Who was Brigadier General John Nicholson? And what should we do about his monument on GT Road? - Prism

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col-12 px-0 "> <div class="media__item "><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190518093215im_/https://i.dawn.com/primary/2019/05/5cde8c4d9f25c.jpg" alt=""/></div> </figure> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div> </div> </div>   <div class="template__main clearfix modifier--open px-1 modifier--narrow modifier--images-punchout modifier--pullup modifier--dropcap modifier--pullup-half ">   <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1482872" class="story__title size-eleven text-center "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190518093215/https://www.dawn.com/news/1482872/who-was-brigadier-general-john-nicholson-and-what-should-we-do-about-his-monument-on-gt-road" class="story__link">Who was Brigadier General John Nicholson? And what should we do about his monument on GT Road? </a></h2>  <div class="story__excerpt size-six text-center p-4 mb-4">It is important to preserve monuments, but also to contest the narrative built around them. </div> <div class="text-center my-4 py-2 "><span class="story__byline size-four text-center text-grey "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190518093215/https://www.dawn.com/authors/5427/osman-ehtisham-anwar">Osman Ehtisham Anwar</a></span><span class="divider divider--gray divider--hyphen"></span><span class="story__time size-four text-grey "><span class="timestamp--label">Updated</span> <span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T19:58:47+05:00"><span class="timestamp__calendar">May 17, 2019</span> <span class="timestamp__time">07:58pm</span></span></span> </div>  <div class="story__content size-six "><p>My heart would sink at the sight of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190518093215/https://www.dawn.com/news/1144829">Nicholson's Obelisk,</a> towering high atop Margalla Pass near Taxila on the left flank of the Grand Trunk Road as I travelled from Rawalpindi towards Peshawar. </p> <p>It indicated that my boarding school, Cadet College Hasan Abdal, was only 30 minutes away and I would have to part with my parents, who would accompany me and my brother on the drive back to our college after vacations. </p> <p>I remember asking my father once if he knew what that monument was. He had remarked that it was named after a British brigadier general. My father, being an alumnus of the same college, had frequented that road many times.</p> <figure class="media four-fifths palm--one-whole media--center media--uneven media--stretch"> <div class="media__item "><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190518093215im_/https://i.dawn.com/primary/2019/05/5cde8c4d8991f.jpg" alt="Nicholson's Obelisk.—Wikimedia Commons/Ibnazhar"/></div> <figcaption class="media__caption ">Nicholson's Obelisk.—Wikimedia Commons/Ibnazhar</figcaption> </figure> <p> </p> <figure class="media four-fifths palm--one-whole media--center media--uneven media--stretch"> <div class="media__item "><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190518093215im_/https://i.dawn.com/primary/2019/05/5cde91c49c1f4.jpg" alt="Wikimedia Commons/Usman Ghani"/></div> <figcaption class="media__caption ">Wikimedia Commons/Usman Ghani</figcaption> </figure> <p> </p> <p>I knew very little at the time who Brigadier General John Nicholson was, but assumed he must have been a very distinguished and remarkable man to have a towering structure in his remembrance. </p> <p>It wasn’t until recently that I read about the moveable column (a tactical military formation) that he led during the uprising of 1857, the atrocities he committed and his extremely prejudiced, racist hatred towards the people of the Indian subcontinent and Afghans that I realised how important it is for us to recognise this British-era relic as an embodiment of our colonial subjugation. </p> <p>William Dalrymple in his book <em>The Last Mughal</em> recounts that by the time the uprising started against the British in Meerut in 1857, Nicholson had already developed a very strong hatred for the people here:</p> <blockquote> <p>"Nicholson loathed India with a passion (‘I dislike India and its inhabitants more every day’) and regarded only the Afghans as worse (‘the most vicious and bloodthirsty race in existence’). These views he had already formed before he was captured during the disaster of the 1842 Afghan War. By the time he was released, only to discover his younger brothers dead body, with his genitalia cut off and stuffed in his mouth, his feeling about Afghans — and indeed Indians and Muslims of any nationality — were confirmed: he felt, he said, merely ‘an intense feeling of hatred. Only his wish to spread the Christian Empire of the British in this heathen wilderness kept him in the East".</p> </blockquote> <p>Dalrymple goes on to add that when Sir John Lawrence, the Chief Commissioner of the Punjab at the time, gave Nicholson a mixed-race Anglo-Indian subordinate, Nicholson felt insulted and humiliated:</p> <blockquote> <p>"Nicholson’s response was to threaten to murder Lawrence, or, as he put it, ‘commit justifiable homicide… Individuals have their rights as well as nations’".</p> </blockquote> <p>Perhaps the brigadier general did attract some unsuspecting admirers amongst the population during his time and was called “Nikul Seyn”, possibly as a mark of respect. </p> <p>But Charles Griffiths, writing in 1910, suggests in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190518093215/https://archive.org/details/narrativeofsiege00grifiala/page/118">his account</a> of the Siege of Delhi that the word <em>‘Seyn’</em> (<em>saeen</em>) in Nicholson's case implied more than that:</p> <blockquote> <p>"Many stories are told of his prowess and skill, and he ingratiated himself so strongly amongst a certain race that he received his apotheosis at their hands, and years afterwards was, and perhaps to this day is, worshipped by these rude mountaineers under the title of “Nikul Seyn”."</p> </blockquote> <p>However, others contest this. The young Lieutenant Edward Ommaney who accompanied Bahadur Shah Zafar to exile in Rangoon was “one of the few who remained immune to the hero worship of this great imperial psychopath”, according to Dalrymple, and was shocked by Nicholson’s absurd viciousness directed not only towards the ‘mutineers’ (from his perspective) but also towards the unfortunate cook boys. Dalrymple recounts in his book: </p> <blockquote> <p>"'He shows himself off to be a great brute,’ Ommaney wrote in his diary on 21 July. ‘For instance he thrashed a cook boy, for getting in his way in the line of the march (he has a regular man, very muscular, to perform this duty). The boy complained, he was brought up again, and died from the effects of the 2nd thrashing’".</p> </blockquote> <p>In another incident, he hung all the regimental cooks. As the officers in the mess waited for their dinner, Nicholson walked into the mess tent and announced: </p> <blockquote> <p>"‘I’m sorry gentlemen to have kept you waiting for your dinner, but I have been hanging your cooks’. According to Nicholson he had discovered through his spies that the regimental cooks had just laced the officers’ soup with aconite. He first invited the cooks to taste the soup, then, when they refused, force-fed the hot liquid to an unfortunate monkey. It writhed for a few seconds, then expired. Within minutes, as one of the officers present put it, ‘our regimental cooks were ornamenting a neighbouring tree’".