{"id":1558,"date":"2013-07-30T14:18:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T08:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2013-07-30T14:27:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T08:57:46","slug":"nailing-lies-about-kashmir-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/editors-take\/nailing-lies-about-kashmir-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Nailing Lies About Kashmir Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/fb:like>
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It is tomfoolery- share naivet\u00e9. You cannot beat us by contorting and distorting hard historical realities. You cannot delegitimize a movement- a Spartan movement as old as two hundred years marked with bravery and soaked in blood by spreading lies about it and its Spartacus.\"13th<\/a>
\nOf late, some fringe elements of a particular community, owing their allegiance to a particular mindset have launched a vicious campaign of distorting history of the struggle of people of Jammu and Kashmir for their rights through internet and their websites.\u00a0 To spread canard about a struggle for freedom and rights that is older than the Chicago uprising, they shoot as many malicious mails as they can – their most favourite target readership has been journalists, writers and members of the civil society.
\nThis malicious campaign, I believed has twin purpose. One, to create alternative narratives for delegitimizing the Kashmir Struggle and second, to divert the attention of pen pushers from\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 main discourse towards frivolous issues. Ignore them and send their mails to the trashcan have been my approach now far past many years. A friend said it-\u00a0 and said it rightly that every lie about the movement and its protagonist needs to be nailed to prevent it passing into history as truth- that fascist belief, tell a lie hundred times to make it pass on as truth needs to fought back by repeating a truth hundred and one times. Notwithstanding, marking\u00a0 two mails as spam for past a couple of months these have been repeatedly finding their way into my mail box. One is a distorted version about 13 July 1931 and second, an old article – a figment of imagination by Khushwant Singh about Allama Muhammad Iqbal- the greatest poet of the East,\u00a0 ideologue of Kashmir Struggle for freedom- in a way its founding father.
\nOne of the mails called \u201813 July 1931 as an expression of extreme form of communalism from the majority community of the valley.\u2019\u00a0 Ignoring the history of the movement\u00a0\u00a0 that started right in 1846 with the execution of Amritsar Sale Deed and to delegitimize the sacrifices of people the mailer projects the 1931 movement as a \u201cpersonal vendetta of one person (Sheikh Abdullah) used by the British for furthering their\u00a0\u00a0 interests in the State.\u201d
\nSheikh Muhammad Abdullah undoubtedly was one of the central figures of the movement in 1931 \u2013 but it would be na\u00efve to say that he founded the movement against autocratic rule at the behest of British. The 1931 happenings were culmination of a sustained movement launched by people against the rule of Maharajas.\u00a0 Seen in right perspective Kashmiris expressed their disapproval of British selling Kashmir to Gulab Singh to quote Dr. Abdul Ahad by sending \u2018urzies or petitions\u2019 right in 1846. \u2018The wife of Sheikh Imam-ud-Din known as \u201cMadar-i-Meherban\u201d mobilized hill chiefs, khakha-Bomba tribes, farmers, workers, and shawlf-bafs\u2019 and On entering into Kashmir, the Dogra troops faced tough armed resistance from majority community.\u2019\u00a0 The 29 April 1865 revolt by shawl-bafs joined by thousands of fellow Muslims was another bolder expression of the revolt against the Dogra rule. Twenty-eight people were drowned to death- and for these deaths none but Pandit Raj Kak Dhar and Wazir Punnu were responsible. Seeds for 1931 movement were sown on this day and its manifesto was drafted in 1924, in the shape of 17 point memorandum highlighting the discrimination that ninety percent Muslim population was suffering presented to Viceroy of India Lord Reading. In 1925,\u00a0\u00a0 Mirwaiz Yusuf Shah founded an organization, \u2018Khilafayat Committee\u2019 for providing voice to the ninety percent Muslim population of Kashmir. History thus nails the lie that 1931 happenings were engineered by the British to further their interest.
\nNow for the past many years an article written by Khuswant Singh on Allama Iqbal in June 2007, in a Calcutta based newspaper is at regular intervals being mailed from different mailing address to many Srinagar based writers and journalists. The article describes Allama as recent convert to Islam. It is not of much a consequence, if he is recent convert or not, the great son of Kashmir is known through his poetry, works that cascade with love for Prophet Muhammad (SAW), and exudes with Islamic thought and philosophy. What pains besides the distortion of history, are\u00a0 malicious\u00a0 reasons attributed for his father converting to Islam. \u2018Stating that Kanhaya Lal was Iqbal\u2019s grandfather he has written that his son, Rattan Lal, converted to Islam and was given the name Nur Muhammad. Saying Rattan Lal was a revenue collector of the Afghan Governor of Kashmir the article suggests that he converted to Islam under duress for being caught in embezzling some money.\u2019\"iqbal<\/a>
\nOf all the nineteenth and twentieth century poets and litt\u00e9rateurs, Iqbal is most written about and researched person- he even surpasses his important contemporaries, Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah and Liquate Ali. Over five thousands\u00a0 books have been written about his life and works. Khuswant Singh\u2019s figment of imagination\u2019 better say lie that is now being used as propaganda tool by \u2018polluted minds\u2019 can be nailed from hundred and one sources. One of the most important biography of Iqbal is Zinda Rud (living stream) written by his son Javid Iqbal. The biography contains a letter dated 15 October 1925, which Iqbal had written to his brother Sheikh Atta Muhammad. In this letter Dr. Iqbal informs his brother that whatever his father had heard from his ancestors about the family being a direct descendent of Lool Haji- who had embraced Islam at behest of Baba Nasar an important disciple of Sheikh-ul-Alam is historically correct. After analyzing various sources Dr. Javid Iqbal writes that, Iqbal\u2019s ancestors embraced Islam in \u2018in fifteenth century almost one hundred years before Baber arrived in India.\u2019 Syed Wahid-u-Din\u00a0 in his Rozgar Fiqar writes about the family of Dr. Iqbal, \u201cThere are evidences that suggest Iqbal\u2019s family migrated in eighteenth century. Either it was grandfather of Iqbal\u2019s father Sheikh Jamal-u-Din or his four sons Sheikh Abdul Rehman, Sheikh Muhammad Ramzan, Sheikh Muhammad Rafi and Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah who migrated first. During nineteenth century, all the four brothers lived in Sailkot.. Sheikh Nur Mohammad, Iqbal\u2019s father was ninth son of Sheikh Muhammad Rafi.\u2019\u2026.so Singh Ji\u2019s assertions about Iqbal\u2019s father converting to Islam by all counts are unfounded<\/p>\n<\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 
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It is tomfoolery- share naivet\u00e9. You cannot beat us by contorting and distorting hard historical realities. You cannot delegitimize a movement- a Spartan movement as old as two hundred years marked with bravery and soaked in blood by spreading lies about it and its Spartacus.
\nOf late, some fringe elements of a particular community, owing their allegiance to a particular mindset have launched a vicious campaign of distorting history of the struggle of people of Jammu and Kashmir for their rights through internet and their websites.\u00a0 To spread canard about a struggle for freedom and rights that is older than the Chicago uprising, they shoot as many malicious mails as they can – their most favourite target readership has been journalists, writers and members of the civil society.
\nThis malicious campaign, I believed has twin purpose. One, to create alternative narratives for delegitimizing the Kashmir Struggle and second, to divert the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-take","category-kashmir-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}