Punjabi
is the 9th biggest nation and Punjabi speaking population of the world. Punjabi
nation is the 3rd biggest nation of South Asia . Punjabi Muslims are the 3rd
largest ethnic community in Muslim Ummah. Punjabis are the largest ethnic
population in Pakistan . The great land of five rivers
called as Punjab is the homeland of Punjabi nation. Yet,
socially and politically Punjabi is a depressed and deprived nation due to the
domination of Urdu-Hindi language, hegemony of Gunga Jumna culture,
supremacy of UP-ites and UP-ite mindsets clones of Gunga Jumna culture in
policy making and decision taking of national affairs and foreign relationship
of Punjabi nation since from 1849.
In
1800 century, religious ratio of Punjabi people in Punjab was 48% Muslim
Punjabis, 43% Hindu Punjabis, 8% Sikh Punjabis and 1% others but due
to attraction of the various tribes, castes and the inhabitants of the Punjab
into a broader common "Punjabi" identity and uniting by natural
affinity of "Punjabi nationalism", Punjab was a secular
region, Punjabi was a secular nation and a Sikh Punjabi, Maharaja
Ranjeet Singh was the ruler of Punjab, after throwing out the Muslim Mughal
invaders of Punjab from Delhi, India and Muslim Afghan invaders of Punjab from
Kabul, Afghanistan.
Maharaja
Ranjeet Singh made Lahore his capital and was able to
expand the Kingdom of Punjab to the Khyber Pass and also included Jammu and Kashmir in it. He was
also successful in keeping the British from expanding across the
River Sutlej for more than 40 years. After his death in
1839 the internecine fighting between the Sikhs and several rapid forfeitures
of territory by his sons, along with the intrigues of the Dogras and two
Anglo-Sikh wars, eventually led to British control of the Lahore Darbar in 1849.
As,
after Hindi-Urdu Speaking UP, CP people of Gunga Jumna culture, Bengali was the
second and Punjabi was the third biggest nation of South Asia and for the
British, Punjab was a frontier province of British India because, Punjab had
boundaries with Afghanistan and Persia. Therefore, to rule the South Asia , the prime factor for the British
rulers was to control the Punjab by dominating or eliminating
the Punjabi nation.
British
rulers were well aware with the fact that, they succeeded to capture the Punjab but they has
not concurred the Punjabi nation. Therefore, British rulers imposed
martial law in Punjab to govern Punjab and due to a fear from
Punjabi nationalism; British rulers started to eliminate the Punjabi nation
into frictions by switching over the characteristics of Muslim Punjabi, Hindu
Punjabi, and Sikh Punjabi from “ Affinity of Nation to Emotions of
Religion”.
For
demolishing the nationalism and promoting the religious fundamentalism in Punjab , British rulers not
allowed the Punjabis to use their mother tongue as an educational and
official language. Therefore, the British rulers first introduced Urdu as an
official language in Punjab and they brought the Urdu-speaking
Muslim Mullahs and Hindi-speaking Hindu Pundits from UP, CP
to Punjab for the purpose of educational teaching of Punjabi
people along with, UP, CP bureaucracy and establishment for the
purpose of Punjab administration.
It
resulted supremacy of UP-ites and UP-ite mindsets in policy making and decision
taking in national affairs and foreign relationship of Punjabi nation, managed,
motivated and sponsored by the British rulers to eliminate the Muslim, Sikh,
Hindu and Christian Punjabi’s into different religions and languages to secure
their rule over last captured land and martial race of subcontinent.
As a
result, Punjabi nation became a socially and politically depressed and deprived
nation due to the domination of Urdu-Hindi language, hegemony of Gunga Jumna
culture and supremacy of UP-ite traditions.
However,
beside the all efforts of British rulers to demolish and eliminate the Punjabi
nation, due to struggle of Punjabi nationalists during British rule in India,
beside the dissimilarity of religion, because of natural affinity on ground of
similar language, culture and tradition, Muslim Punjabi, Hindu Punjabi,
Sikh Punjabi and Christian Punjabi were still a nation. Religion was a personal
subject for building moral character and spiritual development for the life of
hereafter. Punjabi nationalism was a subject for the worldly life affairs.
