The birth and growth of the Ratani PKI guerrillas was inseparable from the secret help of the British.

When the first encirclement and suppression failed, it was the British who secretly provided the guerrillas with the composition, disposition, and movement of the encirclement and suppression personnel.

In the fiasco of the second encirclement and suppression, the British were also secretly communicating with the guerrillas.

The most important reason why the British cooperated so much with the guerrillas was that the Supreme Leader of the PKI guerrilla force, Ratani, was a spy specially prepared by the Fifth Division of the British Intelligence Service to infiltrate the PKI.

The first six PKI operatives who escaped from prison, in addition to Ratani, had another who was also a British spy. And the remaining four, who were not, also died in battle due to various "accidents" in later battles according to "need".

The British spy Ratani led this Ratani guerrilla force under the banner of the Communist Party of India to rebel in West Bengal using the agrarian revolutionary policy used by New China, and its purpose was precisely to help the government do some "dirty work" that was inconvenient for them to do at the request of No. 10 Downing Street.

Ratani's real name, Hari, was one of India's lowest pariahs. However, before he became a spy, he was registered with the British as an "honorary Brittanian" and an Anglican "holy warrior".

While the Ratani guerrillas were rapidly expanding their territory in northern West Bengal, the coastal cities of the state, which were still under British control, were a different story.

Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located in the Ganges Delta region of eastern India, on the east bank of the Hooghly River (a tributary of the Ganges), it is the third largest metropolitan area in India (after Mumbai and New Delhi) and is the largest city in India.

Before 1944, 99% of the citizens here did not celebrate Christmas, but this year is different from previous years.

A few days before Christmas. Many parts of Kolkata City have been lit up in advance, and countless people are busy preparing for Christmas Eve.

The biggest thing that these people who are preparing for Christmas have in common is that they all wear white robes and have a large, eye-catching cross on their chests.

These people. Basically, they are Protestants who have just joined the Anglican Church this year, and in addition to their status as Protestants, their other identity is that they are untouchables.

These untouchables, who have been in various places in Calcutta, have been clothed in the robes of Christ, and they are no longer forced to have a humiliating whistle in their mouths, nor do they have to tie a palm leaf to the ground that can be dragged to the ground, as they used to be. Although they now work around the city with their backs straight, when the "Brahmin lords" of the high castes pass by. They did not feel inferior as before, and took the initiative to avoid the side and give way. And when some of these untouchables habitually wanted to bend down and bow on their knees, they were immediately severely reprimanded by the parishioners around them.

"Don't bow your head! Remember, you are now God's people, and the Divine has made Artoria's Ready Servant Knights, and there is no one to make you bow your knees except God, the Oracle, the Emperor, or the Bishop! ”

Under the supervision of the parishioners, and in the angry and unwilling eyes of the "Brahmin ladies and ladies who "feel humiliated", these untouchables who used to feel that their eyes were polluted even by a glance. One by one, they gradually straightened up in front of the "old man".

Kolkata, the provincial capital of West Bengal, is the "testing ground" for the British's "Honorable Breton Project".

At the request of Artoria. In the past year, the Anglican Church of Great Britain has sent a large number of missionaries into Calcutta, and with the open help of the local colonial government, it has vigorously developed believers in the city and in the nearby rural areas, among the untouchables and the lower class of the Shuda.

Backed by the Lee Enfeld rifle of the British colonial government, they directly told these Indian civilians the truth that "all living beings are equal" in their missionary work, and through practical actions. Encourage them to "cultivate this life without cultivating in the next life" and strive for equality in "this life" for themselves.

The way the Anglican helped these untouchables and the Shudras to "fight for equality" was by putting them in the robes provided by the Anglican Church. They claim that members of the Anglican Church only need to wear this robe. You can enjoy the dignity of "equality for all" without having to show the "shame" of being inferior in front of other high races in the local area.

Of course, this robe that represents "dignity" is not something that can be put on when you join the association. Only with the personal approval of the Divine Envoy Artoria can one be eligible to be awarded the robes.

On June 22, 1944, Artoria performed a "Divine Presence Ceremony" in the port of Calcutta that caused a sensation throughout India, in which Artoria held a willow branch and continuously picked out "holy water" from a silver basin in the hands of the knights and sprinkled it on the believers kneeling on the ground.

Indian believers who were approved by the divine envoy and had the privilege of being sprinkled with holy water were later awarded this robe that symbolized "dignity", which was called "holy robe" by the devotees.

On that day, more than 4,000 Indians were given "holy water" by Artoria, and then nearly 10,000 people received her "favor", and these people were basically local "inferior people".

Christ has sent down divine envoys to walk on earth, and the Indian land, which has been colonized for hundreds of years, neither Shiva nor any other god has shown their "miracles".

Joining the Church gave him the opportunity to gain the favor of the Divine Messenger and to ascend directly from the status of untouchables and inferiors, and in this year, the expansion of the Anglican Church in Calcutta exceeded the missionary effect of the past 100 years.

The bestowal of the "robes" was just beginning, and the state religion of the mission in Calcutta selected the able-bodied from among these believers to form a paramilitary organization called the "Church City Administration". The organization is militarized, and in normal times it is responsible for the city administration of the city of Kolkata.

To paraphrase an easy-to-understand phrase to explain the profession of this "church city administration", they are roughly equivalent to the "city (crab) management" in later China. This "magical" department has great power in the city of Kolkata, and they are responsible for the management of the city's sanitation, public order, road traffic order, vendor operations, and the city's appearance - almost everything, a little bit of everything, the organization is called "correction" for short.

