I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

“I’ve being chortling – now there’s a good word – at your comment all day. I am truly, a bear of little brain.”

Nonsense Douglas- you are one of the most intelligent individuals I have come across (especially for a Scotchman).

“I’d have added Rumbold to the list, but he’s joined the management!”

While you’re still in da street,keepin it real, innit. Safe.

http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?showtopic=32126&st=0&gopid=299658&#entry299658

I’ve being chortling – now there’s a good word – at your comment all day. I am truly, a bear of little brain

Sunny @ 77, I kinda knew that. Having hung around here for quite a while I actually agree with your policy.

Just for the record, I think commentators like Refresh and Jagdeep are worth their weight in gold to a site like this. I’d have added Rumbold to the list, but he’s joined the management!

Jai and KSingh are both right. Bahadur Shar Zafar II was firstly not killed, he ended up in exile in Rangoon and secondly 3 of his sons were killed by the British.

I’m intrigued though to know which of Bahadur Shah Zafar II’s sons were ‘beheaded by Sikhs’.

Two of his sons, Zinat Mahal and Mirza Shah Abbas survived and shared with their father’s exile in Rangoon.

And 2 other sons, Mirza Abdulla and Mirza Qwarsh were actually allowed to escape captivity by their own Sikh guards who felt sorry for the ill-fated princes.
See:‘The Last Mughal’ (2006), William Dalrymple, p423.

We were just pulling together an advance party (Douglas, Me and on Douglas’ recommendation Jagdeep) to emasculate Morgoth.

But thinking about it, they’ve both managed to do that all by themselves.

My interest in Morgoth lies in the fact that I am not convinced he is all he says he is.

Picture of Hodson with the Princes.

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/1857revolt/hodsoncaptures/hodsoncaptures.html

http://italiandesi.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/one-of-britains-legacies-in-hindustan-using-indian-soldiers-as-guinea-pigs/

Douglas, Refresh: You guys are not censored. The problem is that you always end up replying to Muzumdar (and trolling by Morgoth) when I’ve explicitly said plenty of times that he will be deleted.

It’s not hard to understand – Muzumdar’s post will be deleted (eventually) so don’t reply to them. I’m not going to edit posts here just to take out references to him. Hence I’ve deleted whole posts. Next time please just avoid feeding the troll.

I immediately thought of all the other debts that Britain can’t repay for other privileges that they were all too happy to take

Nicely said Amrita. Not repaying them, though, is all part of the British privelige.

“yes rumbold has good intentions and hasn’t spoilt anything for anyone, no need to be so mean.”

Thanks, I appreciate that.

Douglas:

“You do realise this makes me look like an even bigger idiot than I actually am?”

No it doesn’t Douglas (heh).

Ashutosh:

“But don’t you think it is a little too much to speculate that Britian could have lost WW2 and we would all be speaking German now had it not been for the Indian soldiers? If not for any other reason, for the reason that it’s really without American and Russian help that Britian would probably have lost.”

Thanks for the compliments. I think that Indian troops did play a key role in the sense that the other allied armies would have been heavily overstreached without them. I think if you took America, Russia or India of the war there would have been serious problems. If you had taken France out, few would have noticed (excepting their courageous resistance fighters of course).

In fact that experience has given me an idea: how to change the balance of power in the blogging world.

I see a revolution brewing. In my head.

Heh!

Dougie, I think you’ll find “Big Blogger” is copyrighted from a previous thread.

I am glad you saw it – for a fleeting moment I wasn’t sure I’d written it.

It was really written to tell Mazumadar that I saw him as no more than a theatrical prop. So you could say I was being smug, perhaps that’s why I enjoyed putting it together.

I am not too concerned it was deleted.

I have always thought of you as a considerate and reasonable human being. Now that you are being censored it is quite clear that you are a shape shifting son of evil. See what censorship does?

I agreed with your deleted post. I think. Perhaps not, is this what it’s like to be in Room 101? You think you know what someone said, but, really you’re not too sure?

Fooling around, apart, I do see you as a good guy. But if you are censored, your voice restricted, how am I ever going to get to know the real you?

Sunny, please read 1984 again.

Yes Douglas, you and I can disagree in a civilised manner – I don’t really know any other way.