• Greater Brihot Bangladesh
• Plassey to Muslim Bengal to Bangistan to Bangladesh to Brihot Bangal
• The Bengali poet Tagore actively joined the movement for annulment of the partition of Bengal through his writings, poems, meetings, rallies, processions– with direct links with the active terrorists.
• The slogan of the terrorist in 1905-1906 was that they stood to preserve their MOTHER BENGAL from VIVISECTION by the sword of the Jabans (Foreigner Muslims)!

Pointing fingers

Not that everybody in the nature is equal but in common unequal. As a geographical entity Bangladesh is smaller than many countries, but not smaller in population size but the 8th largest in the world. Even so, fingers are pointed out to Bangladesh as something helpless for the geographical location and size. It’s really a matter of wonder to me when the chorus is joined by not only some ‘intellectuals’ here but also by cabinet ministers of this government, in particular.

Product of historical forces

The geographical location, size and in some way vulnerable position of Bangladesh territory are products of historical forces of the last six decades or so. Whether the historical forces had been right or wrong in value judgment is a different matter. But they had been the realities of the times and actions of our forefathers.

Bangladesh is in the throes of an existential struggle for survival and growth as an independent nation. Bangladesh was created for the democratic right of the Bengalis. However a couple of years after its creation, Shaikh Mujib Ur Rahman banned all political parties, and declared himself dictator for life. The country was supposed to be secular panacea for Muslims of South Asia. Bengali nationalism rejected other ethnicities and made the clarion call for ethnic independence. 1971 witnessed the call for Bengali nationalism ignored in Kolkota. The Hindus did not want to join a Bengali nation of greater Bengal. Religion once again proved a potent dividing line for Bengal. The same Hindu Bengalis who agitated against the partition of Bengal in 1906 are today championing the cause for fencing the border and keeping the Muslims Bengalis out of West Bengal. Partition of Bengal: Implications for Benagaldesh & Pakistan, then and now . In 1906, the All India Muslim League created by the Bengalis of the region (Nawab Waqar Ul Mulk, Nawab Mohsin Ul Mulk, Alama Iqbal and others from all parts of South Asia) rose up against the injustices of the ruling class of Hindu landlords of Kolkota. Lord Curzon cancelled the partition of Bengal and this was a victory for the Indian National Congress and  the Brahman Hindus of Bengal. They wanted to keep the Muslim Bengalis under their thumb.

• Bengal vs Bangldesh–The struggle continues: BNP vs AL
• The Architects of the religious riots in South Asia. The partition of Bengal and Punjab
• The Poloshi conspiracy: Jun 23rd 1757- A day of Infamy for the Subcontinent
• Plassey to Bangistan dream to Bangladesh to Brohit Bengal

Map of Bengal 1906: The partition of Bengal and the riots to annul it. In the beginning of the twentieth century the people of East Bengal and Assam had a ray of hope for emancipation from the oppression and exploitation in the partition of the region into two separate provinces, East Bengal & Assam and West Bengal. West Bengal had Calcutta its capital and East Bengal & Assam got Dacca as the capital of the new province. Unfortunately, the division that promised some benefit to East Bengal and development at par with Calcutta centered West Bengal was not liked by the elites who had already established themselves as the propertied and advanced elite during the past British rule then gone on for 150 years. They rose in protest and revolt to annul the partition and get abandoned the creation of the new province and the new capital Dacca by the British Government in London. The terrorist movement of the Bengali mode started then and then that among other terrorists happened to produce Surya Sen, Khudiram etc. from among the extremist ‘Hindu middle classes’ (Azad, India Wins Freedom, Delhi, 1988/1992, p.5) having had set the goal for epical Hindu Ram Raj in Bengal. The Bengal poet Tagore not still then have had received the Nobel Prize in Literature actively joined the movement for annulment of the partition of Bengal through his writing of special poems, joining in meetings, rallies, processions etc., if he had not direct link with the active terrorists. Their main slogan was that they stood to preserve their MOTHER BENGAL from VIVISECTION by the sword of the Jabans (Foreigner Muslims)!

