Chapter 5 Daily Armed Fights in India

After giving the first social beating to these university students who had just left school and entered society, Alan Wilson continued, “Since our British entry into South Asia, the Hyderabad state has always appeared as our British ally, and as early as when Hyderabad was still known as Nizam, it helped us defeat the Maratha Empire. In all three Maratha wars, Hyderabad sent troops to help the expeditionary forces win decisive victories, and in the four Mysore wars as well. Even the Great Indian Uprising of 1857, after which our relations with Hyderabad have been amicable up to the present time.”

After the Great Indian Uprising, British India was not aiming at cannibalization and annexation, and it can be said that the Indian princes of that time had only added the Great Indian Uprising to some extent to achieve the purpose, and of course the biggest beneficiary was the Hyderabad Tuktuk, which had always appeared as a British ally, and after the Maratha and Mysore were eliminated than the powerful native power of Hyderabad, Hyderabad became the strongest one of the Indian princes left.

And before that, the operation of the East India Company, is to take the excuse to find the trouble of these native states, on the pretext that the other side does not have heirs to confiscate the other side of the land, or to find some other excuse, has been annexed to the land of these native states direct management.

This tactic is very much like the Ming and Qing dynasties of the land reorganization, are trying to find ways to these land state land, under the management of the East India Company, and in India after the Great Uprising, the reorganization of the land reorganization is stopped, forming the pattern of the present South Asia more than five hundred land state.

Before leaving, just entered the British civil service, is still a rookie Alan Wilson, to more than his own rookie assistants, carried out a profound ideological education, Hyderabad commissioner in a sense is considered a consultant, in front of Mir Osman Ali Khan, is not qualified to pretend to be a celestial dragon man.

If in ordinary times the Hyderabad Commissioner would have been almost indistinguishable from a despatch, and could have been easily ignored in the presence of the Hyderabad monarch, and London would not have been able to do anything to the monarch of what is now the most powerful Turkish state in British India because of the displeasure of a Commissioner being disregarded, but now it was different, at least Alan Wilson thought it was different.

It was true that the British were superior in British India, but class and ethnic boundaries were not entirely unbreakable when it came to who they were directed against.

It was now 1945, and Allen Wilson did not have a bag of tricks to help British India continue to exist. It wasn’t that he hadn’t thought about it that way at all, but it was all in the realm of dreaming.

At this sensitive point in time, British withdrawal from South Asia was the order of the day, and there was still a lot he thought he could do, both in terms of private gain and in terms of playing a positive role on a larger scale. As for the small sacrifices that might come with this process, the great people of India would need to be more accommodating.

Even his own cheap father, because of a little change in history, became the man who operated the Bengal Famine with a straight face, and at this level where the situation of the Indians snowballed, it would be fine for Allen Wilson to try a little harder.

A few days away from going to Hyderabad to take up his post, as the new Commissioner of Hyderabad, Alan Wilson, instead of paying respect to the huge people of British India, as he had said he would, turned his head and plotted a course.

“That city along the Ganges is densely populated and has some industrial facilities?”

Sir Barron froze at once at Alan Wilson’s question, how is it that this young man, instead of rushing to Hyderabad to take up his post, asked up such a clueless question.

“The vicinity of Central and United Provinces are the most densely populated places in South Asia.” Sir Barron replied in disbelief, “Alan, what are you asking about this for, Hyderabad is in South India.”

“Sir Barron, I was just doing the math on what route would be appropriate.” Alan Wilson laughed lightly and replied, in fact, this is just a selfishness of his, that is, he wants to see the real landscape of the Ganges River, whether it is like the latter days that is inaccessible to the eyes, whether there is any kind of various pollutants in it, as well as corpses.

This is also for the sake of the British Empire, although in the process of British India’s independence, the British local public opinion he did not know, but according to common sense, the surface is still the world’s three big Britain, to let India’s independence is certainly a public opinion backlash.

If to eliminate this kind of public opinion backlash, Alan did have a not very on stage trick, he remembered the later generations of the famous Ganges River floating corpse, that set of photographs is not only famous in China, but in the world widely circulated.

If you look at it from the point of view of cultural attack, the set of photos of the floating corpse in the Ganges River has almost trampled the dignity of the entire Indian people underfoot, and in conjunction with the important position of the Ganges River in the Hindu religion, it has almost brought a huge negative impact on the country of India.

Along with the rape in India that festered a few years later, and the topic of toilets, pinned the whole of India to the pillar of shame.

This allowed Alan Wilson to use the information gathered to make public opinion in Britain itself a little more acceptable and win the battle of public opinion after British India had lost control.

Just by showing that it was not that Great Britain was ineffective, but that India was rotten to the core, and that Britain just couldn’t continue to waste time in that cesspool, it gave the British natives a psychological comfort that it would not be difficult to accept India’s independence on a moral level.

Unfortunately, until Allen Wilson set off, still did not find the scene they want in the upper Ganges, well there are still two years, Allen is not particularly anxious.

Leaving New Delhi on the train Allen Wilson, is considered to be the official opening of their civil service career, has not yet arrived in Hyderabad, has been the local monarch Mir Osman Ali Khan information in mind.

Ali Khan’s body is small, shriveled, no matter how to look like a rich man, his “thrift and frugality” is also known far and wide. He only wore a non-s cap in his life, usually wear are tattered baggy pants.

Every time he ate, he licked his plate clean. His bedroom could hardly be called a bedroom; it was littered with wastepaper baskets, with a straw mat in the center. However, this is a person who is so stingy to himself, but is the world’s richest man.

Some people, though rich, show that they don’t love wealth. Alan Wilson is not in the connotation of who, do not love money can like other things, from Ali Khan’s later experience he knew, the monarch of Hyderabad, in fact, very understand that all the wealth is built on power, find ways to let Hyderabad in an independent position.

It was only in the end that he was no match for Nehru, the leader of the Congress Party, and his attempts at independence were finally crushed. In the final analysis, Mir Osman Ali Khan was a pacifist, and if his native state had been interchanged with Kashmir, the outcome would have been much better.

Before arriving in Hyderabad and before leaving North India, at a railway station, Alan Wilson and his party had to stop for a day, and after inquiring, they found out that it was the local Pacifists and Hindus who were engaged in armed fighting.