Chapter 427 The Death of Gandhi

Portuguese India was still more than two hundred years older than British India, so what reason did Britain have to order the Portuguese to do anything?

Alan Wilson thought Nehru’s claim was so hilarious that Britain let British India become independent and the Portuguese were going to follow suit? Let Britain just knock down the whole world and give it to the Indians.

The whole of Pakistan was divided into two parts, east and west of India. Mountbatten thought that sooner or later Pakistan would be divided, and Nehru thought that Pakistan would not exist for long, and sooner or later it would be united with India, but all these could not stop Ali Jinnah, who had already made up his mind.

Bengal was also split in two because of the partition of India and Pakistan, because of a certain former assistant commissioner of British India. The situation in Calcutta is much more complicated than it was at the same time in history.

Long after the demarcation of India and Pakistan, the real border was instantly submerged in a sea of blood on a staggering scale. There was madness everywhere! Terror against terror, death against death. The newly created Pakistan was equally chaotic. War is raging in Punjab, NWFP and Deraa.

There is also the presence of nearly a million more Rohingyas, so many times more tragic than the religious conflict in Calcutta at the same time in history. After all, the Rohingyas, who have just been dared out by the Burmese, don’t want to be uprooted once again.

The Rohingya problem is only one part of it, there is another part which was not supposed to make much waves. That is Bengali nationalism.

Of course, this also has to do with Alan Wilson, before the withdrawal of the British troops in India, the news that the partition of India and Pakistan was to destroy the integrity of the Bengali nation and prevent the richest and most united Bengal from becoming the dominant force in India was widely spread in the Bengal region, and had already had an impact of some significance.

This to the extent that it could not be said to be wrong, in fact the first time the British felt the wealth of British India was the impression left by the Bengalis, and when Bengal was occupied, Governor-General Clew found the equivalent of fifty-eight million pounds in the treasury of the overthrown kingdom in that year, which was seventeen hundred and seventy-five three years ago.

It was the wealth of the Bengal region that prompted Britain’s determination to occupy the entire subcontinent and to work towards that goal for the next hundred years.

Bengal had the second largest population in the subcontinent and an overwhelming advantage in the middle and lower Ganges. It was too bad not to capitalize on it, and so before the British withdrew, conspiracy theories began to be spread that the partition of India and Pakistan was a way of disintegrating the Bengali community.

And Calcutta, where Gandhi was currently headed, was the center of the post-Indo-Pakistani partition feud in the northeast.

Because of the overwhelming number of Hindus in the subcontinent, Nehru still kept Calcutta and a part of Punjab within the Indian map.

This is where Gandhi was inching closer to the center of the Northeast, where the religious vendetta had just ended, where the two main sects were just keeping their hatred to themselves, and where there were a large number of Bengali nationalists.

The whole of Northeast India is like a volcano that has erupted and is still in the aftermath. On the one hand, there is the flame of vengeance of the sects, and on the other hand, there is the jitters of impending conflict.

If a large-scale conflict erupts again, the whole of Calcutta will be reduced to ashes.

Of course before all this came to pass, Mountbatten had already stepped down as Governor General, finished his work and was ready to go back home for his birthday, which was planned long ago, and left the rest to the leaders of India and Pakistan to face on their own.

He had made efforts when he was in New Delhi, no one on either side had listened to him, and now that he was gone, everything in the subcontinent was no longer his concern, and it would be interesting to see if the Congress and the PMLN had a more constructive solution to the problems that had begun to flare up after the British had left.

Arriving in Calcutta Gandhi stayed, and in the evening several Hindu youths stood outside shouting, “Gandhi, you are a traitor! Protect the Hindus, not the pacifists! Gandhi get back!”

Gandhi pushed his way out, explaining his philosophy, that he wanted the two sects to be at peace, and that once the conflict resumed, it would only destroy Calcutta, and sooner or later a few Hindu youths would leave.

Gandhi declared another hunger strike in Calcutta until the religious battle was extinguished. Gandhi went on sixteen hunger strikes, two of which lasted three weeks, for matters large and small. On several occasions he came close to death. In spite of his advanced age, it was worth risking his life for the sake of thousands of innocents.

This time, unlike other times, as soon as the hunger strike began, there was a tremendous reaction in the body’s functions, with loss of strength, dizziness, and by midnight, it was impossible to speak. The news spread quickly through Calcutta like wings, and a crowd of anxious people went to visit and came out of the house without denouncing the violence.

It seemed that Gandhi had once again prevented sectarian strife in Calcutta in the spirit of non-violence, a prestige that he alone possessed in the whole of India, but Gandhi would not have thought that this would be the last hunger strike of his life.

