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THE KOHAT RIOTS. HINDU, INSULTS TO ISLAM. The Times Delhi correspondent, writ the issue of that paper for January 1st, say
Whatever may be the occasional cause of civil disorder in India, the perennial
source of trouble and faction remajas roady to produce those passions and ebullitions of fanaticism which set com- At the munity against community. moment, when wave of commupal animosity is sweeping from Peshawar to Madras, special opportunity is afforded for studying the inainspring of India's
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Politics may engage the close attention. of the intelligentsia, but except in times of economie stress it is not easy to in- dure
are the masses to follow that lend. Religious doctrines and, above all, re
alone command Jigious customa sustained interest of the people, and when, for some special reason, that in- berest has developed into excitement the "popular leaders find that they have! either to permit themselves to be carried long with the rest of their respective along communities or to lose whatever influence they possess.
So it is interesting to read the extra- ordinarily graphic official reports on the Kohat riots which occurred at the be of September last and resulted ginag
in the loss of 36 lives and the wounding of over 100 people, with such immacuse damage to property that Kohat to-day looks like a bombarded city and the whole of the Hindu population are refugees in
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In the composition of its population of 18,000. Kohat, before the riots, was the frontier province in miniature, a though the proportion of Hindus to Moslems," while only one to tea in the province, was one to five in Kohat itself.
MISPLACED ENTHUSIASM.
Now in Kobat, among the wealthy Hinda community, small but prosperous, the political triumphs achieved by their co-regionists under the Reforms Schemo had been received with considerable ela tion They saw Committee on which Hindus were sitting, touring the frontier charged with the duty of deciding its administrative future or so it appeared
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the Government.
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Had the Hindus been wise they would have started to ouns heads. They did. not. They coated unduly on the power. of the British raj, which they are, so anxious to supersede, and expected that it would offer them a sure shield against any interferencs with their propagation of the doctrice that Iudia was for the Hindus. In the United Provinces, in Bengal, and in Bombay, such an enter THE BANK OF CANTON, LIMITED, Frise would be attended by some risk,
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But did the
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The Moslems resented this insult to their faith, and a sumber of them went to & mosque" and swore to divorce their wives a most binding oath-if vengenace was not theirs. But, meeting the De puty Commissioner in jirga on the mor- ning of September 9th, they were assured that the outrage would be suitably punished.
FULLY OF THE HINDUS.
By this time the Hiadus had become nervous. They realized that they had gone too far. Panicky and alert they listened for every sound from the direc tion of the Cantonments to which the Suddenly Moslem deputation had gone. Su a crowd of small Mosteni boys was seen the city, shouting unflat to be entering the tering things about the tension was too much.
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And there were two factors absent which might have, played an important part at Kohat; one of them beneficent, the other not. British troops have never Hindu poli. been stationed in Kobat. ticians in the safe centres of democratic of the terrot-stricken Hindus activities are constantly and pertinacious $ "responsive" Govern formidable crowd of Moslems coming to ly urging on take vergrance. They rushed into their ment the crying need for the
eyes
Hindas. This
in the was,
The
Mohalla (quarter), entered their barricad- of military expenditure and isatie 10
elimination of the British for the graduat
Having regard to the restric garrison the
tions thus imposed, presence of 'Bri- tish troops at Kohat is not justified when they are required more urgently for vital strategid purposes in other cen tres, like Peshawar. The judicial officer who investigated the course of events at
of 1
British
ed houses, hastily shuttering their shops,
,00 and then blindly opened üre "mob"?
One boy was killed and others wounded The adult Moslems quickly heard of this. They were without firearms, hut that mattered little. The Hindus bad asked
Kahat said that a half co***(*valuable, and for it and they should get it. Arson was their weapon and soon the Bindu infantry might have been shops burst into fames. Looting fol- the Hindu newspapers, forgetting that lowed, but troops, police, and constabu
you cannot eat your cake and have it lary soon got the city under control.
too, are now complaining that British By nightfalf all was quiet except for !
is dificult to put out free troops were not seat from Peshawar Tew
instead of additional constabulary in arrow streets even if modern ap
what of the other absentee the pliances are available, and in Kohat
tribesman three miles away in the hills? But the next day,
Kobat in flames had attract they were not.
And of quiet
The sight of ginning with sig
the greedy eyes of the Bizalie, Orakzais, order, saw the
real Moslem revenge and Afridis of the Pass. To them the the night men from the outlying occasion was heaven-sent, and they knew
armed with rifles, eluded the
of their religion. of the profanation
201
A cover of darkness, and collected of the Hindu Bazaare was for them tol
dug holes in the city walls, crept swift descent on the town and the wealth
in readiness for the next day the
Still,
bazaar
and setting ing through the has take There would have been no evacua
every
Hindu would have fire to one or two stalls, they tion of the Hinda population then. Euth
Jess massacre of were kept in check at 8 o'clock in been followed by a joyous return to the hills with enough loot to delight the
shot
the morning-of Beptember 1010 It tribes for months to come. But to the
was fired from the Eradu.
was
vengeance,
:WOTO
followed by more shots and tho. watchers on the hills their spies reported worst of all, some acid was thrown by that Indian troops under British officers Hindus. This precipitated the Moslem alert and at their posts. The game The town in the noon-day was not worth the candle, “in the eyes hout became a confused mass of flames,
of these shrewd judges of the possi smoke, and crowds, where rioters, police, blues of Frontier warfare, and the troops, and constabulary were inextricab threatened attack nover matured. For ly mixed in an uproarious turmoil. this along the Hindus of Kohat have
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