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By Shamsul Islam Now it is almost 170 years that people of this country, men, women, children belonging to all religions, regions and strata, rose in revolt, from Kashmir to Madras, and from Sylhet to the borders of Afghanistan. Today if Indians have forgotten about this glorious saga of commitment and sacrifices for the liberation of India can be forgiven in absence of the contemporary narratives.
But what independent India did to obliterate the memories of this Great War immediately after independence on August 15, 1947, when only 90 years had elapsed to this Great War, could only be described as criminal.
It is true that we spent crores of rupees in celebrating the 100th and the 150th anniversaries of the War, but did not bother to revive the common heritage of the joint martyrdoms of this glorious struggle. Earlier, the first education minister of the independent India, Abul Kalam Azad, organized a team of renowned historians to compile the list of pan-Indian martyrs of t