India is not just a country but a living soul. Whose heart beats in its 130 crore people. This country is breathed by its 130 crore population and feels everything. There is hardly any other country in this world whose people call their land & country mother. india is a diversified country where people from different religions, regions, languages, cultures & society lives together. Today we are going to celebrate Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav , which means today we are going to complete 75 years of our independence. Today we all can live life in India with complete freedom. Wherever we can go, we can wear anything, specially we can express our thought. Moreover, today we can also question the wrong decision of Government without any fear and can also express our protest. Today in India the government is formed constitutionally. Means today the government is made by the people & for the people. But it was not always like this, before this independence, India has suffered about 1000 years of slavery. For this Freedom many people do many sacrifices. So let’s know in this blog today how was India’s journey from 1000 years of slavery to 75 years of independence.
India which was called the Sone ki Chidiya has always been the center of power. This is not very old, but only 200-250 years old from today when India used to be the richest country in the whole world. There was so much gold and minerals in India that even after countless invasions, India was the richest of all countries. About 1000 years ago, in 1025 Somnath temple was demolished and looted by Mahmud Ghaznavi. It is said that Ghaznavi got immense gold, silver and other loot from the Somnath temple, which took him several days to take away. Not only this, the Somnath temple was looted a total of 17 times. And every time invaders got immense wealth, gold, silver and other loot from there. Just imagine how vast and how prosperous India must have been when so much money was received from a temple? The prosperity of India brought many invaders of the world towards India. Some of these invaders only returned after returning, but many invaders remained in India who made India their slave. Delhi Sultanates were the first among them like – Mamluk, Khilji, Tuglaq, Saiyad, Lodi Etc. After them Mughals came. Like – Babur, Akbar , Humayun, Aurangzeb, Later Mughals Etc. Delhi Sultanates and Mughals shook the roots of India. They tried to destroy the culture, society and religion of India. But because of some of our revolutionary kings and warriors like Maharana Pratap Chhatrapati, Shivaji Maharaj, Rana Sanga, Raja Krishnadev Rai and others. They not be completely successful in their purpose. But they shook the roots of the society and culture of India.
After the death of Aurangzeb at the beginning of 1700 , the Mughal Empire began to weaken & now There was only one superpower left in the country which was the Maratha Empire. The reins of the entire country fell into the hands of the Maratha Empire and Swaraj was established.Now it seemed as if the days of slavery were over, but this celebration did not last long. In 1857, after the third battle of Panipat, India became slave country again of British Empire. Whoever ruled India before the British. Thye used to live in India only. That did not affect the prosperity of India much. But The Britishers came to India only to do business. Their motive was only to loot India only. They had nothing to do with the society, culture and people of India. They only wanted profit. The British ruled us for a total of 200 years. That in these 200 years. India which used to be a golden bird has lost its luster. The British took raw materials from India to Britain at cheap prices and from there make goods and bring them to the market of India and sell them at an expensive price.They used the people of India for their profit. They forced the people of India to do wages and also used to collect taxes from them. The British completely shook the economy of India. After slavery of the British for almost 200 years and Due to the revolution carried out by many of our revolutionary warriors like – Bhagat Singh, Chandrasekhar Azad, Mahatma Gandhi, Veer Savarkar, Subhash Chandra Bose, Khudiram Bose, Pt. Ramprasad Bismil, etc., we became completely independent on 15 August 1947. India became independent on 15 August 1947, but with it came a great sorrow. It was sad that India was divided into three parts. Out of which two parts became Pakistan, out of which one part later became Bangladesh.
Today we are going to complete 75 years of independence. But we have to recognize the importance of this freedom. We have to know how many people have lost their lives for this freedom. How many people have lost their families, how many people have wandered from door to door for this freedom. We have not got this freedom in just 1 day, but this freedom struggle was going on for the last 1000 years which was completed 75 years ago from today. We were not slaves only for 200 years. We became slaves on the same day. The day we were attacked by the first external attack. That was the first outside king who started ruling over us. The freedom struggle had started on the same day. It reached its peak 75 years ago from today when We got complete liberty. Now it is our duty to protect and respect our flag, our constitution in this country and contribute in making India prosperous. We have to take this country forward by learning from history. We have to give that identity to India again. We have to make India as a golden bird (Sone ki chidiya) again.
So let’s celebrate this 75th independence of India with a promises that after 25 years from today, when we are celebrating the 100th year of independence, that time India will be a Golden Bird (Sone ki Chidiya) again.
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- Vishal Thakur
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Vishal Thakur 