Chapter 5 Daily Fighting in India

After the first social beating of these college students who had just stepped out of the campus and entered the society, Alan Wilson continued, "Since the United Kingdom entered South Asia, the Hyderabad state has always appeared as an ally of our United Kingdom. When Derabad was still called Nissam, it helped us defeat the Maratha Empire. During the three Maratha wars, Hyderabad sent troops to help the expeditionary force achieve a decisive victory, and the same was true for the four Mysore wars .Even after the Great Indian Uprising in 1857, our relationship with Hyderabad has been harmonious until now.”

After the Great Indian Uprising, British India no longer aimed at encroachment and annexation. It can be said that the Indian maharajas at that time joined the Great Indian Uprising to achieve their goals to some extent. In the state of Deerabad, after Maratha and Mysore were more powerful than Hyderabad, Hyderabad became the most powerful remaining Indian prince.

Before that, the operation of the East India Company was to make trouble for these native states, to confiscate the other party's land under the pretext that the other party had no children, or to find some other excuse to annex the land of these native states for direct management.

This method is very similar to the reform of the land in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They are all trying to put the land of these states under the management of the East India Company. It stopped, forming the current pattern of more than 500 states in South Asia.

Before leaving, Alan Wilson, who had just entered the British civil service system and was still a rookie, gave a profound ideological education to his assistants who were even more rookie than himself. In a sense, the Commissioner of Hyderabad was a A consultant, in front of Mir Osman Ali Khan, is not qualified to pretend to be a Celestial Dragon.

If in a normal period, the Hyderabad commissioner is almost the same as the distribution, it can be easily ignored in front of the Hyderabad monarch, and London will not be dissatisfied with a commissioner being ignored, and it is the most powerful British India today How about the native monarchs in China, but it is different now, at least Alan Wilson thinks it is different.

The British are indeed superior in British India, but who should be divided, the boundaries of class and nationality are not completely unbreakable.

It's 1945, and Alan Wilson doesn't have a trick up his sleeve to keep British India alive. It's not that I haven't thought about it at all, but it's all when I'm dreaming.

At this sensitive point in time, Britain's withdrawal from South Asia is the general trend. He believes that there are still many things he can do, whether it is from the perspective of private interests or from a larger scope to play a positive role. As for the small sacrifices that may occur in this process, the great Indian people need to be more tolerant.

Even his own cheap father, because of a little change in history, became the person who directly faced the great famine in Bangladesh. At this level that the situation of Indians is worse, it is nothing for Alan Wilson to work harder.

There are still a few days before going to Hyderabad to take office. As a trusted Commissioner of Hyderabad, Alan Wilson did not respect the huge people of British India as he said, but turned around and planned a plan. route.

"The city along the Ganges is densely populated and has certain industrial facilities?"

Sir Barron was stunned by Alan Wilson's question. Why is this young man not in a hurry to go to Hyderabad to take office, but he asked such an endless question.

"The Central Province and the United Provinces are the most densely populated places in South Asia." Sir Barron replied puzzledly, "Alan, what are you asking about this matter? Hyderabad is in South India."

"Sir Baron, I'm just figuring out what route is right." Alan Wilson replied with a chuckle. In fact, it's just his own selfishness. He just wants to see the real landscape of the Ganges River. Is it as inaccessible as later generations? , whether there are any kinds of pollutants in it,

and corpses.

This is also for the sake of the British Empire. Although during the independence process of British India, he did not know the local public opinion in the United Kingdom, but according to common sense, the United Kingdom, which is still the world's three giants, must have public opinion on letting India become independent. rebounded.

If this kind of public opinion backlash is eliminated, Allen has a trick that is not very popular. He thinks of the famous Ganges floating corpse in later generations. That set of photos is not only famous in China, but also widely circulated in countries all over the world. .

From the perspective of cultural attack, a set of photos of floating corpses on the Ganges almost tramples the dignity of the entire Indian underfoot. Together with the important position of the Ganges in Hinduism, it almost brings a huge negative impact to the country of India. Influence.

Together with the Indian rape that fermented a few years later, and the topic of toilets, the whole of India was nailed to the pillar of shame.

In this way, after British India lost control, Alan Wilson could use the collected information to make British public opinion more acceptable and win the public opinion war.

As long as it is shown that it is not that the British are not strong enough, but that the Indian mud cannot support the wall, and that the British cannot continue to waste time in that cesspit, it will give the British people a psychological comfort, and it is difficult to accept that India is no longer independent from a moral point of view.

It's a pity that until Alan Wilson set off, he still didn't find the scene he wanted in the upper Ganges. Fortunately, there are still two years, and Alan is not particularly anxious.

Alan Wilson, who left New Delhi and took the train, officially started his career as a civil servant. Before arriving in Hyderabad, he had already kept the information of the local monarch Mir Osman Ali Khan in his heart.

Ali Khan is thin and shriveled, and he doesn't look like a rich man no matter how he looks. His "diligence and thrift" is also known far and wide. He had only ever worn a fez hat in his life, and usually worn slacks in tatters.

Every time he eats, he licks the plate clean. His bedroom couldn't even be called a bedroom, full of wastebaskets and a straw mat in the middle. However, such a person who is so stingy with himself is the veritable richest man in the world.

Although some people are as rich as an enemy, they show that they don't love wealth much. Alan Wilson is not connoting anyone. If you don’t love money, you can like other things. From Ali Khan’s later experience, he knows that this Hyderabad monarch actually understands that all wealth is based on power. This made Hyderabad independent.

It’s just that in the end it was no match for Nehru, the leader of the Congress Party, and the independence attempt was finally crushed. In the final analysis, Mir Osman Ali Khan is a peace believer. If his state and Kashmir were swapped, the ending would be much better.

Before arriving in Hyderabad, before leaving North India, Alan Wilson and his party had to stay at a railway station for a day. After inquiring, they found out that it was the local peace believers and Hindus who were fighting with weapons.