</p> </blockquote> <p>The history of the subcontinent has other, more infamous generals who were of course celebrated by the British as saviours of the Raj. </p> <p>With the recent centenary of the massacre at Amritsar, everyone in India is already familiar with General Reginald Dyer, who on April 13, 1919 led and ordered his soldiers to open fire on some 20,000 people — including women and children — <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190518093215/https://www.dawn.com/news/1475843">who had gathered</a> at the Jallianwala Bagh, mostly to celebrate the Sikh festival of Baisakhi. </p> <figure class="media four-fifths palm--one-whole media--center media--uneven media--stretch"> <div class="media__item "><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190518093215im_/https://i.dawn.com/primary/2019/05/5cde8c4dc980b.jpg" alt="Monument at Nicholson's Obelisk.—Wikimedia Commons/Omarjhawarian"/></div> <figcaption class="media__caption ">Monument at Nicholson's Obelisk.—Wikimedia Commons/Omarjhawarian</figcaption> </figure> <p> </p> <figure class="media four-fifths palm--one-whole media--center media--uneven media--stretch"> <div class="media__item "><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190518093215im_/https://i.dawn.com/primary/2019/05/5cde90682e1bd.jpg" alt="The monument's verandah.—Wikimedia Commons/Omarjhawarian"/></div> <figcaption class="media__caption ">The monument's verandah.—Wikimedia Commons/Omarjhawarian</figcaption> </figure> <p> </p> <p>In 2015/16, there was an unsuccessful <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190518093215/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jan/28/cecil-rhodes-statue-will-not-be-removed--oxford-university">campaign in Oxford</a> to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes; the protesting students did not want his imperialist legacy to be celebrated. The Rhodes Scholarship is administered through his will.</p> <p>Although I support the preservation of Nicholson’s Obelisk as a part of our history, what I contest is the narrative that is built around it. </p> <p>For example, a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190518093215/https://www.dawn.com/news/1289010">news report</a> from 2016 about the first ever archeological survey conducted in the federal capital concludes with a remark about Nicholson:</p> <blockquote> <p>“His life and career became a source of inspiration for a generation of British youth seeking adventure in emerging colonies, especially the Indian subcontinent”.</p> </blockquote> <p>A lot more needs to be added as to who he was and how prejudiced and despicable his views and actions were. The British wanted to pay homage to Nicholson's imperial achievements. To us, it should serve as a reckoning of our past. It is imperative for us to know the man for who he was as opposed to what the colonial empire wanted to remember him as.</p> <p>Today, the road leading up to my alma mater brings back fonder memories; my heart still sinks at the sight of this obelisk though, but for different reasons now. Globally in academia, there is a strong student-led movement to decolonise curriculums. It is all the more important for us in Pakistan to do the same.</p> <p>When students at a premiere boarding school aren’t taught anything about a monument that is in such close proximity to their campus, it points to a systemic issue. We ought to engage more openly and critically with our history, so that we know our past better than I did when I was in school.</p> <p><em>Header photo: Path leading up to Nicholson's Obelisk off the old GT Road.—Wikimedia Commons/Ibnazhar</em></p> <hr/> <p><strong><em>Are you revisiting Pakistan's colonial history? 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Thank You Ehtisham</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="zane, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082414">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082414">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7082421" data-id="2"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Usman Nasir</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T18:28:51+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T18:28:51+05:00">May 17, 2019 06:28pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>My grandfather used to tell me stories about all those moments. My ancestors migrated from current India as well , when I read the "The Last Mughal" I realized whats the true meaning is of Pakistan</p> <p>Keep it up !! We really need people like you to take us back in history and give us lesson about mistakes our ancestors did.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Usman Nasir, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082421">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082421">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7082467" data-id="3"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Gautham</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T18:45:12+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T18:45:12+05:00">May 17, 2019 06:45pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Great article! Thanks for the research and the accompanying pictures. We owe a lot to William Dalrymple for a series of books on the lost history of sub-continent. It's one thing to read history books and totally different experience when you see and feel the places. Your personal connection to that place, your curiosity to get to the bottom of it, which probably intrigued you from your childhood has helped me to feel the place and the story. so, thank you, again!</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Gautham, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082467">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082467">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7082472" data-id="4"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Pradeep Shetty</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T18:46:50+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T18:46:50+05:00">May 17, 2019 06:46pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Very informative article. In some ways this story in some ways reminds me of how Indians feel about crimes and brutality of Arangzeb and his views about Hindus in general. This is our history anyway. But what do we do now about it? Can we erase the history ?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Pradeep Shetty, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082472">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082472">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7082475" data-id="5"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Daanish</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T18:47:22+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T18:47:22+05:00">May 17, 2019 06:47pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>excellent article. May our citizens become a civilized nation.