HINDU CHAUVINISM

The Nightmare of a Hindu Technocrat

Extracts from Letter of T.H. Chowdhury, ex-Dy. D.G., Telecoms and ex CMD, Videsh Sanchar Nigam,

Given Islam's exclusivity and Muslim inability and unwillingness to live peacefully in any State other than-that ruled by them, it is a good riddance that the Muslim majority Pakistan and Bangladesh were partitioned off from India. The pre-1947 efforts to keep India as one State would have meant a weak and strife- torn country and state like Yugoslavia after end of Communism. The Hindus in different States under the leadership of people like Mulayam Singh, the Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu, the TDP in Andhra Pradesh, the Mizos and Nagas in the East would have emulated the Muslims in weakening the nation and State and the Federal State would have come under the Veto of some or the other, if it tried to intervene with something like the Article 356 of present-day India's constitution. So, it was good, that the Muslim majority areas seceded and the rest of India was given a chance to become a strong, united nation state.

The misfortune is that do-gooders but poor realists like Gandhiji and Nehru, while agreeing to the partition on the basis of religion, deceived themselves into believing that Muslims remaining in India would give up the religion-based two-nation theory and become secular like other Indians. But Islam does not countenance secularism and so we see that Muslim inhabitants of India are now back to their old separatism but backed by two Islamic states of Pakistan and Bangladesh and abetted by communists, casteists, power-mongers and plain traitors who harbor infiltrators. Had we exchanged the Muslim and Hindu populations in 1947, by now, India would have been a strong, united State like Christian Germany and Muslim Yemen. What has happened is that all the Hindus from Pakistan had been squeezed out and the majority of Hindus from Bangladesh had also been forced out without an equal number of Muslims being sent out from India. It is only a matter of a few years before no Hindu would be left in Bangladesh also. In addition, we have the Muslims also illegally immigrating into India for the benefit of "secular" parties as their bonded (initially) voters. So, India has no longer the option of exchange of populations between itself and the Islamic states carved out of it.

Pakistan's population is expected to be the second largest in the world after China in another 40 years. Bangladesh may not lag behind. Confederal India would be settled by the overflowing Muslim populations and Hindus would be reduced to an ineffective minority. India would be an Islamic Republic. Hindus would pass under Aurangzebs, Ala-ud-din Khiljis. It would then be Nepal's turn to be inundated by the Muslim hordes. Hindus would be either converted or evicted. As no country, not America or Canada or Australia can accommodate 800 million Hindu migrants, the certainty therefore would be conversion.

Even without confederation, 20 million Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan and West Asia have infiltrated and are safely, securely harbored in the homes of Muslim inhabitants of India. With confederation, they would be here legally and Hindus will be "illegal" residents in an Islamic Republic. The spectre is 100 ghastly to imagine even. NO! Confederation is calamitous. Islam cannot co-exist with any other religion. in peace, in one nation-state. Only a strong, united, nationalistic India, unappealing but just to every loyal citizen as a human being, alone can safeguard the Hindu people, nation and country. If we have to pay a high price to remain Hindus, to preserve and promote our culture, our heritage, well we should pay. We need not confederation; we need a strong patriotic, confident, virile people and nationalist leaders.

Nirad Chaudhary on Destruction of Temples by Muslims

From 1000 A.D. every Hindu temple from Kathiawar to Bihar, from the Himalayas to the Vindhyas has been sacked and ruined. Not temple was left standing all over northern India. At the beginning of the 18th century, the Jesuit Priest and mathematician, Tippenthaler noticed in the evenings as he travelled from Malwa to the other end, the flickering flames of tiny earthen lamps placed by the villagers at some risk to themselves. Temples escaped destruction only when Muslim power did not gain access to them for reasons such as dense forests. Otherwise, it was a continuous spell of vandalism. No nation with any self-respect will forgive this. They took our women. And they imposed the jiziya, the tax.

(Source: The Organizer, 29 September, 1996)

Sri Aurobindo on Undoing Partition

"India is free, but she has not achieved unity, only a fissured and broken freedom. The whole communal division into Hindu and Muslim seems to have hardened into the figure of a permanent political division of the Nation will not accept the settled fact as forever settled, country. It is to be hoped that the Congress and the or as anything more than a temporary expedient. For if it lasts, India may be seriously weakened, even crippled; civil strife may remain always possible, possibly even a new invasion and foreign conquest. The partition of the country must go. For without it the destiny of India might be seriously impaired and frustrated. That must not be"-Shri Aurobindo, 15 August, 1947.

(Source: The Hindustan Times, 22 September, 1996)