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RE:Why this glorification?
by Pradeep Ramakrishna on May 09, 2007 11:15 AM

Gagan, You will see the tombs of the dead british because they were the rulers at that time. The same can be said about the various tombs around delhi. They are reminding us who ruled us at that time. Coming to 1857, the movement failed because of the crude differences that exists in our society, which the british used against us. If the 1857 struggle had succeeded, it is difficult to imagine how we would have been today. Probably we would have been an islamic country. I feel that to keep us together, somebody should have brought everybody under one umbrella and it was possible only for the british. As I said elsewhere, if you want to remove these tombs, you should also start thinking of removing all the other tombs in our country(for eg Taj mahal). But is this the answer for the burning problems that face us today?



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