The Conspiracy of our laggard Defense Industries                                 Prof. Prodyut Das

We have a woeful track record of weapons development the absurdity of which has been highlighted by the relative success of Turkey and Korea. Our failure is “political” rather than technical. Looking at the “political” backstage is necessary because by focusing on Funds and Technical challenges we are being set up to bark up the wrong tree. Given the present structure even US levels of funds and facilities will not suffice.

The present situation is mired in the Government led development structure. It allows a small group of powerful Government servants to hijack a project and benefits two sets of people: Firstly, the freebooters in the Government Labs because they get funds, irrespective of the output versus promise and secondly the Import Lobby where the failures of the DRDO projects assist the Import Lobby.

Highlighting of technical problems and supposed inadequacies of funds are distractions, the proverbial red rag used to distract attention of the bull away from the Matador who kills. In reality Technical and fiscal problems are secondary. There is a Conspiracy manipulated from abroad. This is a large statement but the choice before the Citizen is either to believe the “Historians” who have perjured themselves or to rely on circumstantial evidence and rely on self- deduction.      

Our history of the past 200 years is so ridiculous that it would have, in Macaulay classic description “reduce any class of English schoolgirls to helpless laughter”. It spreads the canard that Mahatma Gandhi and his wheedling acolyte “Chachu” Nehru, darling of the masses, “a saint who wandered into politics” etc etc more or less by themselves, got us our Independence. We are also to believe that the London Banking Houses and Financiers- who started it all with the East India Company and had extracted 75 trillion GBP during the course of the Empire-left us to chart our own destiny with a nod,  wink and a firm handshake. “You even left ink in the inkwells” gushed one of the collaborator’s “histories” of that time. It does not sound like common sense.

To set the chart right we have to start with the following hypothesis:

1.      The “Nehruvian Court” history does not stand scrutiny. Pl. see the Endnotes.

2.      1. The Deep state is not Countries or Joe Biden. It is the Financiers and the Merchant Bankers of London and Manhattan. (Note1) and they conspire to control or destroy  competitive Industry anywhere whist deploying their limited manpower to the most profitable areas- drugs and arms. A shrinking population in the “Home” countries forces them to ration their manpower. They have retreated from many areas of Industry and now focus on Defence Equipment and advanced Technology and it is possible that our failures in weapons development is at the behest of these bankers. The overspecification of weapons to maximize profits is another outcome of the above but that is another subject. Much of the capabilities are not essential and only cause delays in our local efforts thus facilitating imports.

3.     2. An enduring myth is that Marxism is a force against Capitalism. From the start of Marxism, the Financiers have used Marxism and its extra constitutional violence to destroy the competitive potential of their competitors. Marx himself was not only a pamphleteer for the East India Company, the world’s first international drug cartel, but he argued that EIC’s rule was beneficial to India and the British Parliament should not intervene in the looting. The Mutiny of 1857 blew that little argument apart.

So why was there a conspiracy to retain control of India after independence? The reasons is that Japan. The Japanese had given them a horrifying picture of Asian capabilities and that spectre haunted them.

Pandahnee (Pahn- dah- neee, n. singular) is a word used by Bengali schoolboys. It is untranslatable but roughly indicates a thrashing involving a certain loss of prestige of the pandahnee’s recipient which has the approval of the narrator. Though Japan’s ultimate defeat in WW2 was inevitable Japan did pandao (pahn-dah-o, v singular) the Allies quite far into WWII. I digress to note that whilst Indian combatants who fought the Japanese and were exposed to the same savagery have moved on ( The Churchillian "In Peace- Goodwill)  but in the West even today the fierce Japanese Toshi -man-man (Strong fighting spirit) shown during the War still rankles. An element of Racist outrage that “those little yellow bellies” could defy them for so long- fuels the fury. Possibly the differences in the reactions is a difference in our cultures.

Further, post war, the Japanese, when weapons manufacturing was forbidden them in 1945. quickly developed civilian consumer goods of such quality that they wrecked the US and UK Industries of  automobiles, motorcycles, white goods, cameras and shipbuilding. You name it, the Japanese wiped them out -Sarvatra, Ubique, everywhere. It is relevant of our potential to note that it was only in India that the much-derided local Automotive Industry not only beat off the Japanese challenge but went on to become the 3^rd largest Auto Industry in the world

 The spectre that haunted The Imperial Bankers was that if little Japan with one tenth the population and no resources could cock such a snook it was certain that a free India would change the World order- a nightmare.