East Bengal/Bangladesh

Bangladesh as the country is known after 1971 had been in more factual reality East Bengal of the British period (1757-1947). In social term the common people in the area had been worst sufferers during the British Rule. Incidentally the majority people happened to be Muslim in religious belief, but the elite landholders, property owners and social power holders in the main belonged to the non-Muslim class save a few exceptions. That was not the social elite class structure before the end of the eighteenth century or to be exact before the introduction of the so-called Permanent Settlement in 1793 A.D. by the British East India Company Governor General Cornwallis. Before 1757 .D., during the Muslim Rule of several centuries, the elite land owning came not only from non-Muslims but also from Muslims, as well. There was thus some balance in social justice and equity among all religious people. In addition to distributive justice, the Muslim sovereigns, no matter whether located in Delhi/Agra or elsewhere in greater Bengal such as in Dhaka, at Sonargaon, etc. stood for social justice and equity in terms of Islamic equality between man and man, despite feudalism, not in the way of in-built social inequality of caste segregation and injustice of the non Muslims of much older culture and civilization.

Fall out of the Company Rule

The British colonialists despite change of the mode of Company rule to the Crown’s control in 1858 following the revolt and first independence movement in 1857, the Permanent Settlement was kept unaltered that perpetuated the disadvantages of the overwhelming Muslim people so much so that not only their earlier elite land owning and property owning lots broken down to almost non-entity but also the distributive justice of the Muslim period to almost ashes. The age-old Muslim Wakaf system of distributive justice for education and equitable social welfare had been annulled almost along with the Permanent Settlement that was not restored though partially in the Wakaf Act of 1913 arduously tabled in the Imperial Legislative Council by M.A Jinnah in 1911.

The British and Lackeys

The British rulers having had aid of their local henchmen of the new propertied class turned to enemies of the overwhelming majority people of East Bengal who happened to be Muslims. In the beginning of the twentieth century the people of East Bengal and Assam had a ray of hope for emancipation from the oppression and exploitation in the partition of the region into two separate provinces, East Bengal & Assam and West Bengal. West Bengal had Calcutta its capital and East Bengal & Assam got Dacca as the capital of the new province. Unfortunately, the division that promised some benefit to East Bengal and development at par with Calcutta centered West Bengal was not liked by the elites who had already established themselves as the propertied and advanced elite during the past British rule then gone on for 150 years. They rose in protest and revolt to annul the partition and get abandoned the creation of the new province and the new capital Dacca by the British Government in London. The terrorist movement of the Bengali mode started then and then that among other terrorists happened to produce Surya Sen, Khudiram etc. from among the extremist ‘Hindu middle classes’ (Azad, India Wins Freedom, Delhi, 1988/1992, p.5) having had set the goal for epical Hindu Ram Raj in Bengal. The Bengal poet Tagore not still then have had received the Nobel Prize in Literature actively joined the movement for annulment of the partition of Bengal through his writing of special poems, joining in meetings, rallies, processions etc., if he had not direct link with the active terrorists. Their main slogan was that they stood to preserve their MOTHER BENGAL from VIVISECTION by the sword of the Jabans (Foreigner Muslims)!

The Congress

The Congress Party established in 1885 by a British bureaucrat Octavian Hume by then turned into elite Hindu organization went on to lend support to the anti vivisection movement of the Calcutta based Bengalis. The East Bengal people, the Muslims in particular being unorganized against the joint onslaught of the Congress and the Calcutta elites rose to unite for preservation of the new province of East Bengal and Assam and the age old Muslim city Dacca as the capital. Nawab Khawja Salimullah of Dacca, a great philanthropist, provided the leadership with all earnest and huge sacrifice. The founding of the All India Muslim League in Dacca in 1906 was the direct outcome of his effort in organizing the backward people of East Bengal and the Muslims, in particular.

Nawab Salim Ullah Khan proposed the formation of the All India Muslim League

The Crown Yielded

All India Muslim League Dhaka 1906: On December 30 1906, the annual meeting of Muhammadan Educational Conference was held at Dhaka under the chairmanship of Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk. Almost 3,000 delegates attended the session making it the largest-ever representative gathering of Muslim India. For the first time the conference lifted its ban on political discussion, when Nawab Salim Ullah Khan presented a proposal for establish a political party to safeguard the interests of the Muslims; the All India Muslim League.

Unfortunately for the people of East Bengal and Assam the British Crown yielded to the pressures of the Congress Party, the Calcutta elites and their terrorist activities on the increase and so annulled the partition through a Royal Decree in December 1911, washed off their hands from the ‘settled fact’ of East Bengal province and restored status quo of the pre 1905 position; Dhaka was abandoned as the capital of the new province to its previous District/Division status. All development works connected to the new province were stopped and the people of East Bengal once again relapsed into frustration and backwardness. Calcutta rejoiced the ‘re-unification’ of Bengal having all their previous privileges and authority restored. The Calcutta elites of the Congress genre celebrated the abandonment of the new province as their great victory for MOTHER GOD BENGAL! The Muslim League as poorly organized as they were failed to uphold the new province.

Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk chaired the meeting at Dhaka

The Muslim League did again

The East Bengal Muslims having the banner of the Muslim League in about three decades gained strength and power to assert themselves not alone though but with the Muslims of other parts of India under the same banner and under the sparkling leadership of M.A. Jinnah decisively and through popular mandate restored once again in 1947 the East Bengal province and the capital Dhaka not though as the province of the British empire but of the new Muslim independent State of Pakistan. Very amazingly this time the Calcutta elite had forgotten all about the unity of their MOTHER GOD BENGAL! Nehru, Patel etc of their leaders who mattered then in a deep despise in 1947 let East Bengal have the present geographical shape, ‘truncated and moth eaten’, go out of their Indian federation. Well, they wanted unity of Bengal and the Punjab only at the cost of continuing subjugation in minority status of the Muslims all over in the post British Indian subcontinent, not providing any scope for autonomy even in the Muslim majority provinces in the western region and in the eastern locality as Bengal had happened to be (Shila Sen, Muslim Politics in Bengal 1937-1947, Delhi, 1976, pp.244-245), and as had been proposed to be provided in the 1946 Cabinet Mission Plan but by design or default exploded by Nehru ( S. S. Husain, The Wastes of Time: Reflections on the Decline and Fall of East Pakistan, Dhaka, 1995, pp.108-09; Azad, Op. Cit., p 165). That obviously meant for East Bengal nothing of any provincial status much less independent and sovereign Bangladesh and Dacca the capital as they now enjoy the positions, honors and statuses.

Post 1971

In 1971, another episode was enacted. Despite their covert designs the province was not amalgamated into their domain; Dacca also retained the status of capital not only of the province but also of the independent State of Bangladesh. Thus the historical forces of the times played their parts in the making of the geographical smallness and vulnerability.

During the Pakistan period the smallness and vulnerability was not that threatening as India and Pakistan had been contending powers in the region. Pakistan still is the contending power for it has acquired nuclear power despite massive poverty of the common people. Bangladesh has the same sort of widespread poverty but lack in nuclear arsenal to have inner strength and confidence against the big neighbor that also encircles Bangladesh.

In a post 71 world secular Bengali nationalism has not proved enough of a magnet to lure in Hindu Bengalis from West Bengal (Bharat) to rise up and join their Muslim brethren in a secular Bangladesh. Hindu Bengalis on the other hand are content at building fences along the border to prevent the Islamization of Bengal–which they see as the biggest threat. The supposedly non-communal communist party of West Bengal has kept the Muslims at the lowest rung of the ladder in a state that supposedly flows the Marxist ideology where religion should not matter.

Shiakh Mujib Ur Rahman signed away Bangladesh to the Rakhi Bahni led by a sitting Bharati General. The Indian agent then signed a “treaty of friendship” with India which pretty much would have made Bangladesh a province of Bharat. On 14th date the Bangladeshi patriots (they picked the Pakistani day of independence day) rose up against the Awami League and killed Mujib Ur Rahman , his coterie of commanders and his entire family. To make it a lesson, they threw his body in the streets of Dhaka and left it to rot for two weeks. They took Bengali secularism and drowned it deep into the Bay of bengal. For the briefest moment Muslim nationalism emerged. Khondakar Mushtaque announced a confederation with Pakistan. Muslim nationalism wa quickly snuffed out by the powers to be. The secularists seem to have taken control of Bengal. 

Today Bangladesh once again stands at the cross roads. There is a civil war raging for its soul. It is once again divided between secularism and religion. Putting the religious leaders on trial will not expunge religion from Dhaka. Dhaka Diary: Bangladesh fights India’s hegemony designs. The country’s future stands on the strategic choices it makes.

Many smaller

There are many smaller countries in the world with the kind of disability Bangladesh has. Are they all infested with the fear and inferiority complex as some elites here including some cabinet ministers have constantly been showing up of late?

