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Articles: My Thoughts | Cry for a Hindu Nation
- Miss swatireddy swati
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Fourthly, in keeping with this new concept, a new idea called 'Sarva-Dharma-Samabava' was propagated. According to this concept, since our 'Nation' was constituted by an assemblage of several religious communities like Hindu, Muslim, Christian, etc. we should regard the ideology or religion of every community as India's national heritage and hold them all in equal respect. That is, we should yield the same place to the Quran and the Bible in our thinking as we do for the Baghavat Gita. We should have the same reverence for Mohammed and Jesus as we have for Lord Rama, Lord Krishna and Baghavan Buddha. Incidentally, all the Hindus of India know the reverence with which Lord Krishna and Lord Rama are treated by people of other religious faiths coming under the umbrella of 'Sarva-Dharma-Samabava'.
Fifthly, since the distinctiveness of the largest Hindu community was Sanatana Dharma, it was considered necessary by the Nehru family and the Congress party (in effect Government of India after August 15, 1947) to run down Sanatana Dharma as well for ensuring the good of other minority communities. A State-sponsored cult of denigrating the 'Sanatana Dharma' was promoted, directly or indirectly, by these and many other similar calumnies.
Finally, we were taught to look at the history of Bharatvarsha from a new angle of State-sponsored pseudo-secular vision. We were asked to regard Indian history as one of synthesis. To quote Abhas Chatterjee once again:
'We were asked to overlook the barbaric tyranny that was perpetrated on us in order to force Islam down our throat from 1025 AD till 1707 AD. The horrible persecution, the blunder, the vandalism, and the massacres should all be forgotten. Or we should assume these to have been the personal aberrations of a few Rulers. In order to project the history of India as a history of synthesis, an imaginary course of events was constructed, viz. that from olden days foreigners kept on coming to India and settling down by and by, that they kept getting mingled with one another and a new 'nation' was formed, a new culture was thus created. So, we don't really have a national culture of our own but only a hybrid composite culture.'
Let me look at Nehru's composite culture of 'secularism'. As per the Quran, the Hindus come under the category of 'Mushriks', whom that 'Holy' Book does not even grant the right to live!! The Quran does not permit its adherence to live peacefully as equal citizens with the 'Kafirs' in any country. Therefore, the concept of a composite nation combining Hindus and Muslims is false to its very core. But the affairs of our State have been conducted since 1947 entirely on the basis of this false perception of nationality. All our national weaknesses and problems today spring from this basic mis-belief if not mischief. This artificial vision of nationality on which our system is functioning is quite different from real nationality.
The grave consequence of this basic dichotomy has been a complete evaporation of national inspiration in the country.
A nationalistic and patriotic Hindu of post-independent India has great difficulty in feeling himself to be a part of the imaginary nation for which the whole system is being operated. He is unable to identify himself emotionally with this imaginary, artificial, 'composite' national entity which the Indian State has been representing. An enormous gulf has been created between the 'Nation' and the 'State', between the national society and the ruling class.
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