Last Days Of The Raj - Channel 4 Documentary

[Avt4r S1ngh]

here's mine for what its worth. its very hard not to feel krodh, ch4 really sucks.

"Well done channel 4 another complete distortion of the facts you made the sikhs look like stupid barbarians, the producers have no respect for any race or creed except that which raises ratings. somebody needs to take out a massive lawsuit and make the decision makers pay. your ill researched programme has really hurt alot of people but your track record shows you couldnt really care. are you in cahoots with the daily star or maybe the enquirer, thats how good your credibility is."

Guru ji is testing us, let every sikh demonstrate with our daily actions, leave an impact on every one you meet, learn about your religion , be able to answer even basic questions non sikhs ask.

there's a storm passing most of us by every day. sad but true.

[dalsingh101]

Someone who has the connections please get some larger organisation like the BSF (British Sikh Federation) to complain. It will have a greater impact than just individuals.

[lsingh]

Another reasons why Nehru got his way was his immoral behaviour with Mountbattens wife, so had influence on his descisions.

From Wikipedia

It was rumoured during Mountbatten's viceroyalty, and remains widely believed, that his wife had an affair with Jawaharlal Nehru, who became India's first prime minister during their stay in India, and that the pair may have resumed that connection on Nehru's subsequent visits to England.[2] But this is denied by the Mountbatten family, although other liaisons during the couple's open marriage have been admitted. Lord Mountbatten's son-in-law and former naval aide-de-camp, Lord Brabourne, citing the extensive, preserved correspondence between his mother-in-law and Nehru, was quoted on February 12, 2003 in the Indian news periodical The Pioneer

[Guest Dancing Warrior]

I am thinking maybe this should be looked at by the Akal Thakat itself or am I over reacting?

On another note I have been speaking to people who also watched the programme amazingly three Punjabis with Sikh background dismissed it as “koinee” (never mind!) Whilst four Europeans thought it was most misleading, unfair and anti-Sikh and should be complained about . One person, a French lecturer in politics even went as far to say

“The media has been blamed for overkill on anti-Islamic issues, recently there as been a real cooling on programming on any thing that can be seen as being anti Muslim and Islam, you will also note that there are some very high level court cases going on, where it is possible for the defence to argue that the jury is influenced by anti-Islamic stereotype projected by the media”

An interesting thought.

The following is a link from a radio phone in which Maria Misra a lecturer at Oxford, who I believe to be the researcher for this programme takes questions on another programme she researched for channel4

http://www.channel4.com/community/showcard...aria_Misra.html

Also the following link is channel fours official microsite for the programme

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/I/indian_affair/

What I find confusing, but I may have missed something is that the overall projection does not really tie in with the recent programme. But please take time to research these issues for yourselves.

On final thing with two hands together I would ask Benti of the Sangath to conduct yourself in a professional, civil and educated manner. The media is a powerful tool in this country and can manipulate any situation to suit its own agenda and phobia and brand us as unruly, uncivilised and even compare us to Islamic terrorists.

We are Not effigy burners and chest beaters, we are professionals please remember that.

DW

[ms514]

WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA, WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH

Britain has a Sikh political representative body no?

http://www.sikh-secretariat.com/

Perhaps best to approach them with the issue and see if they can put political pressure on the issue.

info@sikh-secretariat.com

Give it a try.

[Jeevan]

Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947 is a book by Sikh author Gurbachan Singh Talib. It was first published in 1950 by the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) and has been reprinted several times.

The book consists of harrowing stories of the Partition of India between the new nations of India and Pakistan. The Partition led to one of the greatest population movements in the 20th century, as Muslims in what would become India, and Hindus and Sikhs in what would become Pakistan, fled across the new borders.

This book details the sufferings of the Hindus and Sikhs who fled their homes in the western Punjab, the North-West Frontier Province, Sind and parts of Kashmir. An appendix contains numerous press and eyewitness accounts of atrocities committed against the refugees during the Partition.

The book takes a position against Pakistan and the Muslim League, which it accuses of planning the massacres. The author mentions, and argues against, accusations that Sikhs were conspiring to ethnically cleanse Muslims from Eastern Punjab.

Contents

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* 1 Critical reception

* 2 See also

* 3 Notes

* 4 External links

[edit] Critical reception

It has been reprinted several times and cited in various academic compilations of literature concerning the Partition of India.

Ishtiaq Ahmed, of the Department of Political Sciences at Stockholm University, has examined the book and reports that many of the incidents related in the text can be independently verified.

In one such incident, Muslim "goondas" (thugs) in Lahore received packets containing "churis" (bangles) and "mehndi" (henna) from some Muslims of Lahore. Ahmed describes this as a "bizzare antic meant to shame them for their unmanliness and cowardice at not finishing off Hindus and Sikhs", thereby inciting them into violence against Hindus and Sikhs.[1] This incident has been verified by the British political officer at the scene, a Mr. Eustace.

However, Ahmed also writes that the book does not mention the counter-attacks on Muslims by Hindus and Sikhs. He notes that "The Sikh reprisals against Muslims in East Punjab are explained [in the book] merely as a reaction".[1]

[edit] See also

* Partition of India

* History of the Punjab

* Persecution of Hindus

* Anti-Hindu

[edit] Notes

1. ^ a b 'Forced Migration and Ethnic Cleansing in Lahore in 1947: Some First Person Acoounts', in Ian Talbot & Shinder Thandi (eds), People on The Move, Punjabi Colonial, and Post-Colonial Migration, Oxford University Press 2004

[edit] External links

* Ebook version of the text

* Select Research Bibliography on the Partition of India, Compiled by Vinay Lal, Department of History, UCLA; University of California at Los Angeles list

* A select list of Indian Publications on the Partition of India (Punjab & Bengal); University of Virginia list

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[lsingh]

Another a bit of history missing in the documentary.

'After it was a certainity that Pakistan will be formed, Giani Kartar Singh in 1943 declared a call for a Separate state called Azad Punjab, to be comprised of Ambala, Jullundar, Lahore, Multan, and Lyallpur divisions. Mastar Tara Singh president of SAD and other Sikh leaders such as Giani Sher Singh, Sadhu Singh Hamdard,Amar singh Dosanjh, Ajit singh Ambalvi supported this call for Azad Punjab. Then in a speech in Amritsar in August 1944, Master Tara Singh declared that Sikhs were a nation and as such a demand was formerly put forward by Shiromani Akali Dal in a resolution passed on March 22, 1946 for a separate Sikh state.'