17 DECEMBER,2008
strategic analysis of tyranny and its
anti-republican legacy in 21st century
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Women's war[ read uprising],12 December,1939 in Manipur could be subjected to rigorous,independent scrutiny by all social scientists across the five continents.
Rationale:
a] it had preceded and transcended women's liberation movement anywhere,b] the uprising had introduced a mode of democratic protest in 1939, which the Bengali radicals would adopt in late 1970s in the name of GHERAO,c] the uprising had fully contested a British Manipuri stooge- a TYRANT- a Machiavellian prince,his would -be-legacy in advance,d] it had contested British imperialism in Manipur/NE regional soil,e] it paved the way for Manipur to usher in democracy and republican institutions,f] it fought out the monopoly capital of the Marwaris, who along with the tyrant/despot and the Brahmashabha, deeply cushioned in Hindu Mahashabha ideology, constituted the backbone of the AXIS OF EVIL that like a torture chamber a la Guantanamo bay,near Cuba today,oppressed 98% of hill and plain common people of the state.
The tyranny had,however,left a permanet legacy to pro-tyrannical fans and admirers among a microscopic section of revivalists, some of whose forefathers had been ostracized,and tortured by the despot.The reminiscence bears a paradoxical repeat of Stockholm syndrome- the intimacy of the terrorist with the anti-terrorist host.
Before the fangs of the tyrant are accessed holistically, the economic reasons of the uprising,particularly - the fiscal aspect could be sliced out for examination. The Meetei king's personal account- the civil list vis-a'-vis the fund for the state works[ written within bracket in red hereafter] would reveal the dynamics of tyranny.
Year 1920 _____________________________
Tyrant's civil list-Rs.1,67,262 [ entire people-Rs.1,51,801]
1921
Civil list-Rs.1,65,610[ all people-Rs.1,59,579]
1922
Civil list-Rs.1,58,746 [ all people-Rs.1,12,685]
1923
Civil list-Rs.1,48,598 [ all people- Rs.1,25,413]
1924
Civil list-Rs.1,52,258 [ all people-Rs.1,24,785]
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1927
Civil list-Rs.1,54,071[ all people-Rs.1,38,919]
1928
Civil list-Rs.1,56,192 [all people-Rs.1,37,679]
1929
Civil list-Rs. 1,55,113 [ all people-Rs.1,47,333]
1930
Civil list-Rs. 1,65,405 [ all people-Rs. 1,26,254]
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After the nominal Manipur king was placed under house arrest under coercion and duress at Shillong in September,1949 by the Indian dominion forces in order to get his signature forcibly appended at the merger agreement, the Manipur king bargained very hard with his captors for enhancing his civil list from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs.3 lakh and after an unprecedented bargaining, the king got his personal grant increased.
Some of his accomplices publish twisted sentimental accounts of the event by covering up the bargain in order to justify their crimes against the Manipur people today. The tyrant had been dead,but his legacy cannot be fully washed out by the Manipuri republican movements.
The irrepressible extortionist greed of the tyrant was inherited by his son.Resistance weekly[ November 27,1979] registered the greed and the Manipur sell-out by the next king :
" The Maharajah chose the three lakhs [Indian rupees] and signed his own and Manipur's death warrant." [p. six].
Assam governor Sri Prakasha wrote on 9.3.1950 to the Meetei king," When in the course of our negotiations,[read -Manipur sell- out after duress] ,your Higness asked that the privy purse allowance be raised to Rupees three lakhs nearly double of what had been provided for in the budget for 1949-50 _ I have gladly and readily agreed..".
The king wrote back to the Assam governor to further raise his purse for his Manipur sell-out,of course after coercion had been applied," ...,the only alternative left for me is to ask the Govt. of India to increase a further sum of Rs. 50,000/".
It gives the impression of a fish market: from tyranny to block head extortionism.Royalists might have celebrated the way Manipur had been bargained and re-bargained by the two vendors.
On 18.4.1950, Assam governor rejected outright the shameless presonalised and individual pressure of the Meetei king [ Maha-rajah] to further raise the price of his country by another half a lakh.
In his elaborate and comprehensive fitting reply,
the governor wrote,
" It would be an impossible task now to pursuade the Government of India to enhance the privy purse, any further ,for such documents,as Your Highness will doubtless appreciate, have a finality of their own.I would therefore,earnestly, advise Your Highness not to press this matter."
Shut up - no more price hike of your country after the sell-out Mr.: the maxim of a completed deal.1939 gave the wake-up call,yet it did not work.
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next- continued 18 Dec.08
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