Darkest Events of Indian History
Welcome! Read here about the darkest events of Indian History or simply black days of India which shook the nation
Sunday, July 26, 2020
KARGIL WAR
Sunday, July 19, 2020
EXECUTION OF MANGAL PANDEY
Who was Mangal Pandey?
Mangal Pandey is known for being an Indian Independence Fighter.
He was born on 19th July 1827 in Nagwa, Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh to Divakar Pandey. He was an Indian soldier in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry Regiment of East India Company. He was a Hindu of aristocratic Brahman caste and was said to profess strong Hindu beliefs.
We'll discuss further why his execution was a dark event in the history of India.
Why'd he oppose East India Company?
His main opposition began when he was posted in Barrackpore, West Bengal in 1850. India was to be introduced with a new Enfield rifle in which cartridges lubricated with cow's and pig's lard (grease) were to be inserted. Sepoys were supposed to bite the cartridges from one end to empty the gunpowder into the rifle. This is when the problem began, cows are holy to Hindus and pigs are unholy for Muslims, biting those cartridges was not acceptable to any of the groups. A couple of times the sepoys were lied to that the news is false and they shouldn't take tension about the cartridges.
But eventually, Mangal Pandey and other sepoys found out that the news about the lard of cows and pigs is true.
The first mutiny started when the army men were called to test the rifles. Nobody came forward leading to a disturbance in the rule of Britishers.
Gradually Mangal Pandey and other sepoys of his regiment started to plan the fight for an Independent India.
Execution of Mangal Pandey
Mangal Pandey was overpowered and arrested when he attacked two British officials with a loaded musket. It is said that after attacking those officials Pandey shot himself from the same musket but he was taken to the hospital immediately and he survived.
He was later given a death penalty by the court. He was supposed to be hanged on 18th April 1857 but due to the fear of revolt, the Britishers decided to hang him ten days earlier, on 8th April 1857.
They executed him publicly so as to teach a lesson to the rebels.
What happened after?
The death of Mangal Pandey caused a huge loss to the Britishers.
- The 34th regiment was disbanded by the company as a punishment of mutiny.
- The death of Mangal Pandey led to the Indian Rebellion of 1857 which further led to the end of East India company rule in India. The rule was shifted to British Crown.
Execution Of Mangal Pandey - Dark Event in the Indian history
With his courage, Pandey told the Britishers what can Indians do when it comes to their beliefs and rights. His fight started for his beliefs but later on, he turned his fight into a fight for his nation, a fight for his countrymen's rights, a fight for an independent India.
It is well known to us that the Britishers were very less in number when they started their rule in India. But unfortunately, the first war of independence was started after a hundred years of British rule by Mangal Pandey.
He'd set the fire in the hearts of Indians who were exploited by the Britishers and their unfair rules.
Death of Mangal Pandey was a huge loss to India as he was a true Patriot. If he'd lived he would have freed India much sooner.
So we can definitely say that 8th April of 1857 was one of the darkest days in Indian history.
Commemoration
- To remember Mangal Pandey government of India issued a postage stamp bearing his image on 5th October 1984.
- Where Pandey was hanged at barrackpore, a park named Shaheed Mangal Pandey Maha Udyan has been set up by the Indian government.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
Monday, July 13, 2020
Dhemaji school bombing 2004
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
SARABJIT - KILLED FOR NOTHING!!
Who was Sarabjit?
Sarabjit Singh was an Indian farmer born in Bhikhiwind, Punjab in 1963. He used to work on other's fields to earn his living. Photography and wrestling were two of his main interests. He belonged to a happy family. Sarabjit and his wife Sukhpreet Kaur had two daughters named Poonam and Swapandeep Kaur.
Sarabjit's Arrest
Sarabjit was arrested by Pakistan Police on the night of 30 August 1990, when he mistakenly crossed the Indo-Pakistani border.
He was then alleged by Pakistan to be involved in the terrorist attacks of 1990 in Lahore and Faisalabad. Pakistan also stated that he was an Indian spy and a RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) agent, none of which was true.
His sister, Dalbir Kaur wandered around for nine months searching for him, little did she know that he was arrested by Pakistan for the crimes he never committed.
After nine months Dalbir Kaur received Sarabjit's letter in which he informed her that he has been arrested in Pakistan as Manjit Singh; who was originally behind all those blasts in Pakistan.
Manjit Singh got arrested in Canada and was locked up for 3 years and no one knows what happened after.
Prosecution and some important revelations
After the arrest of Sarabjit, a video was released by Pakistan in which he confessed that he is Manjit Singh and he was involved in all those attacks. But later on, it was revealed by an Indian origin British lawyer, Jas Uppal, that Sarabjit was tortured and forced to confess those things, also, that the confession never took place in the court of law and the video was recorded somewhere else.
Days passed and prosecution continued. He was given the death penalty. However, the date of execution kept on moving forward.
His sister knocked countless doors of politicians of both the countries but the officials remained indifferent, perhaps because he was a common man and not a celebrity.
For 22 years, he was locked up for no reason at all. His family was allowed to see him only twice in those 22 years. Their only communication was the occasional exchange of letters.
It was also revealed by Jas Uppal that the prosecution took place in English which Sarabjit neither spoke nor understood.
Many mercy petitions were filed by Sarabjit's lawyers but none were granted. However, the execution was finally put off in 2008, giving relief to his family and lawyers.
Death
All the efforts of his sister and family went in vain when suddenly on 26 April 2013, Sarabjit was attacked by some of the fellow prisoners and jailers with blunt weapons such as metal sheets and rods in the jail itself. Some sources tell us that those prisoners revenged the execution of Afzal Guru (terrorist involved in the Indian Parliament Attack 2001) in India.
Sarabjit was then admitted to Jinnah hospital in Lahore, in a comatose state. He was struggling between life and death when his family asked the officials to send Sarabjit back for better medical treatment but Pakistan ignored all the requests of sending Sarabjit back to India and declared him brain dead on May 1, 2013.
Autopsy
The first autopsy/post-mortem was conducted at Jinnah hospital, a report of which was not provided by the hospital.
Second Autopsy was conducted by the doctors in Amritsar when the body of Sarabjit returned to India. Indian doctors provided following bone-chilling facts about Sarabjit's death:
1. More than two people attacked him with heavy blunt weapons.
2. The base of the skull was fractured, and broken into two pieces.
3. Three left and two right ribs fractured
4. Jaw broken
5. Injuries on both ears
6. Heart, kidneys, stomach, and gall bladder were missing from the body. Possibly sent for examination after the autopsy at Jinnah hospital.
7. Severe head injuries and possibly cardiac arrest were the reason for Sarabjit's death.
Pakistan only sent a death certificate, no autopsy report was sent by them.
Learn
It was surely one of the darkest events of Indian history. If you're thinking it's futile to know about him after so many years then I must tell you that it's really important to learn from the past, so that we don't make the same mistakes in our future again. If we'd raised our voices back then, maybe there would have been one less dark event in our history.
One more Indian, Kulbhushan Jadhav who's currently suffering in those jails of Pakistan shouldn't be the next Sarabjit. It's still time to raise your voice.
India will never forget Sarabjit.
India will not repeat its dark history!
Know more about Sarabjit here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
Sources :
https://www.bbc.com/news/
http://www.rediff.com/news/
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