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THE LAST MUSLIM; YES THE FIRST MUSLIM – ISLAM CAN NEVER DIE

THE LAST MUSLIM; YES THE FIRST MUSLIM
ISLAM CAN NEVER DIE

THE QURANIC LAW OF MUKAFAT (As a mere story)

Caymann Islands
Caymann Islands

It was the grandest feast in the history of mankind. The whole Caymann Islands were lit. Delegations had arrived from all over the globe. It was a celebration par excellence. The most sumptuous food was being cooked. Naked girls walked around in the hall letting delegates do their liking. Pole dancers entertained the crowd. Acrobats worked wonders. Bacchus would have envied the get together of the BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN, the modern Freemasons of t.he world. The cabal of all cabals had invited all the other cabals to the fun fair party. The event the physical execution of the LAST MUSLIM in the world.

Beheading the ultimate for some
Beheading the ultimate for some

Million of millions of Muslims all over the world were by now exterminated. The leader of the Brotherhood would behead the last Muslim with the most ancient diabolic sword available. A tray had been placed under the neck of the last Muslim. The choicest cabal members would as vampires drink his blood. Glasses of champagne with the choicest crystals from Czechoslovakia were there for the vampire show. The leader and all others relished the moment for extermination of Islam. It was befitting that the last Muslim should be allowed to say his final words and he was allowed to say them.

Beheading taboo
Beheading taboo

“YOU CAN NOT FINISH ISLAM”. The last Muslim shouted through his blood filled eyes. Our Quran is still everywhere in your museum collections. You have not been able to finish it. Your greed prevents you from destroying expensive antiques of great value. Our civilization is preserved in your museums and antique places. There is not an iota of doubt in my mind. Allah will prevail! Allah o Akbar!

UK Pounds 300,000 Champagne bottles
UK Pounds 300,000 Champagne bottles

Shemihaza the leader of the Brotherhood of Satan smiled and said “Repent that you can live. Embrace our cabal!” The last Muslim kept on shouting Islam cannot be finished, Allah will prevail! The house shouted like the ring of the gladiators, “Cut the head of the bastard!” Thumbs down.

Romp of Baachus
Romp of Baachus

The Ancient sword flashed. The head was cut. Blood started dripping in the tray. People were shouting with glee. All ready to sip the blood of the last Muslim. But something had happened. Shemihaza saw the poignant luster in the eyes of the dying man. Utter relaxation. Utter strength of faith.The spirituality of his eternal belief that Islam cannot die. A miracle happened. The same twinkle burst into the eyes of Shemihaza.The Last Muslim was dead, but another Muslim had been born at the same moment. Shemihaza knew he was Abu-Jehad now and it was his job to dismantle the Brother hood of Satan forever or die trying. Islam outlived that moment! Truly it could never die.

Finishing the Muslim Nations will never work. Your own people will be converted to the Way of Allah, for that is the way of the Truth!

Satan
Satan

DRAMA AND THEATER – FIRST CREATIVE IMPULSE OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI

DRAMA AND THEATER
FIRST CREATIVE IMPULSE OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI

Theatre in Lahore 1910-1918

Agha Hashar
Agha Hashar

The drama ability of Agha Hashar had rocked the creative scene in India. Agha Hashar was staging his plays in great cities of India and making large amounts of money. His dramas were proverbial on the lips of Hindustan. The Agha Hashar Company was dominating Calcutta. Master Hussain Baksh son of an architect mimar of Lahore joined the Agha Hashar Company as Stage artist of the background scenes. His paintings were Master strokes and it was reputed that he used to earn Rs 5000 per month, a phenomenal amount for those times. The theater craze was with the boys of Lahore.

Din Muhammed Katib and M.R.
Din Muhammed Katib and M.R.

