Etawah News: In Etawah, UP, a controversy has arisen over the picture of AO Hume, the District Magistrate of the British rule. This picture is attached here in the Inter College (Sanatam Dharm Inter College) with the pictures of great men, about which the BJP has now lodged a strong objection. A member of the BJP Working Committee has demanded its immediate removal, considering it a great negligence of the college administration and said that the British and the Mughals can never be our ideals.
Controversy over the picture of British officer AO Hume
In fact, in the principal’s room at Sanatan Dharma Inter College in Etawah city, there is a picture of AO Hume, who was the DM here during the British period. BJP has lodged an objection regarding the way this picture has been framed in the college and decorated among the great men of India. At the same time, on this whole matter, the college administration says that this building of the college was built by the then British DM AO Hume. That’s why this picture has been put here. AO Hume came in 1856 as the DM of Etawah.
The building of Sanatan Dharma Inter College of Etawah was constructed on the orders of the then British District Magistrate AO Hume by his SDM Raja Laxman Singh. It was commissioned by Raja Laxman Singh, SDM of English Collector AO Hume.
Know what historians say
Historian and Hindi spokesperson Kush Chaturvedi, who has written many books on A. O. Hume, says that in 1856, A. O. Hume first came as a collector of Etawah. AO Hume ruthlessly crushed the 1857 rebellion in Etawah. In this mutiny, AO Hume had to run away from Etawah wearing a sari in the disguise of a woman. After the mutiny of 1857, there was a lot of change in AO Hume. After which, when he came here again in 1864 as a collector, he got the building of Sanatan Dharma Inter College built by his subordinate SDM Raja Laxman Singh, it was known as Humus School at that time.
For the first time in Etawah, the door of English education was started from this Humus School. In the year 1912, the building of Humus School was bought by Shyam Bihari Bhatele, the landlord of Birari State of Etawah for 47 thousand rupees and in 1914 Sanatan Dharma School was started in this building.
The principal of the college gave this clarification
Regarding the picture of AO Hume in the principal room of Sanatan Dharma Inter College, the principal of the college, Sanjay Kumar Sharma says that this picture should not be seen from the point of view of slavery, but the building of this college was constructed during the tenure of AO Hume. What happened should be seen from this perspective. Not only this, AO Hume was also one of the founding members of the Congress. That’s why AO Hume’s picture has been put here.
BJP has expressed strong objection
BJP has strong objection to AO Hume key in Sanatan Dharma College. Dr. Ramakant Sharma, a member of the BJP State Working Committee, has said that this picture brings back memories of slavery. This is a big negligence of the college administration, it should be removed immediately. Dr. Ramakant Sharma said that at that time it was the responsibility of AO Hume to construct many buildings in Etawah and get any kind of work done. Because he was the collector of Etawah, only because of this, it cannot be said that it is right to put a photo of an official of the British rule in independent India.
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