HISTORY
Some unexpected incident can change the course of history.
M.K. Gandhi was just a practicing lawyer in South Africa, where
a number of Gujaratis were doing business, as all citizens of the British
Empire were free to move anywhere in the empire, where the sun never sets.
Gandhi was loyal to the Crown, he even fought against the Boers,
who refused to be part of the South African Union under the empire, when
liberal opinion in England was sympathetic to the Boers, simple peasants
settled there. When he was kicked out from the first class compartment of the
train by an uncivilized Englishman, Gandhi became so upset that he started a
movement against the rulers there.
Suppose this sad incident never happened. He would have
continued his practice there.
At that time, militant anti- British movements were sprouting in
parts of Punjab and Bengal, which could have spread to other parts of the upper
India. The Indian National Congress, founded by a British spy, to divert the
opposition to the Empire along harmless channels, could not have succeeded in
stemming the tide of revolution, under heroes like Bhagat Singh.
During the second world war, Subhas Chandra Bose would
have led armed guerilla fight against the government, here itself, and seen the
dawn of freedom, as without our help, the British cannot fight against
Japan, which was a big power. We could have easily disrupted the rail lines and
made troop movement impossible.
The obnoxious treaty of 1947 woud never have been signed. India,
Pakistan and Bangladesh would be one nation, led by Bose and Azad.
There are many ifs in history!
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