M.A. Rahman Chughtai was fascinated with dramas. One day the Head Master of the Railway Technical School, Mr Chatterjee, bigoted Hindu of that time, thrashed him, and the young Chughtai rebelled against the injustice. With few friends from the Mohalla Chabuk Sawaran, they ran away to Karachi, to enlist in a drama company for writing dramas. A relative was sent by Mian Kareem Baksh Mimar the father to bring him back. When Chughtai came back, his father died in 1913. The three younger brothers were isolated by the eldest one the step brother Muhammed Hussain, and opened a fire wood shop (TAL in local terms) inside Yakki Gate Lahore. The two brothers Abdullah and Abdur Raheem used to sell the firewood while Chughtai on a charpai at the back of the shop, used to write dramas. The news of the dramas reached Punjab Bible Society in Lahore, and Chughtai volunteered an URDU version of the play THE BEHEADING OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST known as QATAL YOUHANA. It was staged at a theater in Bhatti Gate, Lahore. It is reputed that soon after the play stated, the audience rebelled and started breaking the chairs in total disgust. In any case the Bible Society published the drama in book form.

Hussain Baksh Musawar Agha Hashar Theatre
Hussain Baksh Musawar Agha Hashar Theatre

We visited the house of famous dramatist Mrs Najmuddin on Sanda road and requested a copy. She told us that she had given her copy to Hijab Imtiaz Ali Taj. The esteemed lady had put it in her garage and was not able to locate it. A drama lost for the present time. This episode in the life of M.A. Rahman Chughtai is hardly known and is worthy of being recorded. Later Chughtai started photography and finally painting and there the legend grew into a phenomena all its own.

One thing is certain here. The drama book calligraphed by Din Muhammed Katib has a child like illustration on it related to SILVER KING of Agha Hashar. It has a sign in the corner saying ‘M R’. The illustration is related to a series of dramas published in Lahore around 1908-1915, and this is the SCHOOL period of M.A. Rahman Chughtai. There is every reason to believe that this illustration is also by M.A. Rahman Chughtai as a school child, and that matter is a matter of record too. THE FIRST DUST-COVER ON RECORD OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI.

INAM SHAH THE POSSIBLE FIRST CONVERT OF LAHORE – THOMAS VELPY FRENCH DEDICATION TO CHRISTIANITY

INAM SHAH THE POSSIBLE FIRST CONVERT OF LAHORE
THOMAS VELPY FRENCH DEDICATION TO CHRISTIANITY

Most of T.V. French’s students died in his tenure

Thomas Velpy French and Conversion of Lahore
Thomas Velpy French and Conversion of Lahore

When Thomas Velpy French arrived at Lahore, there was no one to receive him. He carried his own baggage to an Inn in Lahore. He brought grandoise plans for a Divinity College in Lahore. His other plans was that the locals hated the English language, and one must tell them not to confuse the English language with Christianity. He made the difficult decision to translate the Sacred texts in Urdu and Urdu would be the language of teaching in Lahore. People resented his ideas but he stuck with them to the last. Not only that he even forbade the Western dress for them. He suggested that after conversion, people wearing western dress and speaking in English are immediately isolated from their loved ones, relatives and friends, as well as the society. The idea indeed was good. So good that the American mission took it up too. Reverend Forman got involved in translating biblical texts and it is on record that he made many Urdu translations., In fact a Professor of F.C. College has recently done research on this same subject and offered number of Urdu books on Bible done by Reverend Forman, of course founder of F.C. College Lahore.

T.V. French First Bishop of Lahore
T.V. French First Bishop of Lahore
Jesus Christ with thorn crown
Jesus Christ with thorn crown

The Divinity College started with four students and later on there was an addition of seven of them. But the unfortunate part was that Sickness prevailed and a lot of them died within the short span of T.V. French being Bishop in Lahore. Yes, four of them died very early; one of consumption, one drowned in Jhelum river, another of consumption too, and the other of fever, with which he went into coma. A sad end for the newly converts to happen like this.

