Chapter 199 – Barron’s Teaching

“The minister’s statement is very rash!” Upon reaching Sir Barron’s office, Alan Wilson heard the chief of the British Indian civil service comment, “Not only is it deceptive to the Indians, but if it were spread, it would be equally deceptive to people in other countries, and it would do much to give a false impression of the Indians.”

“Yes, Sir Barron. But it has happened!” Alan Wilson stated that he was still on Sir Barron’s side, and did not approve of the hasty statement of the Secretary of State for India, “We are the ones who know the Indians, not the high and mighty minister.”

“So it’s annoying that these ministers who turn out not to know what they’re doing are always jumping in at critical moments to undermine the foundations of the Empire.” Sir Barron had not yet finished criticizing the Minister of Indian Affairs, and finally sighed and said, “Isn’t it good to find a place to just go around, drink wine, ride horses, and return to the country when it’s time to do so, and just use words that are not destructive, and fool the Indians, we’re the professionals.”

“Eh, maybe the minister doesn’t have a vocabulary like ours, and the vocabulary we have at our disposal, truth be told may not be so attractive, and most of the documents that come down the pike can’t be read or understood, and no one cares.” Alan Wilson mused bitterly for a moment, “That’s probably our weakness.”

“Not being able to read the documents that are sent down and not being able to understand what we are saying is in itself the greatest strength. That way most won’t understand how the country works, and since they don’t understand they can’t pick faults, and since there are no faults the country stays in reliable hands, and there’s no doubt that no one is more reliable than those of us who have spent our lives in the service of the country.”

Reliable! Alan Wilson admitted that there was no word more complimentary to the life of a servant of the people than that word.

“Well, without further ado, what are you here for?” Sir Barron, skimming over his hasty statement to the minister, asked Alan Wilson what business he had come to his office for.

“It is, Sir, about the discharge and return of British Indian soldiers.” Allen Wilson held out a document about a plan for the return and resettlement of post-war veterans, “The full version is too cumbersome, so I won’t bring it over.”

“You might as well leave the full version to the NCP.” Sir Barron took out his glasses, a bad smile flashed across his face and said, “What is the main plan? On what points are they considered?”

“The main point is the distribution of land, in principle we prefer the majority of the soldier group, especially the Hindu soldiers, to be able to be able to get resettlement land.” Alan Wilson said in a serious manner, “To be honest the land situation in North India can be said to be very tight, the population of the Ganges Valley is too large, there is not much land available for distribution, so the land distribution program can be said to be very difficult.”

“In principle we need to prioritize Hindu soldiers, and soldiers with Hindi as their spoken language, but the land in the Ganges Valley is tight, and if it is allocated to these soldiers, it may cause unnecessary conflicts, so I would like to consider allocating the land for these soldiers to places outside of the Ganges Valley, such as the Indus Valley, as well as the southern states of the soil. ”

Hearing this, Sir Barron’s hand that was flipping through the documents stopped for a moment, and he snorted a laugh, “I said why are you suddenly so kind as to start caring about the well-being of the returning Indian soldiers, so it’s because you’re hitting on this idea.”

“Oh, honorable Sir Barron, the war is over, in order to relieve the burden of British India, let some soldiers return home how to say is not a mistake, and the hometown is overpopulated, resulting in the consequences of the conflict is also not what we want to see, so decentralized demobilization is a very good way, I personally all unselfish, all for the soldiers after retirement life considerations. ”

“The advantage though is that it would weaken a very large part of the Indian military force, which definitely expanded to two million seven hundred and fifty thousand during the war, and is a real concern now that the war is over.” Sir Barron laid down the paper, but still asked with some misgivings, “Will the native states agree?”

“Most of the Tupangs are nothing more than larger landowners with little ability to resist, and as for the lords of a party like the Hyderabad Tupang, I am prepared to have a talk with them. This plan has taken into account the question of faith. My idea is like this, peaceful religion soldiers, go to Hyderabad and Junagadh Tupang, Hindu soldiers, on the other hand, we have to identify the ethnicity to which they belong, for example, Hindi soldiers, can be sent to the Tamils, they are all Hindus well, there is no problem to get along with them.”

This is definitely not Alan Wilson on the Indian army’s weakening, but taking into account the war these soldiers for the British Empire during the war blood, he can not let these soldiers after discharge into poverty.

But North India, especially in the Ganges Valley, there are many people and little land, there is not so much land for distribution, the difficulty is objective. Therefore, considering the objective difficulties, the soldiers were sent to the south of the Deccan Plateau, which was relatively sparsely populated.

