In the last 500 years, India went through drastic changes in its rulership. These changes have created the lifestyle we live today, but this was not all good as it looks now. History had various dark nights and we are going to talk about some of them.
India was a great source of wealth from the very beginning and many different kings took advantage of the hospitality and plundered the country.
During all this the Mughals and the British were considered to be the dirtiest elements in Indian history. They not only looted the country but also tortured its people and made them inferior.
After the reign of Mughals and Britishers, when India gained independence, the course of human right violation was continued by the upper segment of the society included some of the political parties too.
Let's just get a glance at some of the horrible days of the history of India till date, which has been unknown to many Indians.
At the time of Partition, violence between designated people at different places resulted in the death of two to five million people and countless rape cases in the country.
This period of time was considered a dark dream for those who lived through it. None of the sides can be singly blamed for the cause as both divided societies had a grudge against each other which took a bad shape and plundered the Indian society.
It was May of 1976 and it was a harsh time that included the torture of political dissidents, forced sterilization and the Turkman Gate massacre.
After the independence, many actions were taken to torture the people who were against the ruling party.
The worst incident during this course of period was when Sanjay Gandhi ordered the demolition of slums near Delhi's Turkman Gate area.
People took to the streets in protest against the demolition, on which the police showed the brutal side by killing 150 people.
After this 70,000 people were removed from their residents without concession and heavily censored media were banned from reporting.
The riots that resulted in the assassination of Indira Gandhi and deaths of 2700 Sikhs and made 20000 Sikhs to move out of Dehli.
The incident took place in June 1984, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, to flush out Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his militants.
In October 1984, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguards for the sake of compensating the lives of the innocent Sikhs at the Golden temple.
The slogan of "Blood for Blood" spread throughout the city and Congress leaders started suppressing the Sikhs by initiating mass killings.
Many accounts also claimed that hardened criminals were released from prison to “teach Sikhs a lesson.”
In the year 1980, 31 undertrials were tortured and blinded by the police in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar. It was said that this all was just done by the police for sake of their fun.
In late 1980, the police station of the Bhagalpur district of Bihar was reported to be misusing the given power to them. It was noticed that the police officers were torturing the captives bu pouring acids in their eyes and making them blind.
On 6 December 1992, an allied rally of BJP and VHP went wild and overwhelmed the security. The crowd of 1,50,000 people was humongous, and the result came to be the demolition of Babri masjid.
The riots took place after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in which 2000 people were killed by Kar Sevaks belonging to the religious fundamentalist organisation Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
It all started when LK Advani icked off a Rath Yatra to Ayodhya. This Rath Yatra was followed by 1000 fanatics which resulted in a major riot after reaching there.
This mob of Kar Sevaks stormed the historic mosque and destroyed it. This was followed by riots in various cities, affecting major cities like Mumbai and Delhi.
Various conclusions were made about the killings that took place in the country. Shiv Sena was at the upfront in Bombay riots and unleashed an anti muslim program in the city.
The 1993 Mumbai serial bombings, which were carried out as a reaction to the riots, took the shameful cycle of violence to a new level.
The Muslims responded by killing hundreds of innocent people in the city and making it a nightmare for the entire country.
In February 2002, a communal fight came initiated at the Godhra railway station, which resulted in lighting up the train to fire and killing 58 pilgrims returning from Ayodhya.
This created a state of terror in Gujarat and the city of Ahmedabad was under surveillance by the army for the next 3 months.
The city reported countless rapes and killings. Local newspapers and ministers of the state government used inflammatory speeches and incited violence against the Muslim community.
Apart from hundred of deaths, 233 went missing, 250 girls and women were gang raped and burnt to death.
Children were burnt and innumerable acid attacks were also reported. This also remains a scar on the political career of PM Narendra Modi.
A 23-year-old girl was brutally assaulted and raped by a group of four men in a moving bus in Delhi.
The incident took place on the night of December 2012, when a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern was brutally gang-raped and thrashed by six men, causing fatal injuries to her intestines.
The shameless attitude of society was seen when no one stopped to help the girl lying on the road. She died on 29 December 2012 after several days of regular treatment.
This rape case was considered as the most devious rape case till date and the result of this came out as the death sentence to the stains of the society who did the shameful act.
On September 2013, the High Court found the defendants guilty of rape, murder and destruction of evidence and sentenced them to death.
The criminal law (second part) was also amended after this incident.
The last time Nirbhaya spoke with her father was through signs and gestures. She told her father that "you go to sleep. I will sleep too."
What were the reasons of the violence during partition?
The simple answer would be the theory we knew as "tit for tat". The people of the different community had a grudge on each other, which resulted in the so-called war situation and rape cases throughout the country.
Was the movie Gangajal anyhow related to Bhagalpur blinding incident?
Yes, the story of the film Gangajal is taken from the incident in Bhagalpur district of Bihar, where jail guards and police officers blinded 30 or more prisoners in the late 1980s.
Why was the Babri masjid demolished?
The demolition of Babri Masjid was the result of breaking the sentiments of Hindus.
Who led the demolition of Babri masjid?
A rally was organized by VHP and BJP, in which there was a lot of ruckus and the mosque was demolished.
