Hindutva

[Bodhi]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In Hyderabad, the princely state of Nizam, 80% of the state’s land was owned by the Hindus and from 95 - 97% of state revenue was derived from the Hindus. Hindus were overtaxed. And how was this revenue spent:

During the 1930s the Ecclesiastical Dept. spent an annual average of Rs. 300,000 on Islamic charities, Rs. 15,000 on Christian charities and Rs. 3000 on Hindus charities. Other large sums were expended on Islamic institutions abroad.

Between 1926 and 1932 RS. 10,000,000 was given to Aligarh University, Rs. 500,000 to London Mosque, Rs. 100,000 to Jama masjid in Delhi, Rs. 100,000 to a mosque in Palestine, Rs. 80,000 to a Muslim association in Turkey, and Rs. 232,000 to the travelling expenses of Muslims going to Mecca.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Diwan Jarmani Das in 'Maharaja', wrote a chapter on the then Nizam, in which he also described how Nizam used to usurp Money, especially from Hindu. One example he mentioned goes like this. Once the king from datia state sent as gift to nizam, a train-wagon full of ghee. Nizam (who was a top rank miser) never consumed the ghee nor gave it away, therefore in a few months it started rotting in his kitchens. Finally, when odour became unbearable, he asked prime minister raja kishan parsad to sell the rotten ghee to all the temples in hyderabad and surrounding, and collect the going price. (Kotwal of hyderabad a Reddy and PM kishan parsad purchased the ghee from their pockets and disposed it off)

The bigot was once humbled by Pt Madan Mohan Malaviya the founder of BHU. As per another tale that I had come across, Engineer Viswesaraiya had also humbled the bigot by making him perform a grand puja along with his ministers and women, to mother godavari.

[Shambhu]

<span style='color:orange'><b>New age RSS </b></span>
Mon, Aug 4 01:20 AM

THE MORNING shakhas, the recruitment base of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), is shrinking, from 63,391 in March 1994 to 55,371 in March 2008, but the high command is not worried. They have already penetrated deep into the high profile intellectual pockets with an aura of secrecy so archetypal of their age-old functioning style.

And now colleges are high on their agenda. RSS is holding an internal meeting this month to discuss ways to improve its connect with colleges.

Senior RSS leader Manmohan Vaidya says: "We had reached over 2.65 lakh students through various events organised in schools and colleges during centenary celebrations held in February 2006 to February 2007. We want to further increase our reach.

" As college students are high on their radar, RSS leadership, if required, is willing to walk and talk the lingo with which the youth identifies with. Says Madan Das Devi: <b>"We are open to the use of simpler language but close to changing our thoughts.</b>"

Nagpur-based RSS ideologue Dilip Deodhar says<b>: "Every day a new organisation or front is floated somewhere in the country with the tacit support of the Sangh." </b>RSS modified its expansion strategy after an internal survey conducted in 2006 revealed that the shakhas had actually gone down despite efforts to increase them by 40 per cent.

The modus operandi is simple. Vijay Patkis, a bank official (who recently took VRS), currently conducting the month-long OTC at Resham Bagh, the RSS headquarters in Nagpur admits: "RSS lends pracharaks to the fledgling organisations till they become self sufficient.

" Deodhar seconds it by adding: "Sangh had given 151 pracharaks to VHP till it became self sufficient. Now RSS is sending pracharaks to Dharm Jagran, a parallel outfit floated by RSS to contain the VHP. The new outfit's task is to build a network of religious centres.

" As of now, there are about one lakh service projects and 50,000 RSS supported forums or fronts whose connection with RSS may not be known or visible. Besides there are the known 40 allied organisations.

"They have even started thousands of small magazines all over the country to market their ideology," says Deodhar, who is also convenor of several RSS supported forums like Futurists' club, Bank Customer's Club, Intellectual Commandos Club, Bhartiya Shareholders Club and Vyavsayak Club. There are separate forums floated for Chartered Accountants, IT techies, doctors, advocates, librarians, financial advisers, bankers, entrepreneurs, working women, affluent women, tribals et al.

Not all have a pan India image. RSS is closely interacting with economists and experts on formulation of economic document for the country.

As internal security and terrorism is also high on their agenda, they are in touch with ex-army officials. Several senior retired army officials including major general and brigadiers had attended meet in Dehradun on internal security, terrorism and Naxalism.

International Centre for Cultural Studies (ICCS) that aims at <b>bringing together communities that preserve and practice pre-Christianity and pre Islamic culture and religion</b> along with 18 other organisations, including 10 Muslim bodies, had recently organised a function in the remembrance of 1857 martyrs in Nagpur. Sudarshan sat with 500-odd audiences.

RSS has also redesigned its curriculum for the three-year OTC-training programme for the swayamsewaks to incorporate contemporary subjects like disaster management, globalisation, media communication, and Hindu economics and information technology.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/32/20080804/1053/...-age-rss_1.html

[Shambhu]

<b><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Hindutva in the Present-day Context </span></b>
Written by Vinay Sahasrabuddhe
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To discuss ‘Hindutva in the present-day context' is both, simple and difficult at the same time. Simple because ample has already been and is still being said about Hindutva by its adversaries as also its advocates. Difficult because it is hard to sift the ocean of literature about Hindutva and interpret it in the present-day context.


Hindutva in the Present-day Context


To discuss ‘Hindutva in the present-day context' is both, simple and difficult at the same time. Simple because ample has already been and is still being said about Hindutva by its adversaries as also its advocates. Difficult because it is hard to sift the ocean of literature about Hindutva and interpret it in the present-day context.


What adds to the intricacies of the task is the confusion surrounding the concept of Hindutva - thanks mainly to the intellectual liberty, almost bordering on irresponsibility, enjoyed by both: adversaries and advocates alike. Too much political colouration of Hindutva and absolute apathy on the part of the academia and intelligentsia to understand its core message has made the task easier for its adversaries to paint it as a weird, unsustainable ideology.


No wonder that almost two decades after the Ayodhya Movement, Hindutva hardly figures in whatever serious intellectual discourse that is witnessed in India. On the one hand, adversaries of Hindutva indulge only in using it as an old stick to beat its advocates, while the latter do precious little to present it in the modern context and in the idiom, which the intelligentsia world over understands.


In the post-independence history of India, the nineties have their own importance. Early nineties saw the political consolidation of the forces behind the Hindutva movement only to be taken to its logical end in late nineties, manifested in the emergence of BJP-led governments in New Delhi. It was in this decade that Hindutva became a prominent, almost central theme of intellectual discourse in our country. Those who owed allegiance to Hindutva as a political ideology became a force to reckon with. Gradually, it became impossible to just ignore what was happening in the Hindutva camp. So much so that several political analysts of international standing attained fame for their very honest effort to understand what was happening in India. Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul believed that the movement was inevitable.


Ayodhya Movement


The Ram-Janmabhoomi movement was the perfect symbol of Cultural Nationalism and it communicated the message of Hindu Unity so very effectively that hundreds of Leftist scholars were at pains to explain as to how Hindus had come together through a movement, which was described by them as ‘Brahmnical'. While sound logical arguments in favor of Ram-Janmabhoomi made it acceptable in the educated urbanites and thinking circles, what was more important was the emotionality of the issue, which proved to be a unifier par excellence.


It was an issue, so very deeply rooted in our shared ethos that it became hard for even the staunchest secularists to gloss over it. At least for a certain period of time, Ram- Janmabhoomi made the Hindus forget their caste identities and in a way forced them to think of their larger cultural identity - the Hindu identity. A number of secularist journalists who witnessed the events in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992 had to publicly accept the fact that the sea of humanity that they witnessed had only one inseparable identity and that was the Hindu identity. Regardless of the questions of legitimacy of the events on that fateful day, the one certainty was that in the entire length and breadth of our nation the entire Hindu society experienced an intense feeling of unity and solidarity, - so very unheard of about the Hindus earlier.



This emotional unity, howsoever short-lived it might have remained; was the greatest contribution of the Ram-Janmabhoomi movement. True, that Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and other organizations had undertaken several programmes aimed at consolidation of all those who are essentially Hindus right after the Meenakshipuram conversions, still; the success of the Ram-Janmabhoomi movement was simply unparalleled.


This single event had given rise to the expectations that now, with solid popular support, Hindutva ideologues would strive to make inroads into the intellectual and academic arenas. Expectations soared further after the installation of BJP or BJP-led governments, both in some states and also at the centre. It was thought that the ideology that has proved to be instrumental in seeing BJP at the helm of affairs would also be duly recognized in the academia and the thinking circles. But, unfortunately, it just did not.


Notwithstanding the propaganda of the Left leaning academics about the so-called Saffronisation of education, Hindutva as an ideology, continues to be untouchable in the corridors of academics. This untouchability emanates from various factors. Granted that largely this ‘untouchability' is thanks to the lure of political correctness, it is also true that there are sections in the opinion-making classes who have genuine misunderstandings and at times even serious complaints about this ideology. Not every objection deserves to be ignored, much less to be rubbished.


Demystifying Hindutva


While analyzing the challenge of demystifying Hindutva, it must be noted that the outer world has always been seeing Hindutva movement through a particular prism only. Three dimensions of this prism consist of three important events in post-independence history of India. These events include the most unfortunate murder of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, the destruction of the disputed structure at Ayodhya in 1992 and the post-Godhra violence against the Muslim community in Gujarat in 2002. Majority of the opinion-makers consider these three events as stereotypes and base their understanding of the Hindutva movement on them...


While it is true that there could be different angles of looking at these three events, it is also true that regardless of whatever angle one desires to take; what is required is to understand the backdrop on which these three independent events happened. All these three events could be described as expression of anger or pent-up emotions and hence the state of collective minds responsible for these events needs to be dispassionately analysed and a sound understanding developed before one chooses to either defend them or denounce out rightly.


Noted journalist Francois Gautier has brilliantly commented on this phenomenon of collective expression of anger. He says, "However reprehensible these acts of mass vengeance were, they have shown that Hindus keep quiet for a long time: they get riled at, they are made fun of, they are despised, their women raped, men killed, children burnt in trains and one day they blow up - and blow up badly. Riots don't erupt in a few days: they are the fruit of decades, of generations even, of suppressed anger, of frustration, of a silent majority which sees itself more and more marginalized and taken for granted."


Due to this widespread belief based on impressions; that persons responsible for these three events were all avowed supporters of Hindutva, the entire movement received a bad name and a negative image, extremely hard to erase. People are aware that thousands of service projects undertaken for the underprivileged sections by hundreds of dedicated life workers believing in Hindutva are functioning consistently for several decades. Yet, such commendable work has not helped this movement earn acceptance because the so-called progressive and secular forces have consistently and obdurately turned a Nelson eye towards the benign influence of Hindutva organizations and chosen to portray only the momentary aberration committed by a section of erring Hindus.


Destruction of Image


Behind this double whammy against Hindutva is the unwillingness of Hindutva's adversaries to really understand the strong sense of denial of the Hindu aspirations, the feeling that historical wrongs against the Hindus were not addressed by the governments of the day despite, serious efforts of the Hindu community to focus attention on them and negotiate a solution. The result has been that the adversaries of Hindutva relish painting the entire movement black!


Their series of allegations against Hindutva consists of following five points: -

· Hindutva is sectarian and hence anti-Muslims and anti-Christians.

· Hindutva is communal, pro-upper caste, pro-Manu, and hence against the backward and weaker sections of the society.

· Hindutva is anti-women, obscurantist and against gender justice.

· Hindutva is against freedom of expression.

· Hindutva is anti-modernity.


Most of the above allegations have been repeated umpteen number of times creating thick clouds of misunderstanding around the entire Hindu movement. No ideological movement in the world may have ever faced such a grave image crisis. Considering the extremely wide gap between the reality about the movement and its largely established image, Herculean efforts from the defenders of Hindutva are a must.


Spiritual Democracy


Before we examine the basis of these allegations, it is necessary to enquire as to what exactly do we mean by Hindutva. Hindutva consists of the term Hindu that is largely understood as a way of worship, a religion or a belief system. However, the term Hindutva per se does not refer to Hindu religion. Literally speaking, Hindutva means Hindu ness. Just as the Sanskrit term Manushyatva means being a human, Hindutva can be explained as being a Hindu.


Due to a huge multiplicity of worshipped deities and a vast diversity of the ways to worship them, no straightjacketing is possible in Hindu religion; and, as a consequence, in Hindu worldview. It is in this complete denial of straightjacketing that lay the roots of spiritual democracy, which is the most distinguishing facet of Hindu religion. Unlike Christianity and Islam, Hinduism never presents itself as the only way to seek salvation. On the contrary, Hinduism considers that every path leads an individual to the same truth and to the same almighty, which wise / knowledgeable persons refer to in different ways.


A firm belief in this concept, as communicated in "Ekam Sat, Vipra Bahudavadanti" (Truth is one, sages describe it differently) is the corner stone of Hindu religious thought. This notion has in effect, made all religions valid and reverential for all. It is due to this fundamental faith in the existence of multiple ways of seeking salvation that the concept of proselytisation and the resultant competition for converting people finds no place in Hindu religion. This is also true in other indigenous belief systems, be it Jainism or Buddhism. Let us not forget that this spiritual democracy, this fundamental spirit of accommodation alone could make India a shining example of centuries of peaceful co-existence of different religions and belief systems.


In other words, thanks to Hinduism, India could evolve a replicable model of sustainable pluralism. Acceptance of the fundamental equality of, and hence equal respect for all religions and all the ways of worship is the basis of such sustained pluralism. It must be remembered that if one commits him / herself to the cardinal principles of sustainable pluralism, one cannot talk of superiority of a way of worship and hence of the need to convert adherents of other faiths. Besides, once one decides to indulge in the concepts of superiority of a religion, no meaningful dialogue between faiths can happen.


Today, when the entire world is facing a sever threat of terrorist tendencies and the root cause of terrorism happens to be a particular religious belief system, can humanity survive without accepting spiritual democracy? The essence of the concept of spiritual democracy, I believe, has helped Hinduism survive. To put it simply, Hindu ness does not lie in a set of rituals, systems of worship or belief in any scriptures. It does not believe that there is only one path to attain salvation and openly concedes that belief, without any reservation. It is in this essential acceptance of, nay; welcome to other faiths and other gods that remains the crux of your Hindu ness, i.e. Hindutva. It is this very unique and supremely liberal characteristic of the Hinduism that makes one a Hindu. It is on this background that one has to look at the proposition that to be an adherent of Hindutva, one need not be a Hindu. It is in the light of this core concept of Hindutva that one has to examine issues such as social justice and gender equality.


No place for discrimination


Once one accepts that every path ultimately leads to the one and the same ultimate truth, the questions of caste and creed need to be settled once and for all. Hindutva has absolutely no place for discrimination on the basis of caste. Equality of human beings is the cardinal principle. In Hindutva scheme of things, superiority or inferiority of an individual just cannot depend upon in which family one has taken birth. When Hindutva aspires to put an end to such discriminations lock, stock and barrel, where comes the question of defending Chaturvarnya, untouchability or caste conflict?


The essential unity and equality of the mankind perceived by Hindutva just cannot accept any artificial divides promoted by politicians in the garb of academicians. Theories like Aryan invasion, conflict between indigenous people and non-indigenous people, differences between aboriginals or Adivasis and others, branding of certain social groups or communities as criminals by birth, or a conflict between the victor and the vanquished etc. cannot find any place at all in the concept of Hindutva.


It may be pointed out here that the adversaries of Hindutva always propagate that Hindutva is the other name of Brahmanatva. There cannot be any other statement than this that is farthest from the facts. Several references in what is known as Dalit literature are a testimony of the fact that the upbringing of Dalit children happens in the same religious-cultural ethos just like that of the so-called upper caste children. The way Brahmans celebrate Diwali is in no way different from the way Mangs or Matangs and other scheduled caste groups celebrate. Same is the case with Adivasis.


Several sociologists have established that Adivasis in India are not like aboriginals in Australia. There are several erstwhile nomads or even martial communities who took shelter in the thick forests during the times of turbulence, several centuries before. Today, they are identified as Adivasis, the original inhabitants, as if all others are either aggressors or outsiders. It is in this context that one has to have a re-look at the terms in which we refer to our own brethren.


Again, to say that simply because some of the Adivasis eat beef or worship nature and no idols, they go beyond the purview of Hindutva is a misnomer. When Hindutva can accept even Lord Christ or Prophet Mohammad, where comes the question of not accepting nature-worship? And above all, how can non-Hindus like church groups in India's North-East sit in the judgment and decide as to who are Hindus and who are not?


Social equality


On this background, it is necessary to discuss the question of social equality in general and caste based reservations in particular. It must be noted that the universally accepted and widely acclaimed concepts of affirmative action and positive discrimination for social justice are at the root of caste based reservations. Supporters of Hindutva have realised long ago that larger and lasting Hindu unity will not be possible without the so-called upper castes cultivating a mindset for creating a space, at the cost of their own opportunity; for the underprivileged classes.


It would not be wrong to suggest that the privileged and comparatively less unfortunate sections of the society also have to ensure that the weaker sections not only get reservations but also are also duly empowered to take advantage of them. Those who are committed to the cause of Hindu unity just cannot afford to be unmindful of the fact that if emotional integrity is not achieved, Hindu unity will remain a chimera. For emotional integrity to sustain one has to promote this spirit of mutual understanding, accommodation with a sense of fundamental social responsibility.


Hindus will have to remain fully aware about the designs of anti-Hindu-unity forces aimed at dividing this society and breaking the cultural-emotional bonds and inter-community harmony, whatsoever. Having said that, it must also be mentioned that the whole gamut of issues concerning reservations need a re-look. Thinking out of box with regards to the ways and means of making caste-based quota more effective and result oriented is the need of the hour. For this to happen, the issue of caste-based quota requires to be de-politicized. Our politicians will have to choose between securing vote banks and protecting national interest. After all, high decibels while clamoring for quota from the rooftop cannot be the only yardstick for being progressive.


Quotas cannot be de-linked from the wider issue of social and community identity. Narrow and communal identities need to be accommodated and amalgamated with the wider national and social identity. Ironical as it may seem, but this can happen only through respect and recognition for smaller identities. Lest one forgets, such identities can never be crushed. They can only be accommodated.


‘Recognize first and then try to remold' could be the only effective way of dealing with these issues. Creating an atmosphere where every part feels that it can lead a meaningful life only while remaining inseparable from the whole is a severe challenge before the Hindutva movement. For this, disadvantaged sections of our society need to be assured of equal respect, equal opportunity and equal protection. Mahatma Gandhiji's principles of Antyodaya (Placing the last man in the row, first when it comes to benefits of a welfare state) as the mainstay of our approach towards policies for social justice and social harmony alone can halt the process of social divide.


Sustainable pluralism


The vexed issue of conversions has a close connection with social justice and equality. Firstly, demands for quota also for the new converts from formerly scheduled castes and tribes have rendered the argument that conversions bring social equality and respect, completely hollow. But more importantly, when Hindutva itself means broad-mindedness, how can one accommodate an argument that a particular faith alone is valid or have a monopoly right to take one to salvation?


Granted that in a spiritual democracy, one is free to worship gods of his/her choice. However, this cannot be stretched too far to accommodate some kind of a "sole distributorship of salvation" claimed by certain belief systems. It must be remembered that any argument in favor of conversion construes an acceptance to the attempts of proclaiming other faiths inferior and invalid. While there is nothing wrong in conversion per say, proselytizing through fraudulent means like claiming a particular faith as the only path, is totally against the very grain of spiritual democracy. In any truly secular democratic polity, conversions should find no place at all.


At several occasions in the past, those who swear by secularism have developed cold feet. The 45th Amendment of 1978 introduced in the parliament in India introduced the definition of "secular" as "equal respect to all religions". However, the Rajya Sabha, with a Congress majority rejected this definition, mainly because some fundamentalist elements in non-Hindu belief systems were opposed to the same.


Yet another case in point of stubborn opposition to this equality of faiths is the fact that in year 2000, when UN had organised a an International Conference of all Belief Systems to mark the beginning of a new millennium, Vatican had chosen to stay away saying that they can not sit with other faiths and declare acceptance to equality of religions. Artificial or contrived conversions are an affront on Human Rights and if fraudulent conversion is allowed unabatedly, in the long run, it will render a body blow to sustainable pluralism.


Gender justice


The foundation of the Hindu ideology lies in scriptures like "sarvepi sukhina snatu sarve santu niramayah" (Happiness and health should be reaching all). Naturally then, the idea of Hindu ness encompasses welfare of the entire Humankind. If this is the fact, how can Hindutva ever be discriminating on the basis of gender? Hindutva worldview in the context of the present days presupposes both men and women are equal and complementary to each other, at the same time. Excessive insistence on mere equality may not ensure the desired creative co-existence.


