Oh I am sure they got what they deserved. No doubt about that. But that only shows up Bal Thackray as an opportunist who went for the flavor of the day. Not a great leader. The South Indians were bad so they got their deserving asses kicked. the North Indians were bad so they got their sorry behinds handed to them. Muslims are bad and Thackray sorted them out. Every time Thackray got stronger. In Mumbai. In his cosy fiefdom. I accept all this.varunkumar wrote: You are strangely quiet on the oppression of Maratha people in their own homeland by South Indians in the decades after independence, as told in this post of Atri:
In most of the government offices, somehow there were forces which did not allow a marathi person to raise up beyond class-2 level. If anyone was at all promoted, there used to be countless inquiries, transfers and other roadblocks. As far as I understand history, this has been happening ever since MKG's assassination. There were lobbies of South Indians (My father's words) which somehow brought their person from TN to do the job in MH, but refused to promote a Marathi person for the same job.
If South Indians were really doing this to Marathas in Mumbai and other Marathi-speaking areas, then maybe they got what they deserved at the hands of Balasaheb. You are deliberately focussing on the push-back of the Marathas but not on what caused them to behave like that. Maybe being a south Indian is clouding your judgement.
But do not tell me Thackray was some kind of national level leader. He was not capable of more than what he did. He is gone now and will be remembered only for what he did and not for anything more or less.