS OUR HAND THAT IS BEING WET WID THE BLOOD OF OURSELVES....
THEY WERE MODERN...I CANT UNDERSTAND...ITS ME WHERE I SHOULD PUT ALL THE BLAME... |
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