On the other hand, stressing complementary aspect alone may elude recognition and respect for the individuality of a woman. Element of justice has to be the basis of any ideological concept in this regard. As advocated by renowned scientist Dr.R.D.Mashelkar, evolving a family system where woman occupies centrality is the need of changing societies. Modern families where women get equal opportunities, equal respect and equal protection as well as facilities alone can survive. For this to happen, men need to change and become more family oriented. This mindset change can happen only through greater awareness amongst the male members of families about gender sensitization and gender equality.


In the context of women related issues, on the one hand women can no more be treated like a slave, and on the other hand portraying them as deities or goddesses is also unfair. What all women need is a humane treatment. Practices such as Sati or for that matter any other traditions connoting inequality of sexes are outdated and hence condemnable. Such obsolete and irrelevant practices have absolutely no place in Hindutva.


Liberalism


Unlike what is being portrayed, Hindutva forces have always stood for freedom of expression and for most of the times, disapproved any attempts to suppress creativity. Instances like the brouhaha over the infamous Danish cartoons or Da Vinci Code are so very rare in the context of Hinduism that many progressive artists take liberty to play with Hindu sensibilities. Hindutva movement will have to handle such issues with dexterity. The kind of maturity shown by Hindutva forces during the controversy over Dr. Ambedkar's "Riddles in Ramayan", in early eighties was illustrious since it ensured that the cause of larger Hindu unity is not harmed.


It has to be underscored that concepts of democracy and liberalism form the core of Hindutva. As desired by Sant Dnyaneshwar, "Jo je wanchhchil to te laho" meaning everybody should get whatever he or she aspires for is the bottom line of Hindutva. Hindutva believes in autonomy in all respect. From food habits to fashions and from family systems to festivities, everything that is not against human justice and human rights should be generally acceptable. Any kind of straightjacketing is an anathema to Hindutva.


Hindutva recognizes the importance of reforms, and also recognizes the fact that reforms cannot be transplanted from without. Only those who identify themselves with the traditions can effectively change them. For those who believe that practices like celebrating Valentine Day are Western and hence need to be abhorred, the best way could be to draw a longer line and popularize the indigenous version of this festival of love. Indulging in violence while decrying revelers just cannot be the answer.


About the observation that Hindutva represents anti-modern views, has no base at all. Obscurantist elements are in every society and even the way some of the Hindus preach and practice, they sound extremely fanatic. But since Hindu religion is not book based, really speaking there is no scope for any fundamentalism. "Nitya Nutan - Chira Puratan"

(Innovation and Modernity going hand in hand with Ancient and Historical.) is the mainstay of Hindu thinking. The kind of resilience that Hindus have shown while accepting whatever is modern is a testimony of their being receptive to whatever is modern and in tune with the times.


For Hindutva to be embraced by the entire Humanity as a way of life, Hindus should be exporting their own cultural traditions, symbols and even social institutions. One pre-condition of this is that Hindus first of all, should come out of self-denial while understanding themselves. To that end, it has to start with the long overdue re-stating of Hindutva. An absolute lack of clarity and sheer absence of articulation, coupled with incoherence, and inertia, has made Hindutva forces appear like a bankrupt millionaire.


Hindutva has become a favorite whipping boy of the so-called progressives. Many consider that without assailing Hindutva, one can never be considered legitimate in the worlds of academia, scholarship and to an extent; even media. Let it be remembered that thinking circles in India let alone recognizing, are not even tolerating Hindutva forces. None of the Hindutva leaders have ever defended practices as irrelevant and anti-Humanity as either untouchability or child marriages.


From Swami Vivvekananda to Balasaheb Deoras or L K Advani, those who have taken pride in their Hinduness (Hindutva) have, in no uncertain terms denounced all such practices describing them as perversions. But then, hardly ever efforts have been made to tell the world as to what are the ingredients of this new age or modern or say contemporary "Hindutva" and present it once again, in the form of a theory or a thought. It was on this background that the Left - leaning thinkers had a field day, successfully hitting Hindutva with the same old sticks, wantonly indulging in self-flagellation and in the process demoralizing the cadre. That this further helped them consolidate their position and continue with their "Thought Hegemony". The most dreadful and anti-democratic consequence of this was the cult of ideological untouchability indulged in by several members of the intelligentsia. Clearing every kind of confusion about Hindutva in no uncertain terms, once and for all; is the only way. Let us walk this way together...

[Shambhu]

<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><b>Fundamentals of Hindutva and Concept of Hindusthan</b> </span>
Written by Dr. Subramanian Swamy
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Hindustan, conceptually is a nation of Hindus and those others in the nation who accept with pride that their ancestors are Hindus. The identity of an “Indian” follows as an easy corollary as one who is a Hindu or one who proudly acknowledges that his ancestors are of Hindu faith. Even today most nations abroad refer to India as Hindustan [e.g., Yindu guo in Chinese, Hind in Arabic]. Only in our country we go by the English garbled variation India of Hindustan...

Fundamentals of Hindutva

and

The Concept of Hindustan



Hindustan, conceptually is a nation of Hindus and those others in the nation who accept with pride that their ancestors are Hindus. The identity of an “Indian” follows as an easy corollary as one who is a Hindu or one who proudly acknowledges that his ancestors are of Hindu faith. Even today most nations abroad refer to India as Hindustan [e.g., Yindu guo in Chinese, Hind in Arabic]. Only in our country we go by the English garbled variation India of Hindustan. Parsis, Jews, Syrian Christians come in a special category of Hindustan’s religious minority, as those who were welcomed by Hindus since they came to Hindustan seeking refuge from persecution in their own lands abroad, and who willingly accepted to abide by, and adopt cultural customs of Hindus. All these minorities however had inter-married with Hindus over the last millennium and a half, and hence have a claim to the nation’s Hindu civilization by ancestry. From the Hindustan identity flows the fundamentals of Hindu-ness or Hindutva as the cultural parameters of the Hindustan society.



Why the need to discuss?



Why is it important after sixty years, since the British imperialists were driven out, that we need to discuss today the concept of our identity and the fundamentals of Hindutva? This need arises because of the misfortune of the almost uninterrupted rule of Jawaharlal Nehru[17 years] and Indira Gandhi[16 years], and their cheap imitators in office since 1947.


The concept of Hindutva and the ancient Hindu foundation of the nation were demeaned during their tenure, and those who dared to advocate it were ostracized by the government. The nation was not allowed by these imposters to find its feet after a thousand years of debasement of, and brutality against Hindu religion, by a vulgarization of Hindustan’s true and glorious history in textbooks that were prescribed by the Congress governments. That debasement continues today under the present government.


Over the last two millenniums, Hindu religion had been subjected to threats several times from other religious groups, but these threats had been met, the challenges faced and overcome sometime actively as by the Vijayanagaram and Mahratta kingdoms or passively as in the Freedom Struggle. Well before the birth of Christianity and Islam, Hindu religion had been once intellectually dethroned by Hinayana Buddhism. But Adi Sankaracharya rethroned Hinduism through his famous shastrathas[religious debate] and caused a renaissance in Buddhism itself, which then came to be known as Mahayana Buddhism, conceptually in complete harmony with, if not indistinguishable from, Hindu theology.


In South India, the azhwars and nayanmars also through shastrathas repositioned Hinduism after absorbing Jainism and Buddhism. Since then the Hindu dharmacharyas have always been looked up to, when Hindu society faced a threat or crisis, for guidance to meet the challenge to the Hindu religion. Today, we again need the revered acharyas to show us the way. Hence the formation of the ‘Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha’ under the guidance of Swami Dayananda Sarasvati of Arsha Vidyalaya and the Tirupati Declaration of July 2006 are of vital importance for the future renaissance of the nation.


Hindu ethos provided for sanctuary and home to those of other faiths fleeing from their countries due to religious persecution. As I stated earlier, Parsis, Jews and Syrian Christians are among those religious groups who had sought refuge in India, and survived because the Hindus looked after them. These three religious communities have had and have today a disproportionate share in power and wealth in Indian society, but Hindus have no resentment about it. These minorities had come to India in search of peace and found safe haven in the midst of Hindu society.


Parsis migrated elsewhere in the world too, but disappeared as a community in those countries. Jews have openly acknowledged that India as the only country where they were not persecuted. Syrian Christians too are today completely integrated into India. Even early Arab Muslim travelers who came peacefully to settle in Kerala were taken into Hindu families, and hence called Mapillai[meaning son-inlaw-- Moplah in English]. That is a fundamental of Hindutva, the ethos of compassion and co-option that is unparalleled in world history.


However, militant Islam and later crusading Christianity came to India, and aggressively challenged Hinduism. They seized power in sequence and established their own state in India. But despite state patronage to the ensuing onslaught, plunder and victimisation, those of Hindu faith could not be decimated, and Hinduism remained the theology of the vast Indian majority. This was passive resistance of Hindus, much before Mahatma Gandhi came of the scene. Defiant Hindus suffered persecution and economic deprivation during Islamic and Christian reigns, such as through differential taxation[e.g., jezia and zamindari land revenue appropriation] and plain brutality, but Hindus by and large refused to capitulate and convert.


Even after almost a thousand years of such targeting by Muslims and Christian rulers, undivided India in 1947 was more than 75 percent Hindu. This was partly because of the victorious Vijayanagaram, the Sikh reign, and Mahratta kingdoms, and later the Freedom Movement, each inspired by sanyasis such Sringeri Shankaracharya, Swami Ramdas, Guru Nanak, Swami Vivekanada and Sri Aurobindo, who by their preaching about the Hindu identity and Hindutva ensured that the flame of Hindu defiance never dimmed. It was also due to individual defiance of Hindus such as of Rana Pratap, Rani Jhansi, Rani Bennur, Kattaboman and Netaji Subhas Bose.


These icons are admired not because they led us to victory [in fact they were defeated or killed], or had found out a safe compromise[they did not], but because of their courage of conviction in the face of huge odds not to submit to tyranny. That courageous defiance is also is part of Hindutva. But those who capitulated like Raja Man Singh or Jai Chand or Pudukottai Raja in order to live in pomp and grandeur are despised today by the people. Hindutva means: resist by passive non-violent resistance if possible, otherwise by vigorous aggressive action if necessary. Hindutva means never to submit, never to compromise with evil.


In 1947, temporal power was defacto restored to the Hindu majority. But the Indian state formally adopted secularism, which concept however was never properly defined or debated. For example, it left vague what modern Indian’s connection was with the nation’s Hindu past and legacy. In the name of secularism, it was taboo for a public servant even to break a coconut or light a oil lamp to inaugurate an official function on the ground that religious symbols must not invade public life.


Such orthodoxy was promoted by Jawarharlal Nehru and his Leftist advisers. But the government took over supervision of temples, legislated on Hindu personal laws, appropriated temple revenues and regulated religious festivals, but kept aloof from the Muslim and Christian religious affairs. The secularism principle was foisted on the Hindu masses without making him understand why they had to abide by such legislation but not the Muslims and Christians. It made a mockery of Article 14 of the Constitution on equality before law.


As a result, the renaissance that had begun in the late nineteenth century to redefine the Hindu identity [in contemporary terms and on norms valid in a pluralistic society] was aborted by the confusion thus created in Hindu minds by Nehruism. Electoral politics further confounded the issues arising out of secularism, and hence the Indian society became gradually and increasingly fragmented in outlook and of confused perspective. Hindu society became divided by caste that became increasingly mutually antagonistic.


Attempts were made through falsification in history texts adopted for curriculum in the education system to disconnect and disinherit the contemporary Indian from the past glory of Hindu India. The intrinsic Hindu unity has been sought to be undone by legitimizing such bogus concepts as Aryan-Dravidian racial divide theory, or that India as a concept never existed till the British imperialists invented it, or that Indians have always been ruled by invaders from abroad.


There is no such word as Aryan in Sanskrit literature [closest is ‘arya’ meaning honourable person, and not community] or Dravidian [Adi Sankara had in his shasthrath with Mandana Mishra at Varanasi, called himself as a ‘Dravida shishu’ that is a child of where three oceans meet, i.e. south India]. The racial divide theory was a deliberate distortion by British imperialists, and propagated by their witting and unwitting mental Indian slave academicians on the hapless students in educational institutions.


Incidentally, the Aryan-Dravidian myth has now been exploded by modern research on DNA of Indians conducted by Professor C. Panse of Newton, Mass. USA and other scholars. In light of such new research, the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] in it’s October 6, 2005 service completely debunked the Aryan—Dravidian race theory in stating that: “The theory was not just wrong, it included unacceptably racist ideas” [www.bbc.co.uk, religion & ethics homepage, Thursday, 6/10/05].


Modern India is portrayed by foreign interests through this curriculum, as a discontinuity in history and as a new entity much as are today’s Greece, Egypt or Iraq. That curriculum is largely intact today. On the contrary efforts are afoot to bolster the disparagement of our past in the new dispensation today. A rudderless India, disconnected from her past has, as a consequence, become a fertile field for religious poachers and neo-imperialists from abroad who paint India as a mosaic of immigrants much like a crowd on a platform in a railway junction. That is, it is clandestinely propagated that India has belonged to those who forcibly occupied it. This is the theme around which the Islamic fundamentalists and fraud Christian crusaders are again at work, much as they were a thousand years ago, but of course in new dispensations, sophistication, and media forms.


Thus the concept of Hindustan, and India’s Hindu foundation implicit in Hindutva, are dangerously under challenge by these forces. Tragically most Hindus today are not even cognizant of it. Hindu patriots thus must meet this challenge by propagating the concept of Hindustan and spreading the knowledge among Hindus of the fundamentals of Hindutva. The challenge today confronting Hindus is however much more difficult to meet than was earlier in history because the forces at work to erode and undermine the Hindu foundation of the nation, unlike before, are unseen, clandestine, pernicious, deceptive but most of all sophisticated and media-savvy.


Tragically therefore, a much more educated and larger numbers of Hindus have been unwittingly co-opted in this sinister conspiracy directed by foreigners who have no love for India and who also see, much as Lord Macaulay saw in the nineteenth century, that the hoary Hindu foundation of India is a stumbling block for the furtherance of their nefarious perfidious game for castrating Hindustan. Adherence to Hinduism is also being sought to be diluted in the name of modernity and this dilution is made a norm of secularism.


Religion, it is advocated, is personal. To be a good Hindu today is conceptually being reduced to just praying, piety, visiting temples, and celebrating religious festivals. The need for a collective Hindu mindset, an essential fundamental of Hindutva, is being ridiculed as chauvinist and retrograde, even fundamentalist. The concept of a corporate Hindu unity and identity however is that of a collective mindset that identifies us with a motherland from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean and it’s glorious past, and the concomitant resolve to defend that vision.


However pious a Hindu becomes, however prosperous Hindu temples become from doting devotees’ offerings, when the nation is in danger it is this collective mindset of the people that matters, and not the piety of the individual in that collective. The sacking of Somnath Temple by Ghazni should serve as a reminder of the validity of this dictum. Hindu society today lacking a cohesive corporate identity, is thus in the process of becoming fragmented, and hence increasingly in disarray. This fission process is on simultaneously with the reality of millions of Hindus who go to temples regularly or walk to Sabarimalai or participate in Kumbh Mela.


When I speak of Hindu unity, I am not taking of piety of Hindus as a community. I am instead referring to the Hindu consciousness, which encompasses the willingness and determination to collectively defend the faith from the erosion that is being induced by the disconnection with our glorious past. What Swami Vivekananda, Bankim Chatterjee, Sri Aurobindo, and Subramania Bharati had achieved by raising Hindu consciousness, has now in the name of Nehruvian secularism been distorted and dissipated over the last six decades.


Even the writings of Dr. Ambedkar, and his oration in the Constituent Assembly for a strong united country have been vulgarized by the Nehruites. In his scholarly paper presented in a 1916 Columbia University seminar [and published in Indian Antiquary, vol. XLI, May 1917 p.81-95] Dr. Ambedkar stated: “ It is the unity of culture that is the basis of homogeneity. Taking this for granted, I venture to say that there is no country that can rival the Indian Peninsula with respect to the unity of its culture. It has not only a geographic unity, but it has over and above all a deeper and much more fundamental unity - the indubitable cultural unity that covers the land from end to end”. Ambedkar wrote several such brilliant books, but alas, Nehru and his cohorts so thoroughly frustrated him and isolated him that in the end, bitterness drove him to Buddhism.


Thus, if this degeneration and disconnect are not rectified and repaired by a resolve to unite Hindustanis [Hindus and those others who proudly identify with India’s Hindu past], the Hindu civilization may go into a tail spin and ultimately fade away like other civilizations have for much the same reason. Today the sacrilege of Hindu concepts and hoary institutions, is being carried out not with the crude brutality of a Ghazni or Ghori, but with the sophistication of the constitutional instruments of law.


The desecration of Hindu icons, for example the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt, is being made to look legal, thereby completely confusing the Hindu people, and thus making them unable to recognize the danger, or to realize that Hindus have to unite to defend against the threats to their legacy. We Hindus are under siege today, and we do not know it! That is, what is truly alarming is that Hindu society could be dissembled today without much protest since we have been lulled or lost the capacity to think collectively as Hindus. To resist this siege we first need Hindu unity based on the fundamentals of Hindutva. Let us remember that numbers [of those claiming to be adherents to Hinduism] do not matter in today’s information society. It is the durability and clarity of the Hindu mindset of those who unite that matters in the forging of an instrument to fight this creeping danger.


We Hindus cannot fight against looming and creeping danger, unless we first identify what we have to fight. We cannot effectively respond unless we understand the nature and complexity of the challenge. What makes the task of defending Hinduism much more difficult today is that the oppressors are not obvious marauding entities as were Ghazni, Ghori, or Clive. The means of communication and the supply of funds in the hands of our enemies for camouflaging their evil purposes are multiples of that available in the past.


My contention here today is that Hindus are facing a four dimensional siege and this siege is pernicious, clandestine, deceptive and sophisticated. It requires an enlightened Hindu unity to combat the threats and get the siege lifted. We have to begin by first understanding the content and scope of the four-dimensional siege before we Hindus can unite to battle it.



The clandestine defamation of Hindu symbols and institutions



Making Hindus to lose their self-esteem by disparaging their tradition, which also had been the strategy of British imperialists for the conquest of India, as Lord Macauley made clear on February 2, 1835 in the British Parliament.



“I do not think we would ever conquer this country unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which [backbone] is her spiritual and cultural heritage. And therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation”.



That basic strategy of those who want to see a weak and pliant India remains. Only the tactics have changed. Now the target is the Hindu institutions and Hindu icons, and the route is not the creation of a comprador class to subdue the nation, but fostering a psychological milieu to denigrate the heritage and to debunk Hindutva, thereby causing a loss of self esteem and a pride in the nation’s past.



Demographic restructuring of Indian society



People of India who declare in the Census that they are adherents of religions born on Indian soil, that is Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains constituted 84.21 percent of the total Indian population in 2001. In 1941, the proportion adjusted for Partition was 84.44 percent. This figure hides the fact that Hindus resident in undivided Pakistan have migrated to post- Partition India, which is why the share of Hindus and co-religionists have barely reduced since 1941. In the area now called Bangladesh, Hindus were 30 percent in 1941. In 2001 they are less than 8 percent. In Pakistan of today, Hindus were 20 percent in 1941, and less than 2 percent in 2001.


Such religious cleansing has not been noticed by anybody. If the figures are adjusted for this migration, then in the five decades 1951-2001, Hindus have lost more 3 percent points in share of Indian population, while Muslims have increased their share by about 3 percent. What is even more significant is that Hindus have lost 12 percent points since 1881, and the loss in share has begun to accelerate since 1971 partly due to illegal migration from Bangladesh. The continued rise in the share of Muslims and Christians in the total population is a threat to the Hindu foundation of the nation.


We have to find ways and means to meet this threat. Kerala is a state where the Hindu population declined from 69 percent in 1901 to 56 percent in 2001. Muslims are now 25 percent and Christians 19 percent. But Hindus share in agricultural activities has fallen to 24 percent; while for Christians the share has risen to 40 percent. For Muslims it is 33 percent. In commerce and industry too the same proportions obtain, while in foreign employment, Hindus share is just 19 percent, Muslims 49.5 percent and Christians 31.5 percent.


In the land fertile districts of Western UP, from Rampur to Saharanpur, Muslims due to a much higher population growth rate are now 40 percent of the population. Six of the 14 districts of Assam in the northeast are already Muslim majority, and by 2031, all fourteen will be Muslim majority if present trends of differential population growth rate and illegal migration from Bangladesh continue. In northeast India, minus Assam, 45.5 percent of the population is already Christian. Every one of the seven sisters states has a galloping Christian population. Arunachal, which had zero Christian population in 1971, now has over 7 percent.