A study of Japan’s rise after the enforced “opening” of Japan by Commodore Perry in the 1860s showed that Japan which had no natural resources but after the Meiji Restoration restored Law and Order prospered from the 1880s on a national plan based on:

i)                 Nationalism

ii)               High Quality Education

iii)             Professional management of Industry by entrepreneurs.

iv)              An avoidance of “foreign” operating philosophies in critical sectors of the economy and social life.

 

What did the Japanese achieve with this “four- poster” traditional, indigenous (i.e. Non-World Bank) development philosophies? Starting from absolute zero in terms of modern Industry and its management in the1860s and getting the vital pre-requisites of law and order in place by the 1880s with the Meiji Restoration Japan within 10 years started making most of the things they needed- Commodore Perry’s expectations of largely one -way trade had failed. Within 20 years i.e. in 1904 the Japanese resoundingly beat -pandoed- to use the newly acquired “gaali”( n. verbal insult)-Russia at Tsushima under Admiral Togo but using imported capital ships. By 1923 (year 40) they were a self- reliant (Design and Production) maritime Power important enough to invited to The Washington Treaty on Limiting Fleet Size of Battleships and in December 1941(year 60) were sufficiently strong and organized to put in an attack for whose military skills of planning would be the envy of any Nation from Napoleonic France onwards. This can be compared with our own "progress" particularly during the period of imposed Socialism in the period 1950-1993 and also to compare the progress after the Nationalist Govt of 2014.   What Indian Industry and entrepreneurs could do was seen in the huge, quick responding, and diverse effort Indian Industry could put in to the WW2. Indian Industry, even when confined by colonial policies, was the Major supply base for the War in Burma.

The steps the London and Manhattan Bankers to defang India at birth were covert. Like a game of chess, many of the moves were apparently innocuous but hurt decades after their insertion. It is necessary to cite an example: In 1975 the word “secular”, innocuous enough in its isolation, was inserted into the Constitution. Half a century later that “innocent” modification is raising difficulties in the prevention of “planned ethnic insertion” by the likes of George Soros, Financier . The process- a repititon of Middle Eastern tactics of Devesharme and Shergun is threatening the demography- nota bene- of the easier to secede states- West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Jammu and Kashmir. The 1975 insertion was a planned pre-requite to the ethnic engineering that followed in the 1990s. In this a pliant local collaborator’s administration was needed and those moves had been made in the ‘30s of the last century! (Note 1). If you think there has been no conspiracy, I remind that when killers abound only the “paranoid” survives and the Bengali saying “Saabdhaner Maar nei” -you can’t be beaten if you take precautions.

The Government “anointed “  by Gandhi in 1947 and consolidated in 1950 all rivals to Nehru- Patel, Gandhi, Subhas, Rajagopalachari, Rajendra Prasad had been eliminated by hook or by crook- took some very crippling decisions. Was it mere coincidence the measures were exactly the opposite of what steps Japan took after the restoration of the Meiji.

The India damaging steps Nehru presided over -my comments in Italics

1.      Equate Nationalism with “Fascism”. Why Fascism is repugnant is a matter of religious belief of shallow minds and fostered by conspirators. The citizen in Mussolini’s Italy or Hitler’s Germany had a better standard of living, more freedom and more security and liberties than those in Stalin’s Russia. What raises the ire against Fascism is that the Banks in those country would not listen to London or Manhattan Financier.  As to the boring accusations of fascist aggression tendencies the counter question is if the Fascist started WW2 who started the WW1? In 1914 the world was NOT fascist and even the term was not in existence? Discussions on the real origin of the WW1 is carefully avoided because the beneficiaries of the War and the consequences were again the banks. Patriotism and Nationalism is shunned because collaborators would be difficult to recruit into the conspiracy.

 

   

2.      The Indian Industry by the Private sector was not capable of growing to the level required and everything should be done by a centralized State.

Nehru , it seems from recent information , was not democratically elected to lead the Country after Independence. He was planted and possibly did the biddings of his backers.. This is an outrageous Nehruvian lie to justify the creation of an inefficient Public Sector which because did not have an owner and managed by transferable Government Bureaucrats became a burden and a “sink” for resources. It is to be examined Nehru- selected rather than popularly elected- went for the Public Sector and the License permit Raj for two possible reasons. The first was to assure the Manhattan bankers that he was “safe” and “to be trusted” had no plan to challenge their hegemony and secondly it gave him both power to restrict the funding sources of the opposition and to give himself extra constitutional rights in the Government’s Federal structure with a unitary bias. e.g. We had a “free press" but the newsprint import and distribution was state controlled so criticism could be throttled.