Divinty College
Divinty College

Inam Shah, probably of Lahore, became possibly the First Convert in Lahore. Termed and dubbed as a most bigoted Muhammedan (the word bigoted is used by French himself to denote Inam Shah’s family background, for he belonged to a very religious family here), he was ordained by Bishop Milman of Calcutta, and probably sent to Peshawar. Not necessary to know how it happened, but it is said that he was taken back by the biblical words of ‘OUR FATHER’. Inam Shah had rebelled against his own religious father. It impressed him so much that he converted to Christianity. We do not know much more than that.

Padri Broadhead 1872 Urdu Roman
Padri Broadhead 1872 Urdu Roman

We do know that T.V. French himself fell sick and went home. He was replaced by Dr W. Hooper, who was a scholar of Sanskirit and interested only in converting Hindus from then on. It seems that there was a superstition evolved in Lahore that converting Muslims led to deaths. This is not our saying. This is a strange confession from the annals of biblical history of Lahore. They were good people, tying o reach out to others to promote their cause. This they never realized that you cannot let a student appear for Matriculation, when he has already taken his PHD on the subject. The evolution of religion in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim traditions had culminated in the last prophet of Allah.

NOT THE WAY TO DIE AS MUSLIMS – NOT THE WAY TO KILL AS MUSLIMS

NOT THE WAY TO DIE AS MUSLIMS
NOT THE WAY TO KILL AS MUSLIMS

Not passive but endless struggle

Faceless Evil
Faceless Evil

How Muslims live and die? The valour in the battlefield is ever legendary. A million examples can be sought but one of the most valiant is that of the MAHDIYA a history of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1881-1899. Caliph Mahdi had declared a Muslim renaissance against the British, and great wars were fought by Caliph Mahdi, Usman Sheikh al-Din, Ali wad Hilu, and Usman Diqna. The British Generals were General Gordon, Sir Evelyn Baring, General Kitchner, and others. All the final battles took place at Omdurman in Khartoum.

A Passive way to die not Islamic
A Passive way to die not Islamic

It was a battle for history books. The Muslim Army was surrounded and there was no hope. They could have easily surrendered and saved their lives. But that was not be so. Out of arms and ammunition, they preferred death in battle. A British officer acknowledges this himself, when he says:

“Our men were perfect, but the Dervishes were superb beyond prefection. It was their largest, best, and bravest army that ever fought against us for Mahdism, and it died worthily of the huge empire that Mahdism won and kept for so long. Their riflemen, mangled by every kind of death and torment that man can devise, clung round their black flag and the green, emptying their poor, rotten, home-made cartridges dauntlessly. Their spearmen charged death at every minute hopelessly. Their horsemen led attack riding into the bullets till nothing was left.”

General Gordon of Sudan
General Gordon of Sudan

Nobody ran away from the battlefield. All the men faced death in the face, struggling till their last breath. Bravery was personified that day. History made forever.

The same was repeated elsewhere. The Caliph himself was cornered:

“For the last time could be heard the rolling of the Khalifa’s war drums and the booming of his great horns; for the last time, as the light gradually filled the sky, could be seen large bodies of jibba-clad Mahdists, advancing under their fluttering banners; and for the last time, disciplined fire smashed their gallant but hopeless attack.”

And when the bodies were found, it was seen that the Khalifa with his choicest men had sat down to prayer, as death had struck them all in ordered ranks. No thought of saving their lives, but ended their life gracefully and with dignity. And the British ruthless in their cruelty, even did the most unpleasant thing possible. Orders were given to demolish the tomb of the Mahdi by blowing it up with explosives, and the bones of the Mahdi thrown in the river Nile. The concession the skull was allowed to be buried in the Muslim cemetery at Wadi Halfa.

