The Nehru-Gandhi dynasty
starts with the Mughal man named Ghiyasuddin Ghazi. He was the City Kotwal i.e.
police officer of Delhi prior to the uprising of 1857, under the Mughal rule.
After capturing Delhi in 1857, in the year of the mutiny, the British were
slaughtering all Mughals everywhere. The British made a thorough search and
killed every Mughal so that there were no future claimants to the throne of
Delhi. The Hindus on the other hand were not targeted by the British unless
isolated Hindus were found to be siding with the Mughals, due to past
associations. Therefore, it became customary for many Mohammedans to adopt
Hindu names. So, the man
Ghiyasuddin Ghazi (the word means kafir-killer) adopted a Hindu name Gangadhar
Nehru and thus saved his life by the subterfuge. Ghiyasuddin Ghazi apparently
used to reside on the bank of a canal (or Nehr) near the Red Fort. Thus, he
adopted the name ‘Nehru’ as the family name. Through out the world, we do not
find any descendant other than that of Gangadhar, having the surname Nehru. The
13th volume of the “Encyclopedia of Indian War of Independence” (ISBN:81-261-3745-9
City Kotwal was an important post like today’s Commissioner
of Police. It appears from Mughal records that there was no Hindu Kotwal
employed. It was extremely unlikely for a Hindu to be hired for that post.
Compulsorily only Mohammedans of foreign ancestry were hired for such important
posts.
Jawaharlal Nehru's second sister Krishna Hutheesing also
mentions in her memoirs that her grandfather was the city Kotwal of Delhi prior
to 1857’s uprising when Bahadur Shah Zafar was still the sultan of Delhi.
Jawaharlal Nehru, in his autobiography, states that he have seen a picture of
his grandfather which portrays him like a Mughal nobleman. In that picture it
appears that he was having long & very thick beard, wearing a Muslim cap
and was having two swords in his hands.
Jawaharlal Nehru also states in his autobiography that on
their way to Agra (a seat of Mughal influence) from Delhi, the members of his
grand father’s family were detained by the British. The reason for the
detention was their Mughal features. They however pleaded that they were
Kashmiri Pandits and thus got away. The Urdu literature of the 19th century,
especially the works of Khwaja Hasan Nizami, are full of the miseries that the
Mughals and Mohammedans have to face then. They also describe how Mughals
escaped to other cities to save their lives. In all probability, Jawahar
Nehru's Mughal grandfather and his family were among them.
If Jawaharlal Nehru was a person that India adores. He was
undoubtedly a very sound politician and a gifted individual. But, the
Government of India has not built a memorial of Jawaharlal Nehru at his birth
place 77 Mirganj in Allahabad, because it is a brothel. The entire locality is
a well known red light area since long. It has not become a brothel recently,
but it has been a brothel even before Jawaharlal Nehru’s birth. A portion of
the same house was sold by his father Motilal Nehru to a prostitute named Lali
Jaan and it came to be known as “Imambada”. If you have some doubt, you may
visit the place. Several dependable sources and also encyclopedia.com &
Wikipedia say this. Motilal Nehru along with his family, later shifted to Anand
Bhawan. Remember that Anand Bhawan is Jawaharlal Nehru’s ancestral house and
not his birth place.
M. O. Mathai of Indian Civil Service served as the Private
Secretary to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Mathai has written a book
“Reminiscences of the Nehru Age” (ISBN-13: 9780706906219).In the book Mathai
reveals that there was intense love affair between Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina
Mountbatten (wife of the last Viceroy to India, Louis Mountbatten). The romance
was a source of great embarrassment for Indira Gandhi, who used to seek Maulana
Abul Kalam Azad’s help in persuading her father to be little discreet about
their relationship.
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