The high-awaited movie, Kesari Chapter 2, has lastly been launched on JioHotstar after a wait of two months. It has introduced a lesser-known chapter from India’s freedom wrestle to a wider viewers.
Those that have watched the movie have felt the ache and anguish of harmless Indians killed in one of many darkest phases of Indian historical past. Nevertheless it additionally introduced the highlight on Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair, portrayed by Akshay Kumar. Are you curious to know the true story of Sankaran Nair? Let’s perceive the lifetime of a barrister and nationalist who took on the British Empire after the Jallianwala Bagh bloodbath.
CS Nair: Jurist, nationalist and brave voice of conscience in opposition to the British Empire
C. Sankaran Nair’s title does not come up in many of the historical past textbooks, however his actions shook the foundations of the British Empire. He was born in 1857 within the Malabar area of Kerala. CS Nair’s father was a Tahsildar within the British authorities and, after a conventional upbringing, he went to the Presidency Faculty, Madras. After taking a level in arts, he pursued legislation from the Madras Legislation Faculty. CS Nair was married to his maternal cousin, Parvati Amma, and so they had six kids.
He served in a number of roles, together with the Indian Nationwide Congress president in 1897, Advocate-Normal of Madras, a decide of the Madras Excessive Court docket, and a member of the Viceroy’s Govt Council in 1915, the place he managed the training portfolio. He fought vital instances and was knighted in 1912. Sankaran Nair resigned from the Viceroy’s Council within the aftermath of the Jallianwalla Bagh bloodbath, and later, in 1928, he was the President of the Indian Central Committee to cooperate with the Simon Fee. They made an correct draft asking for Dominion Standing for India, and when its Viceregal announcement was made, he retired and later handed away in 1934.
How did C Sankaran Nair problem the British empire for the Jallianwala Bagh bloodbath?
Kesari Chapter 2 is based mostly on the e book, The Case That Shook The Empire by CS Nair’s great-grandson, Raghu Palat. Nevertheless it takes some artistic liberties to convey how Sankaran Nair and ‘Dilreet Gill’ portrayed by Ananya Panday, filed a genocide case in opposition to Normal Reginald Dyer for the Jallianwala Bagh bloodbath. However, in actuality, after resigning from the Viceroy’s Council and the Hunter Fee verdict, CS Nair authored Gandhi and Anarchy. Within the e book, he known as out Mahatma Gandhi’s non-cooperation strategies. He talked about that the then Punjab Governor, Michael O’Dwyer was conscious beforehand and chargeable for the atrocities within the Amritsar bloodbath. In a chapter titled The Punjab Atrocities, he penned:
“Earlier than the reforms (referring to the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms of 1919), underneath a Lieutenant-Governor — a single particular person — the atrocities within the Punjab, which we all know solely too properly might be dedicated virtually with impunity.”
Michael O’Dwyer demanded an apology for the blame, and when CS Nair refused, the previous filed a libel case. As one of many longest civil instances, it was heard within the King’s Bench for 5 weeks, and all the percentages have been in opposition to Sankaran Nair. Locals from Amritsar refused to testify. Those that agreed weren’t thought of correct by Justice McCardie, who was additionally neutral together with the 11-member jury besides one. Regardless of CS Nair being represented by former Chief Justice of Madras HC, Sir Walter Schwabe, Sankaran Nair misplaced the case and needed to pay 500 kilos to Michael O’Dwyer.
Regardless of shedding the case, C Sankaran Nair did not again down and introduced one of the vital inhumane Jallianwala Bagh bloodbath earlier than the world and fueled India’s wrestle for Independence.
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