 

3.      The education standards should be widespread-even at the cost of reducing the levels of admission and passing in the name of social justice.

The importance of high- quality education can be gauged from the fact  that, yes, we have beaten Britain in terms of GDP but the British achieved that figure with a population of less than one tenth of ours. With a well- trained population, we would have been a 50 trillion economy

Lord Macaulay’s famous but misunderstood statement was not denigratory as shallow minds make it out to be. It was a modern “Quality Policy” statement couched in outrageous colonial language. The success of British efforts was remarkable. British Indian education could be criticized for lack of “spread” or “reach” but it could NOT be criticized for “serving its purpose” and “quality”. By 1900 Sir JC Bose had invented the Radio and pioneered microwaves, by 1930s Indian Universities were a world leader in Quantum Mechanics. All that was destroyed or allowed to go to rot. How many people know that Calcutta University had four wind tunnels used for aeronautical research. Now ( as of 2014) they are the nests of birds.

 Under Nehruvian Utopia money was poured into Higher Education at the expense of primary education so that funds could be defalcated to political coffers and the funds attracted to worst type of criminal politicians. One political party, in power in two revenue-wise below par states but with an all- India presence in Education, became the third richest political party in India within a span of twenty years of access to education funds. The rampant politicization of education led to the decline of education to an extent that the problem of the Educated shifted from Unemployment to Unemployability.

4.      Indiscriminate import of “experts” from the International bodies controlled ultimately by the London and Manhattan Financiers. It had become mandatory for our Finance Ministers and Experts to have “foreign” qualification. Whether these roots went deeper we do not know but it would seem the present Finance Secretary- a History Graduate with NO foreign tutoring- has done a satisfactory job in the crisis when the foreign experts were giving us suggestions of Keynesian economics and “pump priming” when the pump was not dry but broken by Covid.

 

With that as the briefest of introduction to the underlying murk we put down again very briefly what we set out to do in the first paragraph.

 

1.      We fail in weapons development by intention.

2.      That intention is those of a very small coterie of top officials and public people working against the public good.

3.      Under the above plan the considerable expertise and dynamism of the Private Sector continued to be ignored and insulted. In my native Howrah, once known as the “Sheffield of the East, I grew up of with tales of Machine tool makers hiding Lathe beds given for seasoning under pond water to hide it from British Inspectors who were there to prevent Indian Industry from growing and reducing Imports from Britain. Under Nehruvian Socialism the same repressive colonial anti Industry policy was followed in the guise of welfare state, The 1956  Industrial Policy Resolution was a sell out of the Country and its economic growth  to the Deep State . Post Liberalization the non nationalist Government kept Defence Industries out of Liberalization. The deep State is now able to man only the Defence Industries and so our Defence Industries continue to be under pre- liberalization control to a great extent, recent relaxations not with standing.

What is needed to be done is so obvious that it needs no telling here.

The subject is so vast and interesting that it would be endless. Nevertheless I put down below some related notes I made during researching for this piece.    

 

 

Note1. They have had a long-term skilled interest in the minutiae of shaping India’s future,  Chaim Wizeman ( Founder of Israel)  and Balfour ( Setting up of the Palestine in 1919 post the breaking up of the Ottoman Empire) manipulated the business of Suffrage for Women in Late Colonial India via their protégé Eleanor Rathbone and Katherine Mayo who meddled with the Government of India Act 1935 so that their kind of people came into power when India was to be reluctantly given Independence. In fact, the root of the Partition was caused not by Jinnah but by Nehru. The UP Zamindars, largely Muslims, were studiedly ignored and humiliated and that the pup Nehru (he was of the same age as any JNU Rally-wallah  “student” today) with his Communist ideas and total inflexibility was given support to the hilt by then unsuspected and invisible backers. The Zamindars were outraged that Nehru would not come to any agreement because of his Communist “ideology” and because he was seeking to replace the influence of the vilified Zamindars with his own political thugs. End Result for the common man? The supposed evil Zamindar, e,g, the blameless Raja of Ayodha or the munificent Darbhanga Maharaj has been the replaced by the Sengars of Unnao who was I believe, sentenced for child molestation.

 

Some examples of Nehruvian history we were taught

 

 

1.      The British East India Company came to India to trade in spices. Having come half way across the world they did not use it. British food continued to be boiled, bland and boring. Opium was the reason the East India Company (EIC) came to India and EIC was a Company funded by the London Bankers to make super profits.  