These two communities today fiercely safeguard their control of institutions spawned on public money besides receiving funds from abroad. Take for example the educational institutions. ‘Jamia Millia Islamia University’ has been reorganized as a central university with liberal government grants. But 88 percent of the faculty is Muslim. American College, Madurai’s faculty is 66 percent Christian. Its junior faculty is 95 percent Christian. Union Christian College at Aluva, Kerala has 83 percent Christian faculty. There are no exceptions. All institutions run by Muslims and Christians have grossly disproportionate share of their religionists.


Differential application of family planning, non-uniform civil code, illegal migration, and induced religious conversion have together created a serious looming crisis for the Hindu character of the nation. We see what Muslim majority will mean to Hindus when we look at the situation in Kashmir. Even if Muslims are in a majority at the municipality level, they begin to oppress the Hindu minority. We can witness this in Thondi in Ramanathapuram and Rasathipuram in Vellore districts, in Mau and Meerut in U.P., and in the Northeast.


We can learn from witnessing how Muslim majority treats minorities or even women of Muslim faith when we look around the world and study Islamic nations. Muslims believe the world is divided as Dar-ul-Islam where Muslims are in a majority and are rulers, and Dar-ul-Harb in which Muslims are in a minority and are entitled by the Koran and Shariat, by hook or crook to transform these countries to Muslim ruled and/or Muslim majority. At present India is viewed as Darul Harab, and unless the Hindu majority compels or persuades the Muslim minority to enter into a contract to live in peace, whence India becomes Dar-ul-Ahad, the Muslim population will always play host to fanatics bent upon creating upheaval in India. That is why I am emphasizing that Muslims in India must declare that their origin and ancestors are Hindus, and that Hindustan is their matrubhoomi and karmabhoomi.


Christians too have their view of the world as divided between heathens who have to be ‘saved’ by conversion and followers of Jesus Christ. Now with the publication of Dan Brown’s ‘Da Vinci Code’ and revelations about Opus Dei organization, Hindus have to go on high alert about Christian missionaries from abroad. Moreover, patriots concerned with the safeguarding of the Hindu foundation of the nation have to take note that religious entrepreneurs have put conversion to Christian faith on a war footing. In Dallas, Texas, USA, the Global Pastors Network [GPN] held a conference and resolved that over the next fifteen years, the organization will support financially worldwide the construction of five million churches and conversion of one billion persons to Christianity. From India alone, according the Evangelist Pat Robertson the target is 100 million persons. Hence, Hindus are not only under siege, but face a terrible pincer of Islamic fast population growth and illegal migration, in conjunction with Christian money-induced conversion activities.


Therefore, Hindus will have to hang together or ultimately be hanged separately. This is no inflamed psychosis. Not long ago, despite being the overwhelming majority, Hindus had to pay discriminatory taxes to the Muslim and Christian emperors who were ruling India. Lack of unity was the reason, and not poverty. In fact when the onslaught and enslavement took place, India was the richest country in the world. Within 150 years thereafter we were reduced to the poorest in the world. Now if the demographic restructuring described herein goes on unchecked, then the danger becomes several fold than before.


The Rise of Terrorism Directed at Hindus


If one were to study the terrorism in Kashmir, Manipur, and elsewhere it is apparent that only Hindus are the target. The driving away of the Hindu population from the Kashmir valley by targeted terrorism of Islamic jihadis is the single biggest human rights atrocity since Nazi Germany pogroms against the Jews. Yet it has hardly received noticed in international fora. Why?


Hindu population in Bangladesh has declined from 30 percent to less than 8 percent of the total population by deliberate targeted ethnic cleansing by Islamic fanatics aided and abetted by their government [see Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India’s State of Jammu& Kashmir: A Survey of Human Rights, June 17, 2005; hinduamericanfoundation. Org], and yet there is no outcry. Why?


This is because of the lack of Hindu mindset to retaliate against atrocities against Hindus. When in 1949, anti-Hindu riots took place in East Pakistan, Sardar Patel had declared that if the government there could not control it, then India was quite capable of putting it down for them. Soon after then the riots stopped. Terrorist attacks against India and Hindus in particular are growing because we seem today incapable of retaliating in a manner that it deters future attacks.


According to the well known National Counter terrorism Center, a US government body, in it’s report titled A Chronology of International Terrorism for 2004 states that: “India suffered more significant acts of terrorism than any other country in 2004”, a damning comment. India is suffering on an average about 25 incidents of terrorism a month. India’s Home Ministry in its 2004-05 Annual report to Parliament acknowledges that 29 of the 35 states and union territories are affected by terrorism. Moreover, all India’s neighbours have become hotbeds for anti-Hindu terrorists training.


Because of a lack of Hindu unity and a mindset for deterrent retaliation, terrorists have become encouraged. In 1989, the Indian government released five dreaded terrorists to get back the kidnapped daughter, Rubaiyya, of the then Home Minister. Kashmir terrorists got a huge boost by this capitulation. When the Indian Airlines plane with 339 passengers was hijacked to Kandahar, Afghanistan, the government again capitulated and released three of the most dangerous terrorists. Today these three freed terrorists direct the three most murderous terrorist organizations in Kashmir. And yet there is chorus today to give clemency to the terrorist Mohammed Afzal who masterminded the attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001.


Then there is the case of the LTTE, which murdered Rajiv Gandhi. We have made no effort to apprehend the leader of the LTTE who had ordered the assassination. On the contrary, those MPs [of PMK, MDMK, and DMK] who publicly praise that terrorist, and hold the assassination as justified, have become Union Ministers in a coalition led by the widow of Rajiv Gandhi! During the NDA rule on Ms. Sonia Gandhi’s plea, one of the LTTE conspirators ordered to be hanged by the Supreme Court viz., Nalini was given clemency!


Terrorism cannot be fought by appeasement. But that precisely is what the government is doing today. Tragically, innocent Hindus have invariably been the victims of this capitulation. To combat terrorism, there has to be a determination to never to negotiate a settlement with terrorists. Citizens of a country have to be educated that there will be hazards when faced with acts of terrorism, but that the goal of the government will always have to be to hunt down the terrorists and fix them. Only under such a zero tolerance policy towards terrorism, will the ultimate good emerge.


For example in the Indian Airlines hijack case in order not to risk 339 passengers’ lives the government released Mohammed Azhar from jail. But Azhar went to Pakistan after his release and formed the Jaish-e-Mohammed, which has since then killed nearly a thousand innocent Hindus and is still continuing to do so. How has the nation gained by the Kandahar capitulation then? Hence the Hindu political leadership must treat the fight against terrorism as a dharmayudh, as a fight to the finish and a religious duty not to negotiate, compromise or capitulate to terrorists. The government must safeguard the nation by adopting a policy of “hot pursuit” of terrorists by chasing them to their sanctuaries no matter in which country they are located.


The Erosion of Moral Authority of Governance


The well-known organization Transparency International has graded about 140 countries according to the corruption levels from least to the most. India appears near the bottom of the list as among the most corrupt. Recently The Mitrokhin Archives II has been published wherein KGB documents have been relied on to conclude that shamefully “India was on sale for KGB bribes”. If India is the one of the most corrupt countries today and purchasable, it is because the core Hindu values of simplicity, sacrifice and abstinence have been systematically downgraded over the years. Wealth obtained by any means has become the criteria for social status.


There was a time in India when persons of learning and simplicity enjoyed the moral authority in society to make even kings bow before them. Not long ago, Mahatma Gandhi and later Jayaprakash Narayan without holding office were here exercising the same moral authority over political leaders. In a very short period, that Hindutva value has evaporated. India is fast becoming “a banana republic” in which everything, a person or policy is available to anyone for a price.


The proposal, now implemented in some states, to have reservation in government employment for Muslims and “Dalit” Christians is one such sell-out. Reservation quotas are strictly for those whom the Hindu society due to degeneration had suppressed or had isolated from the mainstream. But those who were ruling classes in our nation, such as Muslims and Christians, and that too for a total of 1000 years, cannot claim this facility. But some political parties in reckless disregard for equity and history have sold out for bloc votes the national interest by advocating for such a reservation proposal.


In such a situation the nation’s independence and sovereignty slides into danger of being subverted and then rendered impotent. This has happened before in our history, not when the nation was poor but was the richest country in the world. India then was ahead in science, mathematics, art and architecture. And yet because the moral fibre weakened, all was lost. We had to struggle hard to recover our freedom. But by the time we did, we had lost all our wealth and dropped to the bottom of the list of countries in poverty.


In this time of creeping darkness in our society, there are still venerated souls who draw crowds of people who come on their own expense to hear such evolved souls and follow them. These are our Dharmacharyas, many of whom are members of the newly formed Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha. With the RSS and VHP, this Sabha must, just as Rshi Vishwamitra picked his archers and hunters to put an end to asuras and rakshasas, pick a political instrument to cleanse the body politic of the nation.


This however cannot be done without Hindu unity in our democracy, and hence formulating a code of ethics and moral principles is essential for creating a meaningful and purposeful Hindu unity. This code and principles together constitute the fundamentals of Hindutva. The nation looks to this spiritual force today, for guidance in this hour of need. Therefore my call today is first and foremost for the unity of Hindus, a unity based on a mindset that is nurtured and fostered on the fundamentals of Hindutva. This also requires an action plan to fight and lift the siege [see my Hindus Under Siege—The Way Out, Haranand Publishers 2006, for a detailed elaboration]. Only then Hindus can meet the challenge of Christian missionaries and Islamic fundamentalists. I can do no better here than quote Swami Dayananda Sarasvati:


“Faced with militant missionaries,

Hinduism has to show that its plurality and all-encompassing acceptance

are not signs of disparateness or disunity.

For that, a collective voice is needed.”


Non-Hindus can join this Hindustani unity, but first they must agree to adhere to the minimum requirement of recognizing and accepting that their cultural legacy is Hindu, and revere their Hindu origins, that they are as equal before law as any other but no more, and that they will make sacrifices to defend their Hindu legacy just as any good Hindu would his own. In turn then, the Hindu will defend such non-Hindus as they have protected the Parsis and Jews, and take them all as part of the Hindustani parivar.


India can be only for those who swear that Hindustan is their matrubhoomi and karmabhoomi. Since the task to defeat the nefarious forces ranged today against Hindu society is not going to be easy, we cannot therefore trust those amongst in our midst whose commitment to the motherland is ambivalent or ad hoc, or those who feel no kinship to the Hindu past of the nation. We have partitioned a quarter of Hindustan to enable a homeland for those Muslims, who could not live with Hindus in a democratic framework of equality and fraternity. Hence only those are true children of Bharatmata today who accept that India is their matrubhoomi and karmabhoomi.


I have tried summarizing the above stated concept of Hindustan and the fundamentals of Hindutva in the following axioms of Hindu renaissance:


1. A Hindu, and those others who are proud of their Hindu past and origins, must know the correct history of India. That history which records that Hindus have always been, and are one; that caste is not birth-based and nor immutable. India is a continuum, Sanatana. That ancient Hindus and their descendents have always lived in this area from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean, an area called ‘Akhand Hindustan’, and did not come from outside; and that there is no truth in the Aryan-Dravidian race theory. Instead, Hindus went abroad to spread learning and spiritual knowledge.


2. Hindus believe that all religions equally lead to God, but not that all religions are equal in the richness of it’s theological content. Respecting all religions, Hindus expect from others that respect is two-way. If Hindus are to defend the right of others to adhere to one’s own religion, then other religionists have to stand up for Hindus too. Thus, by this criterion, secular attitude as defined till date is a one-way obligation for Hindus, and hence Hindus must reject such a concept because of its implied appeasement. At the same time enlightened Hindus must defend and protect vigorously those non-Hindus who identify with the concept of Hindustan. That is, a nation of Hindus and those whose who accept that their ancestors are Hindus. A vibrant Bharatvarsh of course cannot be home to bigotry and obscurantism since that has never been Hindu tradition or history. But Muslims and Christians shall be part of the Hindustan parivar or family if they accept this truth and revere it.


3. Hindus must prefer to lose everything they possess rather than submit to tyranny or to terrorism. Today those in India who submit to terrorists and hijackers must be vehemently despised as anti-Hindus. They cannot be good Hindus merely because they are pious or go regularly to the temple or good Hindustanis just because they are citizens of India.


4. The Hindu’s must have a mindset to retaliate when attacked. The retaliation must be massive enough to deter future attacks. If terrorists come from training camps in Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, Hindus must seek to carpet bomb those training camps, no matter the consequences. Today’s so-called self proclaimed “good” Hindus have failed to avenge or retaliate for the attack on Parliament, Akshardham Mandir, Ayodhya, and even a former Prime Minister’s [Rajiv Gandhi’s] assassination. On the other hand those who defend these assassins and praise the terrorist organization behind them are permitted to be central government Ministers today.


5. All Hindus to qualify as true Hindus must make effort to learn Sanskrit and the Devanagari script in addition to the mother tongue, and pledge that one day in the future, Sanskrit will be India’s link language since all the main Indian languages have large percentage of their vocabulary common with Sanskrit already.


These five axioms if followed will constitute the virat Hindu unity, a bonding that Hindus need to be in a position to confront the challenge that Hindu civilization is facing from Islamic terrorists and fraud Christian missionaries from abroad, who are also aided and abetted from confused Hindus within the country. Without such a virat Hindu unity and the implied mindset, we will be unable to nullify and root out the subversion and erosion that undermine today the Hindu foundation of India. This foundation is what makes India distinctive in the world, and hence we must safeguard this legacy with all the might and moral fibre that we can muster.


In this we can get great moral support from Hindus resident abroad because of their sheer commitment to the motherland. Free from economic constraints, aching for an identity, and well educated, I have seen them organize effectively to challenge the attempts to slander Hindu religious symbols and icon. Overseas Hindustanis have contributed during our Freedom Struggle, the Emergency and in enabling our acharyas to spread the message of the Hindu religion abroad. This has been done without demeaning other religions.


I urge and implore the Acharya Sabha, that since in a democracy the battle is in fighting elections, therefore to resolve to foster a Hindu consciousness that leads to a cohesive vigorous Hindu unity and mindset, so that the Hindustani voter will cast his ballot only for those candidates in an election who will be loyal to a Hindu Agenda drawn up by the Dharmacharyas. The Tirupati Declaration of July 2006 adopted by the acharyas must be electorally translated.

[Shambhu]

<span style='color:orange'><b>Is Hindu Society Pacifist / Coward or Aggressive/ Brave?</b></span>

Hindu civilization in the past never accepted pacifism as their civilisational dogma. Neither Hindu state nor their functioning arms and society in general accepted pacifism dogma in conducting its state functioning or society.

The highest cardinal principle of the Hindu Dharma and society is “Satyameva Jayate na anaritam” (Truth alone trumphs not untruth) (3-1-6 - Mundaka Upanishad ), Not Ahimsa Paramodharma which was the principle accepted and practiced by Renunciated Monks, Sadhu, Sanyasi, Yati, Muni, Bhikshu, etc.

The State Emblem of Bharat is part of Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka Pillar and the motto “Satyameva Jayate” (Truth alone trumphs) in Devanagari script inscribed below the profile of the Lion Capital. After the Independence, the Government of Bharat adopted this as State emblem on 26th January 1950.

From the earliest time or from the very beginning of Hindu civilization the cardinal principal of the society is Truth, not Ahimsa Paramodharma.

Satyen uttabhita Bhoomi – 10 / 85 / 1 Rig Veda (meaning Truth is holding the Earth). Except Monks, Sadhu, Sanyasi, Yati, Muni, Bhikshu, nobody practiced Ahmisa Paramodharma.

Millions and millions Hindu pray to Almighty every day-

Tejoasi Tejomayee Dhehi
Veeryamasi Veeruamayee Dhehi
Balamasi Balamayee Dhehi (Yajur Veda 19/9)

Give us vitality and strength like yourself.

Our Shastra says to the spiritual practitioner that Nayam atma Bal hinena Labhyo - (Katha Upanishad)

Meaning-(The physically week is unfit for realization to the self)

Hindu Dharma and Shastra also propagate fearlessness.

Abhayam Nah Karatyantriksham abhyam Dhyava Prithavi Ubhe Ime
Abhayam Paschad abhayam
Purastad uttarad adharad abhayam Na Astu (Atharva Veda 19 / 15 / 5)

Meaning - We must be fearless in sky, on earth, and in front and back and up and down i.e. we must practice fearlessness from all sides and on all places.

Abhayam Mitrad abhayam amitrad
Abhayam Jnatad abbhayam Puro Yah
Abhayam Naktam ambhaya Diva Nah
Sarva Asha Mama Mitram Bhavantu Atharva Veda 19 / 15 / 6

Meaning - We must be fearless from friends and enemy alike
We must be fearless from known and unknown
We must be fearless in night and day
all sides become our friends and should cooperate with us.

Hindu Society never practiced pacifism in their day-today life. Pacifism was exclusively reserved for the Ascetic.

For example – Ramayana – Ravana kidnapped Mata Sita. Thereafter, Bhagwan Ram organized Army, killed Ravana along with his Kin and relative and recovered Mata Sita. He never compromised.

Mahabharat – When the great war of Mahabharat was just to be started, Arjuna said to Shri Krishna, at the sight of these kinsmen arrayed for battle my limbs give way, and my mouth is parching; nay, a shiver runs through my body and hair stands upright.

Krishna I do not covet victory; nor kingdom, nor pleasures. Govinda, of what use will kingdom, or luxuries, or even life be to us?

Those very persons for whose sake we covet the throne, luxuries and pleasures – teachers, uncles, sons and nephews and even so grand-uncles and great grand-uncles, maternal uncles, fathers-in-law and other relations – are here arrayed on the battlefield risking their lives and wealth.

At one stage instead of fighting Arjuna wanted to become Sadhu. Then Bhagwan Krishna gave discourses which is recorded as Bhagwad Gita. In the end, Arjun said to Krishna, by Your grace my delusion has fled and wisdom has been gained by me. I stand shorn of all doubts. I will do your bidding. I am ready to fight.

In the Great War, he killed all the people who were standing on the side of Adharma.

Hindu society celebrates Vijaya Dashmi, the victory day, a religious ceremony and worship Arms in each and every house. Therefore Hindu society was brave and they resisted any invasion on the soil.

Strong and brave resistance of Hindus to all foreign invasion.

Alexander started his victorious journey from Macedonia. On way to India he defeated every one. Finally he confronted Hindu might on the frontier of India in 326 B.C. He had some early success. In due course of fighting with Hindus, he was severally injured, lost, returned and he died on the way.

After Alexander, Selucus Nicator, crossed the Indus River. He was also defeated by Maurya King Chandragupta.

Demitrious attacked India and he was defeated by Hindu King Kharvel and chased out of India.

Thereafter Bactrian King Menander attacked on India and was badly defeated by Hindu King Pushyamitra.

During the first and second century Saka & mighty Kusan, barbarian tribe from Central Asia, continuously attacked on India but always were defeated by successive Hindu Kings.

The Barbarian Huns who once destabilized Europe, had also attacked India and they were finally defeated in India. You cannot find the trace of Kushans, Saka and Huns in India. Hindus resisted and defeated the invaders in the prolonged struggle for about 600 years.

After this the Islam confronted with Hindu might.

A great Islamic Scholar – Philip K Haiti wrote in his famous book “The Arab” about victory of Islamic Army.

“Within a generation of the Prophet’s death, the primitive Arab, fired by the indestructible faith and imbued with an utter contempt of death, had become the master of the Byzantine territories of Syria, Palestine and Egypt and the Sasanid territories of Persia and Iraq. Such rapid expansion of religious and military power is without a parallel in the annals of world history.

Islam in the 2nd expansion conquered Turkish-speaking territories of Outer Mongolia, Bukhara, Tashkand, Samarkand, etc.
The supremacy of Islam in Central Asia was so firmly established that the Chinese ceased to dispute it.

In 711 A.D. Islamic army crossed Gibraltar strait into Spain and conquered one of the fairest and largest province of Europe.

In 720 the Muslims crossed the Pyrenees and gradually subdued the Southern half of France. 732 A.D. which marked the first centenary of prophet’s death, the Arabs had set up the largest and most powerful empire of the world, extending from the Bay of Biscay to the frontier of India and the frontiers of China, from the Aral Sea to the Upper Nile.

Attack on India

Islamic attack on India started on 636 AD. Hindus repulsed all the successive attack on India.

There was one attack by Arab on Sindh Naval base - Debal. Arab Army was badly defeated and their General Mughairah was killed. Arab Historians Baladhuri wrote about this incidence.

