SHOCKING !!! Were Bhagat Singh And Chandra Shekhar Azad Terrorists? A British Historian Seems To Think So.

On 16th Feb 2014 in a lecture given by one historian David Hardiman in Surat left the audience shocked and somewhat furious as he called India’s freedom fighters Bhagat Singh and Chandra Shekhar Azad “terrorists”. Hardiman, a professor of History at the University of Warwick, was visiting the city to deliver a lecture on ‘Non-Violent Resistance in India during 1915-1947’.

During the lecture, Hardiman was quoted saying, “Every nonviolent movement has a violent group aiming to achieve the same ends, but with violence. This group often indulges in terror acts like bombings, shootings and assassinations. The movement is benefited because the authorities feel it is better to deal with nonviolent people than the dangerous terrorists”.  Further, he added “Terrorist groups, who predate Mahatma Gandhi, were always there alongside the Gandhian movement. Some of these famous figures were Bhagat Singh and Chandra Shekhar Azad Azad, who were involved in organizations like Hindustan Republican Association and Hindustan Socialist Republican Army.”

 

Relating freedom fighters Bhagat Singh and Chandra Shekhar Azad to terrorists created a furore amongst the audience and one Mr. Unmesh Pandya, member of the executive council of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University retorted by saying, “The term terrorist should not be used for freedom fighters. They can be called extremist, but not terrorist”.
One doesn’t have to be a genius to see difference between a freedom-fighter and a terrorist. A freedom fighter is a person who fights for his motherland, and will do anything to protect her. A terrorist, on the other hand is a person who invades a foreign land and in the process hurts, and even kills, hundreds and thousands of innocent.
Was David Hardiman right in referring to India’s freedom fighters as terrorists? Or was this downright rude and uncalled for?
The United Kingdom – that ruled India during the time Bhagat Singh and Chandra Shekhar Azad were hanged because of their movements – is known to be a country that stresses on etiquettes and manners. Was the professor within his lines and limits to call India’s two significant freedom fighters terrorists?

This is disgusting high headed behaviour, it should be protested

Courtesy: http://www.youthconnectmag.com/2014/02/16/bhagat-singh-chandra-shekhar-azad-terrorists/