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Daanish, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082475">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082475">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7082595" data-id="6"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Akhtar Naveed Syed</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T19:22:32+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T19:22:32+05:00">May 17, 2019 07:22pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Great informative article. There is a need to know Pakistan's real history - not what is taught in schools. There is intense scope for attracting tourists from UK with regard to buildings and monuments erected during the British Raj.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Akhtar Naveed Syed, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082595">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082595">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7082598" data-id="7"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Akhan</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T19:23:31+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T19:23:31+05:00">May 17, 2019 07:23pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Living in wah since since birth watching this monument every now and then..one of the elder of wah village was generals loyal servant and while the general was dying he orderd to give his servant as much as possible..all that i know that from this monument till wah village in hasana abdal he gave all land to his servant</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Akhan, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082598">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082598">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7082666" data-id="8"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">wasim</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T19:41:19+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T19:41:19+05:00">May 17, 2019 07:41pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Agree .. his true character be in-scripted on a plaque and displayed at the monument for the visitors to read.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="wasim, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082666">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082666">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7082712" data-id="9"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">M.Y Najam MD</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T19:54:28+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T19:54:28+05:00">May 17, 2019 07:54pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>An eye-opener. There appears to be a resurgence Sayeen,s thought process, unfortunately.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="M.Y Najam MD, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082712">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082712">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7082826" data-id="10"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">LL</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T20:35:07+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T20:35:07+05:00">May 17, 2019 08:35pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>He was brutal to the local Hazara tribes especially Thairkhelis. I'm surprised we still have cities and roads named after James Abbot, General Nicholson, and Henry Lawrence.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="LL, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082826">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082826">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7082839" data-id="11"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Imran</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T20:40:46+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T20:40:46+05:00">May 17, 2019 08:40pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Great write-up baby</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Imran, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082839">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082839">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7082947" data-id="12"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Facts Matter</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T21:12:38+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T21:12:38+05:00">May 17, 2019 09:12pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Thanks for the wonderful article.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Facts Matter, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082947">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082947">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7082949" data-id="13"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Jamal Soomro, Karachi</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T21:12:44+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T21:12:44+05:00">May 17, 2019 09:12pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Nicely written and very well depicted a forgotten part of history. The monument is very well kept and is in good condition. Keep it up DAWN! You made my day!</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Jamal Soomro, Karachi, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082949">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082949">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7082984" data-id="14"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Omar Khan</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T21:27:21+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T21:27:21+05:00">May 17, 2019 09:27pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Thanks for a beautiful article voicing nearly the feelings I had. Omar 18 J/I</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Omar Khan, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082984">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082984">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7082995" data-id="15"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">AW</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T21:31:53+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T21:31:53+05:00">May 17, 2019 09:31pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Thanks for sharing this chapter of history. I have seen this monument since childhood and have always wondered about Gen. John Nicholson’s contributions to the area. It is not only this small chapter but chapters of huge significance were never taught in schools and remain hidden as of to date. A Pakistan made distorted history was taught in schools and is still being taught. A nation which is not connected with true historical facts, lives in a bubble and unable to move forward. While we keep and protect this monument of Gen. Nicholson, we demolished the statue of Sir Ganga Ram in Lahore just because he was a Hindu, thus ignoring his highly valuable contributions to punjab and his outstanding public services</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="AW, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082995">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7082995">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083161" data-id="16"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Amit</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T23:01:50+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T23:01:50+05:00">May 17, 2019 11:01pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>The million dollar question is..Is it a pre independence or post independence monument??