So when we see a body of men standing submissively in front of barbarians, knowing that they are going to be killed; we feel it is not Islamic to die like this. When you know death is coming, it was better to proclaim ‘Allah-o-Akbar’ and attack the barbarians, whatever may have been the result. Dying like sheep or dying like lions was in their grasp. Death would have come any way, but they may have taken an enemy or two with them. And that really mattered in the battle for Islam. Hearing ‘Allah-o-Akbar from the barbarians was an insult to Islamic valour.

SEX PARTY OVER EMPEROR JAHANGEER’S REMAINS (1828) – COMMANDER M. AMISE AND RANJIT SINGH

SEX PARTY OVER EMPEROR JAHANGEER’S REMAINS (1828)
COMMANDER M. AMISE AND RANJIT SINGH

Sex room Colonel Amis
Sex room Colonel Amis

Looters and plunderers have no qualms. In fact doing the odd taboo thing is an aphrodisiac for them. The British converted the Taj Mahal into a honeymoon hotel and for some time, it also became a suicide point for its jilted lovers. The mausoleum of Rabia Durrani wife of Emperor Aurangzeb, in Aurangabad was also used for ball room dancing. And in Lahore, the mausoleum of Muhammed Salih Kanbo, Court historian of Shah Jahan as a Church as well as mausoleum of Nadira Begum, wife of Emperor Jahangeer as the Main Church too (and making a concubine Anarkali out of her). Examples too numerous to list. The Sikh rule was not characterized differently. The plunder of Lahore is well on record.

Mausoleum in 1846
Mausoleum in 1846

European Adventurers at the Court of Ranjit Singh were having their own kind of fun, far away from their homes. Deeds of many are on record. Some did good things, some bad things. Commander M. Amise, French for some, and from Spain for others, was also working for Ranjit Singh. Ranjit Singh was not bothered about his past record, as others had reported of flaws in his character. The Gujranawalla dacoit sanctioned Jahangeer’s Mausoleum for his troops and the Badshahi mosque for his living place. But he never stayed at the mosque and preferred the Jahangeer’s mausoleum. He had the debris removed, the garden straightened etc and started living his life in the room of the sarcophagus itself. In fact it is said that there was an opening on the roof which Lehna Singh (or Sobha Singh) had covered with wooden planks after removing the marble balustrade etc. In any case Commander M. Amise was very proud of cleaning up his living quarter.

Nautch girls
Nautch girls

People of Lahore take their sacred places very seriously. Mirza Akram Baig was the descendant of the Emperor and Empress Nur Jahan and he used to hold the ‘PAR DA MELA’ festival there every year. Commander M. Amise went one step further. He not only lived in that room of the grave, he started using it for sexual parties. It is said that the sarcophagus was actually used as a bed for sexual intercourse with nautch girls of Lahore.

How much is true or not, one does not know? Everybody knew that he died on the grave of Jahangeer itself. This one knows that he died a mysterious death. Cholera was only an illusion. Some say it was the wrath of Allah. Others attribute it to the ghost of Nur Jahan herself. It was also rumoured that the shade of Jahangeer had been seen and the Emperor predicted the death of the European rascal. But rational people say that he was probably murdered by a gardener at the instance of the Mutavallis or khadims of the mausoleum. In any case he was actually buried somewhere outside in haste. Ranjit Singh had the building closed and the walls sealed after his death. Captain Wade tells us that the news of the death of Amise reached him on 18th October, 1828, and he worked for Ranjit Singh for two years.Sir Edward Maclagan had not only been shown the grave of Amise, but also shown the desecration of it many times. It was reported by Maclagan that something very bad Amise had done to incur the wrath of the people of Lahore. There used to be a grave in the compound attributed to some BABA SAEN we used to see as kids when we visited the place. Perhaps the grave was of Commander M. Amise himself. No interest is taken by the Archaeological department to solve the riddle of the ages. Here a SEX PARTY led to actual death of the inhabitant.

P.S. Some people spell and pronounce Amise as Ohms.

