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Sunday, 26 May 2013 04:12

Hillman's response to Arjun Gurung

Arjun Gurung seems to be responding inadvertently to serious questions which nature is encompassed in the Constitution of India which supremacy is beyond even Parliament which is its creation. Therefore the process of state formation is already enshrined within its features which Articles require to be identified and invoked supplemental to each other. Demand for a state is a constitutional event preserved for select areas in India which constitutionally was identified as Backward Tracts (reference to areas inhabited by autochthones or indigenous people) who were different from the majority inhabitants of India. This was the primary aspect in mind of the fathers of the Constitution while formulating the program for the Backward Tracts during the Cripps Cabinet Mission 1946 whose instructions were implemented in the formation of the Constituent Assembly of India to draft the Constitution for independent India for imparting judicious governance. Within the fold of 395 numbered Articles (presently total 466) constitute all aspects of legality to be applied while seeking rights of each citizens as well as implied duties.

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Sunday, 26 May 2013 04:12

Strange world and strange development, not to mention stranger situation.  First of all my heart-felt gratitude to Mr. Hillman for his insight on migration of different cast and creed into the Gorkha community.  And my apology regarding the late response, as it is very slow network in the internet, while searching for the year 1949 (TPA) between India Nepal and British, Google could not helped me but it kept referring to the 1947 agreement.  And your silence on Khukuri being symbol of Gorkha as well as Nepali/Gorkha’s architectural background is welcome.

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Sunday, 26 May 2013 04:12

Response to Arjun Gurung’s various comments on the Hillman’s observations on S.S.Tamang’s article.

In the very inception it maybe pointed out, in the earliest of times, particularly in reference to the prehistory of India it is a well known fact that Indian history is mostly derived mostly from foreign sources  like the Greeks (Megasthenes, Arrian), Chinese (Faxian (Fahien), Xuanzang (Hiuen Tsang), Yijing, (Cheng Ho), Arab (Ibn batur) etc. This is not to discard Indian sources, Buddhist reformers like Nagarjuna, Asvagosha, Vasumitra, Chanakya, etc and many more attempting to set a pattern of governance under the broad appellation ‘dharma’, which at that time meant a way of life. This program is nowadays subject wise predicated under various topical considerations based on statistical factors, logical explanations, supported by analytical historical and scientific derivations. In short every subject matter requires to be concluded by a doctoral process of dissertation - without which the end would be inconclusive. 

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Sunday, 26 May 2013 04:12

Reviewing the review of Hillman’s comments on S.S.Tamang’s article in Darjeeling Times.com.dated  25th and 26th July 2011.

    Mr. Hillman you may be a learned man and an analyst as you call your self (an analyst has to be so), but I have never met or heard of any man who refers to his won race as primitives and unsophisticated and not intellectual.  I have been going through Mr. S.S. Tamang’s articles under the heading ‘DARJEELING : SCALING THE RUGGED CLIFFS OF HISTORY”  starting from 18th March 2011, and several articles he has written and continues to write.  To sum it up Mr.S.S.Tamang is only trying to prove that the Gorkhas are the original indigenous inhabitants of this Darjeeling District, including Tarai and later on the Dooars.  The Bengal govt. is tirelessly trying to prove that the Gurkhas are immigrants from Nepal.  While going through Mr. S.S.Tamang’s articles, which are backed by authenticated documents, I gather he is only trying to educate the people, especially the young generation who have only known the facts on hearsay, that Darjeeling district including Siliguri, Tarai belong to Gorkhas.  As well as giving befitting reply to the several articles written by so called intellectuals like  Prof. Depak Basu, Professor of International Ecomomics, of Nagasaki University, Japan in The Statesman dated 23rd Feb 2010 ‘Behind the demand of Gorkhaland’, where he has made baseless charges that we Gurkhas are immigrants from Nepal.

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Sunday, 26 May 2013 04:12

Notwithstanding the relevant provisions enshrined in the Indian Constitution for creation of new state; the political leadership cutting across the party lines in Bengal has ruled out, more often than not, the possibility of further division of West Bengal, implying that a separate state of Gorkhaland would not be carved out of the boundaries of the state.

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Sunday, 26 May 2013 04:12

The possibility of new Nepalese-majority States doesn’t concern West Bengal alone. It concerns India from Assam to Uttarakhand.

Bounded by Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and China, Gorkhaland will be India’s second Nepalese-majority State. If migration across the 500-mile open border — which the 1950 India-Nepal Treaty permits and even encourages — continues, it may not be the last. The prospect explains Rajiv Gandhi’s refusal in 1986 to countenance citizenship for post-1950 immigrants.