“This is a very important incident because when the mighty Islamic army was gaining victory elsewhere in the World, and no one stood to challenge them, the news of Mughairah’s defeat gave shock to the Arab.

Muslims were terrorized by these defeats. This successive attack by Islam Army on India was turned in to severe defeat. Many of their Generals like Ubaidullah and Budail were killed.

Budail death in war with Hindus made Caliph crestfallen and he wrote to the Hajjaj the Governor of Baghdad, every time Musleman army goes on expedition of Hind, every time vast number of Musalman were killed. So think no more of such design.

This is again very important when Islamic Army was gaining victory in Europe, Central Asia, Africa, Gulf and Middle East Asia, Syria, Palestine, Persia, they were being crushed in India.

Finally with great difficulty Musalman could get foothold in India in 711 A.D.

The Arabs Scholar William Muir states the following facts.

The Arab dominion in India limited to the two petty states of Multan and Mansurah. And here too, they could exist only after renouncing their iconoclastic zeal and utilizing the Hindu deity (Idol) for their own political ends. It is very strange sight to see them seeking shelter behind the very “buds” they came here to destroy.

In Central Asia, the idolaters had been rooted out. But this experiment failed in India as Islam was confronted with a faith, which was though deity worshiper, defied death and looked at life in this world as one link in the eternal chain of births and deaths.

There is a lesser known fact that even our renunciated Monks, Sadhus, Sanyasis resisted foreign invasion not only through spiritual and religious influences but also physically taking arms in their hands. Further they organized army to resist the invaders.

Therefore, we can definitely say that Hindu society was never a pacifist.

Wherever Islam went they destroyed culture, tradition, civilization and finally converted them into Islamic land. Therefore you can now see 58 countries in the Islamic world. Hindus bravely resisted Islam, and defeated them. Hindus finally survived and today it is a Billion strong society.

Arabic Poet Hali lamented on Islamic failure to Islamise India in his poem

Dine Hajaji ka bebak beda
Kiye par jisne saton samundar
Jo Jehun me ataka na sehun me bhatka
Wo aakar dahane ke Ganga me duba

Translation-
The Islamic armada crossed the seven seas confidently
Without any interruption
They remain unchallenged everywhere – lands, seas or mountains
But the same Islamic armada got drowned in the Ganga (Mighty River)

The question arises why we lost to Islamic invasion? Answer in short is

1. We Hindus forgot aggression

2. We became self satisfied in our own territory

3. We did not try to defeat enemy in their homeland or in their territory

4. We always fought war to defend our country in our own land

After Islamic Invasion, 15 century onward European Christian such as Portuguese, French, Dutch and British attacked our motherland. We Hindus resisted all of them. Mentally we never surrendered before them. We kept our freedom struggle alive till 1947.

We Hindus were resisting foreign invasion from Europe, Middle-east from the time of Alexander. We must remember all these onslaughts. In spite of these onslaughts we are the only surviving civilization with continuity of Dharmic, cultural, social, and spiritual ethos whereas other civilization of world like Roman and Greek of Europe, Egyptian of Africa, Mesopotamian and Persian of Middle-east, Incas, Maya and Aztec of South America were wiped out and became part of archaeological museum. This proves the strength of Hindu Civilisation.

We are celebrating 150th years of first war of independence of 1857. We were almost in a position to kick out the British from our soil, but because of some mistakes we could not achieve the goal in 1857.

After the 1857 incident an intellectual forum of Britishers were formed to know why the Hindu society is resisting foreign invasion right from Alexander, from where they are getting the inspiration, strength and courage. In their study many things came out.

The things, which are very relevant to today’s topics, are following:

1) Hindus believe in immortality of soul- defied death and looked at life in this world as one link in the eternal chain of births and deaths.

2) Hindu society is an arms worshipper such as on Vijaya Dashami (Durga Puja) they worship arms.

3) Many of Hindu Gods and Goddess are equipped with arms

4) Their ideal Heroes in their history- Bhagwan Ram and Bhagwan Krishna were fighters of par excellence.

5) After Vijaya Dashmi ( Durga Puja) Army is kept ready for fighting. Sometimes the neighbouring Kings fight war with each other to show their strength and preparedness. In this way they get real practice of war.

NOTE:
(1) Yuddham vai rajanyasya virym (13.1.5.6. Satapatha Brahmana)

The real strength of Kshatriya lies in fighting very often.

(2) We were taught in our history text books written by Marxists and European Historians that Hindu Kings were always infighting themselves and they do not focus fighting the invader, therefore, they lost. This is totally wrong. Earlier I have explained how our Kings were resisting the foreign invaders unitedly. For example, Arab Historian Baladhuri wrote - In the reign of Caliph Muawiyah (661-680 A.D) Abdur Rahman was appointed governor of Seistan and entrusted with the task of conquering Kabul. After a month’s siege Abudr Rahman obtained possession of Kabul. But the Hindu king of Kabul made an appeal to the warriors of Hindusthan and got support from the Hindu Kings. Musalman were driven out of Kabul. He recovered all other country and advanced as far as Bust.

Islamic Historian Utbi wrote in his bok Kitab-I-yamini – 1008
A.D. Mahmud Ghaznavi determined to attack Anand Pala, (one of the King of Hindu Shahi dynasty on the frontier of India and Punjab). Anand Pala sent ambassadors on all sides inviting the assistance of the other princes of Hindustan, who now considered the expulsion of Mahommedans from India as a sacred duty. Accordingly, the Rajas of Ujjain, Gwalior, Kalinjar, Kanauj, Delhi and Ajmer entered into a confederacy and collecting their forces advanced towards Punjab with the greatest army that had yet taken the field. The Indians and Mahommadans – remained encamped (at Waihind) for forty days without coming into action. The troops of the idolaters daily increased in number. The Hindu women, on this occasion, sold their jewels and melted down their golden ornaments to furnish resources for the war.

Though the Kings had a small regular army but during the time of war or fighting, farmers, artisans, ordinary village folks etc also joined the army to fight. This way the ordinary civilian learned the art of fighting as well as fearlessness.

6) Arms training (Dhanur Vidya) were part of regular education.

By observing the above facts, the British devised a plan to subjugate the society and country for ever. They also wanted to make sure that there should not be any resistance in the future.

The draconian law they brought after 1857 is the Arms Act of 1860. It was to disarm the Hindu society i.e. no one should possess arms. If any one possesses arms he would be severely punished. In 1870 the Act was made more harsh. Subsequently amendments were made in the said Act in 1891, 1919, 1920. The Arms Act of those years still continues with the present Government of Independent India.

The idea behind the Arms Act was to destroy the resisting capability of Hindu society in two ways i.e. If the society does not use the arms, they will lose their capability of using arms in the fighting. After that the new generation would be of cowardly mentality, which will be easy for them to keep under the British Empire forever.

Therefore the people became scared in keeping arms. Successive Governments of Independent India continued this Arms Act. You will be surprised to note that in 1888, Indian National Congress passed a resolution against this Arms Act!

Our great revolutionary Hero Hutatma Bhagat Singh wrote an article in Kirti Magazine in October 1928 with the title “Repeal Arms Act”(this article is still relevant in modern India). In this article Shri Bhagat Singh gave his logic that if we do not repeal the Arms Act immediately the future generation of India would be of cowards as they could not even defend themselves from thieves and dacoits and the society would be looking forward for protection and help always from the police.

What we see in our day to day life today is as predicted by Hutatma Bhagat Singh.

One person with few knives or fake bombs or a small pistol can hijack a plane of 300 or more people, or take hostages from a full bus. This is one of the examples that how our society has become incapable due to Arms Act.

The Arms Act is only to restrict the civilized Hindu society from possession of Arms. The dacoits, Goonda, Mafia, smugglers, naxalites, and terrorists have a free access to any sorts of arms. Most of them are Muslims to whom Arms Act has no effect.

In the beginning of 20th century, our Revolutionaries under the leadership and guidance of Sri Aurobindo, Sri V.D. Savarkar, Rasbehari Bose, Kartarsingh Saraba, Ram Prasad Bismil, Chandrasekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh started taking arms in their hands to kick out the British Empire from India. Our revolutionary movement started gathering momentum.

During this period Shri M K Gandhi appeared on the Indian scene and suppressed this revolutionary movement and imposed his pacifist dogma (Ahimsa and Satyagrah) borrowed from Leo Tolstoy, “Passive resistance”.

With this Gandhi movement becoming popular in India, the Hindu society lost chance to re-arm themselves.

Thereby Hindu society was suppressed by Gandhian pacifist dogma. This pacifist dogma is infused deep in the blood of Hindu society now. Cells of this pacifist dogma are multiplying in our blood like cancer in the independent India and killing our Hindu society.

Never in the history, were Hindus pacifists. Only after 1860 the Hindus became pacifists, which is still continuing. Therefore we can see the humiliation of Hindus all over the world.

What is the way out?

1) First repeal this Arms Act in Bharat.

2) Hindu worldwide has to give up their self-centred and the highly individualistic approach and same time they have to become society focused.

3) Hindu society has become more money centred, and converted into moneymaking machine. Other things, which are necessary to protect the Hindu society, is ignored or forgotten. This has to be changed.

4) The Hindu society should start schools based on semi military training, just like sainik school.

5) Hindu society has to establish their schools and make military training compulsory.

6) Hindu society should become more generous.

7) Wherever possible worldwide, the Hindu society should use legal and constitutional means for military education and training.

8) The Hindu society should encourage scouting & sports among Hindu youths.

4th and 5th suggestion is only to change the psychology of Hindu Society



Swami Vigananand
Joint General Secretary,
Vishva Hindu Parishad (International Coordination)
http://www.vhp.org/featuredarticles_swamivigananand.php

[Shambhu]

<span style='color:orange'><b>Hindu Resurgence - 2008</b> </span>

02/10/2008 03:49:00 GSK Menon


The year 2008 is a great landmark in Hindu Resurgence in this country.

Centuries of uninterrupted slavery under different alien rulers ensured that the Hindus were ruthlessly repressed. By the time the British magnanimously granted us a fractured country and a volatile independence, the country was taken over by an Anti - Hindu elite from among the Hindus themselves. These new rulers saw in the vast multitudes a bonanza to perpetuate their family rule bysimply continuing to repress them. So the concept of Secularism was introduced.

Desert religion propagandists were given a free hand to run amok and convert in the guise of "social service". Hindu temples were taken over for the express purpose of looting. So called Minorities who are actually in majority in several states and districts were given a plethora of benefits, subsidies, reservations, political patronage etc. The average Hindu suffered all these iniquities silently as they were kept divided on caste lines.The Hindu was expected to be quiet and submissive, any communal riot, disturbance was blamed on him by the politicans, bureaucrats, judiciary, press and English language TV mediums.

Hindus were fugitives in their own country. Any assertive Hindu was dubbed as belonging to the '"Parivaar" a contemptuous phrase coined by an antagoistic Press and scheming politicans. The idea was to crush the questioning Hindu. More than 50 years of repression under Secular rule has infuriated the average Hindu.

Secularism has brought the country to the brink of another Partition. Kashmir which represents the Head of this country and Bharatmata is sought to be dismembered by a group of Islamic separatists. Eating subsidised Hindu food, Haj travel, and engaged only in sexual reproduction, these Separatists have been thriving on anti - Hindu repression and violence. Even a small piece of land, that too on lease, was sought to be denied by the Islamic fundamentalists and separatists. The "secular establishment" fearing disruption for their family rule went on an anti Hindu tirade. That was when the VOLCANO EXPLODED. The average Hindu armed only with stones, sand and sticks joined in unison to fight the Islamic militants. As the nation watched the angry faceless Hindus of Jammu rose in a mighty effort to take on the ruthless might of the Separatists and the inimical secular rulers. What happenned is History, despite the anti - Hindu hysteria of the Islamic terrorists, the anti - Hindu tirade of the Politicans and the media, the world watched amazed at the stoic battle waged and won by the brave Hindus of Jammu. Yes, we too can revolt against the secular impostors, that was the message from Jammu.

Next, an obscure tribal district in neglected Orissa. Bearing the brunt of high voltage conversion tactics by Missionary gangs, led by Keralites like Raphael Cheenath, Thomas Chellan etc Kandhmal District, became the laboratory for Christianising India. Shameless tactics like abuse, violence and anti - Hindu ridicule were taken to great heights. The fed up Hindus rose in unison to combat the menace of conversion. The Missionary gangs sowed wind and reaped whirlwind.

Next, Mangalore, which had felt the tremors of the Goan Inquisition of Francis Xavier, was still being prodded by Pentecostal Evangelical gangs. The same ridicule of Hindu Gods, their customs, rituals and rites was the chosen weapon of the converters. But Mangalore on the border of Kerala had seen what the converts were made to do. First Hinduism is ridiculed, gullible Hindus are converted and thereafter told to imitate the same rituals but pray to the Desert Gods. Hindus are no longer fools. They have also seen through the chicanery of the politicans, press and missionary gangs. The inevitable happenned, Mangalore rose in anger to teach the converters a sharp rebuke.

In distant Jharkhand the Sarnas, have warned the Christians that their crusade through "Nemha Bible" to demolish the "Sarna Dharm" will not be tolerated. They have warned the Bible Society of Bangalore not to carry intentional insulting messages.

It is time for the Politicans, the media and the conversion gangs led by Keralites to take note of the RISING HINDU. The message is loud and clear no more repression of the Hindus. Social scientists should now study this emerging phenomenon of assertive Hindus rising in rebellion in different parts of the country to protect their religion, culture, and customs.


http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HkPage.aspx...EID=7190&SKIN=B

[Capt M Kumar]

Now the president of NCP and union minister for agriculture Mr. Sharad Pawar is posing a direct question to the minister of his own party sitting on the dais, “What are you going to do to ban Sanatan?” On the other hand, the members of parliament and workers of Samajwadi Party who are visiting the houses of terrorists are also bringing pressure on the government for the ban by taking an agitational route. Some seekers are under tension because of the clamour of rulers and heretics for a ban and also due to harassment by the police.

No wonder the Congress government which has gone to the extent of arresting the Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peeth Shri Swami Jayendra Saraswati under a false case of murder can also make Sanatan a scapegoat just to please the Islamic demon! If Sanatan is banned,its seekers will not be put to any worldly loss; but they are more worried that the ban would harm their activity of Protection of Nation and Awakening of Righteousness.

http://www.hindujagruti.org/news/5607.html

[Shambhu]

<!--emo&:clapping--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clap.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='clap.gif' /><!--endemo--> Building the Indian Mind - Brick by Brick

I ((B. Shantanu)) received this email yesterday and could not stop before reading it right through to the end…It is a long read…quite a long read, in fact. And it is seriously thought-provoking. Below, excerpts from a speech delivered by Sh. Gurumurthy at IIT Chennai in 2003 which - although five years old - still retains its and relevance and punch. This is a *must read*.

*** Excerpts from “The Intellectual Scene in Post-Independence India“ by Sh Gurumurthy ***

A critical review of strengths and weaknesses

… Defeat and anger go together. Abuse and defeat go together. So, it is in this norm and with this understanding of what an intellectual debate means, I would like to place before you some of my thoughts today. Some of may find it provocative. I am confident that the audience is competent enough to absorb this and think rather than get into the mood which all of us have got used to in the last 30-40 years abuse.

Background: India before Independence

Let us see the pre-independence background, the intellectual content of India. See the kind of personalities who led the Indian mind Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Gandhiji, Tilak- giants in their own way. Most of them were involved in politics, active politics, day-to-day politics, handling men, walking on the road, addressing meetings, solving problems between their followers. And, meeting the challenges posed by the enemy, the conspiracies hatched against them. They were handling everything, yet, they were maintaining an intellectual supremacy, and a record and an originality which history has recorded.

Let us look at the academic side. Whether it is a P. C. Ray who wrote on Indian Chemistry in 1905 or Sir C. V. Raman who wrote about mridangam, tabala, and violin, and saw the Physics in it (this was in 1913); whether it was R. C. Majumdar or Radhakumud Mukherjee who saw greatness in the Indian Civilization; trying to bring up points, instances, historical evidence to mirror the greatness of India, to the defeated Indian race, they were all building the Indian mind brick by brick. Sri Aurobindo spoke of Sanatana Dharma as the Nationalism of India. He didn”t rank it as a philosophy. He brought it down to the level of emotional consciousness. Swami Vivekananda spoke of spiritual nationalism; it was the same Swami who spoke of Universal brotherhood. For them philosophy was not removed from the ground reality. The nation was at the core of their philosophy. Swami Vivekananda was called the “patriot monk”.

Mahatma Gandhi spoke of Rama Rajya. Bankim Chandra wrote Bande Maataram. The song, the slogans in it, the mantra in it made hundreds of people kiss the gallows smilingly and many others went to jail. It transformed the life of the people; this was the intellectual scene, this was the content…This was the core of India, the soul of the Indian freedom movement.

The symptoms: India immediately after Independence

…Let us look at post Independence India. The persons who led post-Independence India were also trained in the same freedom movement. They went to jail, but they were not rooted in the intellectual content of the Freedom movement!

The first Prime Minister of India, he was in jail for 7 years. He was a great intellectual himself, purely in the sense of his capacity to reason, understand, read, and expound a thought. He told Galbrieth once, “I would be regarded as the last English Prime Minister of India. See the intellectual capability of the man, the enormously competent mind.

But intellectualism doesn”t exist in a vacuum. It has to be rooted in something concrete. Vivekananda”s universal brotherhood was rooted in India”s greatness as a civilization, which proclaimed it. The concept of “Vasudaiva Kutumbakam” cannot exist without a living form, a population which believes in it and believes in itself. You need to have a society, which believes in it.

That is why India could invite the Jews who were butchered, raped, all over the world. In 107 out of 108 countries, this race was butchered. At least they had the courtesy and the gratitude to publish a book, the Israeli govt. published a book that out of 108 countries that we sought refuge, the only civilization, the only country, the only people, the only ideology that gave us refuge was the Indian civilization. They published a book, which most Indians are unaware of.

And we invited the Muslims. The refugee Muslims first landed in Kutch. And they are called the Kutchy Memons even today but not the Memons who bomb Bombay. But the Memons who lived with us.

In the year 1917, many of you might be aware, a case went to the Preview Council, equivalent to the Supreme Court now. The Kutchy Memons went and told the Preview Council that we are Muslims in name, but we follow only the Hindu law. Please don”t impose the Shariyat on us. The Preview Council ruled that they are Muslims but the only sacred book they have is called “Dasaavathaara”, it is not Koran. In fact they knew no language other than the Kutchy language.

And in the “Dasaavathaara”, nine were common between Hindus and Kutchy Memons. We call the tenth avathaara “Kalki” and they call him “Ali”. The Preview Council ruled that the Shariyat law is not applicable to them. The All India Muslim League took up the case, went to the British and told them that this finding is dangerous to Islam and requested them to pass a law which will overrule this judgement; the British Govt. passed the law in 1923, called the “The Kutchy Memons Act” which declared, ” If a Kutchy Memon wants to follow the Shariyat, allow him to do so”. Please understand. It doesn”t mean a Muslim must follow the Shariyat. Between 1923-1937, before the All India Shariyat(AIS) Act was passed, not a single Kutchy Memon filed an affidavit with the plea that he wants to follow the Shariyat. That was the integration prevalent in India.

In 1937, when the AIS Act was passed, the preamble to the act mentioned that this was being passed by a demand made by the AIML leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Today, the Shariyat has become a part of Muslim consciousness.

The purpose behind making you aware of this background is that 99% of the people who speak about the constitutional rights of the minorities or the distinctiveness of Muslim life are unaware of the ground level facts. Till the year 1980, in Kuch Bihar district, the Shariyat law was not applicable. In 32 instances between 1923 and 1947 by legislation, the Shariyat law was not applicable to the Muslims. This is the extent of the intellectual gap in India.

Secularism: A Reversal and perversion of the Indian mind.

And now, coming to what the position is today. Everything that drove the freedom movement- everything that constituted the soul of the Freedom movement, whether it is the Raamaraajya of Gandhiji or Sanaatana Dharma as Nationalism of Sri Aurobindo or the spiritual patriotism of Vivekananda or the soul stirring Vande Maataram song, came to be regarded not only as unsecular but as sectarian, communal and even as something harmful to the country.

Thus, there was a reversal, a perversion of the Indian mind. How did it occur? Today, the intellectualism of India means to denigrate India. There are mobile citizens and there are non- citizens deriding India, go to the Indian Airlines counter, you will find people deriding India. Go to the post office, they will deride India. Go to the railway station, they will deride India. It is the English educated Indians” privilege to deride India.