Nautch girls of those times
Nautch girls of those times

MARTIAL LAW IN LAHORE AND PUNJAB – YES BRITISH MARTIAL LAW OF 1919

MARTIAL LAW IN LAHORE AND PUNJAB
YES BRITISH MARTIAL LAW OF 1919

For all those who feel British ruled excellently

Our own Martial Law version
Our own Martial Law version

First the definition “Rowlatt Acts, (February 1919), legislation passed by the Imperial Legislative Council, the legislature of British India. The acts allowed certain political cases to be tried without juries and permitted internment of suspects without trial. Their object was to replace the repressive provisions of the wartime Defence of India Act (1915) by a permanent law. They were based on the report of Justice S.A.T. Rowlatt’s committee of 1918”.

English bombing of Mandir
English bombing of Mandir

Emergency required emergency measures. British liked to over do things. The Rowlatt Act started a rebellion. Much to the regret of Punjab, the Rowlatt Act was passed and immediately agitation started in the Punjab. The agitation was not violent, when the British decided to deal with it in a total ruthless manner. The famous Sir Michael O’Dwyer was responsible for the Jallianbagh tragedy, where thousands were gunned down without any mercy. The locals had to respond too. For instance in Amritsar five Europeans were murdered and one lady assaulted in an indecent way. Railway Stations, even Churchs were burned in the agitation. The British took it as open rebellion and decided to punish Punjab forever. The over reaction was obvious.

Can you believe that in the declaration of Martial law on 15th April, 1919, all hell broke loose! More than ten thousand persons were rounded about and Martial law courts sentenced people to death and life imprisonment. Properties of various people were confiscated at will. The Commanding Officer in Lahore was Lt Colonel Frank Johnson. Some prominent people in Lahore like Dr Dura Chand and Lal Harkishen Lal were taken to task. Death was announced for many of them. A Muslim Dr Saifuddin Kichlew of Amritsar was sentenced to life imprisonment. There is a record of a long list of persons hanged to death or imprisoned for life. And most of these people were highly educated and professionals of their field.

Bar at Law sentenced for life
Bar at Law sentenced for life

Can you believe that in this Martial Law the British resorted to bombing certain areas by aero planes. YES BOMBING THE LOCAL POPULATION. The gimmick guy who are quick to attack our Pak Army fail to even read about the atrocities commit’ed by the British in Punjab as well as in Lahore.

Rowlatt Act and the Jallianbagh tragedy finally resulted in the obvious. The start of the demise of the British rule in the region. When the public is not with you, result of force is obvious. Here in Pakistan we are all cheering the Pak Army in getting rid of the Khawarajs of Pakistan. Well done Pak Army! We cheer you all the time. Our Martial laws are the most democratic and people friendly in history.

DESTABILIZING SOCIETY – THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE OF PAKISTAN

DESTABILIZING SOCIETY
THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE OF PAKISTAN

Losing direction in labyrinth of games

Preparing for Economic Collapse
Preparing for Economic Collapse

It is on from a long time now. Engendering a SYSTEM which will elect the worst of your society. As they are the worst, they are also the totally corrupt. They have not even learnt the art of gentle talk. They rather bray like donkeys. A proverb says that when a Crow started walking like a Swan, he forgot his own walk in the process.

Engineering downfalls
Engineering downfalls

National assets are the amanat of the Nation. Ruthless exploitation of same has made billionaires of paupers, and the country not on on the brink, on actual economic ruin. Then there is the great game of Tax hunt amongst the poor of the society. Victimize them till their economic end. Break whole bazaars, shops, places of business for elusive development projects. Acquire their lands at paisas, and then instigate a case against them, that they do not own what they have possessed for say a hundred years. Does anyone have a registration deed for the Badshahi Mosque Lahore? Where can you get one? Ask a patawari, he will manufacature anything you say? He does not realize that he is going to die one day and will face more than the wrath of the bureaucracy here. Or even the politicians. Shame has reached the point where shamelessness has become a virtue, to snicker in the night. To boast in the night to the wife, of the casualties of ones misdeeds, and accept a healthy orgasm from her. It has got into the blood really, and only by blood letting, it can get out.

