WE LET INVADERS INVADE US !
Updated: May 2
I have always believed that the spirit of one’s home cant be compromised until a member of the house is either directly or indirectly associated with the compromise.
Take an extramarital affair. It has to be the dissatisfied party who brings the 3rd entity into the troubled relationship. In my home state, a practice that is still prevalent is to invite the local political party workers from the local club to sort out domestic issues. Damn!
In between two conflicting neighboring nations, a bigger nation from nowhere comes in to mediate on the request of one of the nations and establishes military camps in the region while pretending to drive some peace treaty. Instead, they dig out resources and control domestic politics and policies.
So when we say that our nation has been plundered and looted by invaders, I don’t deny the invasions and plunders. I don’t deny that our history and culture have been carefully destroyed. I don’t deny that we need to relook at our history.
But first, I have one question. How on earth did these invaders come in? You try entering my home without consent - either you die or I die. There’s no compromise there!
Ok, first, I’m no historian and a school dropout who picked up some conventional education later to realize that I was not wrong when I walked off from school. It’s your choice to consider or not to consider the points I’m laying out. I am sharing my personal observations only.
1. Alexander, the Macedonian, killed his family members and crushed any opposition that came his way to conquering the world. Did I forget that the guy thought he was some kind of God?

And while he and his army were marching toward India, the subcontinent was divided into smaller kingdoms that were conflicting with each other. Chanakya, a Professor at Takshila University, was aware of the danger.
And more than that he knew that King Ambhi was helping Alexander to invade the sub-continent. Possibly, Alexander couldn't have come so far without the help of King Ambhi?
Chanakya not only established the first Muryan Emperor but also got the conflicting kingdoms to come together to fight the invaders. Macedonian literature talks of how Alexander defeated Porus and gave him back his kingdom making the former look benevolent, kind yet powerful.
The truth that is emerging nowadays is that Porus or Purushottam crushed the Macedonian army with his battle elephants. He trapped Alexander to cross the Jhelum, surrounded him, and crushed the invaders. Puru lost his son in the battle. The Not-So-Great Alexander had to run away, as I understand…….but died before he could reach home! Malaria? Injury?

Alexenders’s beloved horse, Bucephalu as ancient accounts state died after the Battle of the Hydaspes / Jhelum in 326 BC, in what is now the modern Punjab Province of Pakistan, and is buried in Jalalpur Sharif outside of Jhelum, Punjab, Pakistan.
2. If someone tells me that Mr. Babur and his army with muskets attacked without the help of locals, it will fail my personal logic. How can a small piece of army come and conquer a land as large as our sub-continent?
We were never collected together as a single nation. We were only conflicting with each other to maintain the respective sovereignty of each kingdom. And whenever we felt weak against a possible threat, we quickly made friends with invaders to save our own ass …..!
Mughal Emperor called Jahangir who was, in any case, ruling a land that was not fundamentally his, allowed a third party i.e. Brit traders to come in and trade against a small amount of tax.
The British landed on the Indian Subcontinent at the port of Surat on August 24, 1608 AD for the purpose of trade, but after 7 years British got royal Farman to establish a factory at Surat under the leadership of Sir Thomas Roe (Ambassador of James I).
It’s like a rogue intruder who cares two hoots to sublet a property that is not his. This let the English set their foot on the subcontinent.
But the crucial yet simple point is, how could these traders spread across without the collaboration and connivance of locals; and gradually take over the mental freedom of the people of the sub-continent?
3. 1857 - Sepoy Mutiny began to fail as our own skin was fighting against each other. Every musket that was fired had the finger of a local working with the East India Company
4 Jalianwlala Bagh - A large group of innocent people that comprised children, old, and women were brutally massacred by General Dyer on the day of Baisakhi. But who fired the incessant bullets at the order of the brutal General? The fingers behind the triggers were ours.

5. 1757 - 1st Battle of Plassey. The outcome of the battle was the beginning of the British Empire in the sub-continent.
Siraj Ud Dullah came from the lineage of Mughal Governors in Bengal. His HQ was Murshidabad.
Karnasuvarna (situated in modern-day Murshidabad District) was the center of power from as early as 7AD and later was ruled by a powerful dynasty called the Sena or Sen by Kings like Ballal Sen, Lakshman Sen.
Then there was the Deb dynasty. The Pal dynasty. I mean, how did the Mamluk Sultanate, the Khalji dynasty, the Turko-Indian Tughlaq dynasty, the Sayyid dynasty, and the Lodi dynasty who ruled Bengal for over 320 years take over such a strong point of power that essentially belonged to Bengal?
On 21 June 1757, Clive arrived on the bank opposite Plassey, in the midst of the first outburst of monsoon rain. His army amounted to 1,100 Europeans and 2,100 sepoy troops, with nine field pieces. The Nawab had drawn up 18,000 horses, 50,000-foot, and 53 pieces of heavy ordnance, served by French artillerymen.
