Strange Connections: General Dyer, Rawalpindi , Murree Brewery, 26/11, Calcutta and Bollywood

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There are some events in history that connect some apparently disconnected people and events. As time passes, memories fade away, generations and circumstances change, loyalties shift and issues seem to lose relevance, there is no motivation to try to connect the dots for few data points or no hard data is available and delayed justice to information is reduced to apparently irrelevant conjectures. But are they?

We have heard about forensic and financial audits of corporates and institution. Wish there were or there will be forensic historical and civilizational audits too.

In the meantime, here is a small insight into some apparently unrelated events.

There are some dots in history that connect General Dyer, Murree Brewery, Pakistan, 26/11 and Khalistan. These are non-exhaustive. Some dots connect some current infamous politicians too that have been known to take national stance yet remain in power.

Meet General Dyer:

Born on 09.10.1864, just 7 years after the revolt of 1857, General Reginald Dyer was nearing retirement when at the age of 54 years and 6 months when he ordered his troops to fire on the unarmed crowd at Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919...unarmed men, women and children.

Their crime... merely protesting against the Rowlatt Act (officially the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act) that empowered the British colonial government to arrest Indians on mere suspicion of treason. It suspended civil liberties, permitted detention without trial for up to two years, and imposed strict censorship.

Married on 04.04.1888, at St. Martin's Church in Jhansi, he was married for 31 years at the time and had three children namely Gladys Mary Dyer born in Shimla in 1889, Ivon Reginald Dyer born in 1895 and Geoffrey Edward Macleod Dyer born in 1896 which means they were aged 30, 24 and 23 respectively at the time of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

A father of three grown ups chose to massacre hundreds of men, women and children. But that's not all.

His son, Ivon Reginald Dyer, married Phyllis Rae Mulroney on April 8, 1920, in Hampstead, London, at the age of 25...in just four month after his father killed hundreds of innocents at Jallianwala Bagh!

He was an Anglican (a member of the Church of England). Raised in India by British parents, his family had strong ties to the Church of England, and he attended the Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, an exclusive Anglican institution.

13 April 1919 happened to be a Sunday. and being a religious man, General Dyer would have offered his prayers beforehand as the carnage occurred at 5:00 P.M local time.

This doesn't make this a religiously guided mass murder. But one is forced to wonder just how evil, a liquor selling, religious man nearing retirement age and from a rich family would have been to conduct something like this at a time he would have already been aware of his son's upcoming marriage just four months away.

The Murree Brewery connection:

Murree Brewery was managed by Edward Dyer, the father of General Reginald Dyer. He was the active partner while he also had a silent partner named Edward Whymper who at the age of 65, married a 23 year girl, Edith Mary Lewin, his grand daughter's age at Emmanuel Church in Forest Gate, Essex (now London). Tells you enough about the people and their operation. One can only wonder what all they did in India.

Murree Brewery is a manufacturer of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in present day Pakistan. It is Pakistan's largest and oldest producer of alcoholic products, founded by the British in 1860 to meet the demands of British military and civilian personnel at Ghora Gali near the resort town of Murree.

In 2001, the brewery had been temporarily closed for producing too much polluting waste. Authorities slapped the environmental protection order on the Murree Brewery in Rawalpindi, Islamabad's twin city.

Interestingly, this coincides with American invasion into Afghanistan. It maybe possible that their home brands didn't allow any competition and pakistani government decided to throw light on an ignored issue citing imaginary environment safety. 

Safe to assume the current owners, the Parsi Bhandara family could not match the dollars offered by American liaison officers to secure the commercial interests of their home liquor brands that were to be supplied to American troops in Afghanistan via Islamic Military Dictatorship of pakistan.

Rawalpindi is also incidentally the Head quarters for the military headquarters for the genocide based, hate filled forcefully stitched together Islamic republic of pakistan that it inherited from their Godfather, the British Crown.

How Rawalpindi became the base for present day pakistani army:

After the Second Anglo-Sikh War, the British East India Company annexed Punjab in March 1849. On 14 March 1849, Sikh forces under Sardar Chattar Singh and Raja Sher Singh surrendered near Rawalpindi, bringing the city under British control.

The following timestamp sheds some light on how this town developed into the hate filled factory it has become today.

1849:

Annexed by British; troops stationed immediately. Its strategic advantages included proximity to the North-West Frontier (important for operations toward Afghanistan and the tribal areas) and Good location along the Grand Trunk Road.

Early 1850s:
First telegraph office established.

1851:
Permanent cantonment established (major military base). Lord Dalhousie decided to establish a permanent military cantonment there.

1854:
Garrison Church built

1857:

During the War of Independence, local Gakhar and Janjua tribes remained loyal to the British.

1867:

Municipal status granted

1880s: 

Connected by railway to Lahore and Peshawar

1883: 

An arsenal established in the cantonment, making it a major centre of military power.

1891:
Cantonment population alone reached 37,870

1901:
Became the winter headquarters of the Northern Command and the Rawalpindi military division. It housed a large number of troops, including British and Indian cavalry/infantry regiments, artillery, sappers and miners, etc. This was just 4 years before Bengal was partitioned.

1947 - Becomes GHQ of Pakistan Army

For context, consider the following map on how India appears from Rawalpindi.

Observe closely that in 1867 this place was granted municipality status as British had decided to establish its military stranglehold even harder after the 1857 revolt but also because in the year 1867 Canada was found and British must have been formalizing their hold in the area by increasing their military presence.