</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Amit, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083161">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083161">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083257" data-id="17"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Zak</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-17T23:43:47+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-17T23:43:47+05:00">May 17, 2019 11:43pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Good article. But the genocide has not stopped. What Modi did to the muslims in Gujarat in 2002 and the hate he is displaying now, is no different to Nicholsons or Dyer.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Zak, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083257">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083257">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083306" data-id="18"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Bakhtiar Ishtiaq</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T00:04:13+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T00:04:13+05:00">May 18, 2019 12:04am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Very nicely done. I agree with you that we as a nation should interact critically with our past and preserve it rather than revise it. I can identify with the gloomy when the monument would come in view on my way back to the cadet college.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Bakhtiar Ishtiaq, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083306">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083306">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083320" data-id="19"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Khurrum Taimuri</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T00:08:55+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T00:08:55+05:00">May 18, 2019 12:08am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@Pradeep Shetty, Aurangzeb had Rajput generals in his army & he gave money to build temples. If he was intolerant towards the Hindus then he had 50 years to eradicate them. Indeed, all Muslim rulers were tolerant otherwise they would not have lasted so long. This animosity towards them stems from British rule with the aim of separating the muslims from the Hindus and this has suited the Brahmins to exploit. Hence, RSS and hardline Hindus which led to Jinnah demanding a separate homeland for Muslims.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Khurrum Taimuri, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083320">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083320">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083336" data-id="20"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Garland</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T00:17:23+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T00:17:23+05:00">May 18, 2019 12:17am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@Pardeep Shetty , Aurangzeb was against hindu religion? what a joke India has been teaching their generations , did you know half of the Mughals were inter married with hindus and used to have hindu festivals arranged throughout their kingdom with dignity and respect?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Garland, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083336">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083336">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083362" data-id="21"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Shafiq</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T00:30:14+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T00:30:14+05:00">May 18, 2019 12:30am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Excellent article can not agree more</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Shafiq, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083362">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083362">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083458" data-id="22"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">AMITAVA TRIPATHI</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T01:33:49+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T01:33:49+05:00">May 18, 2019 01:33am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>I find several of such historical articles published in the DAWN impeccably researched and extremely well -written. The photographs usually accompanying such articles are also a delight to behold. I compliment the paper and its editorial staff for publishing such writings which illuminate our rich, shared history.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="AMITAVA TRIPATHI, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083458">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083458">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083479" data-id="23"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Shakeel</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T01:48:21+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T01:48:21+05:00">May 18, 2019 01:48am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Excellent article ! very informative and perceptive .</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Shakeel, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083479">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083479">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083526" data-id="24"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Ahsan Gul</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T02:33:48+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T02:33:48+05:00">May 18, 2019 02:33am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>These are the monuments that we should have included in our educational books so that our young should know about the good, bad and ugly ones of the British raj. Usually Indian and in Pakistan our young and old like to emulate these British era men.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Ahsan Gul, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083526">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083526">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083584" data-id="25"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Saeed</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T03:22:51+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T03:22:51+05:00">May 18, 2019 03:22am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Thanks for the great research</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Saeed, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083584">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083584">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083616" data-id="26"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Shahryar Shirazi</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T03:50:56+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T03:50:56+05:00">May 18, 2019 03:50am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@Amit, “The million dollar question is..Is it a pre independence or post independence monument?”