In the past, the people in charge of these affairs throughout India were mostly high-caste people, but in Calcutta their duties were gradually replaced by "discipline".

With the backing of the British. The Church City Administration organized its own armed forces, called the "Church Knights", who claimed to be the "Knights of Servants" of Artoria who had the power to enforce the law, and greatly "replaced" the duties of the police in the local area.

In addition to public security, public health, and business operations, this "church city administration" has even reached into the "education" circle. They established two church schools in Calcutta. Young children are recruited directly from local Dalit and low-caste people.

According to Artoria's vision, the "Church City Authority", which she created, was intended to replace some of the administrative agencies of Calcutta in the future, and in the future, through these agencies, some of the city's high-caste-controlled "law enforcement agencies" would be hollowed out.

The main members of this "ecclesiastical city administration" were basically untouchables and shudras recruited from the lowest ranks of the local area, but their leadership and ideological workers were professionals sent from the British side. With the big tiger skin of the British colonial government. The untouchables who joined the Church City Authority were turned over overnight and had the same status as the local high castes.

Artoria's reforms in West Bengal were much more than that, and while the Ratani guerrillas were expanding their territory in West Bengal and establishing rural bases, the British conscripted troops from among the Dalits and Shudras in Calcutta to form an army with the Dalits and Shudras as the main force, and ideologically, they let Artoria intervene. Brainwash this army with the power of religion.

Materially and spiritually, they established a system of escalation of the status of "honorable Bretanians" and "holy warriors". Provision for untouchables and shudras to join the army. As long as they can complete the required five years of military service and perform well, they can automatically obtain the status of "honorary Brittany" and get rid of their untouchable status. And the most attractive thing is the title of "Holy Warrior", which is specially prepared for soldiers who have performed well in the course of service, and who has received this honorary title. Artoria will personally grant the Holy Warrior Badge, automatically obtain British citizenship, enjoy all the privileges of British citizens in India, and more importantly, automatically exempt her family from untouchable status.

The "pilot reforms" carried out by the British in Calcutta. Driving the local low-race people crazy, the Anglican from England grew exponentially.

"Lord Artoria, here in Calcutta, it's been a year of instability."

The speaker was Sir Mountbatten, the Viceroy of India, whose focus was rightfully the focus of Kolkata's attention as a "pilot" city for the New Deal, and who visited the city before Christmas in 1944 to learn more about the local situation.

Sir Mountbatten spoke on the top floor of a new four-storey Christian church. The four-storey building, with the enthusiastic participation of local fanatics, completed the construction of the main project in less than two months. The rest of the decoration project took only two months, plus the finishing, from digging the foundation to finally putting into use, it took only half a year.

As he said this, Sir Mountbatten was looking with satisfaction at the street outside the church, which was so clean that there was no more to be seen.

Even in the 21st century, India's big cities are filth, and not to mention India in the 40s of the 20th century. But Kolkata is an exception now, and he is more than qualified to win the crown of "India's cleanest" city.

Of course, the so-called "cleanest in India" is only to achieve a two-kilometer radius around the church, there are no loose (crab) feces, there are toilets, and there are special people responsible for managing the sanitation work here. The density of public latrines in several large untouchable settlements in the city is three times higher than in other cities, and there are special sanitary "hygiene guards" to control open excrement.

Urban sanitation is a complex set of public works, and it is not easy for Kolkata to achieve this level in a year. To paraphrase Sir Mountbatten, the sanitation situation in the Dalits of Calcutta is barely at the level of the slums of London, England.

"Change starts with chaos!"

Dressed in a knight's uniform specially designed for her by a British designer, Artoria looked at the street outside with a blank face and calmly replied: "Times have changed!" With the rise of nationalism, the old-style colonialism has been rejected by the world, which is the general trend. If we do nothing, or just follow the old path, the Kingdom of Great Britain will surely lose India. ”

Then she added: "In the past, we had a divide-and-rule attitude towards India. Take advantage of the many religious contradictions here, take advantage of the contradictions between the various princely states here, divide them, just like we did in old Europe, but now, the contradictions have changed. ”

"The Americans want our market, they want to dismember the British Empire, the Soviets want a window to the ocean, and the Chinese want to open a line of communication into the Bay of Bengal that bypasses the Strait of Malacca." The whole world, overnight, became an enemy of the British Empire. In their eyes, the weakened British Empire was like the Qing Kingdom 50 years ago, a piece of fragrant beef. ”

"With the overt and covert support of these external national forces, the various forces within India have reached a consensus on at least one issue: that is, Indian independence! Let India become independent from British control. In this matter, the Soviets, Americans and even the Chinese will support them! India is just the beginning, there is Southeast Asia, there is also the Middle East, they will dismember our colonies one by one. ”

"Brahmins, Kshatriyas, princely lords, these dogs that used to be kept under our hands, they are now stupid and stupid, and they are starting to be dishonest. If we are still using the old ideas to maintain the rule here, then these jewels in the crown of the British Empire will be shattered by the combined action of external and internal forces. ”

"The crux of India's problems, and indeed of all the colonies, lies in the old upper natives, whose appetites are no longer satisfied with continuing to be the dogs of the empire. They want to be the masters of their own affairs, and for this goal, they can even temporarily put aside their contradictions with each other! Do you understand? Sir Mountbatten, they are now willing to put aside their contradictions and reconcile them temporarily, just as the Soviets and Germany gave up hostility and reconciled with each other a few years ago! ”

Artoria turned around, stared into the eyes of the Viceroy of India and said, "Now here, the balance is broken!" (To be continued......)