Dear Editor

I would like to applaud the People’s Voice for such a good coverage of the 1857 Ghadar. What a contrast there is between the Ghadar of 1857 and the formal independence of 1947! The two can be best described as one belonging to the Indian masses (1857) and the other to the class collaborators (1947) headed by the Congress Party and the Muslim League. While the Congress Party compromised with British Imperialism, the Muslim League was bent on using religion to divide and massacre the people instead of facing the real enemy. This gave the colonial tactic of “divide and rule” and the fraudulent “two nation theory” of the communal fascist Muslim League a form of justification. This form of justification runs counter to what the martyrs of 1857 fought for. The Ghadar of 1857 united the Indian masses, whereas the stooges of British India divided the masses and used the colonial infrastructure to maintain this division.

Thus replacing colonialism of the British with neo-colonialism of the Indian collaborators (this includes the ruling classes of Pakistan) did not solve anything as shown by the events since 1947. This is why today Ghadar Jari Hai!

Syed Mustafa,
U.K