The mighty and sagacious Nations of the world always manipulate their plan by keeping a vision for a future of hundreds years ahead. In this blog I would try to clear this concept. Along with, I also would reveal, how an “establishment” uses some innocent people to become “tool” in this purpose. The first paradigm I am citing is based upon an article that I chanced to peruse in an esteemed Hindi daily news papers about twenty-five years ago.
At that period of time, a girl research scholar from a reputed University of USA landed in India. She was to work upon her thesis on a sociological subject. She had won this scholarship from a renowned “research foundation” of USA. The “theme” of research paper was “the demographical impact of Muslim population and its repercussion on Indian society.” This girl student was to focus her research around the precincts of “Taj city (Aagra) of India. Here a worth noticing point is, how come a University of USA was interested in this subject of thesis? The reason got revealed later on.
The innocent girl student who had managed to win the scholarship from a reputed research foundation; that very “research foundation” was heavily funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of USA. The outcome of this thesis were of significance for the Intelligence Agency to plan its futuristic schemes regard the Indian context. Even, that girl student was unaware of the fact that as such she was being used by CIA for its covert plan.
Now, I cite an old instance of extensive research in the similar way, but here the involvement of the researcher can not be denied. This research was conducted in context to India and up to some extent target was Tibet and old China. On the face of it, research was carried in the name of study of Natural science and Natural history. Basically, this voluminous research was conducted with some hidden agenda but owing to drastic circumstantial upheavals of the time, it couldn’t prove fruitful for the purpose. Yes! I am talking of the great research book ” Himalayan Gazetteer”, authored by Edwin T. Atkinson.
It came into existence after an assiduous, painful personal efforts in the field carried by the researcher Mr. Atkinson. He was an entomologist and senior Indian Civil servant . ICS (Indian civil service) was the prestigious service of the British India which later on in Independent India was transformed as Indian Administrative service (IAS.) The research papers of this book published in various volumes. It was composed between the year of 1882-86. This book describes the in brief the history of Tibet and widely about its main land as well as covers extensively the study of Indian territory, that touches the marches of Western Tibet.
It covers in length and wide the study of today’s Himachal Province, Utterakhand Province and some parts of present Utter Pradesh (North province.) It provides all kinds of information of that era in the voluminous book. The volumes cover social system, flora and fauna, the Himalayan topography (Of specific region,) in detail. For example, it describes the origin of every river and where it confluences with what river, so many rivulets, history of every part of the territory explored as such, the description of mountains’ passes, mountain trails, chasm, gorges. The book almost generates a miraculous impression, how assiduously this research got conducted. Not only this, to support the authentication, hand sketched maps too are displayed accordingly.
Now, you look at the chronology. It was conducted between the year 1882-86. A mountainous region that apparently contained some plateaus and dense forests only. It was a territory, that could simply be reckoned merely for the “timber woods” at that time. No any other industrial or known benefits was present there. And, that territory was deeply being searched and explored intensively. Why? Now look upon some chronology! At the first instance, the Anglo- Nepal war. It basically begun between the Garhwal dynasty and Nepal kingdom.
Nepal defeated the Garhwal’s king and expanded its territory including to day’s Kumaon region and on wards to Chamoli district, Pauri district added with part of Hardwar, Nazibabad , Dehra dun. Further Nepal’s army expanded its regime to today’s Himachal province. This conquered area was a huge territory and here Nepali ruled continuously for twelve years gruely. At that time, East India Company happened to rule over the India. Badly disappointed and helpless, Garhwal’s king bagged help from East India Company. A pitch battle was combated between Britishers and Nepalis. At the end Nepal Army got defeated.
Nepal was forced to surrender the entire territory and some part of its terrain region to EASt India Company. East India Company in lieu of expenditure of war took over the possession of of a big chunk of territory including Pauri Garhwal, Chamoli, Kumaon, Dehra Dun and Haridwar. The Garhwal dynasty got shrunk to ” Tehri Riyast” only. Now come to the another chronological order.
In the year of 1857, the Indian Mutiny erupted. Though it proved futile but it forced the British Crown to take over the hold of India from the hands of East India Company. With the succession an another event also took place. British Empire began to grow the Opium crop at large scale in India and extracted opium were sent to China for marketing at large scale. This fetched a good fortune to Empire. The supply chain was so enormous that it almost engulfed the large portion of Chines population. Common people became heavily addicted to the opium. This addiction became an epidemic to China.
This forceful trading of opium in China led to two famous opium wars in China between British and China. First opium war was fought in the year of 1839-42. China was defeated and forced to hand over her Hong Kong port to Britishers. Second opium War occurred in the years of 1856-60. It is also called War of Arrow. This was jointly fought by British and French against China. Again China faced a defeat and was forced to “legalize” the opium trade. Today’s Republic of China always remember that era as “Century of humiliation” to keep on herself aggressive.
I gave these descriptions on purpose. Now we come to the chronology of “Himalayan Gazetteer.” The span of time runs between 1882-86. Now India was under the reigns of British Empire. A senior ICS officer of the Empire was treading on foot and back of mules across the invincible territory that otherwise of no any other value but of timber woods. He was giving assiduous efforts to collect data. On the face of it, it was an anthropological, natural science research. But in collecting topographical data and behaviour of people he had another purpose. It was geographical mapping of a territory that adjoined Tibetan Territory.
Here, a note worthy point is , at that time, Tibet in herself was a kind of independent entity. This research in the name of Natural science was an example of a mission sponsored by British Empire and Military establishment by keeping a futuristic plan, they envisaged to make its grip stronger firstly over the Tibet by the land route from the India and then over the China. Since this part of Indian territory adjoined the boundaries of western Tibet and was sparsely populated. In coming few years, Tibet Mainland was assaulted by Britishers. The feeble Tibetan army was doomed to be defeated and Tibet was constrained to enter into “Lhasa Treaty.”
But whatsoever futuristic plan Britishers had conceived that got aborted. Firstly, the Royal dynasty in China came to an end and a harsh communist revolution began in China. On the other hand, big events occurred in Europe which were never anticipated. First World War (1914-19) broke out. Britain was a part of it. The great war shattered the economy of Britain. After some years, she was again forced to participate in the Second World War (1939-45.) Besides, the political turmoil in India wretched the British here and unwillingly they left the India.
These events foiled the British plan to enact a land route for opium trade and other purposes to China via capturing of Tibet entirely. Again I come back to the same issue. Sometimes what seems to be conducted for anthropological purposes or social causes, may contain contain some hidden agenda behind it. British had removed the Nepali’s hurdle from this territory for this long plan to enter the Tibet permanently and from there to China. It was the plan they envisaged with imperialist vision but this intention was hard to discover otherwise. Penned by — Vinay Pharasi —