2.      The Mutiny of 1857 was started by a religion bases superstitious misunderstanding over the grease used in rifles. After 250 yrs. (1600-1857) in India the British were fully knowledgeable, respectful and cautious (see end notes) about Indian sensitivities about beef and pork. The Lubricants required for the Brown Bess musket and the Enfield rifle would be identical and could be based on mutton tallow rather than beef or pork fat. Indeed, the Enfield rifle had been tried out in India in 1853 before the Mutiny. So why the trouble in 1857 about the cartridges? A hypothesis is that the EIC realized that its’ ruthless extractive policies had brewed a revolt which was unavoidable and would attract Parliamentary enquiry. Giving that looming revolt a “religious” twist and blaming it on the heathen sepoy practices and ignorance was a last ditch effort to deflect that inevitable Parliamentary enquiry along more acceptable  racist lines so that the EIC avoided the opprobrium. It will be noted that the British Parliament had been for long concerned about the EIC pillage. It is to be carefully noted that Karl Marx, marketed so assiduously in India to support the wastage of resources on and by the Public Sector, attributed this to envy of those ex- EIC Nabobs- who used the Indian loot to buy land and seats in the Parliament etc. Marx was until 1857 a consistent supporting pamphleteer for the EIC. Marx argued like a proper little Fascist that Indians were used to tyrannical and despotic rule and disparaged India and Indians at every opportunity with terms like “Oriental methods of Production”. This was rich coming from Marx whose own continent which until perhaps a decade previously was using methods or production far more unsophisticated than our “Oriental” method.

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4.      On 1947 Gandhi and Nehru after decades of personal sacrifice ushered in Independence and the Great Powers left India to carve its own destiny. Does that make sense even to a pre- teenager.? British Financiers came to India, independent of the Crown, to make profits.  Commie Historians will have us believe that when 1947 came the London Bankers shook hands with us, handed over the bunch of keys and left saying “Good luck, Young feller”. This may have been at the occasional individual level but in the Bank Boardrooms in London and Manhattan the game was to see how India continued in its colonial subjugation to the Gamers interests. To further that continued interest and need, to control the Indian Economy there were some 16 Prime Minister/ President Level assassinations and mystery deaths in what was former Viceroy Territory Economic region- Pakistan, India, Ceylon, Burma. Every time attempts were made at economic consolidation or reproachment effective economic policies were disrupted. By whom? Who benefited? The present mayhem in Bangladesh is illustrative of the sustained interest of the Manhattan in curbing Indian economic growth.  

 

5.      The fact is that over 3 million Indians died in the Partition. They died because all of them were caught on the “wrong” side of the border. It is a grim proof that they did NOT want the Partition. So why the Partition? It was to cripple the Indian economy right from the start and to create a market for arms- the most profitable of all trades after drugs. Note that though the partition was because of Religious reasons the leadership of the Country was “given” to a self- professed Atheist, Nehru, as the representative of “Hindu” India and a pork- eating, clean shaven, convert, non Namaazi Jinnah for “Muslim” Pakistan. Does that make sense for a people rabidly religious, half devil ,half child. The Marxist Historians will tell that Indians were highly communal but if we label the British and American contemporaries along similar religious affiliations- the Balfours, Montagues, Chelmsfords, Mintos etc – Methodists, Presbyterians and Jews then a very sinister and more communal picture emerges  

6.       The “Historians” know but do not mention that the East India Company (EIC) was a drug cartel and the bankers who funded EIC sent a team of three men -Ralph Fitch amongst them-came to India 15years (circa 1590) before the setting up EIC- to do a “recce” of the drug growing areas of India. It also explains why the EIC never bothered about conquering the “other” fifty percent of India including Baroda, Bhopal (excluding Malwa of opium fame) Deccan and (nota bene) Malabar with its spices.

 

7.      . The “Memsahib” bringing pork from the Club was considerate enough to keep it on the mantelpiece so that a “Shudra” could put it away in the rasoi and not the Mussalman “Khansamah” such was the ingrained knowledge about beef and pork sensitivities.

8.      The History is the soul of the Nation. The Bankers brought out that soul, did a “lobotomy” of our Historical consciousness and pushed a history that did not make sense. Without the History a Nation is like a person with amnesia, someone who can do a bidding but not relate to the consequences. That is the reason at the time of  Partition an undertaking was given that  INDIAN history was not be re- written. We should thank the “evil Capitalist” GD Birla who financed the Vidya Bhavan Series when the Central Government stooges would not finance RC Majumdar.