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Articles: My Thoughts | Cry for a Hindu Nation
- Miss swatireddy swati
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The cultural distinctiveness of a nation may be based on its race, or religion, or language, or a combination of some or all of these factors, but all-in-all there has to be a distinct culture which will mark the nation out from peoples belonging to other lands. There may be internal differences in several respects among the people belonging to its culture, but in spite of these differences there will be an overall sense of harmony born out of the fundamental elements of their culture and a sense of pride which inspires in them a desire to maintain their separate identity from the rest of the world.
Finally, as a result of these factors, this group of people has its own outlook towards the history of its traditional homeland; it has its own heroes and villains, its own view of glory and shame, success and failure, victory and defeat.
According to Abhas Chatterjee, with which all right thinking Hindus will wholly concur, once we start looking at things from this point of view, we immediately see not only we Hindus are a 'Nation unto ourselves, but also we are the oldest surviving nation on earth'.
We Hindus are not just a religious community like the Muslims and the Christians, but a nation unto ourselves. The term 'Hindu' is the name of our nationality. We Hindus are a Nation – this is a basic, simple and undisputable truth.
Unfortunately, even the simple truth we are unable to appreciate and that fatal failure lies at the root of all our misconceptions and miseries today.
'By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim, and I am a Hindu only by accident of birth'
– Jawaharlal Nehru.
'The Concept of Hindu Nation' by Abhas Chatterjee published by Voice of India, New Delhi in 1995 should be read by all self-respecting Hindus with fervor and passion. Karl Marx's Das Capital is an object of worship to all the Communists round the world. Likewise, in my view, 'The Concept of Hindu Nation' ought to become the object of daily worship to all the Hindus round the world for secular living with dignity and independence in these troubled times.
No one can dispute that the traditional homeland of Hindus is the Bharatavarsha. It is a distinct geographical entity. There are few nations in the world the natural boundaries of whose homeland are as clearly drawn as that of ours. And the Hindus have been intimately associated with this land, lived on it, developed their culture and civilization on it, and regarded it as sacred soil for at least 6000 years, if not more. When I say Bharatavarasha in the sense of the Motherland of the Hindus, I do not refer to the boundaries of the truncated India created by Jinnah, and Nehru in 1947, but to those of our traditional homeland which extends continuously from Gandhara to Kamrup and from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. This basically has been the concept of Hindu Nationhood or what we call Hindutva or Hindu Rashtra from times immemorial.
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