Visionless lackeys

Bangladesh foreign relations and diplomacy if could be lifted out from the kind of over dependence on the big neighbor, there should be no dearth of friends to help in other parts of the globe. Bangladesh’s huge manpower though a liability in some sense, they could be strength and assets, as well, to fight in all fronts the likely adversaries provided they are trained, educated and motivated in the way needed. Failure to do these tasks ahead of the nation is the likely cause of inferiority, helplessness and vulnerability and not the territorial smallness and encirclement as such. The obsolete cliché of blame game of ‘anti Indian mentality’ reposed on the erstwhile Pakistan in Bangladesh that ended nearly four decades ago would not cu the ice unless and until the big neighbor continues to annihilate the people of Bangladesh in every possible fronts from almost A to Z. The ball is thus in India’s court. That is however said nothing to absolve the Government of their onus to take on and continue to pursue the dignified sovereign policy path for honorable existence of the country. Pointing Fingers at Bangladesh’s Smallness: What End? M.T. Hussain 

Greater Brihot Bangladesh is inevitable!

Highlights of life of legendary, Saain GM Syed.

Saeen G. M. [Syed was] son of Syed Mohammed Shah Kazmi, descendant of a famous saint of Sindh, Syed Haider Shah Kazmi, of whose mausoleum, he [was] the Sajjada-nashin. He was born at the village Sann in Dadu District, Sindh, on January 17, 1904. His father passed away when he was only sixteen months old. He has had no formal schooling. Whatever he learnt was self-tutored. By dint of hard work, he attained mastery over Sindhi and English languages. He was also conversant with Arabic and Persian languages. History, Philosophy and Political science were his favorite subjects of study.

• At an early age of fourteen years, he started his career as an activist.
• In 1919 he became Chairman of School Board of his own Tahsil.
• Subsequently, he was elected as a President of Karachi District Local Board in 1929. He later became its President.
• In 1930, he organized Sindh Hari (peasants) Conference and became its Secretary.
• In 1937, he was for the first time elected a member of Sindh Legislative Assembly.
• In 1938, he joined the All-India Muslim League. In 1940, he became Minister of Education in Sindh.
• In 1941, he became one of the members of the Central Committee of the Muslim League.
• In 1943, he became President of Sindh Muslim League.
• In 1944, he played a pivotal role in politics and got a resolution passed in the Sindh Assembly in favor of Pakistan, which was the pioneer resolution of its kind in the whole of undivided India.
• In 1946, conditions compelled him to dissociate from the Muslim League, and formed a new party named Progressive Muslim League. The same year he was elected as leader of the Coalition Party in the Sindh Assembly.
• In 1954, he acted as Chairman of Sindhi Adabi Board.
• In 1955, he played an active part in the formation of Pakistan National Party.
• In 1966, he founded Bazm-e-Soofia-e Sindh.
• In 1969, he formed Sindh United Front.
• Getting disappointed from All-Pakistan national politics, he founded in 1973 the ‘Jeay Sindh’ movement.

Mr. Syed is the author of more than sixty five (65) books. His books are on numerous subjects, ranging from literature to politics, religion and culture etc. He was himself a mystic had a lot of love and regard for mystics of all faiths. Besides being a man of immense learning, Mr. Syed possesses a personality that was graceful and poised. Highly cultured and refined manners, hospitality and geniality were the two glaring traits of his character. Wit and humor were the keynotes of his personality. He respected all genuine difference of opinions. For decades, Sindh and Sindhi people had constituted the center of his interest and activity, and all his love energies were devoted to their good. GM Syed proposed the Pakistan Resolution, 1940 in the Sindh Assembly, which ultimately resulted in the creation of Pakistan. However, he became the first political prisoner of Pakistan because of his differences with the leadership of the country, as he believed that they had deceived the Sindhis.

In 1971 , disappointed with the national politics, GM Syed found no option but to demand the Right of Self Determination for the people of Sindh. Mr. G.M. Syed is founder of ‘JEAY SINDH’ Movement which is aimed at achieving SINDHUDESH. For his bold expression of opinion and views after the creation o Pakistan, he was been kept either in jail-or in solitary confinement for the: period of more than 30 years.

On 19th January 1992, GM Syed was put under house arrest and his house was declared a sub-jail. He has been detained without trial until his death and has been adopted “Prisoner of Conscience” by Amnesty International (ASA 33/WU02/94).

Taken from http://www.sindhudesh.com/gmsyed/syed-bio.htm

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Following is the shair of a Sindhi poet, Juman Darbadar, that Saeen GM Syed would like a lot:

Translation (literal): Taking life after life, o dear! we’ll return to meet in Mehran (Sindh); Darkness will disappear, (and) we’ll meet in brightness (when there’ll be peace and prosperity)!

Winston Churchill

Ho Chi Minh

Founder and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Communist North.

He married nationalism to communism and perfected the deadly art of guerrilla warfare