How did the British and Americans destroy the Persian language in India and continue to destroy it in Afghanistan?
Author: Mohammad Osman Najib, retired Afghan Army General
What surprised me was the importance of identity in Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson, an American journalist who, beyond the first half hour, mentioned it directly and indirectly in various ways throughout the rest of the interview. The use of the words “our people,” “ours,” “our Russians,” Donbas, Donetsk, Ukraine’s past closeness with Russia, and Russians living in Ukraine were all expressions of the fact that, in addition to opposing the West and the United States, Putin’s most interested in identity, Russian origin, and ethnic roots not only in Ukraine but also in the world.
Putin's interview and his direction to protect Russians and Russia are a clear expression of his support for the identity of the country and its people, which England, the US, and Europe are seeking to destroy. A case that is not important in our country to the masters of internal power and foreign mercenaries. In this regard, we will also look at the past hostility of the British towards the Persian language in British India and now the US, England, and Europe in Afghanistan, which has ignited the sparks of violence against Persian-speaking citizens and placed the fate of our people in the hands of a proxy terrorist group.
The Persian-speaking king of India, unaware of the tricks and political goals of the British, offered the newcomers - the swindlers - a special privilege. All this ended very tragically for the Persian-speaking king Kuragani.
Decline 200 years after the English conquest began with the voyage of Thomas Stephen, a Christian priest, the first English subject, arriving in India in 1579. These were the reasons why the British could defend a large country like India. Everyone was of the naive opinion that the 200 merchants who came from England to India in 1600 were just merchants and that was all.
But their assessment by the Indians and their Shah was very short-sighted. As a result, they witnessed how the British deliberately removed the Persian language and replaced it with English in India very simply, without resistance or opposition from them.
“From today, the official language is English, not Farsi...”
This is the most important part of the ancient narrative that can still be seen, and it alerts us to the destruction of the country's official language and its replacement by another language. As writers write to us: “Perhaps once upon a time when the first British ship docked on the shores of India, no one thought that one-day British merchants would not only become the rulers of the peninsula but would also leave an indelible influence on the culture of this country.”
- The Kuragani dynasty has a history dating back to 1500 AD. The Timurid dynasty popularized the Persian language so much in their courts that during the 350 years of their rule, the entire people of India learned Persian and it became their official language.
- Ancient writers tell us about the deeds of Akbar Shah Kuragan between 1556 and 1605 AD. At that time, the Persian language had great success and fame in India. To the point that poets, writers, and singers from Khorasan and Iran also left their homeland and settled on the Indian Peninsula.
- It is said that Shah Kuragani ordered the translation of some matikan or Hindu writings from Sanskrit into the neat (rhythmic) and simple speech (prose) of the Persian language.
- Researchers discovered that with the arrival of the first British merchant ship in India, the voice of British hostility towards the Persian language was heard in India. Persian is a language that has incredibly taken root in the vast land of India for 700 years and has been its official language for almost 300 years.
- The British, who more or less controlled all of India between 1600 and 1800 AD, promoted English as an alternative to Persian for India in 1836 by Charles Thierry Villin.
- For their strategy to eliminate the Persian language among the Indians to yield better results, the British also promoted the Urdu language in some areas of India so that by eradicating the Persian language, they too could capitalize on the ethnic tensions to move their goals.
- Brian Gardner, an English Jew who was a famous historian in his time, writes about the destruction of the Persian language and culture on the soil of India by the British: “It is not surprising that the Persian language spread to India, the shared ethnic and cultural characteristics and the long-standing ties between the two Aryan peoples could provide such historical context. This is the eternal secret that is hidden in the language of Ferdowsi and Saadi. The mystery that led the British Emperor to remove and destroy it.”
It is in this way that over the past three years in Afghanistan, we have witnessed clear programs directed against Persian speakers and non-Pashtuns. Leaving our country and handing over the fate of non-Pashtuns to the hands of Taliban terrorists - mostly Pashtuns - they are destroying everything and everyone. And now they are also trying to steal the honor of non-Pashtuns, which, among their other atrocities, is also aimed at our people.