By the early 20th century, the cantonment had become so large that it often overshadowed the old city. Rawalpindi was considered a desirable first posting for British soldiers due to its climate and proximity to the Murree hill station.

Never forget...during the uprising of 1947, Major Nasarullah and muslim soldiers captured the throchi fort after eliminating the Gorkha garrison led by Captain Raghubir Singh...just 106 kms. from Rawalpindi.

Sadly, even the name Rawalpindi translates to the "Village of Rawals", named after a group of Rawals (yogis or ascetics).

Did Murree Brewery's "Rarest Malt Whisky" have a 26/11 connection?

This may be an incidental tidbit and is no way an insinuation against the company, irrespective of its wretched history. The following point is about the shenanigans of pakistan deep state and appears in the form of a question about which neither any facts nor any speculation exists currently. So, consider this just for what it is and in no way meant to be a commentary against the brand.

In 2007, Murree became the Muslim world's first distillery to make 20-year-old malt whisky named "Rarest Malt Whisky"...quite a unique brand name!

The very next year, during the four day long 26/11 attacks starting November 26, 2008, a high-level delegation of Indian security officials was physically located at this hill station near the capital attending scheduled bilateral talks with their Pakistani counterparts when the Mumbai attacks began from where there are unconfirmed media reports of poor or no mobile connectivity because of which officials placed in India were unable to communicate with senior home ministry staff nor were able to update them about the sheer rampage going on in Mumbai.

A 2005 article in The Associated Press attempts to start creatively with an interesting line, "Across the street from the official residence of Pakistan’s military chief, the heady smell of fermenting hops and barley wafts from a Victorian-era brewhouse that has been producing fine ale since the days of the Raj."

The article also mentions that most of Murree’s 400 workers are Muslims, among them quality control chief Huma Zubair, a chemist and microbiologist who learned brewing in the United States in the 1990s.

But she isn’t a fan of beer. She always spits it out after a taste test.

It would be interesting to know if Indian officials were offered or served Murree Brewery's uniquely named "Rarest Malt Whisky". Given that track record of pakistani deep state, chances are it would have been served. As mentioned above, this doesn't incriminate the company or the Indian officers concerned, but an observation on the pakistani deep state's meticulously researched hatred against the Kafirs.

The Calcutta Connection:

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on 13 April 1919...seventeen years after General's Dyer's family company was listed on Calcutta Stock Exchange when he would have already been 38 years of age.

Murree Brewery is one of the oldest public companies of South Asia. It's shares were traded on the Calcutta Stock Exchange as early as 1902. So, the Dyer family that had its fortunes tied to India not only via brewing interests but also via the financial markets but the family scion chose to murder 1000 plus natives while his family controlled brewery had as high as an ~38% market share in 1889 per some unconfirmed historical accounts and was a listed company in the Indian financial markets.

Shockingly, Murree Brewery was delisted from the Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE) in 1953...a full six years after brits gifted away a major chunk of our land to islamists at their will.

P.R and efforts by Murree Brewery and their relevance to India:

A according to law, liquor cannot be exported and cannot be consumed by 97% of the population of Pakistan as local law prohibits Muslims from drinking alcohol.

Murree Beer was initially being produced in Austria for European markets and was available in various Pakistani and Indian restaurants though that was folded up. One wonders how many Indian restaurants would serve it as many a Indian restaurants are run by Pakistanis and Bangladeshis as they are well aware that they can get good business only by falsely projecting themselves as an Indian restaurant.

On 6 June 2012, Scout Willis, the daughter of Hollywood actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, was arrested in New York City and jailed overnight for drinking a beer, manufactured by Murree Brewery. This incident resulted in free publicity for the company via word-of-mouth marketing, leading in to line up various distributors in the USA and Dubai as part of its expansion plans.

In 2013, Murree Brewery opened a franchise in India to a Bangalore-based entrepreneur, allowing the brewing, bottling and marketing of the beer in India. That seems to have been discontinued as well. The name of a well known bollywood actor from North-Eastern India shows up in an article but we will skip that as the venture it seems never materialized.

Murree has begun shipping alcoholic beer and spirits to: 

- United Kingdom (first test shipment in spring 2025)

- Japan

- Portugal

- Thailand

In the pipeline / targeted markets:

- United States

- Canada

- Other European countries

- Additional Asian and African markets (non-OIC countries)

Imagine Punjabis in Canada and USA being unaware that they are drinking the liquor of a company once owned by General Dyer's family while being served in Bangladeshi and pakistani owned restaurants claiming to be Indian restaurants.

Murree on Google Maps:

Pakistan ahs allowed its new colonizer, China, to produce liquor via  Chinese-run Hui Coastal Brewery and distillery, which started production in Pakistan's forcibly annexed Balochistan in 2021.

Our repetitive waves of land captures and religious changes and the sheer voluntary incompetence of post 1947 regimes have made an effort to keep us from knowing our true cold-blooded history in their quest to come across as statesmen but that ego led fake bravado has come at the cost of our own civilizational history and culture and continued cost of people especially girls voluntarily changing their religion without understanding what they are getting into.

We need to put events in perspective...of both the past and the present, observe concentric circles of multiple multi-layered events occurring over centuries, over decades and in real time and stitch those together in an attempt to understand our snail paced movement of our civilization in different direction simultaneously due to the pulls and pushes exerted on it by multiple interest parties while helping its constituents to view the stark reality and not get carried away the laminated veneer of supposed harmless events.

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