</p> <p>It was built by the British prior to their departure</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Shahryar Shirazi, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083616">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083616">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083671" data-id="27"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Zaheer</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T04:31:42+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T04:31:42+05:00">May 18, 2019 04:31am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Thank you for highlighting this concern. I too have read The Last Emperor, Darylample's ( one honest Britisher) book, and find Nicholson acts abhorring as well. The least our countrymen could do is to place a historical correction at this site and educate our children and masses about the atrocities of this man. Also, Lahore's Nicholson Road is still named after him, should be renamed, with a historical marker. Maybe the victims if identified , should seek reparations from the British, as the holocaust survivors rightful do. Last discussion with friends fell on deaf ears, stating the multitude of serious pressing issues our county faces, this being the least. How can we live with this monument and Nicholson Road staring in our face.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Zaheer, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083671">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083671">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083676" data-id="28"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Ali Jan</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T04:34:47+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T04:34:47+05:00">May 18, 2019 04:34am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Nicholson had 40 mutineers (Freedom fighters) blown from canons and hanged in Peshawar (largest mass execution in 1857 anywhere in India) before rushing to Delhi and successfully breaking the seige and was mortally wounded in the process dying two days later. It was this absolute determination by few stalwarts in early days of British rule that helped to consolidate their empire. There are lessons to be learned from history and it has to be preserved - good or bad. If English were colonisers, so were the Sikhs, and in turn so were the Mughals (Turk mongols) before them</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Ali Jan, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083676">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083676">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083790" data-id="29"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Daskalos</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T06:11:44+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T06:11:44+05:00">May 18, 2019 06:11am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Mr Anwar's article is an interesting one but does not entirely take into account several historical facts. First of all, though John Nicholson was often considered harsh and cruel by some , he was generally admired as a fair and just administrator by most people in the Punjab and on the NW Frontier at a time when chaos and lawlessness were common and he had to take strict steps to establish the official writ. He was so popularly admired that a whole 'Nikalsayni ' cult developed around him. Secondly, the Nicholson Memorial/Obelisk has nothing to do with Nicholson's cruelty or harsh measures in 1857. It commemorates the defeat of the event more brutal Sikhs during the Anglo-Sikh War of 1849 when Nicholson , joined by the majority of Muslims from Taxila, Wah, Fatehjang, Hasan Abdal and environs, defeated a Sikh garrison who held the Margalla Pass at this same location. This freedom of Muslims from 'Sikha Shahi ' was seen as a great victory.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Daskalos, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083790">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083790">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083802" data-id="30"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Daskalos</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T06:19:38+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T06:19:38+05:00">May 18, 2019 06:19am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@LL, at no time in history were either John Nicholson or James Abbott cruel or harsh to the Tahirkheli or other such Hazarawal tribes. Look up your history factually and objectively. The Hazara region stood up 90% to support these British officers against the cruelty and total brutality of the earlier Sikh rule. They gave law and order, peace and prosperity to the whole of Hazara and Northern Punjab and what is now NWFP/KPK. Many Tahirkheli and Mashwani people found jobs in the British army and civil service from 1840s onwards. Don't let post-colonial ideas color your honest judgment. While colonialism is not in itself a good thing, we must admit that British colonialism did a lot for the peaceful development of the whole of South Asia, for whatever purpose.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Daskalos, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083802">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7083802">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7083804" data-id="31"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Daskalos</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T06:20:12+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T06:20:12+05:00">May 18, 2019 06:20am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@zane, on the contrary a very one sided and subjective view of history.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Daskalos, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three 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class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-05-18T07:56:29+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-05-18T07:56:29+05:00">May 18, 2019 07:56am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@Pradeep Shetty, </p> <p>You can take solace in the fact that that Modi has avenged all of Aurangzeb's transgressions.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Ali kazmi, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" 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timeago" title="2019-05-18T09:22:24+05:00">May 18, 2019 09:22am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>I am not surprised that this monument s being saved by all previous and present Pakistani Governments whilst all the traces of Buddhist,Hindu and Jain civilizations has been or are being perused as scorch earth policy</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Arzal, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7084169">Recommend</span> <span 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Aurangzeb has been much maligned. However not all that is written about him or Tipu Sultan in our history books is accurate.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Mann, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7084671">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1482872/up-7084671">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div><div class="media--punchout"><div class="theme--lightpink border-t border-l-0 border-r-0 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