Whereas, clans moreover, communities were the institutions for social
interaction and charity work. Punjab was a secular region, Punjabi language was
a respectable language, Punjabi culture was a honorable culture and Punjabi
nation was a wealthy nation in British India .
In 19th century due to politics of congress, dominated by Hindu and Hindi speaking, UP-ite Hindu leaders of UP, CP, Hindu Punjabi started preferring Hindi language, culture, and traditions instead of Punjabi. Later on, Muslim Punjabi’s did the same due to the influence of the Muslim League, dominated by the Urdu speaking, UP-ite Muslim leaders of UP, CP and presence of UP-ite Muslims in Punjab.
As a consequence of preferring Hindi language, culture and traditions by Hindu Punjabi’s and Urdu language, culture and traditions by the Muslim Punjabi’s, the characteristics of assimilation to accomplish the sociological instinct, started to switch from “Nation to Religion” and “A Great Nation of Sub-Continent Got Divided and Get Emerged into Muslim and Hindu States” as well as, started receiving the reward of hate and regret from every honorable nation, in addition, humiliation, loathing and abuse from Hindi-Urdu speaking persons too. This is the punishment of Punjabi's for not respecting their motherland, language, culture, and traditions. Anyway, Evolution exists everywhere, without realizing that, it is at right direction or wrong.
Now, from decades, Punjabi's are in trouble because of lacking interest in Punjabi nationalist politics, ignorant of the Punjabi language, unaware of the Punjabi culture and uninformed to the Punjabi traditions because of preference to the Urdu language, Gunga Jumna culture and UP-ite traditions.
Especially, the Punjabi's migrated from the Indian side of
Hence, time has proved that; independence of Pakistan at the cost of splitting up Punjab, disintegration of Punjabi nation with the blood of 2 million Punjabi’s and displacement of 20 million Punjabi’s furthermore, lending support to UP-ites for domination of Urdu language, Gunga Jumna culture and UP-ite traditions by means of suppressing and eliminating the languages, cultures and traditions of actual inhabitants and original entities of Pakistan, in conjunction with, hegemony of UP-ite Muhajir's in national and foreign affairs bureaucracy, military and civil establishment, skilled and technical professions, politics and media organizations, was a blunder by the Punjabi's due to political immaturity, irresponsibility and pettiness.
At
present, Urdu Speaking UP-ites, those concurred foremost cities of Punjab during British rule and
after creation of Pakistan are major problem for
Punjabi Nation and Punjabi Language. As they also speak Punjabi therefore, it
is difficult to distinguish them that they are Punjabi or Urdu speaking
UP-ites. By camouflaging in Punjabi skin, these Urdu speaking Muhajirs of Gunga
Jumna culture and UP-ite traditions are main conspirators in Punjab to confuse
Punjabi people and degrade the Punjabi language along with support to Urdu
language by propaganda of “ Urdu is Binding Language of Pakistani People”,
rather Language of Muslims.
As the
Punjabi language has groomed by the Sufi saints therefore, Punjabi language has
spiritual background and Punjabi language has potential for wisdom related
inventions and intellects to develop the moral character for good deeds of life
and spiritual development for the life of hereafter.
For skill related inventions and intellects, usually international Lingua-Franca plays essential role but for wisdom related inventions and intellects, spiritually rich language is of vital importance, especially if it is your mother language. Therefore, it is in the best interest of Punjabis to adopt the English as an international Lingua-Franca and Punjabi as their national language.
If we start speaking other languages and forget our own, we would not be we, we would be clones of an alien people; we would be aliens to ourselves" UNESCO, 1958.
Punjabi is an actual, original and potential language of Punjab and Punjabi nation. A language
groomed, patronized, propagated by the “Sufi Saints of Punjab ”. Therefore, it is an earnest
need to implant Punjabi language as an educational and official language of Punjab .
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