Religious vendettas had already caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in the two main sects, and in this case, Gandhi used the same tactics against the British colonial government, against India?

Not that it didn’t work, except that while many were deeply moved, large numbers of people resented Gandhi’s behavior. They were Indians not British and naturally had no British scruples.

In the eyes of many Hindus, sectarian conflict have caused such a large number of deaths, Gandhi is still calling for peace, this is almost a betrayal of Hinduism, coupled with Gandhi had hoped that the news of Jinnah’s leadership of India has been widely disseminated, so that the hearts of these people are extremely angry, identified Gandhi as a traitor.

Finally a law, familiar to Alan Wilson, appeared in the minds of this group of Hindus, that heretics are more hateful than infidels, and in the eyes of these people, Gandhi, who himself represented Hinduism, calling for peace, was more hateful than the Pacifists.

Not to mention the fact that there were also pacifists who were hostile to Gandhi, and that his ideas did not move the hearts and minds of the people so easily after India’s independence, as they had done when British India still existed.

After India’s independence, Gandhi’s speeches were no longer as popular as they had been when British India existed. Instead, Gandhi’s speeches were heard for the first time with the slogan “Kill Gandhi” because of the religious conflict, and it was the Hindus who were doing the chanting.

His words lost their former magic and non-violence fragmented. Whereas before the partition of India and Pakistan, the PML-N regarded him as enemy number one, saying that this trickster was trying to pass himself off as their friend, the Hindus now call him pacifist number one, saying that Gandhi was a mole for the pacifists to infiltrate Hinduism. His name should not have been Mohandas Gandhi but Mohammed Gandhi.

Now that the country is independent, no one has the patience to listen to an old and useless man. The Hindus feel that they have taken control of the situation in the subcontinent and there is no need to pretend to be amicable.

The majority of the pacifists, on the other hand, remained as hostile to him as ever, and I wonder if Gandhi, at this point in time, had any recollection of the scenes of one-upmanship when British India was still in existence?

The Congress Party, which followed Gandhi in the British India era, has just passed a resolution refusing to divide Pakistan’s share of the finances; with Mountbatten gone and the British troops in India withdrawing, there is no need for them to honor their previous agreement, not to mention the many lives lost in the vendetta.

Taking a step back, wouldn’t it have smelled good to keep the money to hold receptions and purchase luxury cars?

Just two days after Gandhi’s hunger strike, Gandhi was praying with the people on the lawn outside his house as usual, and while he was addressing the devotees, a bomb exploded near him, the people panicked, but Gandhi continued to speak.

At that moment a solidly built young man pushed his way out of the crowd, violently pushed aside the two young girls beside Gandhi, and knelt at the feet of the Mahatma as if to pay homage to Gandhi.

Unexpectedly the youth suddenly straightened up, knocked Manu over with a slap of his hand, pulled out his pistol, and with the cold muzzle of the gun pointed at the Mahatma’s naked chest, discharged three shots in quick succession. Two bullets penetrated Gandhi’s body, and the other drilled into the lobe of Gandhi’s lung. Crimson blood stained Gandhi’s white earth.

Snap, accompanied by a flash camera shutter sound, middle-aged man in a suit, wearing the United States Excellence in Intelligence Merit Medal on the chest of Allen Wilson, also did not forget to say, “Thank you, Mr. Allen, in the wartime of the United States of America to put forward early warning, our Mr. Allen, we are also very much in admiration of you Mr. Allen, to you in the wartime of the work of expression of gratitude. ”

“It is so gratifying to be recognized by an ally of the United States.” Allen Wilson was overjoyed and expressed his welcome to the American ally who had arrived in Newfoundland, as for the Mr. Allen in the other party’s mouth was Allen Dulles, the director of the American Council of Foreign Affairs, and the de facto head of American intelligence.

“Mr. Allen is welcome, if we had paid attention to the information you provided, Pearl Harbor might not have happened.” Hillenkoetter, who had just awarded Allen the Wilson Medal, said with a smile on his face, “As a Navy man, I express my condolences to the victims of Pearl Harbor, and my job now is to learn from the intelligence agencies of the allied countries, and promote each other to improve their professionalism.”

“The honorable Rear Admiral is too modest.” Alan Wilson heartily praised, “I believe that with our British experience, and the financial support of the United States, cooperation in the field of intelligence will be unbeatable. We are countries with a special relationship, and at this time we are also facing a common enemy.”

“Mr. Allen is right!” Hillenkoetter nodded approvingly, “Guarding the free world requires the joint efforts of Britain and the United States.”

I wish you were telling the truth! Listening to the other party’s words that were clearly lies, Allen Wilson smiled and nodded, his gaze fell on Philby, this should have been a classic image, it was a pity that no newspaper dared to report it.