When I was talking to an audience of Postal employees in Madras, in the GPO (a majority of them who heard me were women). I told them the basic facts about the Post Office. I said it is one of the most efficient postal systems in the world, one of the cheapest in the world, one of the most delivery perfect postal systems in the world. For one rupee, you are able to transport information from one end of the country to the other.

And you have a postman, no where in the world this happens the postman goes to the illiterate mother and reads out the letter, he is asked to sit there and shares a cup of coffee and comes away. M. O. s are delivered to the last paisa. It is an amazing system, one of the largest postal systems linking one of the most populous nations, one of the most complicated nations with so many languages.

Somebody writes the address in Tamil and it gets delivered in Patna! It gets delivered to the Jawaan at warfront! When I completed my speech many of the women were wiping their tears. I asked why are you crying, I have only praised you. They said, “Sir, this is the first time we”ve been praised, otherwise we”ve only been abused!”

You know how many people the Railway transports in India? A million people which is equivalent to the population of Australia! And we have only abuses for them!

Have we any ideas of what this country is? The best in India have compared our country with Singapore, Hong Kong?, Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

…The best politicians, intellectuals, sociologists in India have compared us with them, because, we have never understood what we are and unless you do that, you can never relate us with others.

Demonising India: Projecting a negative image.

This enormous intellectual failure, to the extent of being intellectually bankrupt, did not occur over night, it was no accident. There is a history behind this enormous erosion. And I told you about these mobile citizens, what they have done to us. Every country has problems. There is no country without any problem. Are you aware of what is one of the most pressing problems in America today? It is incurable according to the American sociologists; even American economists have begun to agree with them. American politicians are shaken, one third of the pregnant women are school going children. And mothers mix the anti-pregnancy pill in the food without her knowledge everyday.

But this is not the image of America. The image of America is a technologically advanced country etc. etc. Ours is the only country where the mobile citizens of India have transformed the problems of India into the image of India-its identity.

Go to any country and the same negative stereotype is echoed that India is suffering from poverty and malnutrition. India has no drinking water. Indian women are all burnt. If they are married, they are burnt, if they are widows, they are burnt. See the image that has been built about this country. Who did this? The English educated Indian.

And one Kaluraam Meena (have you ever heard of him? Asks the audience to raise their hands if they have), only a small fraction of this large audience has heard of him. When Clinton came to India, he went to a village called Nayla where the villagers interacted with him. And one of the Panchayat board members asked him, “Sir, I am told that in the West, all of you believe that this country is a rotten country, a backward country, a poor, hungry country. Do you also think like that?”

Clinton was shaken, because he might have thought that this person might be approaching him for some favour. This is the image of India.

I will relate my experience when I went to the Carter Centre in 1993. They were talking about dispute resolution and all that. I went there to meet somebody, if not Carter, somebody else at least. His Deputy, a lady, was very hesitant to receive me. “Mr. Gurumurthy”, she said, “Mr. Carter is not around, anyway, I can spare seven-eight minutes for you.” I said three or four minutes of your time would do. Even before I could start, she said, “Mr. Gurumurthy, we don”t have funds, we will not be able to help” (laughter from the audience). I replied, “Let us assume you have a hundred billion dollars, how much will you give me? One billion? One million?” She kept quiet, “I don”t need your money. I came here to discuss whether community living is an answer to disputes. I have come to discuss this because you have suggested electoral means to resolve problems in communities which have no damn idea of what an election is; whether community living is an answer because you don”t what that means. She sat and discussed this with me for two hours. This is the image we have projected that anybody, who comes from India, comes to beg. Ordinary Indians did not create this impression; educated Indians created it. This is the work of civil servants, NGOs. Christian missionaries during the freedom movement created this. Indians are filthy, rotten, dirty and unhealthy, advertising abroad these are the people who need to be saved. We have to Christianise them, enlighten them, and give us money. I can understand that because it is their business. But what did we do after 1947?

We repeated the same mistakes. We projected India as a country of unending problems. As I said, every country has problems. Only in India, problems become identities. How many dowry deaths take place in India in a year? Yet, India is projected as a country burning its own daughter-in-laws. And we also talk about it. Every damn newspaper will be writing about it. We believe in self-deprecation. And this goes on in the guise of intellectualism in India.

And one woman, she attempted to take a film of the widows. I wrote an article, asking her to go to Lijjat Paapad. A widow brought me up. Millions of widows have worked to bring up their children. It is a nation, which believes in Tapasya. You may not believe in it but you are an exception. Compare Deepa Mehta”s attitude with Sarada Maa”s who was the wife, who became a widow after Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa”s passing away. She went to the very same place where Deepa Mehta went and saw the widows She said, “These widows are so pure, they are an illustration and an example to me.” Deepa Mehta saw them as prostitutes. The widows have already been hurt once. Why are you sprinkling salt on their wounds?

…Catherine Mayo wrote a book and Mahatma Gandhi said about it, ” I have no time to read this filth. But I am under a compulsion, under pressure because this has been published abroad. The image of India has been rubbished and I have to counter it. With this introduction, he wrote about the book and said that this woman is a gutter inspector (laughs).

The intellectualism in India is gutter inspection…

Indian Politics: Weaknesses and Pitfalls

Let us look at the post independence scenario from the macro level. We installed a system of governance and it postulated all the important goals for the Indian society and polity, which was gulped by the Indian academia, by the Indian intellectuals. We will have a classless society through socialism. We will have a casteless society through equality. We will have a faithless society through secularism. We will have a modern society devoid of tradition.

Instead of politics restructuring caste, caste has restructured politics today. Political parties are talking only in terms of castes. Has any Indian intellectual come to terms with caste? You must understand caste if you want to handle the Indian society. You cannot say that I want to have a very different kind of society. You have to handle the Indian sentiment, the Indian tradition, Indian beliefs. You can’t clone a society of your choice in India. Social engineering has failed everywhere; the masters of social engineering have given up the communists- whether it is sociologists or economists you have to accept a society as it is…But, Indian leaders and intellectuals, till today, keep abusing caste. They don”t know how to handle caste.

Let me narrate to you how a community in Karaikudi handled this issue. The Chettiyar community assembled top businessmen, professionals from all over the world for 3 days to discuss their culinary act, how to construct houses, what languages they use, what old adages and stories their grand parents used to tell, what clothes they used to wear; not one word of politics, mind you. This was not even published in the newspapers. Intellectuals were not even aware of it. So, caste is a very important instrument in India, you may not like it. Unfortunately, every intellectual leads a caste life inside, but outside he is casteless! …There is no intellectual honesty at all.

And what happened in the case of secularism? In India, any one who is not a Hindu is per se secular. In the year 1957, just 10 years had passed after the Muslim League demanded and got the country partitioned, the leader who voted for the resolution for the partition of India was Quazi Millath Ismail, (who was leading the same Muslim League on the Indian side), the Congress certified that the Muslim League in Kerala is secular and hence it can associate with them. The Muslim League outside Kerala is communal with the same President! Three hundred and fifty crores are spent today for the Haj pilgrims out of the funds of secular India every year. No one can raise an objection.

At least I can understand why politicians don’t want to do that because they want the Muslim votes. But, what about the intelligentsia. What about newspaper editors and journalists? And academicians? None of them speak out. The reason is that we have produced a state dependent intellectualism in India. We don”t produce Nakkeerans anymore, our intellectualism is a derivative of the State and the State is a derivative of the polity. And in turn the polity is a derivative of the mind of Macaulay and Marx.

The Indian education system: A Legacy of Macaulay.

This Macaulayian system of education is a poison injected into our system. At least I had the opportunity of schooling in Tamil and hence could withstand the corruption that this English education brings with it. This corruption begins the moment the child steps out of the house. He is told to converse in English at home. This did not happen even in pre-Independence India, even when Macaulay wrote that notorious note sitting in Ooty. How many of you know Macaulay”s formulation? Just those two or three sentences at least which form the crux ” We require an education system in India which will produce a class of interpreters, who will be Indian in colour and Englishmen in taste, opinions and morals.”

This is the education system, which we have been continuing with, which was earlier conceived to produce clerks for the British empire. If you have to differ from an English educated person you have to differ only through the English language. If you have to abuse somebody, even that has to be done in English! If you abuse the Anglicised Indian, he will not find fault with the blame but with the grammar in your language!

This is the extent to which a foreign language has possessed us. But, we must master English, that is needed, but why do we have to become slaves of the English language? We must use that language as a tool, but why do we consider it as a status symbol? This is the influence of Macaulay.

If you want to understand the Macaulay/Marxist mix in India, you have to go a little back to see how Marxism grew out of the Christian civilisation. I recommend that you read the Nov 27, 1999 edition of the Newsweek, which describes how the Christian idea of the end of time called the “apocalypse”, influenced the entire history, art, music, prognosis, sociology, economics, and the entire attitude of the Christian civilisation towards the non-Christian civilisations.

A Christian scholar who describes how Communism grew out of Christianity has written it. In 1624, Anna Baptists, a group of Christians who believed in the basic tenets of Christianity seized power in a particular place, banned private property and use of any book other than the Bible. When Marxism came up later through the exposition of Das Capital, the Marxists began expounding their doctrine as an extension of Christianity.

The thesis, antithesis and synthesis of making Christianity acceptable to the age of enlightenment was the Hegelian way demanded rationalisation of Christianity in the days of the Protestant movement. Hegel began with a disagreement, then started interacting with Christianity and ultimately ended up accepting Christianity.

You can see the same phenomenon with Marxist postulates- “capitalism is my enemy, we have to deal with capitalism” and finally we have to find a synthesis with capitalism”.

Marx on India

In fact in the year 1857, Marx wrote about India, ” India was a prosperous civilisation. It had a very high standard of living. Their productivity was higher. India was an economic giant.” It was so. If you look at the statistics in 1820, India”s share of world production was 19%, and England”s share was 9%, please note that Britain was deep into the industrial revolution at that time. 18% of the world trade was in Indian hands at that time whereas 8% was the figure for Britain and 1% for US. When 80% of the American population was engaged in agriculture, India had 60% of the population engaged in non-agricultural occupations. This is supposed to be an index of development. All these statistics can be found in Paul S. Kennedy”s “Rise and fall of great powers”.

So, Marx says, “This was a great civilisation which had produced prosperous communities.” A prosperity which went deep into the villages. In the early stages, when the East India Company came and went to Murshidabad, an unknown name today in Bengal, a district level town, the Britishers were awe struck with its prosperity and wrote that it was more prosperous than London. This is no more disputed anyway, even by Indian intellectuals. Marx acknowledges the fact that this was a prosperous country and also had equality but unfortunately, he says for 2000 years the society did not change nor did it allow any revolutionary forces to enter! In his worldview human beings cannot progress without a revolution!

In the two articles on British rule in India and the East India Company- history and results written by Marx, quoted in the New York daily, Karl Marx does grant though somewhat in a grudging manner that “materially, India was fairly industrious and prosperous even before the onset of the British rule. He said that India was an exporting country till 1830. and started importing because it had opened its trade to the British.

Many of you may not be aware that the kings in India had no right to over the lands, which came under the jurisdiction of any panchayat. Whether it was Emperor Ashoka or Bhagavan Sri Ramachandra, the rule was the same. It was changed only during the British rule under the Ryotwari system, even the Mughals could not change it. It was also found that family communities were based on domestic industry, with the peculiar combination of hand-spinning, hand- weaving, agriculture etc. which gave them a supporting power.

The misery inflicted by the British on Hindusthan is of an entirely different kind and infinitely more intense than what it had to suffer before civil wars, invasions, revolutions, conquests, famines all these did not go deeper than the surface.

But, England broke the entire framework of Hindusthan, the symptoms of reconstitution are yet to emerge clearly. This loss of the Old World without the emergence of a new order imparts a particular melancholy to the present misery of Hindus and Hindusthan. Marx goes on to say that the British interference destroyed the union between agriculture and the manufacturing industry. Suddenly he remarks that the English interference dissolved this semi barbarian, semi-civilised community.

He concedes that they were prosperous, that they organised their affairs well, they have a measure of independence, they have a democracy at the lowest level, all this has been conceded. Then, how does he classify us as “semi-barbarian and semi-civilised communities”?

He notes that India”s social condition remained unaltered since remote antiquity. This is important, for him revolution is the core, the soul and centre of the society. This society never had a revolution; hence it cannot be modern! There is an underlying assumption, which considers revolution as a pre- requisite for being modern.

Hence, he feels that the destruction wrought by the British is the inevitable revolution needed for the development of the Indian society. England had vested interests, violent interests in bringing about this “revolution”. But, the question in focus is whether mankind can fulfill its destiny without a fundamental revolution in the social state?

Whatever might have been the crimes of England, she was the unconscious tool of history in bringing about a revolution, “whatever bitterness the spectacle of crumbling of an ancient world may evoke, from the point of history, we have to exclaim, “should this torture torment us?

…If you see Indian communism which was expounded by a man called Rajane Palme Dutt. Has anyone heard of his name? (two persons from the audience raised their hands). Two. He was born of a white woman and an Indian father in England. He was in charge of Indian communism for 25 years. He never came to India though. In his book, “India Today”, he laid down the framework, the policy for Indian communists, what must be done, what is the kind of revolution needed in India, the development model etc.

In those days, even good photographs of India were not available, yet this man spoke about India sitting in London. He came to India for the first time in 1946, ten years after he wrote this book and realised that he had to revise it. He stayed for 30 days! A visitor to India was the father of Indian Communism! And from that day till date, the Indian Communist has never been with India. Not only that, they took over the Indian mind in the post- independence period. It is these Marxist/Macaulayist intellectuals who will certify whether somebody is modern or traditional, backward or secular or communal, progressive or regressive. They were running an Open Air University issuing certificates every day through the press. They have branded me as a communal man.

Labels: Tools for stultifying important debates

Labels substituted debate in India. Simply a label- communal, that is enough. Four or five editorials will appear preaching that Gurumurthy is communal and the matter must end there. No one would even discuss what communalism is! Religious fundamentalism, RSS/Bajrang Dal fundamentalism! Anyone, who exposes the Hindu cause I India is a fundamentalist! We have seen this term being used so casually and superfluously and incessantly by politicians and newspapers. Has anyone bothered to understand the meaning of religious fundamentalism going beyond these slogans?

Secularism is an intra-Christian phenomenon. It has no application outside Christianity at all. Secularism resolved the fight between two powerful persons, the King and the Archbishop who were loyal to the same faith, to the same prophet, to the same book and to the same Church. It is not a multireligious virtue.

A multireligious idea, a multireligious living, a multireligious culture, a multireligious fabric or a multi religious structure was unknown outside India. There was usually only one faith and no place for any other, not even for a variation of the same faith.

Fifty six thousand Bahais were butchered in one hour in Tehran! They believed in the same Koran, in the same Muhammad, the only difference was that they said that Muhammad might come in another form again. That was their only fault and they were all butchered.

But we have no such problem. We can play with God, we can abuse God, and we can beat God!

If I say that monotheistic religions have had a violent history, and the reply will be “you are communal.” But this is exactly the same conclusion that a study in Chicago revealed, probably, the only study on fundamentalism conducted by anybody so far. This fundamentalism project brought out five volumes each volume about eight hundred to nine hundred pages. The conclusion they have reached is that, “Fundamentalism is a virtue of Abrahamic religions. It is not applicable to eastern faiths at all.

What about the Indian intellectuals? Day in and day out, they keep abusing us as fundamentalists, communalists, that we are anti-secular and it is being gulped down by everyone including those from the IITs and IIMs, lawyers and police officials, journalists and politicians. Look at this intellectual bankruptcy.

An inner revolution: The much needed change

We need a mental revolution, an inner revolution; we need to get rooted in our own soul. There is a missing element in India today and it is this. That element has to be restored otherwise Indian intellectualism will only be a carbon copy of Western intellectualism. We are borrowing not only their language and idiom but we trying to copy the very soul of the West.

So, all that we need to do is - it is impossible to share the entire depth of the subject in one evening”s lecture programme. I have only tried out point out in an incoherent way, how a completely fresh mindset has to be evolved. And unless it evolves, the Indian mind, which leads India, will be in a perpetual state of confusion, ordinary people are perfectly all right.

Consider for example how thirty years before there was a question whether Tamil Nadu will be a part of India or not. The Dravidian parties have taken over the mind of Tamil Nadu. It had virtually ceased to be a part of India. And their attack was aimed at Hinduism, the moment you attack Hinduism you attack India. This is a fact. Neither politicians nor intellectuals nor academicians realised this. But, the ordinary people did. Just three religious movements- the Ayyappa movement, the Kavadi movement and the Melmaruvatthur Adi Para Sakti movement- have finsihed the Dravidian ideology to a very great extent. It is only the outer shell of Dravidianism that remains today. Tamil Nadu has been brought back successfully by Ayyappa, Muruga and Para Sakti, not by the Congress or the BJP or any other political party.

How many people have intellectually assessed the depth and the reach, the deep influence of religion over the people? A paradigm shift in a study of India would be an intellectual approach to this subject. Or consider for example its influence on economics. Many of you by now would have studied economics in some detail. Take a look at the society in India and compare the figures for public expenditure for private purposes, which is called the social security system in the West. 30% of the GDP in America is spent for social security, 48% in England, 49% in France, 56% in Germany and 67% in Sweden. This private expenditure is nothing but what you and I do by taking care of parents, our wives and children, brothers and sisters and grandparents, widowed sisters and distant relatives. This expenditure is met by the society in India.

And there is no law in India that people should do this. We consider it as our dharma. A person went to a court and demanded a divorce from his father and mother. The American court granted it saying that the only relationship that exists between two persons of America is their citizenship. The law in America recognises no other relationship … In the year 1978, an interesting incident occurred in Manhattan. There was a power failure for six hours. Manhattan is in the heart of New York where you find the UN building, the World Trade Centre and the head quarters of many multi-national companies. One third of the world”s health is concentrated in Manhattan. Within six hours, hundreds of people were killed, robbed and assaulted. We don”t need electricity to behave in a civilised manner. How many intellectuals in India have ever articulated from such a sympathetic approach? We have only tarnished the image of this country. We must be ashamed of this.

Conclusion

I shall conclude my speech with this example. When Sri Aurobindo came to Pondicherry in search of a new light he used to get five rupees from a friend and four persons used to live on this. A cup of tea was one of the luxuries they used to have everyday in the morning, on the Pondicherry beach.

Sri Aurobindo used to always look at a mystic called Kullachamy (Subramanya Bharati has written a poem about him). He used to behave like a madman, wandering here and there, throwing stones … One, day he came near Sri Aurobindo, lifted his cup of tea and emptied it in front of him. Then he showed the empty cup to him, placed it on the table and went away. Sri Aurobindo”s friends were angry and wanted to chase him, Sri Aurobindo stopped them and said, “This is the kind of instruction I had been expecting from him. He wants me to empty my mind and start thinking afresh.”

That is my appeal to you.
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[G.Subramaniam]

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God Delusion at Work:
My Indian Travel Diary
Meera Nanda
One cannot fight the faith-based
politics of Hindu nationalists and
the similarly inspired initiatives
of the Indian state unless one
questions the very foundations of
the beliefs and rituals of popular
Hinduism itself. One cannot go
on “respecting” people’s faith,
but then turn around and start
questioning them when they
actually act upon that faith under
the banner of Hindutva.

Faith as Ideology
“There you go again!”, an old friend
remarked when I shared this bit about free
vahan pujas with him when we met in one
of the many canteens that dot the Punjab
University campus in Chandigarh. He is
quite godless himself, but thinks that
intellectuals must respect people’s religiosity
and not presume to be more “enlightened”
than them. That way, he fears, lies
avant-gardism of the Bolshevik kind.
He went on: “Don’t you, and people like
you in America – all claiming to be so modern
and secular – have your own superstitions?
Tell me honestly: have you never
worn your ‘lucky’ dress for a job interview

Faith as Ideology
“There you go again!”, an old friend
remarked when I shared this bit about free
vahan pujas with him when we met in one
of the many canteens that dot the Punjab
University campus in Chandigarh. He is
quite godless himself, but thinks that
intellectuals must respect people’s religiosity
and not presume to be more “enlightened”
than them. That way, he fears, lies
avant-gardism of the Bolshevik kind.
He went on: “Don’t you, and people like
you in America – all claiming to be so modern
and secular – have your own superstitions?
Tell me honestly: have you never
worn your ‘lucky’ dress for a job interview

I have heard them proclaim with all seriousness
that “Hinduism has nothing to do
with Hindu nationalism.” Why is that,
pray? Hinduism, they say, is a matter of
“faith” (and therefore good) while Hindu
nationalism is a “political ideology” (and
therefore bad).
But I am afraid this raises more questions
than it answers. Is it really the case that religious
faith and ideology have nothing to do
with each other? When has faith not served
as ideology? Isn’t the story of Ramayana
simultaneously faith and an ideology of a
patriarchal and a caste society? Do my good
secularist friends really believe that faith is
like a pair of chappals that people leave
outside the door marked “politics”?
Religious
beliefs, or faith, have always supplied
the common sense understanding of
the world which ideologies mobilise. A consistent
secularist has no choice but to challenge
both the common sense world view
derived from faith, and the political ideologies
that resonate with this common sense
and harness it for their own ends.
I have yet another bone to pick with those
who insist that we must “respect” people’s
religious beliefs. Why should we respect
beliefs that defy all possible evidence, which
thumb their nose at all the accumulated
knowledge about how nature works and
which have played such a reactionary role
throughout India’s history? Just because
some beliefs come wrapped up in piety does
not make them worthy of respect.

