Sunday, May 3, 2020

Dvipa Sukhadhara and the mainland part of India


Indians have been residing in the Socotra archipelago since ancient times and the name Socotra is itself derived from Dvipa Sukhadhara in India's SanskritIndians were residing in the islands at least since 1st century BCE and 6th century CE and were practicing agriculture. The 1st century author of Periplus of the Erythraean Sea mentions that Indians lived in Sukhadhara Dvipa since the 1st century CE, and the same has also been established In 2001 by a group of Belgian speleologists of the Socotra Karst Project. The Belgian Socotra Karst Project (SKP)] has revealed numerous Indian inscriptions particularly in the island´s most impressive caves: Hoq Cave at the north-east coast of Socotra in the Brahmi script of near western India and Kharoshti script of north western India comprising what is now the area of present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan in the northwestern part of the Sub-continent of IndiaAccording to the Arab historian, al-Masudi writing in the tenth century AD, it was Aristotle, the tutor of Alexander, who titillated the latter's interest in Socotra by referring to the availability of myrrh, which was widely used for medicinal purposes. According to al-Masudi(quoted in Ubaydli 1989:150) moreover, the Greek colonists were handpicked by Aristotle and came from his native town. "They overcame the Indians who were there and took hold of the island" An important early Christian] leader who was himself most probably a Socotran was Theophilus (called Theophilos the Indian or Theophilus the Arian). "Theophilus was an adherent of Arianism, a heresy that was widespread through the church for centuries. Arius, the originator of this pernicious fallacy, denied the Holy Trinity and the Deity of Christ". Samuel H. Moffett alias Samuel Hugh Moffett (Samuel Hugh Moffett, A History of Christianity in Asia (Harper San Francisco 1992) p.267) describes the ministry of Theophilus and his missionary journeys that took place in 354 AD:, Theophilus “the Indian” a native of the Islands of Socotra (A History of Christianity in India: The Beginnings to AD 1707, Page 41, By Stephen Neill published by Cambridge University Pressin the Indian Ocean… was held in Rome as a hostage, converted to Christianity, and was sent by Roman Emperor Constantius II on an embassy that included visit to his homeland in the Islands of Socotra, and to “other parts of India.” According to the Acts of Thomas St. Thomas initially arrived in northwestern India to the Kingdom of Gomdapharnasa or Gudapharasa comprising Baluchistan, Sistan, Kabul and Panjab and then he departed from the mainland part of   northwestern India and sojourned in the island of Socotra in 52 AD following a shipwreck where the inhabitants were converted to Christianity before returning back to the mainland part of the country where he arrived at the port of Kodungallur in Kerala in southern India. The city of Andrapolis named in the Acts, where Judas Thomas and Abbanes landed in  India, has been identified as Sandaruck (one of the ancient Alexandrias) in the province of Baluchistan in northwestern India. 
Socotra was also a part
Sukhadhara and the mainland part of the rest of the Presidency of Bombay
of Bombay Presidency in  India at a time when India was  administered by the British but was stealthily, surreptitiously and clandestinely detached and separated from the rest of India in 1937 and illegally removed from the rest of India as part of their game plan along with the bag and baggage of Aden, which is not part of India unlike Socotra under the guise and façade of separating Aden which was a foreign territory arbitrarily clubbed with India, unlike  Socotra which was per se historically an integral part of India since time immemorial and is a part of the Chagos- Socotra Ridge, or The so-called  Carlsberg Ridge like a Trojan Horse, vide the Government of India Act, 1935Sukhadhara dvipa perhaps was also geologically a part of the mainland lndian landmass but was obviously detached during the course of plate tectonics as India began a journey and moved northwards towards Asia in consonance with her tryst with destiny. 

This fraudulent and deceitful outrageous and covert ab initio illegal partition of India which was per se null and void ought to have created an uproar, outrage, ruckus, unrest and pandemonium all over the rest of India and The leadership of the Indian National Congress ought to have issued an ultimatum to the British Government which would have resulted in the undoing and vitiating of this deceitful and fraudulent partition of India which was a momentarily a fait accompli by stealth and deceit then and there, but as usual, the so-called Indian National Congress and its leaders were sleeping and did not wake up from their slumber! Alas, did a certain, one all-knowing  Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru even think at all about the island? Did the word Socotra ever emanate from his lips. His whole conduct was that of a happy-go-lucky person! Had it been China, it would have been just the opposite! 



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