01-13-2007, 03:26 AM
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->People: Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair
The only Malayali who was the President of the Indian National Congress was Sir C. Sankaran Nair. Nair was the only Indian member in the Viceroy's Council in pre-independence days. The first non-Brahmin judge of the Madras High Court, Prime Minister of Indore were all positions that Nair held. Playing crucial roles in the emerging state of India, coming out of the British yoke, Sankaran Nair was also resolute with his views. He differed on many counts with Gandhiji himself and made no pretence of that. The book 'Gandhiji and Anarchy' is an illustration of this valiant spirit.
Disagreeing with Gandhiji on the Non-cooperation Movement he did not mince words about his view point and made his sharp differences with Gandhiji known. He did not think twice for resigning from the high position in the Executive Council of the Viceroy after the Jallian Walla Bagh massacre. Many Indian revolutionaries and for that matter even Congress leaders like Subhas Chandra Bose disagreed with the Gandhian method of political action and chose to follow their own paths to attain the cherished goal. Gandhiji obviously had his own strategies and game plans to deal with the British, how when Netaji was hunted down Gandhiji and ahimsa became successful.
Eminent national leaders like Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Lala Lajpat Rai, and Sir C.Sankaran Nair had their own strong reservations about the positions that Gandhiji took and particularly the Congress policy of appeasement of the Muslim minority and they gravitated to the Hindu Mahasabha. In fact, it was Madan Mohan Malaviya who took the initiative in forming the Hindu Mahasabha in 1916 and he was assisted in this endeavour by Lala Lajpat Rai and C Sankaran Nair. Sir C.Sankaran Nair presided over the special session of Hindu Mahasabha in 1931. All the three persons mentioned above were Presidents of the Indian National Congress at some time or other and are still held in high esteem by the people for their contribution to the National Movement.
It is a pity that a great soul like C Sankaran Nair did not get the deserving place in the history of Kerala. The transformation of Kerala and the Indian National Congress in the interim period almost erased the life and times of this great son of India. Born in Kerala on July 11 1857 the rise of Sankaran Nair was against many odds, the illustrious life came to an end in 1934. Sir C. Sankaran Nair remains an unsung hero nationally as well. It was a new India and a new Congress that followed. The high veneration for Gandhiji still makes it difficult to question the basic principles of post-independence India.
For More Information see: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF C. SANKARAN NAIR, M. P. Sreekumaran Nair - Editor; Chettur Sankaran Nair Foundation, Ottappalam, Kerala. Rs. 600 (deluxe), Rs. 530 (Paperback).
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->This inherent impending danger was clearly foreseen by Sir.Sankaran Nair, a Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council in 1922. In his book prophetically titled as 'Gandhi and Anarchy' published by Tagore and Company, Madras in 1922 he wrote: 'It is impossible to believe that Gandhi and his adherents are not aware that this claim of the Mahomedans to be judged only by the Law of the Koran, is a claim which is the fons et origo of all Khilafat claims of whatever kind. It is well to be clear about this, for not only does the acceptance of the claim mean the death knell of the British Empire or Indo-British Commonwealth, WHATEVER NAME WE MAY CARE TO GIVE TO THE GREAT FRATERNITY OF NATIONS TO WHICH WE BELONG, BUT SPECIFICALLY AS REGARDS INDIA IT MEANS A REAL DENIAL OF SWARAJ. FOR IT INVOLVES MAHOMEDAN RULE AND HINDU SUBJECTION.' Thus Sir Sankaran Nair clearly saw the danger signal when Mahatma Gandhi was leading the Muslims of India to convert the Hindus into permanent Serfs. Dr Manmohan Singh's recent declaration on Muslim hegemony is only a logical culmination of the process initiated by Mahatma Gandhi and clearly foreseen by Sir Sankaran Nair in 1922.
