Chapter 5 Everyday Fighting in India

After the first social beating of these college students who had just left school and entered society, Alan Wilson continued, "Since our British entry into South Asia, the princely states of Hyderabad have always appeared as allies of our British, helping us defeat the Maratha Empire back when Hyderabad was still called Nisam. In all three Maratha Wars, Hyderabad sent troops to help the expeditionary force achieve decisive victories, as did the four Mysore Wars. Even the great Indian uprising of 1857, after which our relations with Hyderabad have been harmonious until now. ”

After the Indian uprising, British India was no longer aiming at encroachment and annexation, it can be said that the Indian princes at that time and the Indian uprising achieved their goals to some extent, of course, the biggest beneficiary was the princely state of Hyderabad, which had always appeared as a British ally, after the strong local forces in Maratha and Mysore than Hyderabad were eliminated, Hyderabad became the most powerful one left of the Indian princes.

Prior to that, the operation of the East India Company was to make trouble with these princely states, confiscating each other's land under the pretext that the other party had no heirs, or finding some other excuse to annex the land of these princely states and manage them directly.

This method is very similar to the Ming and Qing dynasties, all of which were trying to bring the land of these princely states under the management of the East India Company, and after the great Indian uprising, the land reform and return to the river was stopped, forming the pattern of more than 500 princely states in South Asia.

Before leaving, Alan Wilson, who had just entered the British civil service and was still a rookie, conducted a profound ideological education in front of his assistants who were even rookies than himself.

If, in normal times, the Hyderabad commissioners were almost indistinguishable from the allotments, and could be easily ignored in the presence of the Hyderabad monarchs, and London would not be dissatisfied with the disregard of a commissioner, the most powerful princely state in British India today, but now it is different, at least Alan Wilson thinks differently.

It is true that the British are superior to British India, but the boundaries of class and nationality are not completely inviolable.

It was 1945 now, and Alan Wilson had no trick up his sleeve to help the British Raj continue to exist. It's not that I didn't think about it that way at all, but it was all when I was dreaming.

At this sensitive time, Britain's withdrawal from South Asia is the trend of the times, and he believes that there is still a lot he can do, both in terms of personal interests and in a larger way. As for the small sacrifices that may be involved in this process, it will require the patience of the great Indian people.

Even his cheap father, because of a little change in history, has become the one who directly faced the operation of the Bangladesh famine, and at this level of the situation of Indians, Alan Wilson no matter how hard he tried.

With just a few days to go to Hyderabad to take office, Alan Wilson, as the new commissioner of Hyderabad, did not show respect to the huge people of British India, as he said, but turned around and planned a route.

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

Sir Barron was stunned by Alan Wilson's question, why this young man was not in a hurry to go to Hyderabad to take office, but asked such a question that had no beginning and no end.

"The vicinity of the Central and United Provinces is the most densely populated place in South Asia." Sir Barron replied puzzled, "Alan, what are you asking about this, Hyderabad is in South India. ”

"Sir Barron, I'm just counting what route is appropriate." Alan Wilson chuckled and replied, in fact, this is just a selfish motive on his part, that is, he wants to see the real landscape of the Ganges, whether it is as inconspicuous as the afterlife, whether there are any various pollutants in it, and corpses.

This is also for the sake of the British Empire, although in the process of independence of British India, he did not know the public opinion in Britain, but according to common sense, Britain, which is still the world's three giants on the surface, must have a public opinion backlash against allowing India to become independent.

If this kind of public opinion backlash is eliminated, Allen has a trick that is not very popular, and he remembers the famous floating corpses of the Ganges River in later generations, and that set of photos is not only famous in China, but widely circulated in countries around the world.

From the perspective of cultural attack, a set of photographs of floating corpses in the Ganges River has trampled the dignity of almost the entire Indian people, and together with the importance of the Ganges River in Hinduism, it has almost brought a huge negative impact on the country of India.

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 public opinion in Britain more acceptable and win this public opinion war.

As long as it is shown that it is not that Britain is not strong, but that the Indian mud cannot support the wall, and Britain really cannot continue to waste time in that dung pit, it will give the British people a psychological comfort, and it is not difficult to accept India's independence from a moral level.

It's a pity that until Alan Wilson set off, he still didn't find the scene he wanted in the upper reaches of the Ganges, but fortunately, there were still two years to go, and Alan was not particularly anxious.

Alan Wilson, who left New Delhi and boarded the train, officially started his career as a civil servant, and before he arrived in Hyderabad, he had already memorized the information of the local monarch, Mir Osman Ali Khan.

Ali Khan was small and shriveled in size, he didn't look like a rich man no matter how he looked at it, and he was also known for his "thrift". He has only worn a fez hat in his life, and he usually wears tattered baggy trousers.

Every time he eats, he licks the plate clean. His bedroom could not be called a bedroom, with wastebaskets everywhere and a straw mat in the middle. However, such a person who is so stingy with himself is a veritable richest man in the world.

There are some people who are rich enough to rival the country, but they don't show much love for wealth. Alan Wilson is not connotating anyone, he can like other things if he doesn't love money, from Ali Khan's later experience, he knows that this monarch of Hyderabad actually understands that all wealth is based on power, and tries to keep Hyderabad in an independent position.

However, in the end, he was defeated by Nehru, the leader of the Congress party, and the attempt for independence was eventually crushed, and in the final analysis, Mir Osman Ali Khan was a pacifist who would have ended much better if his princely states had been swapped with Kashmir.

Before arriving in Hyderabad, before leaving North India, Alan Wilson and his party had to stay at a railway station for a day, and after making inquiries, they learned that it was the local pacifists and Hindus who were fighting.