Should this be in the history books?

[aneeshm]

When I studied history in school, there was a lot of material provided on the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, in order to show the brutality of the British occupiers of India. However, not a word was said about a much bigger event, the Moplah Rebellion.

If we are to include such extensive coverage of the first, should not the second have at least a passing mention, given that the death toll in the second was almost 17 times higher, without counting the people displaced?

This is the sort of thing I mean when I talk about bias in history writing. It's basically a Marxist circlejerk.

 

[Tee Kay]

Maybe because the Jallianwala Bagh massacre was British firing on unarmed civilians, and the Maplah rebellion was an actual rebellion by the Indians?

Anyway, I always believe that you need to study both sides of history to get the clearest view. Unfortunately this cannot always be done in schools.

 

[Bill3000]

It is important to note that the Moplah riots came just after the all-India Khilafat agitation supported by Muslim leaders and Mahatama Gandhi to avoid the elimination of the Islamic Caliphate. The Islamic caliphate was eventually abolished in 1924 by Mustafa Kemal Attaturk the dictator, strongman and father of Modern Turkey. When Attaturk did that he "pulled out the rug" from the whole Khilifat movement. This offers a strong indication that a large section of the Moplahs also saw the affair as a jihad or holy war against the British. But Hindus(kafirs) were target and killed. Nearly 30,000 hindus were killed, thousands of innocent hindu women were raped and thousands converted forcibly.

Buh? Yeesh, what a biased piece of turd paragraph.

 

[happy_Alex]

The reduction of the Moplah rebellion to only a farmers vs. landlords issue is a leftist/communist interpretation of history that gives every human conflict the colour of a class struggle -- oppressed peasants and workers revolting against the parasitic landlords and industrialists -- while refusing to recognize any other motive like religion, ethnicity or racialism.

Here's another biased paragraph.

 

[pboily]

Here's another biased paragraph.

It sounds more like a reaction from the new generation of scholars coming after the period when India would eat everything Marx excreted.

 

[Perfection]

The weight of historical events isn't measured in corpses. There may have been a broader impact by this event despite the lesser amount of death.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Moderator Action: Moved to History.

 

[Tee Kay]

The weight of historical events isn't measured in corpses. There may have been a broader impact by this event despite the lesser amount of death.

The Moplah Rebellion did have a significent impact in widening the gap between Muslims and Hindus in India (in fact, this made it sure that they cannot co operate together as one indivisible nation). But of course this is a chapter of history the Indian governement probably wanted to forget, so they chose don't teach it to kids.

People in the "West" remembered the Amritsar massacre because it was a massacre of unarmed civilians and showed the evils of colonial/imperial/autocratic rule.

 

[Plotinus]

What? There are biased passages in Wikipedia pages? Geddoudahere!