Thus the concept of ‘white mans burden’ rose into existence when Rudyard Kipling authored ‘The White Man’s Burden : The United States and the Philippine Islands’ in 1899, a poetic exhortation to Americans to colonise Philippines and Filipino inhabitants. It was conquered by them in 1898 and the diehard imperialist egged upon them to ‘civilise’ the uncivilised and presented it before them as their ‘holy’ obligation. The dubious concept hit their haughty disposition like a thunderbolt and they ‘discovered’ themselves as Jesus appointed ‘Lord & Master’ of the universe and much to their dismay, why they failed to cognise such a mammoth ‘holy task’ cast upon them to transform ‘two-legged browns and blacks’ into civilised human beings before. They perceived the innate potential of the Mission Of Civilisation to justify imperial conquests and metamorphose it into the ‘Philosophy Of Manifest Destiny’. The White Mans Burden thus discovered itself under tremendous divine obligation to rule over ‘non-white people’ on Planet Earth through the mechanism of ‘colonialism’ or ‘colonisation’ causing them marginal economic progress while appropriating major share of progress for self-enrichment. The obnoxious psyche persisted and they colonised 70 countries across the world, carried out immensely brutal savagery and plunder for centuries. CIA sponsored brutal regime changes in Iraq under the garb of capturing elusive ‘Weapons Of Mass Destruction’, Cambodia, Chile, Ethiopia, Angola, Nicaragua, Granada, Syria, Libya, Argentina, Afghanistan etc. are a few prominent names where ‘The White Mans Burden’ had been in its full dubious glory.
Bharata attained freedom from British yoke of slavery in 1947 yet dark shadows of the ‘White Mans Burden’ intensified instead of weaking its grip over the nation. Two front Partition-1947 was the immediate aftermath of the Burden that witnessed genocide of lakhs of Hindu-s, Sikhs and Muslims. With the assistance of the last Mughal Nehru, they planted missionaries to baptise entire North-East Bharata as Nehru himself had declared to a French cultural delegation in early 1950s that he was seriously pursuing decimation of Hinduism from the nation. Sikh leader Master Tara Singh demanded Khalistan from Union Home Minister Sardar Patel which he rejected outright. However the demand was seeded in Sikh minds and received a boost with Pakistan being carved out as an Islamic territory over a large pool of human blood and skulls. An outfit ‘Sikh Home Rule’ was raised in UK to keep the cauldron bubbling waiting for some hyperactive activist to take over and lead. As Master Tara Singh died, another Sikh politician Jagjit Singh Chauhan who had migrated to UK by 1969, became his instant replacement to carry forward the so-called Khalistan circus with support from US President Richard Nixon and Pakistani military don Yahya Khan. In fact Pakistani dictator handed him over Nankana Sahib, a few religious relics and pressed him to actively move separatist agitation of so-called Khalistan. When Zia ul Haque grabbed power in Pakistan from ZA Bhutto, he too actively supported Khalistan agitation.
During those decades Nehruvian love-affair with the USSR was a bitter pill that ‘White Burdened’ countries viz. USA, UK, Canada, Australia etc. could not stomach. It was an unpalatable proposition for the Commonwealth that a member actively hobnobbed with a rabidly communist country like the USSR and that too, at the peak of Cold War. USA was particularly piqued by the fact that almost 92% Bharatiya weaponry was imported from the USSR, highly sophisticated Sabre jets were downed by Soviet Migs flown by Bharatiya jet-fighters, Soviet intervention in the Bay Of Bengal to counter US Seventh Fleet, PM Indira Gandhi signing a military treaty with the then Soviet Prseident Leonid Brezhnev, nuclear and space co-operation etc. The ‘White Pride’ of highly active NATO members was deeply hurt leading to Pro-Pakistan/Anti-Bharata tilt in foreign policy of Dr. Henry Kissinger, the then Nixons Secretary Of State.
Prime Minister Nehru covered his pro-Soviet proclivities with his ludicrous ‘Jumla’ of Non-Alignment instead of genuinely being equi-close to both blocs or diplomatically interacting with both. He blatantly adored Communist regime of the USSR, so much so that quite often the then US President Harry Truman used to call CIA Chief to order him to find out whether Nehru was a Communist ! Food grains that country received under much-maligned PL-480 Scheme from USA was almost unfit for human consumption which decades later as confessed by a US diplomat, marked US anger and frustration against Nehrus hobnobbing with Russians. When Chinese invaded Bharata, US President Kennedy offered us military support only to prevent the country going Communist in spite of his relations with Nehru being least cordial. His policies and decisions turned out to be an unmitigated disaster for which nation paid heavily.
When the Nehruvian dynasty led Congress era was over in 2014 with the rise of BJP in corridors of power, hopes of the ‘White Burden’ to play and enthral Bharata with their symphony dashed to the ground sooner than later as Modi Government turned out to be too nationalistic to reckon with for them. Pro-Russia tilt was certainly balanced with augmented engagement with the USA yet engagement with Russia further intensified with defiant acquisition of S-400 Anti-missile armamentarium, growing oil procurement and repeated refusal to vote against Russia at the United Nations for invading Ukraine. It was further compounded by harsh realities of ‘Make In India’, ‘Atma-nirbhar Bharata’ that saw development of Wuhan-Corona vaccines indigenously saving billions of foreign exchange in US $ which US corporates like Pfizer had been yearning to pocket like hungry vultures. Modi Government became a migraine for the Deep State seated in the White House and 10, Downing Street, London as they could not bully the Government as they had been used to hitherto till Lok Sabha elections of 2014.
As a consequence, not only these ‘White Burdened’ countries, Deep State, Soros etc. encouraged, financed and nurtured all divisive, anti-Bharata forces from Kashmir to Kanyakumari but also forced out Bharata from the condominium of AUKUS owing to the sole reason of steadfast refusal to be baptised as their ally. However, in spite of all excruciating hurdles imposed by them, a determined Modi Government successfully steered the nation through all that, zooming ahead on path of all round development. As a consequence of that, frustration and indignation among ‘White Burdened’ countries has heightened manifesting into sporadic assaults on Bharatiya missions in these countries by Khalistani outfits and their looking the other way. All such anti-Bharata separatist agitations are destined to flop pathetically because entire international scenario has undergone drastic changes, ‘White Burdened’ countries are struggling for survival, Pakistan struggling for wheat and atta left with only stones to hurl, UN forfeiting their credibility and finally, dynamic and nationalistic leadership of Narendra Modi led BJP Government.
Thus we behold ‘The White Mans Burden’ as pernicious, diabolical in concept and sanguinary in action. It has specialised into Hinduphobia through Bharataphobia and the doctrine matches Marxism, Jehadism, Evangelism in its savagery and brutality. Fortunately reins of the nation are in very right hands and it shall be vanquished sooner than later.
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