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Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@Nochem" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Nochem</span></a></span> </p><p>&gt;&gt; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OttomanEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OttomanEmpire</span></a> was expansive, with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arabs</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> as subjects. The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caliph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caliph</span></a> had influence as far as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BritishIndia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishIndia</span></a>.</p><p>Today, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a> informed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oman</span></a> about records pertaining to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Turkish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Turkish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OttomanEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OttomanEmpire</span></a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalArchives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalArchives</span></a> of India <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NAI</span></a> and handed over a list of 70 documents which cover a period from 1793-1953.</p><p>Subjects incl. treaties between <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BritishIndia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishIndia</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sultan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sultan</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Muscat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Muscat</span></a>, and between India, Muscat and Oman.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@escarpment" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>escarpment</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://noc.social/@lukevanin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lukevanin</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.thestatesman.com/world/india-oman-to-cooperate-in-the-field-of-archives-1503272543.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thestatesman.com/world/india-o</span><span class="invisible">man-to-cooperate-in-the-field-of-archives-1503272543.html</span></a></p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@Nochem" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Nochem</span></a></span> </p><p>&gt;&gt; Strangely, my Moldovian ancestors lived under the Ottoman "yoke" too, until the early 19th Century.</p><p>Yes, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OttomanEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OttomanEmpire</span></a> was expansive, with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arabs</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> as subjects. The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caliph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caliph</span></a> had influence as far as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BritishIndia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishIndia</span></a> in the east.</p><p>Had <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Turkey</span></a> accepted <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/British" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>British</span></a> offer to keep <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> in exchange for exiting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WWI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WWI</span></a> early, Palestinians would remain under <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TurkishYoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurkishYoke</span></a> with NO complaints, as in 400 prior years.</p><p>Their only problem is Jews.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@escarpment" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>escarpment</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://noc.social/@lukevanin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lukevanin</span></a></span></p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OttomanEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OttomanEmpire</span></a> - 1</p><p>When the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Turks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Turks</span></a> conquered <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arabia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arabia</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arabs</span></a> lost their religious <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caliphate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caliphate</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Turkish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Turkish</span></a> Sultans, who merged powers of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sultan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sultan</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caliph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caliph</span></a></p><p>For 400 years before the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WWI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WWI</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinians</span></a> were under despotic Ottoman <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/occupation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>occupation</span></a>, subject to onerous <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TurkishYoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurkishYoke</span></a></p><p>For 4 centuries, occupation was NOT an issue</p><p>End of WWI finally brought independence to Arabs (WWII for Palestinians), but they turned that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>independence</span></a> into <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grievance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grievance</span></a> against <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> presence in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a></p><p>⬇️</p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kitchener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kitchener</span></a>'s misunderstanding of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Islam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Islam</span></a> ➡️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111484767553360519" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1</span><span class="invisible">11484767553360519</span></a><br>— monolithic homogenous bloc controlled by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caliph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caliph</span></a> &amp; <br>— blind spot toward the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shia</span></a>-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunni</span></a> divide<br>were magnified by his failure to understand the constitutional nature of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Islamic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Islamic</span></a> society.</p><p>In choosing Grand Sharif <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hussein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hussein</span></a> as the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arabian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arabian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caliph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caliph</span></a>, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/British" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>British</span></a> intention was only to prop up the "Pope" of Islam, and through that Islamic papacy, control <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/muslim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>muslim</span></a> subjects all over the world.</p><p>⬇️<br> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeaceToEndAllPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeaceToEndAllPeace</span></a></p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>Impetus for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kitchener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kitchener</span></a>'s desire to "capture <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Islam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Islam</span></a>" in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WWI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WWI</span></a> was rooted in his inability to understand that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/societiesAreNotHomogenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>societiesAreNotHomogenous</span></a>. </p><p>There was a time when Britain ruled over half of world's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/muslims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>muslims</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a>, and Kitchener believed Islam as a homogenous, single centralized entity controlled by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caliph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caliph</span></a> — <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mohammad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mohammad</span></a>'s successor.</p><p>This perception probably grew out of the fact that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Turkish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Turkish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sultan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sultan</span></a> had immense sway over muslims far away in India.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeaceToEndAllPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeaceToEndAllPeace</span></a></p>
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