This fresh round of political unrest in
Kashmir was sparked by religious enthusiasm
for an ice stalagmite resembling
Shiva’s
lingam in the famed Amarnath
shrine. Incredibly daft though it may
appear considering Kashmir’s status as the
“world’s most dangerous place”, Hindu
pilgrimage
to Amarnath temple has been
actively promoted by a bunch of state functionaries
committed to advancing Hindu
interests in this Muslim majority state

Hinduism and Hindutva
These twin tragedies in the hills got
me musing.
I began to see the connections between
the relatively harmless (not counting the
harm it does to the faculty of critical
thought) middle class rite of vahan puja,
the tragic fate of pilgrims to Naina Devi and
Chamunda Mata temples, and the politically
disastrous outcome of governmentencouraged
Hindu pilgrimage in the state
of Jammu and Kashmir. I began to see,
more clearly than ever before, how the
same world view and beliefs of ordinary
Hindus that makes them have pujas for
their cars and undertake arduous and
often life-threatening pilgrimages, also
makes them sympathise with – and indeed
actively demand – the open, state-sponsored
Hinduisation of India that has
been going on in recent years.
This led me to see the folly of the secularist
argument that popular Hinduism has
“nothing” to do with Hindu nationalism.
When my secularist friends make such statements,
what they mean is that Hinduism
has no organic – that is, cognitive, aesthetic
and moral – connections with Hindu nationalism,
and that “bad” Hindu nationalism
has “hijacked,” “distorted” or “Semitised”
the “good”, “tolerant” and “harmless”
Hinduism
of the masses. I have never found
this argument persuasive at all, because I
believe that the Hinduism that the Hindu
nationalists invoke actually is the Hinduism
that the majority of Hindus love, cherish
and practise. Even this whole business of
making Rama the symbol of India does not
really amount to a “hijacking”: the god-king
Rama and Ramayana have been central to
the political imagination of Hindus for at
least a millennium, if not longer.
So, I have always been a sceptic when it
comes to “good Hinduism, bad Hindutva

kind of arguments. But after my travels in
India this summer, I began to see more
clearly than ever before that we cannot
fight the faith-based politics of Hindu
nationalists and the similarly inspired initiatives
of the Indian state, unless we question
the very foundations of the beliefs
and rituals of popular Hinduism itself. We
cannot go on “respecting” people’s faith,
but then turn around and start questioning
them when they actually act upon that
faith under the banner of Hindutva.
What is happening in Kashmir over the
land-transfer issue is a perfect illustration
of what I mean when I say that secularists
cannot continue to “respect” faith while, at
the same time, fight against faith-based
politics. Let us suppose that out of “respect”
we do not question the popular Hindu myth
– which is endlessly repeated not just by
priests but by the tourist and information
departments of the supposedly “secular”
state as well – that the naturally formed ice
stalagmite in the Amarnath cave is “really”
Shiva’s phallic symbol (lingam), and that
god Shiva actually revealed the secrets of
the universe at this spot to his wife, goddess
Parvati. If we grant all that, then on
what grounds do we turn around and start
criticising the mass mobilisations of Hindus
that are taking place not just in Jammu but
all over the country demanding that more
land be given to Amarnath temple so that
more and more Hindu pilgrims can witness
the “miracle” of the ice-lingam? Sure, we
can criticise political parties and the temple
management for their attempted land-grab
for a temple in such an ecologically and
politically sensitive area. But if we grant
that people’s faith – even it if confuses a
natural phenomenon with a divine phallus
– is to be “respected”, then why should we
not respect their right to demand more land
to build better facilities
so that they can
freely practise their religion?
I have always believed that as long as we
do not challenge the world view, the background
assumptions, the explicit and tacit
beliefs that animate popular Hindu rituals
and practices, we will be fighting against
the menace of Hindutva with one hand tied
behind our backs. For then, we will only
allow ourselves to challenge the material
and political interests of Hindu nationalist
parties. But we will be in no position to
challenge and change the mentalities, or

the habits-of-the-heart, of the millions of
ordinary people that incline them to support
Hindutva politics, enthusiastically (by
joining the many rath-yatras,
pujas, yaganas,
yoga-camps and other religious-political
spectacles organised by the Hindu
Right), or passively (through the ballot box
only). Unless we question the basis of faith
critically, rationally and scientifically, we
will not succeed in stemming the popular
support for faith-based politics. There can
be no viable secular politics in India without
a secularisation of consciousness and
conscience of the Indian people.
Globalisation and the Gods
In the middle of all this rather dismal
news, I found the time to take care of the
main purpose that had brought me to
India: I handed over the completed manuscript
of one of my forthcoming books,
God and Globalisation in India to my
publisher
(Navayana).
It gives me no pleasure to report that
what I saw in India this summer fully confirmed
the thesis of the book I had just completed.
My nephew’s freshly prayed-over
car confirmed one part of my thesis which
states that the new middle classes are turning
out to be more religious than the middle
classes of the previous (aka “the Nehruvian”)
generation. I argue in this book that
contrary to the expectations of the classical
secularisation theory, economic and political
modernisation is leading not to greater
secularisation, but to greater religionisation.
This heightened religiosity is evident
in the invention of new rituals, gentrification
of gods/goddesses,
and to a perverse
kind of scientism
in which Hindu metaphysics
which teaches pan-psychism (i e,
consciousness is a fundamental
quality of
even the smallest unit of matter) and
vitalism
(i e, there is a special “life-force”,
or “prana” that accounts of life) is being
sold as if it is supported by modern science.
The emerging middle classes, I argue, are
“modern” only insofar as they have become
more or less savvy consumers
of global
brand-names. These material accoutrements
exist amidst the mental
furniture
which harkens back to a world full of disembodied
atman or shakti, which either
roams free, or gets “embodied” in idols.

Tax-payers’
money was used not just to provide
facilities for the pilgrims but to actively
promote pilgrimage by organising cultural
festivals including dance, drama, food
and handicrafts. Why are we so surprised
at the communal rift that has opened up
afresh in such a geopolitically sensitive
state as Jammu and Kashmir?
God-Deluded Countries
Well, after about a month in India, I came
back to the United States.
I happened to attend a music concert in
the Hindu Temple in Middletown, Connecticut
recently. There, among other
notices, the list of “religious services”
caught my attention. Among priestly
services
for wedding and funerals, I found
the following:
“Vahan Pooja: $ 31”.
Well, why not? When Indians move
from one god-deluded country to another,
that is what they do.
So it goes

[Husky]

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God Delusion at Work:
My Indian Travel Diary
Meera Nanda
One cannot fight the faith-based
politics of Hindu nationalists and
the similarly inspired initiatives
of the Indian state unless one
questions the very foundations of
the beliefs and rituals of popular
Hinduism itself. One cannot go
on “respecting” people’s faith,
but then turn around and start
questioning them when they
actually act upon that faith under
the banner of Hindutva.

I have heard them proclaim with all seriousness
that “Hinduism has nothing to do
with Hindu nationalism.” Why is that,
pray? Hinduism, they say, is a matter of
“faith” (and therefore good) while Hindu
nationalism is a “political ideology” (and
therefore bad).
[right][snapback]89498[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->The christocommunist in its desperations has tried to commandeer the natural and pagan answer (Roman, Hindu) to the terrorist mindviruses of christoislamicommunazism. But it doesn't work on us, I fear (should people here tell her not to waste her time, because her inevitable look of stupefaction on failing miserably promises to be more entertaining than even her current desperations. So I plead with IF not to tell her just yet...)
Any simpleton will immediately notice that her arguments first apply to christianism, islamism and communism - whether or not they delude themselves into thinking it may apply to Hinduism as well.

I'm so glad that Nanda, Margaret 'Arundhati' Roy (who apparently slept her way to her Booker Prize <!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo--> - well it's more than most crypto christians accomplish, so don't discourage), Amartya Sen, D.N. Jha et al tend to be all the 'intellectuals' the terrorists have. That in itself promises a profoundly amusing implosion, without any efforts on our part. However, since I'm generous by nature :cough, I always say Play the catalyst in their self-directed scientific experiment: Give a little push to help them combust better/faster.

[acharya]

http://www.epw.org.in/epw//uploads/articles/12764.pdf
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Hinduism and Hindutva</b>
These twin tragedies in the hills got me musing.
I began to see the connections between the relatively harmless (not counting the
harm it does to the faculty of critical thought) middle class rite of vahan puja,
the tragic fate of pilgrims to Naina Devi and Chamunda Mata temples, and the politically disastrous outcome of government encouraged Hindu pilgrimage in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. I began to see, more clearly than ever before, how the same world view and beliefs of ordinary Hindus that makes them have pujas for their cars and undertake arduous and often life-threatening pilgrimages, also
makes them sympathise with – and indeed actively demand – the open, state-sponsored Hinduisation of India that has been going on in recent years.
This led me to see the folly of the secularist argument that popular Hinduism has
“nothing” to do with Hindu nationalism.

When my secularist friends make such statements, what they mean is that Hinduism has no organic – that is, cognitive, aesthetic and moral – connections with Hindu nationalism, and that “bad” Hindu nationalism as “hijacked,” “distorted” or “Semitised” the “good”, “tolerant” and “harmless” Hinduism of the masses. I have never found this argument persuasive at all, because I believe that the Hinduism that the Hindu nationalists invoke actually is the Hinduism that the majority of Hindus love, cherish and practise. Even this whole business of making Rama the symbol of India does not really amount to a “hijacking”: the god-king Rama and Ramayana have been central to the political imagination of Hindus for at least a millennium, if not longer. So, I have always been a sceptic when it comes to “good Hinduism, bad Hindutva

kind of arguments. But after my travels in India this summer, I began to see more clearly than ever before that we cannot fight the faith-based politics of Hindu nationalists and the similarly inspired initiatives of the Indian state, unless we question the very foundations of the beliefs and rituals of popular Hinduism itself. We cannot go on “respecting” people’s faith, but then turn around and start questioning them when they actually act upon that faith under the banner of Hindutva.
What is happening in Kashmir over the land-transfer issue is a perfect illustration of what I mean when I say that secularists cannot continue to “respect” faith while, at the same time, fight against faith-based politics. Let us suppose that out of “respect” we do not question the popular Hindu myth – which is endlessly repeated not just by priests but by the tourist and information departments of the supposedly “secular” state as well – that the naturally formed ice stalagmite in the Amarnath cave is “really” Shiva’s phallic symbol (lingam), and that god Shiva actually revealed the secrets of the universe at this spot to his wife, goddess Parvati. If we grant all that, then on what grounds do we turn around and start criticising the mass mobilisations of Hindus that are taking place not just in Jammu but all over the country demanding that more land be given to Amarnath temple so that more and more Hindu pilgrims can witness the “miracle” of the ice-lingam? Sure, we can criticise political parties and the temple management for their attempted land-grab for a temple in such an ecologically and politically sensitive area. But if we grant that people’s faith – even it if confuses a natural phenomenon with a divine phallus – is to be “respected”, then why should we not respect their right to demand more land to build better facilities so that they can freely practise their religion? I have always believed that as long as we do not challenge the world view, the background assumptions, the explicit and tacit beliefs that animate popular Hindu rituals and practices, we will be fighting against the menace of Hindutva with one hand tied behind our backs. For then, we will only allow ourselves to challenge the material and political interests of Hindu nationalist parties. But we will be in no position to challenge and change the mentalities, or

the habits-of-the-heart, of the millions of ordinary people that incline them to support Hindutva politics, enthusiastically (by joining the many rath-yatras, pujas, yaganas, yoga-camps and other religious-political spectacles organised by the Hindu Right), or passively (through the ballot box only). Unless we question the basis of faith critically, rationally and scientifically, we will not succeed in stemming the popular support for faith-based politics. There can be no viable secular politics in India without a secularisation of consciousness and conscience of the Indian people.
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[Bodhi]

मिलिट्री स्कूल में तैयार किए जा रहे हैं भगवा 'जिहादी'?
30 Oct 2008, 1150 hrs IST,टाइम्स न्यूज नेटवर्क

नई दिल्ली : मालेगांव ब्लास्ट मामले में एक रिटायर्ड आर्मी ऑफिसर को अरेस्ट करने के बाद म
हाराष्ट्र की ऐंटी टेररिस्ट स्क्वॉड की टीम ने अब मौजूदा लेफ्टिनंट कर्नल से पूछताछ करने के लिए इंडियन आर्मी से इजाज़त मांगी है।

सूत्रों के मुताबिक यह महाराष्ट्रियन ऑफिसर मध्य प्रदेश में तैनात है। अगर सेना इस ऑफिसर से पूछताछ की इजाज़त देती है तो यह पहली दफा होगा कि किसी आतंकी घटना के सिलसिले में एक आर्मी ऑफिसर से पूछताछ होगी। सूत्रों का कहना है कि इस ऑफिसर के मालेगांव ब्लास्ट मामले में गिरफ्तार रिटायर्ड मेजर रमेश उपाध्याय से नजदीकी संबंध हैं।

सूत्रों के मुताबिक रमेश उपाध्याय और यह लेफ्टिनंट कर्नल ' हिंदू हितों ' के लिए किशोरों को तैयार करने में स्पेशलाइज़्ड हैं। उपाध्याय नासिक के भोंसला मिलिट्री स्कूल से संबंधित है। राइट विंग का यह मिलिट्री स्कूल दावा करता रहा है कि उसके कई ' स्टूडंट्स ' इंडियन आर्मी के बड़े पदों पर हैं।

इस लेफ्टिनंट कर्नल ने इस आर्मी स्कूल को जॉइन किया था या नहीं, इस बारे में अभी संदेह है। नासिक के इस मिलिट्री स्कूल के फाउंडर हिंदू महासभा के बी. एस. मुंजे थे। मुंजे लोकमान्य तिलक के प्रशंसक थे और उन्होंने कांग्रेस से रिश्ता खत्म होने पर हिंदू महासभा को जॉइन कर लिया था।

माना जाता है कि रिटायर्ड मेजर उपाध्याय और इस लेफ्टिनंट कर्नल ने आतंकवादी कार्रवाइयों में हिंदुओं की मौत पर काफी रोष जताया था। गौरतलब है कि एक और दक्षिणपंथी विचारधारा के संस्थान अभिनव भारत से संबंधित साध्वी प्रज्ञा ठाकुर ने वाराणसी और अयोध्या जैसी जगहों पर ब्लास्ट की घटनाओं पर कड़ा रोष जताया था।

मालेगांव ब्लास्ट में उपाध्याय की गिरफ्तारी के बाद इंडियन आर्मी में भोंसला मिलिट्री स्कूल से संबंधित बाकी ऑफिसरों के बारे में भी जांच हो सकती है। एनसीसी के कैडिट्स और सिविल डिफेंस के मेंबर्स की ट्रेनिंग में हिंदू कट्टरपंथियों द्वारा अपना मतलब साधे जाने के बारे में खुफिया जांच चल रही है।

http://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/art...654031.cms

[Shambhu]

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Bajrang Dal interview

[Shambhu]

<b>No one can stop Hindus:</b> H.H. Swami Abhedanandgiriji
November 18, 2008


Kartik Krushna Shashti

Dharmajagruti Sabha at Badalapur!!!

Badalapur (Dist-Thane): It's the Hindu religion which is complete and ideal. It's our tradition to pay homage. But if somebody is trying to throw us out of our house then we should come together to retaliate against such act. If consciences of Hindus get awakened; then it would be difficult to control them. If everybody starts following the religion, customs and traditions then you can definitely expect a bright future and life. People are blindly following the western culture. Ofcourse one should absorb the good things from other religion, but we should not forget our own culture. The president of Shri Dnyanprabha Trust, H.H. Mahamandaleshwar Shri 108 Swami Abhedanandgiriji also said during his speech that it's going to be Bhartiya culture and Sanskrit language that would help us to make our life beautiful.

The Hindu Janjagruti Sabha was organized in the Sanjivani Auditorium to protest against the attacks on Hindus and to make Hindus aware of the righteous education and virtuous behavior and also to bring Hindu brethren together. On this moment president of Kulgaon – Badalapur municipality Shri Rambhau Patkar, Shri Ajay Sambhus of Hindu Janjagruti Samiti, Shri Satish Kocharekar of Dharmashakti Sena and Dr. Anjali Patil from Sanatan Sanstha were present on the dais. The program was started with the reciting incantation of Sree Ganesha. Vedmurti Uday Khasnis and Vedmurti Suhas Ashtekar were felicitated after the reciting incanting of Vedas. Also the lighting of lamp was done by H.H. Mahamandaleshwar Shri 108 Swami Abhedanandgiriji Maharaj in the atmosphere with full of energy. All the saints were reverenced and other dignitaries were felicitated with the shawl, a picture of Lord Ganesha and coconut.

Speaking on this occasion Dr. Anjali Patil of Sanatan Sanstha said that people don't even have that proud feeling for their own religion. To make people ready to follow their religion is very necessary. Making people aware and incline them for penance is the first sign the virtuous awakening of society.

Shri Ram Patkar said that government is taking action against Hindus just to flatter Muslim community. Bharat is a Hindu Nation and in this country terrorism is encouraged. For no reason Hindus are being victimized and framed in the Malegaon bomb blast. Hindus are watching this with open eyes doing nothing. If Hindus themselves get united then nobody will dare to do any bomb blast in our country. Just because Hindus are tolerant government is taking action against Hindus for no reason. If we sit ideally doing nothing then the day is not too far when you will see Mughals ruling on this country again. No one showed any concern when Sadhvi Padnyasingh was arrested. Let's come together for the holy though of Hindu nation.

Shri Paragbua Ramdasi in his talk said that there is a conversion happening on a very large scale. Some how even we are also seems to be converted, because we don't follow our religious duties, customs and traditions. Under the so called western culture our culture is disappearing. We are now an independent country, but our minds are still not free from that psychological servitude. This is causing damage to our glorious culture. This government is trying to prove our cultural heritage useless and accepting the western education system.

Shri Satish Kocharekar of Dharmashakti Sena said that, today there are attacks on humanity by the every day bomb blasts and riots and its been really unfortunate that Hindus are not coming together to fight against this. Every body is concern about their happiness and security. But today the society is not happy and secure. Even the police and administration are not safe, and we are depending upon them. Hindus are being attacked on their festive occasions. Everyday Hindus are experiencing war like situation and to overcome on this we need to create the power of Bhawani sword (the sword given by Sree Bhawani Deity to Shri Shivaji Maharaj).

"The Hindutva is in trouble due to the acts like terrorism, conversion and corruption. In all this if this Hindu religion is vanished then the entire universe will deprive to this supreme and important knowledge. Everybody should be ready to fight against this discrimination to retain good health of our nation and religion. To fight for our nation and religion is a collective penance. Also to face such problems we have to learn self defense and disaster management. Everybody should join the Dharmashikshanvarga (class of righteous education) and should follow ones religion", says Shri Ajay Sambhus of Hindu Janjagruti Samiti.

Thane district Shiv Sena leader Shri Manohar Ambawane and Shri Dattaji Surve of VHP were present for this Dharmajagruti Sabha. At the end they unanimously passed memorandum which includes

The 'Setu Samudram Project' should be revoked.
M.F.Hussain should be arrested for hurting Hindu sentiments.
The Kashmiri people those are living life like refugee should be rehabilitated in their own state.
Plastic and paper flags should be banned.
Hanging of Afzalguru should be executed as soon as possible
Strict action should be taken against those who are defaming and insulting Hindu deities, gods and saints.
The Anti-Faith bill which ANS is trying get approved should not be passed. Also the temple take over act should be cancelled.
The rally was ended with the vote of thanks followed by the National song 'Vande Mataram'. A review meeting is been organized on 21st November 2008 at 7:30 pm in the Datta temple in Badalapur.

