Indians have been in limine residing in the Socotra archipelago since ancient
times and the name Socotra is itself derived from Dvipa Sukhadhara in
India's Sanskrit. Indians 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 India. According 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 Press) in
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
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 ab initio 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 and inalienable 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, 1935. Sukhadhara 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 an eventful journey and moved northwards towards Asia in consonance with her tryst with destiny.
Socotra was also a part
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 ab initio 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 and inalienable 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, 1935. Sukhadhara 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 an eventful 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 Anglo-Saxon regime calling upon the Anglo-Saxon regime to rescind the fraudulent separation of Socotra from the rest of India and the partition of India which would have resulted in the undoing and vitiating of this deceitful and fraudulent partition of India which was a momentarily a treacherous fait accompli by stealth and deceit then and there, but as usual, the so-called Indian National Congress and its leaders were sleeping by design or default 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 and demeanour was that of a happy-go-lucky person in collusion with the Anglo-Saxon regime in the British Isles! A person who ran with the hare and hunted with the hounds! Had it been China, it would have been just the opposite and all hell would have broken loose!
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