[Assam] Armed Revolution is an Outdated Concept

[kamal deka]

 Every age, every era has its own dynamics: What held strong 400 years
ago will not stand firm today. Religious and cultural values anyway
dissipate, but with globalisation, that pace has taken a quantum leap.
KJD

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:10 PM, UTTAM BORTHAKUR
<uttamborthakur at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>  Ashoka, the great, established an empire, with the use of his swords.
> For the court intellectuals, teachers of history, netters,  it was an
> in-fashion concept at that time.
> I mean, armed usurpation and suppression.
>
> However, the vanquished were restive. They plotted armed rebellion.
>
> Some court jesters suggested that these rebellions should be quelled by
> bombing their lands.
> Those were mostly in the areas where Maoists are now plotting their revolts
> and executing them.
>
> But, Ashoka, the great, (he's great not for nothing), was not an idiot, like
> those court-jesters, teachers, intellectuals.
> So, he devised a novel concept. He proselytized himself to the popular i.e.
> the fashionable religion of that time.
> Buddhism. It was the religion of the people. It taught of Ahimsa.
> He successfully propagated it; the idea of armed rebellion vanished in all
> nook and crannies.
>
> Ashoka could consolidate his empire in peace!
> Alas! Concepts, often, are vested interest.
>
> ***** Elizabeth too knew the fashion of the day!
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