Highlights:

Shri Paragbua Ramdasi himself came to see the preparation at the venue. He also checked the exhibition there.
Each and every proud Hindu coming there were put Kumkumtilak (red powder mark made on the forehead) with the sprinkling of fragrant essence.
The flexes telling about the righteous education and appealing to awaken for the Hindutva were attracting people.
At the venue precious books of Sanatan and CD's were kept. Also there were stalls for the first aid and Hindu Janjagruti Samiti.
Also a signature campaign against the unfair ban on Sanatan Sanstha and Bajrang Dal was held.
Reactions:

Shri. Dattaji Surve, VHP (Kalyan) – Hindu Janjagruti Samiti should direct Hindus through these Dharmasabhas. We will help you in all possible ways.

Shri. Parmeshwar Gupta, VHP (Badalapur) – Protection of our religion comes first. But it's just not about protection but its all about following our religion and righteous education. So the work Hindu Janjagruti Samiti is doing is fabulous and invaluable. I really appreciate your work and would like to congratulate you. Also I will try to follow the path of Hindu Janjagruti Samiti.

Source: Dainik Sanatan Prabhat
http://www.hindujagruti.org/news/5798.html

[Shambhu]

Hindus, Hinduism, Hindusthan
Column and Opinions

Some 1400 years ago, this land India never knew what Religion was. All it knew was GOD. India then was all Gold and all GOD. There was no full stop on any belief. A worshipper of Lord Shiva was also a devotee of Lord Krishna and vice versa. The countless deities didn’t ask their followers to fight to attain any superiority. This land east of Hindukush was sometimes called as Hindusthan by those living west of Hindukush. And the majority population of this land is still called as Hindus.



The same land is here again known more popularly as India has so many Religions. One GOD of Islam is not ready to take another GOD of Hindu. One GOD of Christianity is not ready to accept another GOD of Hindu. Had there been only one GOD existing, there was surely no question of any fight, because then all would have been worshipping the same GOD probably with different name and understanding. But it is the honor of GOD to establish hatred in the heart of his followers against the followers of other GOD (more popularly called as SATAN). But GOD himself seems to be powerless to deal with SATAN once and for all. Amazing concepts of Monotheist Religions! Anyway, there would be lot to talk on GOD. Let us see what is meant by Hindus.



1400 years of history has changed this land tremendously. Over 800 years of atrocities of Islam and over 200 years of rule of Christianity changed the demography on this pure land of Sanatan believers and followers. Gold is lost. The target left is on GOD. Thousands of Vedas were burnt. The concept of GOD was attempted to be destroyed. Yet, the looters of this nation could not touch GOD. GOD showed his presence some times through Shankaracharya, and at other times through Chhatrapati Shivaji and Swami Vivekananda. The concept evolved back. The once disappearing Hindus revived their consciousness. And Bharat was formed. But this was obviously not acceptable. There emerged a great scholar and experimentalist. He claimed that he knew all Religions. He gave the mantra of ‘Sarva Dharma Samabhava’. It was well understood that the fight for Independence was a struggle of Hindus. And the experimentalist wanted Muslims to join hand. He either never knew the history, or he didn’t wanted to learn anything from it. He wanted his own fiction to come to reality. Hindus by and large are automatically in the mode of acceptance of anything that seems to be peaceful. So, ‘Sarva Dharma Samabhav’ was accepted by them. But then, ‘Sarva Dharma’ doesn’t mean Hinduism alone. Or else it would have been ‘Ekam Dharma’. ‘Sarva Dharma’ mean other Religions also. So, the experiment was carried forward in the name of Non-Cooperation movement. But there was a deal made to include ‘Sarva Dharma’ into the movement. The deal was known as ‘Khilafat movement’. But ‘Khilafat’ was ‘Ekam Dharma’, as the movement was in favor of Caliph of Turkey (not even India ). Strange, isn’t it? When our own nation was seeing huge atrocities, our ‘Sarva Dharma’ was advocating ‘Khilafat’. And the result was Mopla Rebellion, where around 10,000 Hindus were massacred by Muslims. But the experiment didn’t end. It continued. The Quran was read in Temples by the experimentalist. But Bhagwad Geeta was surely not read in any Masjid. Yet, ‘Sarva Dharma’ remained alive. ‘Ekam Dharma’ of Ali and Jinnah was fully supported by ‘Sarva Dharma’, but ‘Ekam Dharma’ of Savarkar and Godse was destroyed.



This ‘Sarva Dharma’ concept is still ruling this nation. There are nations like Nepal , Bhutan , Myamar and Sri Lanka as our neighbors. How much threat do we have from them? There is an equally small nation ‘ Bangladesh ’. Surely, our believers of ‘Sarva Dharma’ do not have any threat from them also. There is yet another nation ‘ Pakistan ’ and our ‘Sarva Dharma’ followers must also be free from any threat from it as well. The fact is, around 1.2 million Hindus were trained during Independence movement to create Indian Army. And the base of current Army is a gift of Veer Savarkar and Subhas Chandra Bose. After all, against whom our Army is deployed? Is our Army fighting against Sri Lanka , Mymmar , Bhutan or Nepal ? Obviously, the major task of Army lies against Pakistan and Bangladesh . Do you think these nations are containing people of ‘Sarva Dharma’? No, there lies ‘Ekam Dharma’ in these nations and that is Islam. And the fight of Army is undoubtedly and clearly against ‘Ekam Dharma’ Islam. If the Army does not hold the ideologies of Hinduism, will they be able to do justice to their job? I am sure, they will not. The bigger question is how are Pakistan and Bangladesh able to create terrorism in India ? If the question is answered honestly, the answer would be clearly ‘Ekam Dharma’. And the picture that will emerge is that ‘Sarva Dharma Samabhava’ is meant for Hindus alone.



Some people believe that they think only of Nation and not Religion. They are hypocrites. They will be the first to run away if there is any attack. Do they want to say that people living in the nation are all Atheists? Do they think who the enemies of the nation are? Do they think that Hinduism is the enemy of the nation? Are Hindus engaged in threatening Muslims or Christians to leave the country? How many regions do you know was evacuated by Muslims and given to pure Hindus? But there are many regions, which were evacuated by Hindus and given to Muslims. Malegaon , Achalpur, Dhole, Eastern belt of West Bengal, Assam, Tripura and the largest of all Kashmir are to name the few. If ‘Sarva Dharma’ applies so easy and appeals so deep, why don’t the believers of it go and settle in Kashmir or Malegaon ? Why did Sadhu Vasvani run away from Lahore ?



Anyway, the new name of ‘Sarva Dharma Samabhava’ is Secularism. In reality, ‘Sarva Dharma Samabhava’ or Secularism is a slap on the face of Hindus. And obviously, Hindus were taught by the founder of ‘Sarva Dharma Samabhava’ to show another side of the face to get yet another slap. So, Hindus cannot do anything for this slap.



I am sorry to say that the founder of ‘Sarva Dharma Samabhava’ could not differentiate between ‘Dharma’ and Religion. He could not differentiate between Quran and Geeta. He could not learn from history and even his own experiments. All he could do was put the tag of ‘Sarva Dharma Samabhava’ and help ‘Ekam Dharma’ to continue their atrocities on all believers of ‘Sarva Dharma’.



Let people of this country know what Bhagwad Geeta says on ‘Sarva Dharma Samabhava’.



‘Sreyan Swadharmo Vigunaha Par Dharmatswanisthitat , Swedharma Nidhanam Shreyah Par Dharma Bhayavahah’



Better is one’s own Dharma even if it is full of fault. It is better to die in own Dharma. As other’s Dharma is full of dishonor and will bring ruin to the betrayer of his own Dharma.



Lord Krishna has not advocated to what the experimentalist told and practiced. If one wants to save their nation, they must save their Dharma first. If Nation is the mother, Dharma is the Father. We can clearly see why ‘Sarva Dharma Samabhava’ was established. So the original and true father ‘Dharma’ (for India it was ‘Sanatan Dharma’) could be replaced. And you all know it is replaced now. What our Lords didn’t do, we have done and accepted. Who will protect this nation now? Mother feeds the nation, Father protects the nation. Now our Father is still under captive. And new Father is declared. We need to release or father first, if we want to save India . There is no other formula that will work. The ‘Ekam Dharma’, Hinduism or Sanatan Dharma is alone that will give peace to even Muslims and Christians. This land India is made for Saints and Rishis. If that is destroyed, I predict today, nature will devastate the whole earth. If the whole world has to exist, India must exist as a Hindu state. India must have Rishis and Munis in full swing.



If the Secularist still does not understand, let me put before them a clear meaning of Dharma. In most simple form Dharma means ‘All that you want to do with and on others, but with the condition that if same is done with and on you, you are sure that you would enjoy them equally’. So, Conversion is what Christians think is right, and if they are not ready to accept the same when applied to their community – it is Adharma. If Islam thinks looting, raping and killing Kafirs is correct and orders of GOD, then the same done on them should also be accepted with equal pleasure – or else it is Adharma. This is the philosophy of Hinduism and this is why Hinduism by default is Secular. But now, beware Hindus, you are already declared as Communal by Media and current Government. You are 80%, yet you cannot hold your Religion with pride – your face is shameful. Your choice, what you want to say: Long Live ‘Sarva Dharma Samabhava’; Long Live Secularism OR ‘Garv se Kaho Hum Hindu Hain’.

http://www.sanghparivar.org/hindus-hinduism-hindusthan

[Bodhi]

author is very confused.

[Husky]

Sounds less confused and more like a conscious subversionist to me.

[Bodhi]

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<span style='color:red'>Guruji Golwalkar's Views on Politics</span>

Excerpted from "Terrifying Vision: MS Golwalkar, the RSS and India", by
Jyotirmaya Sharma, Penguin (Viking), 2007, pp 16-22.

(Golwalkar's) argument against politics is articulated at several
levels. In the first instance, he observes that if the nation's life
were dependent on political power the alien attacks on India would have
been repulsed instantaneously. But the Muslims and the European colonial
powers came and went away, or lost their power, while Hindu society
remained intact. The reason for this is that culture rather than
politics informed the basis of Hindu social life. As long as the
cultural stream of life can be kept alive and awakened, says Golwalkar,
we will be alive. Here, the pronoun 'we' stands for both the Sangh as
well as Hindu society.

After the murder of Gandhi and the ban on the Sangh in 1949, there was a
clamour within certain sections of the Sangh for greater involvement in
politics. The crisis that engulfed the Sangh, it was felt, was a
consequence of politics and in order to confront such crises in future,
political participation was the key. Golwalkar vehemently rejected this
view. He asked those who wanted a greater role for the Sangh in politics
to go ahead and join politics. But to argue that there was no worthwhile
task to be accomplished other than politics was incorrect and untenable.
Politics, he declared, was the most insignificant part of life, and
certainly not the instrument that could encompass life. If the Sangh
were to keep its faith in Hindu sanskriti or culture alive, they had
nothing, then, to fear from politics or from those who were antagonistic
towards the Hindu Rashtra becoming a reality.

This argument was based on Golwalkar's idiosyncratic reading of history.
Hindu society had survived even when those who ruled the Hindus were
determined to make the entire nation mlechha. During the Mughal rule,
there was no one to protect the Hindus and challenge the authority of
the rulers. Everyone had capitulated and accepted the authority of the
Muslim rulers. Yet, despite force and inducements, the Muslim rulers
failed to convert all Hindus to Islam. Hindus survived this onslaught,
he argues, because there were people in Hindu society who kept the
commitment to Hindu culture intact by singing songs in praise of Lord
Ramachandra and Lord Krishna. They kept faith, tradition and piety
alive, did not succumb, and retained their moral and ethical voice unto
the last. At any given time, if such individuals are able to keep
culture and traditions alive for a period of a hundred to two hundred
years, then the cumulative effect of this throws up an individual.
Steadfast in his commitment to culture, this outstanding person
constructs political power on the foundations of a deep and abiding
fidelity to religion, culture and tradition. For instance, from
Jnaneshwar to Tukaram, such a tradition of religious and cultural
reawakening was fostered, and, in the end, it produced Chhatrapati
Shivaji, who established a Hindu kingdom in the face of hostility and
adversity.

In other words, if the ruled have unambiguous faith in their culture,
then the ruled will ultimately be the rulers. In the present age of
democracy, the ruler is not the exemplar of the ruled. Rather, the ruled
determine the actions and direction of the rulers. If the ruled are
weak, fearful, untrusting, characterless and full of abharatiya or
un-Hindu elements, then the ruler will also be the same. These
abharatiya ideas would be the undoing of Hindu society and the Hindu
Rashtra, since these were attracting ordinary people. Political power,
however, is not the instrument that would make people worship the
nation.

In order to cleanse society of abharatiya elements and make people
worship Hindu sanskriti, it was imperative for the Sangh to enhance its
capabilities. Golwalkar is strident in his assertion that every aspect
of every effort in the country will have to be coloured in the Sangh's
colours. Political power and the government of the day must eventually
reflect and radiate the Sangh's light. This could only be accomplished
by awakening and disseminating Hindu culture. Neither politics, nor
political ideas, nor even sects, denominations and states are eternal.
All perish in the ebb and flow of time. What survives and endures is
steadfastness in dharma or righteousness, religion and rectitude. If the
Sangh's work were to have any salience, if it was to invoke society's
faith and trust, and if its voice was not to be dissolved in the
prevailing abharatiya atmosphere, it had to remain free of corrupting
phenomena such as politics and political power. In fact, asserts
Golwalkar, the un-Hindu trends prevalent in the country soon after
independence were a direct consequence of the quality and nature of
political power. Neither political power nor holding political office
could help the Sangh's work, or even protect it from any future threat.

Golwalkar gave historical examples of the futility of politics. The
spread of Buddhism and Islam, he argues, happened with the backing of
political power, but ultimately failed. The political dispensation of
the day was against Jesus Christ, yet, because of his faith, his
determination and the clarity of his ideas, the Christian faith spread
despite the lack of political power. The moment Christianity tried to
acquire and align itself with political power and office, corruption
crept into its practice. Similarly, those in power at a historical
juncture tried to destroy Hindutva in the name of spreading Buddhism,
but were vanquished, single handed, by the Adi Shankara. He too had no
political power at his command.

The lure of political power and the lure of office had corrupted every
idealist, patriot and self-sacrificing individual. The Sangh had to be
wary of falling for the love of politics. Rather, it ought to have a
comprehensive picture of the nation without giving in to small details
and petty issues. It ought to embrace the entire nation in every way.

Politics, observes Golwalkar, is the surest way to lose identity as an
organization. Pl9litics inevitably leads to dilution. That might be the
reason, he suspects, why Sardar Patel suggested that the Sangh ought to
come into the public sphere as a political party and work openly, even
if it did so in thtt name of the Hindus. This happened during the period
of the ban on the Sangh after Gandhi's murder. Golwalkar sees in Patel's
suggestion a way of ensuring that the Sangh, like all other political
organizations, would weaken; and lose its extremism in articulating a
radical Hindu nationalist ideology. Instead, the Sangh ought to remain
true to the vision of its founding fathers and chart its own course.

With the founding of the Jan Sangh in 1951, the pressure on Golwalkar to
delineate a clear line for swayamsevaks participating in politics was
even more intense. He was clear that the Sangh should have no
inclination to leave its work and abandon its goal in favour of
politics. But he conceded that incorruptible men could be asked to go
out of the Sangh and enter the cesspool of politics. It was not
important whether swayamsevaks became ministers or not, as long as they
had the power and the influence to appoint ministers as a result of
their kindness and patronage. The Sangh, then, had to have the kind of
power and influence that could run governments and also eliminate
governments. Without entering the marsh of politics, the Sangh would
have to create a centralized and collectively invested strength in order
to ensure the progress of the nation. The Sangh wanted a kind of power
which could control politics yet remain untainted by the vices of being
in government or participating in politics. The strength that the Sangh
envisaged would be able to leave its imprint on politics through its
virtues.

For Golwalkar, politics is like a woman of questionable character. Just
as a 'woman of the multitude', a prostitute, takes on various guises in
order to entice and please, so does politics. A swayamsevak in politics
is, therefore, like a sage, who, coming in contact with a prostitute,
improves her life. The credit, invariably, must go to the sage. Despite
faith in the incorruptible character of the swayamsevaks, Golwalkar
admitted that certain individuals, even though trained by the Sangh,
might not ultimately remain free from the poisonous effects of politics.
That is why, since the Sangh's inception, there has been a conscious
effort to underplay the importance of political and economic issues. The
way of the Sangh was one of social transformation and of inculcating
virtues in society. The Sangh was in a position to articulate an
unadulterated nationalism only because it had refused to align itself
with any political party.

[Capt M Kumar]

<!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> What the Islamic Invaders Did to India
by Rizwan Salim
http://www.islam-watch.org/Rizwan_Salim/Wh...id-to-India.htm
This article was published in Hindustan Times on December 28, 1997

On the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition (December 6, 1992),
it is important for Hindus (and Muslims) to understand the importance
of the event in the context of Hindustan's history, past and recent,
present and the future.

Savages at a very low level of civilisation and no culture worth the
name, from Arabia and west Asia, began entering India from the early
century onwards. Islamic invaders demolished countless Hindu temples,
shattered uncountable sculpture and idols, plundered innumerable
palaces and forts of Hindu kings, killed vast numbers of Hindu men and
carried off Hindu women. This story, the educated-and a lot of even
the illiterate Indians-know very well. History books tell it in
remarkable detail. But many Indians do not seem to recognise that the
alien Muslim marauders destroyed the historical evolution of the
earth's most mentally advanced civilisation, the most richly
imaginative culture, and the most vigorously creative society.

It is clear that India at the time when Muslim invaders turned towards
it (8 to 11th century) was the earth's richest region for its wealth
in precious and semi-precious stones, gold and silver, religion and
culture, and its fine arts and letters. Tenth century Hindustan was
also too far advanced than its contemporaries in the East and the West
for its achievements in the realms of speculative philosophy and
scientific theorising, mathematics and knowledge of nature's workings.
Hindus of the early medieval period were unquestionably superior in
more things than the Chinese, the Persians (including the Sassanians),
the Romans and the Byzantines of the immediate proceeding centuries.
The followers of Siva and Vishnu on this subcontinent had created for
themselves a society more mentally evolved-joyous and prosperous
too-than had been realised by the Jews, Christians, and Muslim
monotheists of the time. Medieval India, until the Islamic invaders
destroyed it, was history's most richly imaginative culture and one of
the five most advanced civilisations of all times.

Look at the Hindu art that Muslim iconoclasts severely damaged or
destroyed. Ancient Hindu sculpture is vigorous and sensual in the
highest degree-more fascinating than human figural art created
anywhere else on earth. (Only statues created by classical Greek
artists are in the same class as Hindu temple sculpture). Ancient
Hindu temple architecture is the most awe-inspiring, ornate and
spell-binding architectural style found anywhere in the world. (The
Gothic art of cathedrals in France is the only other religious
architecture that is comparable with the intricate architecture of
Hindu temples). No artist of any historical civilisation have ever
revealed the same genius as ancient Hindustan's artists and artisans.

Their minds filled with venom against the idol-worshippers of
Hindustan, the Muslims destroyed a large number of ancient Hindu
temples. This is a historical fact, mentioned by Muslim chroniclers
and others of the time. A number of temples were merely damaged and
remained standing. But a large number-not hundreds but many
thousands-of the ancient temples were broken into shreds of cracked
stone. In the ancient cities of Varanasi and Mathura, Ujjain and
Maheshwar, Jwalamukhi and Dwarka, not one temple survives whole and
intact from the ancient times.

The wrecking of Hindu temples went on from the early years of the 8th
century to well past 1700 AD a period of almost 1000 years. Every
Muslim ruler in Delhi (or Governor of Provinces) spent most of his
time warring against Hindu kings in the north and the south, the east
and the west, and almost every Muslim Sultan and his army commanders
indulged in largescale destructions of Hindu temples and idols. They
also slaughtered a lot of Hindus. It is easy to conclude that
virtually every Hindu temple built in the ancient times is a perfect
work of art. The evidence of the ferocity with which the Muslim
invaders must have struck at the sculptures of gods and goddesses,
demons and apsaras, kings and queens, dancers and musicians is
frightful. At so many ancient temples of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh,
for example, shattered portions of stone images still lie scattered in
the temple courtyards. Considering the fury used on the idols and
sculptures, the stone-breaking axe must have been applied to thousands
upon thousands of images of hypnotic beauty.