Usual scenes of present world
Usual scenes of present world

Marie Antoinette was actually innocent about her remarks. She actually did not know the difference between bread and cake. Here everybody knows, and the concerned do not care. The only reason the malignancy is being prolonged is due to LACK OF UNITY. The day the nation unites, it can break the back of these people and throw them in the sea if they like. And if they do not, then Halaku Khan is overdue. And Baghdad will be no more. And the most beautiful part in history is that Halaku who finished the Islamic Empire of Caliphate, his own children embraced Islam. Hardly an example where the victor accepts the life style of the vanquished.

PAKISTAN TIMES ANNUAL 1948 15TH AUGUST – QUAID’S FOREWORD AND CHUGHTAI ART

PAKISTAN TIMES ANNUAL 1948 15TH AUGUST
QUAID’S FOREWORD AND CHUGHTAI ART

Pakistan Times 1948 Cover Chughtai Art
Pakistan Times 1948 Cover Chughtai Art

A painting of the ‘Calligrapher’ on the cover and an earlier version of the etching Mujahid inside, the Pakistan Times annual of 15th August, 1948 was well represented with the Art of Abdur Rahman Chughtai. The very same day Pakistan Postal Stamp Office released the first Pakistani Postal Stamp with a design made by M.A. Rahman Chughtai. It was an international prize winner.

Pakistan Times Annual 15th August 1948
Pakistan Times Annual 15th August 1948

Quaid-e-Azam’s familiarity with Abdur Rahman Chughtai gets established with incidents here and there. The first was the attempt at flag designing for which the artist sent many designs of Pakistani flags to Delhi for inspection of the Quaid-e-Azam. Liaquat Ali Khan was conducting the selection. The many designs for the FIRST POSTAL STAMPS were selected by the Quaid-e- Azam himself, but as there were no finances to print all of them at that moment, one was actually selected for printing. It was judged as one of the four most beautiful stamps of the wold by International Postal Union Berne. Interesting the Union had a Chughtai painting hanging in their headquarters at Berne.

First Cover 1948
First Cover 1948

This Pakistan Times Annual was printed in the life time of the Quaid and he was sent a copy on priority basis. He also wrote a foreword to it. We reproduce the cover of the Annual as well as the Foreword of the Quaid here. A rare image anywhere. The new country was reacting to the presence by declaration of Chughtai as Musawwar e Mashriq and the National Artist of Pakistan. To this day he stands alone as an icon in the hall mark of Pakistani paintings.

First postal stamp 1948
First postal stamp 1948

WESTERN HEARTS ACHING TO PROVE QURAN FAKE

WESTERN HEARTS ACHING TO PROVE QURAN FAKE
THE SANA’A MOSQUE YEMEN FRAGMENTS 646 AD, 661 AD, or 671 AD

Allah’s promise that this text will remain intact

Sanai Quranic fragments 1st century
Sanai Quranic fragments 1st century

In 1972 renovation of the Great Mosque at Sana’a in Yemen, uncovered some Quranic manuscripts. Carbon dating revealed them to be of either 646 AD, 661 AD and definitely 671 AD. The Government of Germany appointed Gerd Puin on the restoration project, which was later picked up by his wife Elizabeth Puin. Elizabeth Puin made the startling remark teeming with bigotry:

Blood of Hazrat Usman on Quran
Blood of Hazrat Usman on Quran

“So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Qur’an is Allah’s unaltered word. They like to quote the textual work that shows that the Bible has a history and did not fall straight out of the sky, but until now the Qur’an has been out of this discussion. The only way to break through this wall is to prove that the Qur’an has a history too. The Sana’a fragments will help us accomplish this.”

