RACE WAR POLITICS
The UK Film Council, a Lottery funded quango, has granted £150,000 of Lottery money to fund the distribution of a Bollywood film called ‘The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey’.
The film, the most expensive ever made in India, retains the usual Bollywood song and dance sequences. But its story purports to be about the lead up to the Indian Mutiny1857. In fact, it is an anti-British pack of lies.
Mangal Pande, was a young sepoy (an Indian soldier in the service of the British) of the 34th Native Infantry. He shot at his sergeant-major on the parade ground. When the British adjutant rode over, Pande shot the horse out from under him and as the officer tried to extricate himself Pande severely wounded him with a sword. Drawn by the commotion the commanding officer of the station, General Hearshey, galloped to the scene accompanied by his two sons. Pande panicked and instead of shooting at the general, turned his rifle on himself and pulled the trigger. He survived this suicide attempt and was later court-martialled and hanged. As a collective punishment the 34th Native Infantry was disbanded; its shameful fate being publicly proclaimed at every military station in British India.
There was a widespread feeling among the sepoys that the 34th Native Infantry had been treated too harshly.
It was a subsequent event at Meerut a few weeks later that was the start of the mutiny, when sepoys from the 3rd Light Cavalry mutinied and, accompanied by a mob from the bazaar, poured into the cantonment where the Europeans lived and murdered any Europeans or Indian Christians they could find. (One of the major reasons for the Indian Mutiny was resentment against Christian missionaries.) Whole families, men, women, children and servants, were slaughtered. Some sepoys tried to protect their officers but they were in the minority. The cantonment was put to the torch and after a few hours of mayhem the sepoys, fearing retaliation as the British recovered and organized the European forces, fled down the main road to Delhi and the Palace of Bahadur Shah, the last of the Moghuls.
Most of the Europeans in Delhi were murdered along with Indian Christians. Some managed to escape the city only to be killed by villagers or brigands on the roads to Meerut or Agra.
However, the film tells a very different story. It shows scenes of British officers murdering civilians, flouting the slavery ban, and bidding for a slave girl to be sent to a brothel for the exclusive use of British officers. Another scene shows an officer ordering the destruction of a village after the villagers refused to set aside land for opium production.
Yet none of these events happened. The British East India Company, which ran India at the time, did not deal in opium at all.
The film further alleges that the mutiny started because British officers ordered Muslim and Hindu sepoys to use gun cartridges greased with animal fat, which is forbidden by their religion. One scene shows an officer threatening to open fire on the Indians with cannons unless they obeyed the order.
Yet this did not happen either. There was a rumour that the cartridges had been greased with animal fat (a mixture of cow and pig), and this rumour was a key factor. But the cartridges had in fact been withdrawn and the rumours were wrong. The British had realised their mistake and tried to have the sepoys make up their own grease from beeswax or vegetable oils.
The Indian Mutiny involved the savage massacre of many British and European civilian families by the rebels, particularly the Cawnpore massacre, where the British garrison was commanded by General Sir Hugh Wheeler. Wheeler had served in India most of his life and had an Indian wife. At the start of the siege there were about 1,000 Britons including 300 women and children. The British had held out for 3 weeks before accepting terms for safe conduct to the Ganges. In the event, after they had left their compound they were massacred. Only 4 escaped. The women and children were led away and were subsequently literally hacked to pieces and thrown down a well.
It should not be forgotten that the British were hopelessly outnumbered. In 1857 the total number of soldiers in India was 34,000 Europeans of all ranks and 257,000 sepoys.
A spokesman for the UK Film Council said that: ‘The film is not a documentary, and is not intended to be. Our decisions have to be based on the quality of the film, not the politics’.
This is wrong. The film is anti-British and foreign. Other countries would not be helping to fund the distribution of our films in their countries, especially if we were telling lies about them.
Furthermore, the film is being distributed at a time when Muslim terrorists have committed bombings in London and when we are faced with a serious threat of internal Muslim extremism. The film can do no more than exacerbate the recent crisis and encourage anti-English hatred.
Its funding is totally inconsistent with Labour’s supposed get tough policy. The rules of the game have not changed. Once again, Tony Blair has been exposed as a political showman. For the neo-communists the game has remained the same: to politicise minorities against the English majority.
In the event of a new English parliament, hopefully with English Democrats in government, one of the priorities will be to remove these neo-communists from their quangos and rid this country of the curse of political correctness once and for all.