Giving proof of the resentment that men belonging to an inferior
civilisation feel upon encountering a superior civilisation of
individuals with a more refined culture, Islamic invaders from Arabia
and western Asia broke and burned everything beautiful they came
across in Hindustan. So morally degenerate were the Muslim Sultans
that, rather than attract Hindu "infidels" to Islam through force of
personal example and exhortation, they just built a number of mosques
at the sites of torn down temples-and foolishly pretended they had
triumphed over the minds and culture of the Hindus. I have seen stones
and columns of Hindu temples incorportated into the architecture of
several mosques, including the Jama Masjid and Ahmed Shah Masjid in
Ahmedabad; the mosque in the Uparkot fort of Junagadh (Gujarat) and in
Vidisha (near Bhopal); the Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra right next to the
famous dargah in Ajmer-and the currently controversial Bhojshala
"mosque" in Dhar (near Indore). Hindu culture was at its imaginative
best and vigorously creative when the severely-allergic-to-images
Muslims entered Hindustan. Islamic invaders did not just destroy
countless temples and constructions but also suppressed cultural and
religious practices; damaged the pristine vigour of Hindu religion,
prevented the intensification of Hindu culture, debilitating it
permanently, stopped the development of Hindu arts ended the creative
impulse in all realms of thought and action, damaged the people's
cultural pride, disrupted the transmission of values and wisdom,
cultural practices and tradition from one generation to the next;
destroyed the proper historical evolution of Hindu kingdoms and
society, affected severely the acquisition of knowledge, research and
reflection and violated the moral basis of Hindu society. The Hindus
suffered immense psychic damage. The Muslims also plundered the wealth
of the Hindu kingdoms, impoverished the Hindu populace, and destroyed
the prosperity of Hindustan.

Gaze in wonder at the Kailas Mandir in the Ellora caves and remember
that it is carved out of a solid stone hill, an effort that
(inscriptions say) took nearly 200 years. This is art as devotion. The
temple built by the Rashtrakuta kings (who also built the colossal
sculpture in the Elenhanta caves off Mumbai harbour) gives proof of
the ancient Hindus' religious fervor.

But the Kailas temple also indicated a will power, a creative
imagination, and an intellect eager to take on the greatest of
artistic challenges.

The descendants of those who built the magnificent temples of Bhojpur
and Thanjavur, Konark and Kailas, invented mathematics and brain
surgery, created mindbody disciplines (yoga) of astonishing power, and
built mighty empires would almost certainly have attained
technological superiority over Europe.

It is not just for "political reasons" that Hindus want to build grand
temples at the sites of the (wrecked) Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the
Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, and the Mathura idgah. The efforts of
religion-intoxicated and politically active Hindus to rebuild the Ram
Mandir, the Kashi Vishwanath Mandir, and the Krishna Mandir are just
three episodes m a one-thousand year long Hindu struggle to reclaim
their culture and religion from alien invaders.

The demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on 6 December 1992 was
just one episode in the millennial struggle of the Hindus to repossess
their religion-centered culture and nation. Meanwhile, hundreds of
ancient Hindu temples forsaken all over Hindustan await the
reawakening of Hindu cultural pride to be repaired or rebuilt and
restored to their original, ancient glory.

[acharya]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Hindu Nationalists:Indigenous Resilience     | Print |       E-mail
By Brannon Parker  
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I am currently in Mumbai, India and have been here in India for the past three months. I am here doing research on the tribal cultures of India. I actually arrived in Mumbai about 4 hrs before the terror attacks took place. The mood is quite somber and the people are frustrated. Despite all that, the Indian people continue with their lives. I would compare it to the mood most Americans have when they hear about or see a horrific car accident. The fact is terror has been feasting on India for quite some time now. Approximately 70,000 Indians have died due to this onslaught of terror.

It is disheartening to see alternative news portals broadcasting the Main Stream Media's vilification of the Hindu Nationalists. In sync with the Globalists agenda, they have latched onto the Hindus as the new whipping boys. It is also strange that despite India being hit by terror for decades, only now the suddenly concerned Westerners are paying attention. What is unfortunate is that these same people are bandying about theories of Indian involvement.

Maybe if this was the first and only attack people could such speculation would have merit. Out of ignorance of the reality in India they pass arround anti-Indian propaganda that suits their mistrust of media and understandable interest in knowing the truth. Just yesterday, Dec 2nd, another terror attack occurred in Assam, India. Now why didnt that get any play in the world media. Where are all the theorists on that attack?

Anti-Indian Propagnada is making the rounds claiming that Hindu Nationalists were involved in the Mumbai attacks.Please consider. If such people were an all powerful group capable of International terrorsim or even domestic terrorism why do the very same corporate media outlets attack them? The same corporate media that gave us Obama and Osama, the lies about 9/11, Iraq, Iran, Georgia etc spend a disproprotionate effort in demonizing the Hindu Nationalist groups. A majority of Indian media is owned by the very same corporates that control the Western media. Rupert Murdoch owns about 6 TV stations here. The Indian media is blatantly hostile to the RSS, BJP, VHP and all other Hindu Nationalist groups.

It is because these Hindu Nationalists are dedicated to an India that is based on Indigenous traditions and the Indian way of life. Contrary to the media and Communists-Islamic-pseudo-secular propaganda machine's claims these Hindus do not see themselves as a religious based group. They thus consider any Indian, regardless of their way of worship as Hindus. The fact is nearly all Indian Muslims and Christians have always been Indians. They merely changed their methods of worship and are thus considered as Muslim Hindus and Christian Hindus.

This is evident from the fact that Naqvi, the Chairman of the BJP, the Hindu Nationalist Party is a Muslim. During the Gujarat riots, that are used as proof that the BJP pursues a genocidal anti-Muslim idealogy, the BJP Prime Minister of India, Vajpayee appointed a Muslim, Dr. Kalam as the President of India. Time magazine responded by declaring Vajpayee as a drunkard, unfit to rule such an important nation like India. The testimony of prime witnesses used to blame Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, for the riots, revealed that they were pressured and coerced by Teesta Setalvaad to lie in court. The case collapsed yet still the anti-traditionalists continue to point to these very claims that have been repudiated by the Muslim witnesses. When people depend on lies to make their case, one is wise to question their credibility.

The Nanavati Commision, after years of investigation, has given a clean chit to the BJP administration.The only 'proof' used to discredit the BJP comes from its political enemies and the Pakistanis. If you want to accept that as proof go ahead. Yet if one believes it is unbiased they are only fooling themselves and throwing fairness and justice out the window. Another lie that is constantly bandied about is that the Sangh Parivar killed Gandhi. This is based on the fact that the assasin had been a member of the RSS 20 years earlier. He had also been a member of the Congress party yet none attempt to link the Congress party to the killing. In fact the RSS has repeatedly taken media outlets to court over these attempts at defamation and won every time. For those who discount this, being biased against the Indian judicial system, the UK courts also agreed that the RSS had nothing to do with the assasination of Gandhi. In fact the whole effort to tie the RSS to the crime is reminicent of the Cointelpro operations done against the American Indian Movement. AIM.

As far as Indian Muslims and Christains are concerned, they are considered just as much Indian as any Hindu. The Sangh Parivar's Rashtriya Muslim Manch is proof of this. This group is a dedicated group of Muslim Indian Nationalists. They recognize they are Indians first above and beyond any other identity.  According to the Sangh leadership, the only authentic minority groups in India are the Parsis and Jews who migrated here from Iran and areas in West Asia .

Indian Nationalism
Efforts to defame the Hindu Nationalists as anti-Muslim and anti-Christian have been proven as Pakistan 's ISI operation. In 2000 Christian churches were bombed throughout South India . The media went into a frenzy blaming the BJP and other Hindu Nationalist groups. The blasts were, in reality, masterminded by a Pakistan-based Deendar Anjuman group. The group had planned a series of attacks on churches in Bangalore , Hubli and Gulbarga . Some people, led by key person Ibrahim, were caught by the city police when the bomb, which they were carrying to plant in a church, exploded. As a result two people died and Ibrahim seriously injured. The accused believed that blasts at churches in India would trigger a civil war between Hindus and Christians. A religious leader from Afghanistan would invade and conquer India , which would be converted into an Islamic country. On November 30, 2008, 11 of these terrorists were given the death sentence.

The Hindu Nationalists are authentic Indian Patriots. They are demonized as racists and fascists merely based upon their Love of country and culture. Attempts are being made to blame Hindus for the Mumbai terror attacks. The ludicrous 'proof' of the attackers being Hindu is based on a photo of one terrorist. He is displaying a red string on his wrists. The Chinese Government media was the first to float this theory and Pakistan is spreading it. How difficult is it for the terrorists to intentionally wear and display such an identifying marker? In my opinion this is part of the campaign to demonize the Hindu Nationalists. The intention is quite clear. India 's enemies have Think tanks dedicated to this kind of psychological warfare.

Muslims Love the Koran and their Whiskey too

As for the claims that the Mumbai Attackers drank beer at Leopold's cafe, just before they began their massacre, the employess and owner who were there, stated the rumor to be a total fabrication. There are also claims that they rented rooms at the Nariman House and ordered liquor. These claims appear to be false as well. Yet the fact is when a Jihadist is on a mission, they are allowed to use any means, including acts considered haram (forbidden) to Muslims, such as drinking, lying and killing in the cause of Islam.  As for Muslims and drinking, a friend of mine, who happens to be from a well known Indian Muslim family frequently drank alchohol and partied hard. I actually first met him at a night club/hooka lounge. I asked him about his drinking and smoking. He said as long as his parents dont know about it, its no problem. He also said that he knows many people who worked in Saudi Arabia and in the Palaces of the Saudi princes. They all have bars installed in the cellars and they love hard liquors like Whiskey.

American Indians and Indians
The Hindu Nationalists are very similar to American Indian traditionalists such as Tecumseh, Pontiac, and Sitting Bull etc. It is disappointing to see, that in the zeal to expose Israeli agencies like Mossad, people are gullibly accepting the propaganda of those dedicated to the destruction of India . As the Western and Corporate powers conquered the world they destroyed any and all Indigenous based power structures they encountered. India survived this onslaught due its vast population and vibrant culture. China was conquered and basically sterilized by the British agent Mao. India 's is currently reeling under the onslaught of these same Maoist forces in a silent war that has killed thousands. The Hindu Nationalists are the only people resisting the Maoist take over of the rural areas. Their success in this regard is a primary reason that they are being targeted.

Red Corridor of Terror
At this moment a vast red corridor stretches across India . If the Hindu Nationalists win the upcoming 2009 elections, these forces will begin a massive campaign to destabilize the Nation. With the Western backed Maoist conquest of Nepal , the Maoist now have a dedicated supply line for support and tactical backup. During the Maoist insurrection, three members of the North Korean mission to Nepal were caught attempting to smuggle 100Kg of gold ingots into Nepal . This was the second such instance that the North Koreans were caught smuggling gold into Neal. (North Koreans are the agents of the London based Globalist Powers used in the same capacity of Pakistan in order to keep South Korea and Japan in check.)

The Indian Maoists have frequently been discovered with top of the line satellite communication gear and weaponry. For an alleged group of disgruntled farmers allegedly driven to violence by their economic desperation, it is quite strange that they have somehow amassed such expensive equipment.

Another smoking gun is the implicit silence of the alleged human rights groups and pseudo-secularists regarding the Maoist carnage and atrocities. These same people that repeatedly scream and holler about the great danger of Hindu extremists have never called attention to the Maoists. Why would they? They are Maoists and Marxists themselves. They represent the Overground voice for the Terrorist underground.

America Threatens India with China
Pakistan invaded India 5 times, China invaded twice. Not once has India invaded a neighbor. The West's refusal to support India as Pakistan and China attacked and terrorized India pushed India into the Soviet Russian sphere. In fact India 's entire nuclear program was developed as a result of former US President Nixon's attempt to attack India during the 1971 Bangladesh war. US Documents exposed that the US President had secretly entreated China to menace India by moving Chinese troops to the Indian border. During the 1971 crisis Russia supported India forcing Nixon to back down. The quote below reveals this forgotten chapter of US-Indian relations.

"General Tewari was present at a briefing the three defense services held for Indira Gandhi. She was seated at a large table. On one side was General S H F J Manekshaw, the army chief, and on the other Admiral S M Nanda, the navy chief. During the course of the presentation, the admiral intervened and said: 'Madam, the US 8th Fleet is sailing into the Bay of Bengal .' Nothing happened; the briefing continued. After sometime, the admiral repeated, 'Madam, I have to inform you that the 8th Fleet is sailing into the Bay of Bengal .' She cut him off immediately: 'Admiral, I heard you the first time, let us go on with the briefing.' All the officers present were stunned. Ultimately, their morale was tremendously boosted by the prime minister's attitude. She had demonstrated her utter contempt for the American bluff.

On November 10, Nixon instructed Kissinger to ask the Chinese to move some troops toward the Indian frontier. 'Threaten to move forces or move them, Henry, that's what they must do now.' This was conveyed to Huang Hua , China 's envoy to the United Nations. Kissinger told Huang the US would be prepared for a military confrontation with the Soviet Union if the Soviet Union attacked China ." 1971 War: How the US tried to corner India by Claude Arpi

Pakistan Prepares it's Nukes
In 1999, Pakistan prepared its Nukes for an attack on India . It was Clinton who forced the Pakistanis to back down. This can be verified on the documentary "Countdown to Armageddon". Pakistan was actually preparing to use its nuclear missiles. Avoiding a Nuclear Catastrophe: Arms Control after the 2002 India–Pakistan Crisis by Carranza M.E Some have also theorized that Kennedy had countermanded the British demands to let India fall to China during its 1962 invasion. However Kennedy sent weapons and assistance to India further angering the powers in London .

The tragedy is that those committed to truth have been infiltrated by those committed to conquest. Pakistan has been repeatedly defeated by India , despite having the benefit of surprise on its side. Its use of the tactic of 'a thousand cuts' is meant to bleed India . The grafting of its agenda and propaganda to forums and groups dedicated towards freedom in the West, has allowed it to gain sympathy from those who would normally despise such agents of oppression.

Israel-Pakistan:Saudi-British Creations
The British created Pakistan for the sole purpose of suppressing India and its eventual growth as a major world power. It is also important to note that Saudi Arabia agreed to the creation of Israel in exchange for teh creation of Pakistan. At the time the main source of income for the Saudis was Muslim Haj pilgrims. India was its largest source of such pilgrims. Fearing its loss of revenue upon the freedom of India it negotiated the Saudis negotiated the creation of Israel with the British. A vast chunk of India (Pakistan) for a minute albiet crucial portion of West Asia (Israel).The American House of Saud: The Secret Petrodollar Connection: Steven Emerson

British Erase Indian History
It erased the history of the Hindu Maratha Confederacy founded by Chatrapati Shivaji. These Marathas liberated India from Islamic rule and planted the Maratha Flag from Afghanistan in the NW to Orissa in the East and Kanya Kumari in the South. For nearly a century, the Marathas ruled most of India . They successfully defeated the Portuguese, the French, the Dutch and the British in repeated engagements. The Marathas, both Hindu and Muslim, accomplished one of the most successful indigenous military campaigns in history. Their targets were the foreign Moghuls and the European powers.

Modern Islamic scholars, British historians and Indian Leftists joined together to erase these facts from the history of India . Time magazine recently quoted a Muslim scholar as saying that the British cheated Islam when they did not give all of India to Islam upon their departure. He claimed it was taken from the Muslims by the British so it should have been returned to the Muslims in 1947. Either through ignorance or an intentional effort at disinformation, the Indian Muslims ignore history. A majority of Indian Territory was ceded to the British by the Marathas after they had succumbed to the political intrigues of the British 'Divide and Rule Policies' and had suffered massive defeats in the three major wars known as the Anglo-Maratha wars. The very simple and basic reality that Britain had signed treaties with the Marathas in order to gain control of most of India proves that, rather than the Muslims, it was the Marathas that were in control. The British would not waste time signing treaties with a power of no consequence.

The First Anglo-Maratha War (1775-1782) was the beginning of the end of the Maratha Empire. It ended with the Treaty of Salbai.

The Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803 - 1805) was the second conflict between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India . On 12/17/1803, Raghuji Bhonsale (II) of Nagpur signed the Treaty of Deogaon with the British after the Battle of Laswari and gave up the province of Cuttack including Balasore.

The Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817-1818) was a final and decisive conflict between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India , which left the Company in control of most of India . Defeat was swift, followed by the pensioning of the peshwa and the annexation of his territories, thus completing the supremacy of the British in India . The Muslim ruler Nizam'Ali Khan was a British ally in the second and third Maratha Wars (1803-05, 1817-19) The British were quick to succor a built-in and vengeful minority group in their conquest of India . This pattern continues with its use of Pakistan .

Sikh Liberation of Kashmir

The Sikhs, another Indigenous group, were also successful in freeing many parts of India from Foreign rule. These foreign administrations were led by Afghan, Turkish and the Moghuls (Indian for the Mongol descendants of Genghis Khan). Both the Marathas and the Sikhs represented Indic based communities and cultures. For them their holy land was India itself rather than far-off Mecca or Jerusalem . These Native groups had been successful in pushing back 600 years of foreign rule. We see the evidence of this by the fact that Kashmir was taken by the British from the Sikhs and then sold by them to the Dogras. The Afghans established their rule over the territory of Kashmir in 1752. In 1819 the Sikhs from the Punjab replaced the Afghans as the rulers of Kashmir . The British defeated the Sikhs in 1846 and forced them to relinquish control. However, instead of extending British colonial rule over Kashmir , the British sold the territory to a Kashmiri Dogra prince who they maintained as a vassal.

Verifiable History Denied
These are verifiable historical facts. Unfortunately the establishment academia, specifically Leftists, Marxists, Muslims and others deny the history of India 's successful Indigenous Pre-British era freedom struggle. They are continuing the British policy of denigrating India 's sense of Nationhood. When Pakistan first invaded Kashmir in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, the Pakistanis were led by British Generals. British officers helped the Pakistanis plan the attack. British officers on the scene led the revolts of the Islamist factions of Kashmir forces, arresting and murdering Pro-Indian Kashmiri Dogra officers especially in the Gilgit region. They acted as a backbone for the mass of tribal militias and coordinated their attacks. The British have maintained these connections to this very day.

India's Hindu:The Last Indigenous Power Base
Today's Hindu groups represent the very same Indic based Indigenous groups of the 1700s. They had reclaimed India for Indians. The British defeated them and usurped India and its wealth for the bankers of London . They soaked up the treasures of India from the banks of the Ganges and squeezed them out on the banks of the Thames . They have never given up their control of India and have merely adapted their methods of control. India 's Hindu Nationalists represent the greatest threat to their continued hegemony. Pakistan is fulfilling its role as the local Agent Provocateur on behalf of the Empire. By featuring Anti-Indian Pakistani propaganda supports these schemes.

It is a fact that there have been some contacts between Israel and some Hindu Nationalists. Just as in History some American Native groups allied with the French against the British and vice versa. However to lump them all into one great conspiracy is not credible. It would be the same as blaming Chief Pontiac for every act of the French.

Westerners have now become more cognizant of India and its place in the world. However it is important not to buy into the agit-prop of the forces dedicated to the destabilization of India . They are attempting to graft themselves unto the legitimate efforts of those dedicated to the exposure of the Globalists. The anti-Hindu agenda is an important aspect of the New World Order's campaign. India represents one 6th of humanity. The Globalists are pushing for the final conquest of India . To succeed they must first destroy the world's last remaining Indigenous power structure, the Indian Hindus.

IMF and the Globalists Attack on India and Pakistan
The most likely culprits behind the Mumbai massacre appear to be connected to the ongoing Globalist scheme to create a one world economy. The IMF is pushing for the creation of a common global regulator. India has been actively fighting against the IMF. It is also notable that on November 30th India 's Prime Minister took control of the Finance Ministry. India 's former Finance Minister Chidambaran was appointed to become Home Minister after the resignation of Shivraj Patil. By taking control of the Finance Ministry Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appears to have taken the IMF head on.

IMF Set to Ruin Pakistan
As for Pakistan and the IMF, The IMF loan of $7.6 billion might result in 3 million job cuts, rendering more people jobless and increasing poverty level of the country in the next 2 years. This was predicted by the RBS bank analyst in a discussion held on IMF loan. The discussion was titled 'IMF: pain or panacea." Caymanmama.com - Pakistan News

Think Global and Follow the Money

This allows for the development of accurate conclusions. Terrorists are the chaos troops for powerful vested interests. The basic foundation of terrorism began with the British development of the Pirates that attacked the superior Spanish fleets back in the 1600s. It allowed the Brits plausible deniability while they ruthlessly savaged the Spanish Armadas and robbed them of their gold. Secretly the Brits controlled the pirates and gained control of vast hordes of Spanish wealth. Of course the Spanish gold was looted from the Native Americans and mined by slaves. The British continued their proxy war by the use of pirates. Today's Terrorists are the direct descendants of these same forces. The British powers that waged the Opium wars against China have never relinquished their power or control of the black market trade. Believe it or not most terror is still controlled by forces based in London .<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->