The upper text is standard Quran, the lower erased text is slightly different at places. The restorer have enhanced the lower erased text to spotlight that might be the correct version of same. What a shame of analysis? Let us talk of our own life as students. We were instructed to copy texts from books and often made mistakes as students. Our teachers asked us to correct same and we used an ERASER RUBBER to erase and write anew. Meaning very simply that copied is wrong and it was erased. Or that we did not have access to the right writing. The best rejection of this is that the Upper writing is the standard text, the erased writing is not. What does it say? Simply wrong copying of not all of it, just a few notes here and there. Corrected there and then. What has the history of the Quran to do with with it?

Quran of Hazrat Usman
Quran of Hazrat Usman

A student writing an alphabet something jumbles words, make mistakes of sequences, and so on. The corrected version is over written. Are we to refer the corrected version or the ones written by mistake for some reasons. Such bigotry only the Western mind can conceive, after being humiliated about the text of their Bibles and their Torahs all the time.

In last 1400 years scholarship of the world has tried their best to prove the faults in the writing of the Quran. The story is simple. Allah has promised that this time the sacred text will remain intact till the day of the Eternity itself. For that reason Allah compiled the Quran in such a way that it could be easily learnt by heart. That is why we have Hafiz ul Qurans who learnt it by rote for its preservation. Hazrat Umar had sensed all this and made 500 Qaris Hafiz ul Qurans and sent them to separate corners of the world, and that has let the Quran remain intact to this day and forever. A slap on the face of bigotry of this so called false scholarship of the world.

HINDU BRITISH RIOT IN LAHORE – HENRY LAWRENCE IN ACTION 1846

HINDU BRITISH RIOT IN LAHORE
HENRY LAWRENCE IN ACTION 1846

Brahman Dutt hanged to death

Lahore and cows ever there
Lahore and cows ever there

It would be like other days as on 21st April, 1846 at about 11 am. Nothing unusual was expected. A camel caravan from Ferozepur, with ammunition, was outside one of the Gates of Lahore. There were some cows blocking their way. A British sentry tried to move the cows away, but they were not budging from their stance. Instead of the butt of his gun, he used the bayonet side, and injured three cows in the process. A riot started in Lahore in 1846.

Sacred cow
Sacred cow

 

Sir Henry Lawrence was the British Government Agent at Lahore. Henry Lawrence was taken by surprise. He wanted to control the situation, realizing that a little mishandling could go wrong in a long way. He found out about the three owners and visited the house of each of the Hindus, to offer regrets for the injury sustained by the cows and promised punishment to the European sentry involved in the incident.

Imperial soldier
Imperial soldier

As Henry Lawrence along with his colleagues (Major McGregor and Lt Edwardes) were there at the house of one of the owners, brick bating started at them from Hindu houses. A crowd had followed them to their journey to the houses, and a riot and scuffle had started with their group, with the Brahmans and the Khatrees. Shops were closed in the streets. The three Brahmans involved were picked up by the police and the fear was that they would commit suicide, as they threatened same. So immediate flogging was not possible. All three were taken out of the city. In the run their leader Dutt Brahman was executed for causing head injury to Lt Edwardes, colleague of Henry Lawrence.

British soldiers
British soldiers

Sir Henry Lawrence recognized the religious fanaticism which was taking place, and the British did what the did best, over react to a situation, to prevent re-occurrence of same in any further incident. In the past few ‘kind words’ would appease the people but the circumstances were different now. The plan to annex Lahore was on the anvil. Sir Lawrence noted the zealous divide between Hindus and Mohammedans, and knew that Sikhs very strongly supported the Hindus. So the balance had to be created. And this incident led to other incident of the cow riots of Lahore, where the Hindus went on a rampage and murdered some butchers of the city. That we have already told before this.

Rare image of Lawrence and Edwardes
Rare image of Lawrence and Edwardes