Posted on June 26, 2008 by Moin Ansari

1) The general theme of the book is apt and very important. It is a fantastic book, well written and exposes many of the things that the young generation does not know about. I am so grateful for this wonderful gift…thank you again.

2) The book brings out some great and valid points and Munshi surely has done the right research even on events in Pakistan and other countries which is indeed fantastic.

3) The analysis is profound and fantastic. It discussed the ideas propagated by the RSS. They want to expunge Muslims just like they expunged Buddhists

4) Of course I have serious reservations about the map at the back that shows all of Kashmir and Northern Areas as part of India.

5) I have written several articles on the Two Nation Theory and its validity before and after 1971.

I think Munshi and I need to spend some time in developing the right story on this…

The joint and common independence struggle of Bengalis and Bengali Muslims cannot be rejected. The Bengalis were in the forefront of the Muslim movement and this has to be highlighted. The All India Muslim League was not formed by any Punjabi chauvinist or an army general…it was formed by Waqar ul Mulk and Mohsin ul Mulk great Bengali leaders who actually paved the way for others like to come in and build a movement around the poetry and vision of Ch. Rehmat Ali and Iqbal. As you know the 1940 resolution called for SEPARATE STATES per the map shown on Rupee News site…Bangladesh a the time was called Bangistan because it would have included Bihar, Assam and all of Bengal. Pakistan was the name of the Eastern state and Osminatan was the name of Hydrabad.It was the Bengalis who wanted one state and it was the Bengali who wanted to create a new language for the Muslims…

6) If you read the Two Nation Theory (TNT) it does not simply state that there are two nations…the theory was not created by Jinnah or his fans (Mujib traveled on a bicyle several hundred kms to hear Jinnah)..inspired by the Spanish Inquisition and Torquamada, the TNT was actually created by Rai and the RSS brigands who wanted to throw the Muslims out of the Subcontinent and conduct another Spanish Inquisition in “India”.

7) They still want the Subcontinent for the Hindus…and Munshi properly identifies this grand plan that has to be exposed…in the current language of Terror, ethnic cleansing etc.using the word “partition” informs the planet that one country was bifurcated or vivisected (per Bal Thackery, Advani and Modi). We must not use the word “partition.

8) The word “democracy” does not appear in the US constitution and Jefferesn wrote reams against it. The word was created by the British and the Americans during the 40s to destroy the Ottoman Empire with Arab Nationalism, subjugate all of India under Brahmin rule, take over Hydrabad, Bhopal, Manvadar, Junagarh and if I may say so to partition Pakistan by sowing seeds of discontent among brothers

India is a plutocracy and Bengal Bundhu Mujib who created BD in the name of the democratic rights of the disenfranchised and claimed that Bhutto was not giving him power…declared himself president for life and you know the rest.

9) In 14th Aughust 1975, (the date is very significant) the Bengali nationalists who did not want BD to be colony of India rose up and declared their independence from India. Khondkar Mushtaque Ahmed declared the Islamic republic of Bangladesh and for the briefest period declared a confederation with Bangladesh. (See Stanley Wolpert Zulfi my friend and many newspapers of the era). Khondkar and Zia in declaring true independence for BD buried secularism deep into the Bay of Bengal

10) With all due respect the events of 1971 were the fault of the army–who were trying to preserve the homeland of the Muslims in the Subcontinent and on an ideological war with the Akhand Bhartis. Munshi has eloquently defined this and brilliant stays away from the mess of 1971. I believe that the language riots were a distraction…after all the language of the Muslims of Bengal was Urdu and Farsi when Clive arrived in Calcutta. After the destruction of the industrial base of Bengal the British imposed the Devanagri script on the Muslims rendering them illiterate. The Bengalis of Calcutta then took control of all of Bengal and specially the Muslims whom they considered uncouth and uncivilized….and used Bengali to discriminate among them..Bengali became a language of the Bengalis…even though till 1973 Urdu was the language of Bengal…I know you guys will not agree with this…let us agree to disagree on this one..

11) The chapter on Nepal and Maoists may have been overtaken by events in Nepal

12) A more detailed discussion of the BLA now headquartered in Tel Aviv (mainly for Sistan Baluchistan…but also Pakistan Baluchistan

13) The issues of Gandhi and his hypocrisy seem to have been ignored

If you are going to fight an ideological battle than the cons have to be exposed with facts

14) Kashmir is not just a Pakistani problem…it is a Muslim problem…Akhand Bharat would convert BD and Pak into Kashmiri Sikkims. Some background on Kashmir and Gurdaspur

The book does not have a Pakistani point of view and does not look at India’s aims beyond Pakistan…into Afghanistan and does not look into the revival of the Curzon on to the Oxus policy.

15) The book ignores Indira Gandhi’s comments

16) …. made to Henry Kissinger when she said that NWFP belongs to India and Punjab is on the way. India’s base in Tajikistan and her 4 consulates and 13 information centers in Afghanistan are an attempt to put New Delhi borders to the Oxus (Amu Darya). Here is a list of declassified docs from the US Embassy in Karachi

17) The book has to mention the growing Paktunistan movement from Pakhtun Nationalists like Ibid Ullah Jan in its new manifestation (all of Pakistan and all of Afghanistan)

18) A nuclear armed Pakistan is a thorn in the side of India which bleeds …a Pakistan aligned with Bangladesh is India’s nightmare

19) ZAB for all his faults had already seen the Indian machinations and did not want Pakistan aligned with India against China…he paid for his life for building the bomb

20) This is a RAW story…tell me if there is an iota of truth in this at all or if there is some new sentiment in BD…else I would not have paid much attention to it..

21) The future problems for both Pakistan and Bangladesh..is going to get nasty…for both our countries…The future problems: India’s Aqua bomb and the coming water wars in Kashmir

22) India policies viz a viz Tibet are a huge issue. The book does not focus on a pakistan centric discussion, and it should not–especially for a book published in Bangladesh…The Pakistan dimension is one of the issues. Afghanistan, Aurchal Pradesh, Tibet, Aksai Chin, the issues with Burma, Thailand, Maldives have to be highlighted.

23) The joint Bengali and Non-Bengali struggle for independence has to put in the right perspective especially for the younger generation. Reams have been written on the Two Nation Theory (TNT). “The Sign Doctrine” which is very similar to the book, except it concerns itself with Lord Curzon’s policy of “On to the Oxus” and then “Back to the Indus”

24) The main thrust of the Indian argument is that the creation of Bangladesh killed the TNT….and the corollary to that argument is therefore there should be “Akhand Bharat”

25) My contention is that the 1940 resolution actually called for STATES…see Chaudhry Rehmat Ali’s maps of “Dinia” and Bangistan. It was the Bengali leadership in the Muslim League that called for country. Many nations live in different countries. The Arabs live in 22 states. The Europeans live in more than two dozen states. Britishers live in Australia and New Zealand. Europeans of the same religion and race live in Canada and the USA. Many Catholics live in different countries even though most are all Spanish speaking. Even Hindus live in Bhutan, Nepal and India. The creation of Bangladesh does NOT dilute the TNT– in actual fact the failure of Non-Muslim Bengalis (in Calcutta) to respond to the slogan of Bengali nationalism actually reinforces the TNT.

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