Last independence day, in my hometown subdivision, the flag was hoisted by a local politician. This is because the 96 year old freedom fighter who used to do it every year had passed away.Do you have recognitions , awards and benefits for the Pakistani freedom fighters who fought the British ? Who are the most prominent freedom fighters? I mean like Bhagat Singh, Subhas Chandra Bose etc in India.
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But Bhagat Singh belongs to Pakistani Lahore
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When bhagat died, lahore wasn't Pakistani province, even Pakistan's concept was non-existent.
He was from Lyallpur originally
though I haven't researched but it appears that freedom movement seems to be directed less against british but more against Hindus in the discourses
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When bhagat died, lahore wasn't Pakistani province, even Pakistan's concept was non-existent. He was from Lyallpur originally
By this logic, we won't be able to identify single freedom fighter from Pakistan's territory :D
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though I haven't researched but it appears that freedom movement seems to be directed less against british but more against Hindus in the discourses
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Are you referring to a particular type of movement? I mean not political one, but the one involving active retaliation.
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By this logic, we won't be able to identify single freedom fighter from Pakistan's territory :D
There will be like Jinnah and others who fought for pakistan against Hindus than against British
infact none of their top leaders were in Jail for protesting against British for even an hour
Only equivalent in this fortune was Hindu Mahasabha and RSS
Are you referring to a particular type of movement? I mean not political one, but the one involving active retaliation.
My point was, it seems Pakistan's educational discourses of that period is more into Muslim league and its politics against congress than against British policies :)
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There will be like Jinnah and others who fought for pakistan against Hindus than against British infact none of their top leaders were in Jail for protesting against British for even an hour
Only equivalent in this fortune was Hindu Mahasabha and RSS
My point was, it seems Pakistan's educational discourses of that period is more into Muslim league and its politics against congress than against British policies :)
Nope. Pakistan's two provinces were forts (gaRh) of Congress.. Sindh and KPK and there are people from these provinces who were imprisoned by British Authorities.
Even in Punjab, incidents like Jaliyanwala Bagh are evident that Muslims were fighting alongwith others against British colonialism.
The situation of Congress deteriorated in Sindh due to their unclear stance of separation of Sindh from Mumbai and that position was then exploited by Muslim League by utilising the public sentiment and then through Pir and feudals of Sindh.
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Interesting document on anti-British struggle of Sindh. These all movements must have resulted imprisonment of people involved, which is also documented in this paper.
http://www.iobm.edu.pk/pbr/pbr_1104/110404_6-35.pdf
This study does not aim at giving a detailed account of Sindh’s quest for freedom from British imperialism; for it excludes the analysis of the early and continued resistance to British rule informs that are not easily recognisable (instances are on recordof the rampage of political desperados glibly described as dacoits)along with militant efforts and attempts at the overthrow of Britishrule. Significant among these outbursts of resentment that theBritish had to encounter in Sindh in the nineteenth century werethe Thar uprising (1846), the Nagar Parkar revolt (1859), and the Hur revolt (1896-1900). The twentieth century, however, saw manyforms of resistance to British rule by Sindh patriots, includingtheir unwitting participation in Indian anti-British struggle, withspecial reference to: Swadeshi Campaign, Komagata Maru Incident and Ghadr Party, Reshmi Rumal Tahrik, Satyagraha Movement, Khilafat Movement, Hijrat Movement and Civil Disobedience Movement.
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But Bhagat Singh belongs to Pakistani Lahore
The place where Singh was cremated, at Hussainiwala on the banks of the Sutlej river, became Pakistani territory during the partition.
In 1961, it was transferred to India in exchange for 12 villages near the Sulemanki Headworks.
The National Martyrs Memorial was built on the cremation spot in 1968 and has memorials of Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev.
During the 1971 India–Pakistan war, the memorial was damaged and the statues of the martyrs were removed and taken away by the Pakistani army.
They have not been returned. I hope they are been used to honor him in his birthplace. :)
I actually meant Govt and NGO schemes and welfare measures like Freedom fighters pension that we have in India for the freedom fighters who were alive after independence.
I would like to know more about KPK and Sindhi freedom fighters too if possible please.The only one I can think of is Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan.
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The Pakistan movement's leadership's greatest triumph is that is it did not need to resort to violence and fighting against the British. It reflected the very best side of Muslims and Islam through fully trying peaceful methods of achieving change first before considering the just application of violence, and successfully achieving its objective without having to resort to violence. This is a trait sadly lost amongst many Muslims of today.
Hence we don't so much have freedom fighters as we do freedom legislators. Pakistan's independence heroes worked within the law. India's worked outside the law.
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I actually meant Govt and NGO schemes and welfare measures like Freedom fighters pension that we have in India for the freedom fighters who were alive after independence.
I don't think that there are such schemes for freedom fighters of British era in Pakistan
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I don't think that there are such schemes for freedom fighters of British era in Pakistan
The Indian scheme had a very broad definition of freedom fighters. They included members of the INA (Indian National Army), that were considered villains in Pakistan, because the Muslim League backed the British war effort.
The nearest equivalent to Freedom Fighters that Pakistan had were the Muslim volunteers in WW2. The price that the Muslim league extracted from Britain in return for overt war support was that Britain should accept the Muslim League as the sole body that spoke for Indian Muslims. This gave the Muslim League much more power in its demand for Pakistan.
As a result, Pakistan did pay the pensions for those British Army veterans in Pakistan, but not the INA members. Pakistan held the INA to have fought against Pakistan's interest.
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The Indian scheme had a very broad definition of freedom fighters. They included members of the INA (Indian National Army), that were considered villains in Pakistan, because the Muslim League backed the British war effort.
I think Gurkha forces also got some benefits in Independent India
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I think Gurkha forces also got some benefits in Independent India
India doesn't treat Nepali and Indian soldiers differently in any way.
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There were two right wingers which followed British laws most assiduously, one was muslim league and other was RSS. Muslim league succeeded in making Pakistan while RSS lost the battle to INC. Thankfully they lost the case of Hindu reform act and hindu marriage act, which RSS tried to oppose politically.