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His book "Gandhi and Anarchy" is available online at:
http://dli.iiit.ac.in/cgi-bin/Browse/scrip...e=2020050048730
The only Malayali who was the President of the Indian National Congress was Sir C. Sankaran Nair. Nair was the only Indian member in the Viceroy's Council in pre-independence days. The first non-Brahmin judge of the Madras High Court, Prime Minister of Indore were all positions that Nair held. Playing crucial roles in the emerging state of India, coming out of the British yoke, Sankaran Nair was also resolute with his views. He differed on many counts with Gandhiji himself and made no pretence of that. The book 'Gandhiji and Anarchy' is an illustration of this valiant spirit.
Disagreeing with Gandhiji on the Non-cooperation Movement he did not mince words about his view point and made his sharp differences with Gandhiji known. He did not think twice for resigning from the high position in the Executive Council of the Viceroy after the Jallian Walla Bagh massacre. Many Indian revolutionaries and for that matter even Congress leaders like Subhas Chandra Bose disagreed with the Gandhian method of political action and chose to follow their own paths to attain the cherished goal. Gandhiji obviously had his own strategies and game plans to deal with the British, how when Netaji was hunted down Gandhiji and ahimsa became successful.
Eminent national leaders like Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Lala Lajpat Rai, and Sir C.Sankaran Nair had their own strong reservations about the positions that Gandhiji took and particularly the Congress policy of appeasement of the Muslim minority and they gravitated to the Hindu Mahasabha. In fact, it was Madan Mohan Malaviya who took the initiative in forming the Hindu Mahasabha in 1916 and he was assisted in this endeavour by Lala Lajpat Rai and C Sankaran Nair. Sir C.Sankaran Nair presided over the special session of Hindu Mahasabha in 1931. All the three persons mentioned above were Presidents of the Indian National Congress at some time or other and are still held in high esteem by the people for their contribution to the National Movement.
It is a pity that a great soul like C Sankaran Nair did not get the deserving place in the history of Kerala. The transformation of Kerala and the Indian National Congress in the interim period almost erased the life and times of this great son of India. Born in Kerala on July 11 1857 the rise of Sankaran Nair was against many odds, the illustrious life came to an end in 1934. Sir C. Sankaran Nair remains an unsung hero nationally as well. It was a new India and a new Congress that followed. The high veneration for Gandhiji still makes it difficult to question the basic principles of post-independence India.
For More Information see: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF C. SANKARAN NAIR, M. P. Sreekumaran Nair - Editor; Chettur Sankaran Nair Foundation, Ottappalam, Kerala. Rs. 600 (deluxe), Rs. 530 (Paperback).
http://www.nairs.org/home.php?a008<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->This inherent impending danger was clearly foreseen by Sir.Sankaran Nair, a Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council in 1922. In his book prophetically titled as 'Gandhi and Anarchy' published by Tagore and Company, Madras in 1922 he wrote: 'It is impossible to believe that Gandhi and his adherents are not aware that this claim of the Mahomedans to be judged only by the Law of the Koran, is a claim which is the fons et origo of all Khilafat claims of whatever kind. It is well to be clear about this, for not only does the acceptance of the claim mean the death knell of the British Empire or Indo-British Commonwealth, WHATEVER NAME WE MAY CARE TO GIVE TO THE GREAT FRATERNITY OF NATIONS TO WHICH WE BELONG, BUT SPECIFICALLY AS REGARDS INDIA IT MEANS A REAL DENIAL OF SWARAJ. FOR IT INVOLVES MAHOMEDAN RULE AND HINDU SUBJECTION.' Thus Sir Sankaran Nair clearly saw the danger signal when Mahatma Gandhi was leading the Muslims of India to convert the Hindus into permanent Serfs. Dr Manmohan Singh's recent declaration on Muslim hegemony is only a logical culmination of the process initiated by Mahatma Gandhi and clearly foreseen by Sir Sankaran Nair in 1922.
http://newstodaynet.com/2006sud/06dec/2612ss2.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
His book "Gandhi and Anarchy" is available online at:
http://dli.iiit.ac.in/cgi-bin/Browse/scrip...e=2020050048730