In the Name of Independence

European traders came to Indian shores with the arrival of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in 1498 at the port of Calicut in search of the lucrative spice trade. After the 1757 Battle of Plassey, during which the British army under Robert Clive defeated the Nawab of Bengal, the British East India Company established itself. This is widely seen as the beginning of the British Raj in India.

Since 1757 to 1947 we were ruled by British, several regional movements against foreign rule were staged in various parts of pre-1857 India. However, they were not united and were easily controlled by the foreign rulers. Examples include the Sannyasi Rebellion in Bengal in the 1770s, the 1787 ethnic revolt against Portuguese control of Goa known as the Conspiracy Of The Pintos, the revolt of Titumir in Bengal in 1830's and uprisings by South Indian local chieftains like Veerapandya Kattabomman against British rule. Other movements included the Santal Rebellion and the resistance offered to the British by Titumir in Bengal, the Kittur Rebellion in Karnataka, Polygar Wars in Tamil Nadu, Kutch Rebellion in Saurashtra.

Rather I have to say that we wasted 190 years in the name of Independence by just not realizing the reason behind this British East Indian Company, which is “Business, Trade and what so called Industrialization”. YMCA is started in 1844 in the midst of the unhealthy social conditions in London during the Industrial Revolution. Where does the India stand exactly at 1844 in the terms of industrialization? When the west is already vexed of this industrialization, Indians are still on ploughs.

After a several decades of continuous fight against the British with politicians who stretched our independence for the political gain, Word war 1, World War 2 and with some of our revolutionary freedom fighter we gained our independence under non violence political party.

Interestingly, after Independence our political leaders declared “Indian as agricultural country”, “80% of Indians live in village” and propagated our backwardness due to there lack our vision on Post-Independence. We spent decades after independence in house cleaning and to frame the country policies which is dominated by family political party again! The real industrialization started in early 90’s by our prime minister “Rajiv Gandhi”, who initiated and doesn’t concentrate on supporting the growth of Industrialization. The real boom started by Indian Visionary Prime Minister “P.V. Narasimha Rao” under the brilliant finance minister “Manmohan Singh” who are the great modern leaders in India. The IT sector and other Industries got the high peak support under BJP government who revamped the infrastructure issues and encouraging the industrialization.

The things we lost during British rule is being filled after 200 years. Better late than never, many state governments are encouraging industrialization by introducing many policies (Single window, SEZ zones etc...), but we still facing many problems between political parties in expanding, as some are opposing the land acquiring program for SEZ etc… The main parallel problem with industrialization is Agriculture sector, the government is trying there best to hold the polling votes of farmer by giving subsidies and facilities, which are never been gone to common man due to bureaucracy corruption and unemployment in farmers. The government is trying to increases the braches of the tree, but never thought that the devil is in roots, allotting more subsidies and budget to farmers is like increasing the braches of tree, and not looking in to the root problems like farmers unemployment, corruption in officers, knowledge of farming, new technologies in farming, educating the farmer on latest trend etc…The agriculture sector can turn to a boom, if we introduce Agro-Industrialization, and it’s a big business market in world.

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The Farmer and Lottery

I saw an interview on TV where this one old farmer won ten million in the Lottery. Naturally he was asked what he was gonna do with all that money. He kinda scratched his head and said, "Not sure as I know right off. Guess I'll keep farmin' till it's all gone."