This was all a deliberate consideration to maximize the distribution of land to every soldier.

Of course, as a very diverse subcontinent, some of their own ethnicity-based troops to be retained, such as the Sikh Corps, as well as hometown-based troops, in fact, these troops are very good to identify, as long as you think back to the later generations of India’s parade, so with all kinds of colorful and strange hats, the troops who get themselves all fancy, are generally all around the nationalities and hometowns as the unit of the exclusive These troops are usually exclusive units based on the nationalities and hometowns of each region.

The names of these exclusive units are often characterized by their own ethnic groups or hometowns. In Chinese, it is clear that the Xiangjun and Chuanjun are more or less the same concept.

Translated into Indian name is, Lagaput Union; Punjab Union; Sikh Union; Maratha Light Infantry Union; Kumaon Union; Gurkha Union and so on.

For ease of administration, units under battalions in British India were unified and integrated according to ethnicity and home town.

For reasons of diversity, and to give priority to Hindi-speaking soldiers, these units were to be retained in the second round of arrangements, that is, after India’s independence.

This small mind naturally can not be hidden from the eyes of Sir Barron, looking at Alan Wilson eloquently asked, “How much do you want to reduce the Hindi soldiers? Can not be too obvious, my suggestion is that ethnicity and religion to choose one, do not take into account at the same time, reduce the number of Hindi soldiers, we must at the same time to ensure that the Hindu soldiers are not weakened. Those Nehru people are not stupid, and it is easy to see once you move too much.”

“Yes, I still need Sir Barron’s teachings.” Alan Wilson bowed his head and asked for guidance, “How can I do it more appropriately?”

“Hmm!” Sir Barron nodded, tapping his fingers on the table, “Retain the ethnic forces south of the Deccan Plateau, the size of the Hindustanis is moderately reduced, the Hindustanis are singled out and cut down to a ratio of one to one using the total number of the entire Peace Cult Soldiers as a reference, the entire Peace Cult Soldiers, regardless of their ethnicity, the total number of them is in line with the total number of Hindustanis after the cut down, and as for the What? Bengalis and Tamils are all counted, the total number of Hindutva soldiers added up must still be far more than the Peace Cult soldiers, or else they will be seen.”

“In accordance with this ratio for the organization of the return work, the size of the pacifist soldiers will also have to be reduced, proportionally and synchronously.”

“In accordance with, proportionally, synchronized cuts…” Sir Barron’s was in the middle of focusing his attention on Alan Wilson when he saw that Alan Wilson was taking notes and muttering all over again as he wrote.

The heart wants to laugh Sir Barron, but also to maintain the high and mighty persona, taut face, “disarmament things can only be done can not make a big fuss, so it is best to have something else to do to cover, what happened to your new cultural movement? Is it because all three cabinet ministers are there, so you want to hold off on implementing it?”

“Yes, Sir Barron.” Alan Wilson tucked his notes away and looked at Sir Barron, “The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and I also discussed it and thought it would be better to wait until after the ministers had left to implement it.”

“O Clarke!” Sir Barron sighed, then said, “You can implement the harmless parts first, for example, as a person who is hygienic and clean, no matter how it is wrong is not it, even Hinduism has the saying that the Ganges River is a holy river that washes away all the sins of the earth, first, the harmless parts of the new cultural movement within the first picked out, randomly named, for example, called the Clean India Movement, let the men under the of the media to use the Hindu classics as a lead-in to advocate cleanliness and hygiene, and after that come in little by little, and when the ministers have left, go along with the next step.”

Seeing that the notes that have just been tucked away have a tendency to come out again, Sir Barron hastened to speed up his speech and said, “By the way, our Great British Treasure, Miss Vivien Leigh has agreed to the proposal of the Ministry of the Interior and is ready to come to India, and it’s up to you in terms of creating a momentum, so that every Indian’s heart, irrespective of religion, is modeled on the dress and image of Vivien Leigh as a model for the native British of the generality of the situation.”

“I’m going to look for any film of Gone with the Wind.” Sure enough Alan Wilson was not taking his notes out, but was going to start by asking British India if there was a Vivien Leigh film that was playing for free in theaters in various cities.

There should be, after all, it was impossible for a colony of this size to even have a film of a famous movie.

Alan Wilson was not completely overwhelmed by beauty, or left the Governor General’s House and went to the Supreme Court to discuss with Chief Justice Clark.

Miles away, bent on becoming the face of the British Empire, to establish the image of civilization and prosperity of the British Empire, Vivien Leigh, has already departed over her husband’s objections, as previously said, “I can also talk, I can also be patriotic.”