September 26, 2016 Monday
Bedtime Story
The German-Hindu Conspiracy in the World War I
Hans Bethe was born in 1906 in such a German Empire and in such an Europe where nearly every nation or empire wanted to acquire resources (land and people) by means of war.
His father Albrecht Bethe was an associate professor of physiology at the University of Strasbourg.
Quite to my surprise he reproduced just once, giving birth to a gem of a child.
Albrecht Bethe eventually went on to become the head of a whole new institute of Physiology in Frankfurt that was set up in 1915.
It is a noteworthy point that even as the terrible mother of all wars was being unleashed in Europe from 1914 onwards, the German Empire continued to invest in basic sciences such as physiology.
Young Hans suffered a bout of tuberculosis at the age of 10 in the year 1916.
1916 was also the year of the Battle of Somme and the beginning of the excruciatingly prolonged trench warfare.
Most of us will not be aware that at this time the German Foreign Office with support from the Ottoman Turkey and the Irish Republican Movement approached the Indian Army under British.
Secretly.
The German mission was sent to Afghanistan to foment unrest and instigate uprising in the ranks of the Indian Army similar to the famous Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.
Quite to everyone's surprise, including the British, both the leaders from the Indian National Congress and the Indian Army (from Punjab to Singapore) showed an unprecedented loyalty and good will to their British Masters.
Some of the groups who did hatched the mutiny such as the Indian Revolutionary Underground, the Ghadar Party in the United States/Canada and the Indian Independence Committee in Germany were thwarted by the British Intelligence who had infiltrated these groups.
This not-so-famous Hindu-German Conspiracy as well the Ghadar Party (Ghadar is a Urdu word derived from Arabic meaning revolt or revolution) ended in abject failure.
All the key figures were arrested and the planned February Mutiny of 1915 never really got the chance to take off.
The British Raj lashed back at its prime colony by passing the draconian and oppressive Rowlatt Act of 1919.
It allowed for indefinite detention and incarceration without trial or judicial review.
This was followed by the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 13, 1919.
Nearly 1.3 million soldiers and labour from the subcontinent had spread over Europe, Africa and the Middle East and fought loyally for their masters.
Around 48,000 were killed and 65,000 injured in the service to the British Empire.
The Indian subcontinent unquestionably was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
Bedtime Story
The German-Hindu Conspiracy in the World War I
Hans Bethe was born in 1906 in such a German Empire and in such an Europe where nearly every nation or empire wanted to acquire resources (land and people) by means of war.
His father Albrecht Bethe was an associate professor of physiology at the University of Strasbourg.
Quite to my surprise he reproduced just once, giving birth to a gem of a child.
Albrecht Bethe eventually went on to become the head of a whole new institute of Physiology in Frankfurt that was set up in 1915.
It is a noteworthy point that even as the terrible mother of all wars was being unleashed in Europe from 1914 onwards, the German Empire continued to invest in basic sciences such as physiology.
Young Hans suffered a bout of tuberculosis at the age of 10 in the year 1916.
1916 was also the year of the Battle of Somme and the beginning of the excruciatingly prolonged trench warfare.
Most of us will not be aware that at this time the German Foreign Office with support from the Ottoman Turkey and the Irish Republican Movement approached the Indian Army under British.
Secretly.
The German mission was sent to Afghanistan to foment unrest and instigate uprising in the ranks of the Indian Army similar to the famous Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.
Quite to everyone's surprise, including the British, both the leaders from the Indian National Congress and the Indian Army (from Punjab to Singapore) showed an unprecedented loyalty and good will to their British Masters.
Some of the groups who did hatched the mutiny such as the Indian Revolutionary Underground, the Ghadar Party in the United States/Canada and the Indian Independence Committee in Germany were thwarted by the British Intelligence who had infiltrated these groups.
This not-so-famous Hindu-German Conspiracy as well the Ghadar Party (Ghadar is a Urdu word derived from Arabic meaning revolt or revolution) ended in abject failure.
All the key figures were arrested and the planned February Mutiny of 1915 never really got the chance to take off.
The British Raj lashed back at its prime colony by passing the draconian and oppressive Rowlatt Act of 1919.
It allowed for indefinite detention and incarceration without trial or judicial review.
This was followed by the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 13, 1919.
Nearly 1.3 million soldiers and labour from the subcontinent had spread over Europe, Africa and the Middle East and fought loyally for their masters.
Around 48,000 were killed and 65,000 injured in the service to the British Empire.
The Indian subcontinent unquestionably was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
In the center is the exiled Indian Prince Raja Mahendra Pratap with the German and Turkish representatives in Kabul, Afghanistan 1915
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