This is necessary not only to win the fight in the war on terror, but also for the health and stability of our nation.
The film, the most expensive ever made in India, retains the usual Bollywood song and dance sequences. But its story purports to be about the lead up to the Indian Mutiny1857. In fact, it is an anti-British pack of lies.
Mangal Pande, was a young sepoy (an Indian soldier in the service of the British) of the 34th Native Infantry. He shot at his sergeant-major on the parade ground. When the British adjutant rode over, Pande shot the horse out from under him and as the officer tried to extricate himself Pande severely wounded him with a sword. Drawn by the commotion the commanding officer of the station, General Hearshey, galloped to the scene accompanied by his two sons. Pande panicked and instead of shooting at the general, turned his rifle on himself and pulled the trigger. He survived this suicide attempt and was later court-martialled and hanged. As a collective punishment the 34th Native Infantry was disbanded; its shameful fate being publicly proclaimed at every military station in British India.
There was a widespread feeling among the sepoys that the 34th Native Infantry had been treated too harshly.
It was a subsequent event at Meerut a few weeks later that was the start of the mutiny, when sepoys from the 3rd Light Cavalry mutinied and, accompanied by a mob from the bazaar, poured into the cantonment where the Europeans lived and murdered any Europeans or Indian Christians they could find. (One of the major reasons for the Indian Mutiny was resentment against Christian missionaries.) Whole families, men, women, children and servants, were slaughtered. Some sepoys tried to protect their officers but they were in the minority. The cantonment was put to the torch and after a few hours of mayhem the sepoys, fearing retaliation as the British recovered and organized the European forces, fled down the main road to Delhi and the Palace of Bahadur Shah, the last of the Moghuls.
Most of the Europeans in Delhi were murdered along with Indian Christians. Some managed to escape the city only to be killed by villagers or brigands on the roads to Meerut or Agra.
However, the film tells a very different story. It shows scenes of British officers murdering civilians, flouting the slavery ban, and bidding for a slave girl to be sent to a brothel for the exclusive use of British officers. Another scene shows an officer ordering the destruction of a village after the villagers refused to set aside land for opium production.
Yet none of these events happened. The British East India Company, which ran India at the time, did not deal in opium at all.
The film further alleges that the mutiny started because British officers ordered Muslim and Hindu sepoys to use gun cartridges greased with animal fat, which is forbidden by their religion. One scene shows an officer threatening to open fire on the Indians with cannons unless they obeyed the order.
Yet this did not happen either. There was a rumour that the cartridges had been greased with animal fat (a mixture of cow and pig), and this rumour was a key factor. But the cartridges had in fact been withdrawn and the rumours were wrong. The British had realised their mistake and tried to have the sepoys make up their own grease from beeswax or vegetable oils.
The Indian Mutiny involved the savage massacre of many British and European civilian families by the rebels, particularly the Cawnpore massacre, where the British garrison was commanded by General Sir Hugh Wheeler. Wheeler had served in India most of his life and had an Indian wife. At the start of the siege there were about 1,000 Britons including 300 women and children. The British had held out for 3 weeks before accepting terms for safe conduct to the Ganges. In the event, after they had left their compound they were massacred. Only 4 escaped. The women and children were led away and were subsequently literally hacked to pieces and thrown down a well.
It should not be forgotten that the British were hopelessly outnumbered. In 1857 the total number of soldiers in India was 34,000 Europeans of all ranks and 257,000 sepoys.
A spokesman for the UK Film Council said that: ‘The film is not a documentary, and is not intended to be. Our decisions have to be based on the quality of the film, not the politics’.
This is wrong. The film is anti-British and foreign. Other countries would not be helping to fund the distribution of our films in their countries, especially if we were telling lies about them.
Furthermore, the film is being distributed at a time when Muslim terrorists have committed bombings in London and when we are faced with a serious threat of internal Muslim extremism. The film can do no more than exacerbate the recent crisis and encourage anti-English hatred.
Its funding is totally inconsistent with Labour’s supposed get tough policy. The rules of the game have not changed. Once again, Tony Blair has been exposed as a political showman. For the neo-communists the game has remained the same: to politicise minorities against the English majority.
In the event of a new English parliament, hopefully with English Democrats in government, one of the priorities will be to remove these neo-communists from their quangos and rid this country of the curse of political correctness once and for all.
This is necessary not only to win the fight in the war on terror, but also for the health and stability of our nation.
posted by erc @ 11:35 pm
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