According to press reports, one of the RSS offshoots, Garbh
Vigyan Sanskar (Uterus Science Culture), following the Vedic preaching and
post-World War II experiments in Germany, is conducting live trials in many
parts of India for producing „fair‟ and „tall‟ „customised‟ babies. According
to Dr. Hitesh Jani, convenor of Arogya Bharati, another outfit of RSS which is
part of the project, “If the proper procedure is followed, babies of dark-skinned
parents with lesser height can have fair complexion and grow taller”.Speaking
to a prominent English daily of India, top office-bearers associated with this
“top-priority” project of RSS,shared the facts that “it was launched in
Gujarat over a decade ago, and taken up at the national level in 2015.
Today, the project, assisted by the Sangh‟s education wing Vidya Bharati, has
around 10 branches in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, with more units to come up
soon in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal”. According to Dr Karishma Mohandas
Narwani, national convener of the project, “Our main objective is to
make a samarth Bharat (capable India) through uttam santati (best off-
springs). Our target is to have thousands of such babies by 2020”.[i]
According to
the managers of this venture this project was inspired on the advice of a
senior RSS ideologue,received over 40 years ago, who found Germany had “resurrected
itself by having such signature children through Ayurvedic practices
within two decades after World War II”.Dr Ashok Kumar Varshney, an RSS
pracharak for over 30 years and national organising secretary of Arogya
Bharati, said that apart from a university in Jamnagar, two other institutions
have incorporated Garbh Vigyan Sanskar in their curriculum: Children University
in Gandhinagar and Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University in Bhopal.
The project claims to have
ensured the delivery of 450 “customised babies” so far, and its target is to
have a Garbh Vigyan Anusandhan Kendra, a facilitation centre, in every state by
2020.The aim of this project is that women should deliver an “uttam santati”; a
perfect, “customised child”. The process requires three months of “shuddhikaran
(purification)” for parents, intercourse at a time decided by planetary configurations,
complete abstinence after the baby is conceived, and procedural and dietary
regulations. In order to spread the goal of producing „tall‟ and „fair‟ babies
several seminars and counselling sessions have been held in Delhi, Mumbai, and
smaller cities such as Udupi in Karnataka, Kasaragod in Kerala, and
Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh.
The next counselling sessions
are scheduled to be held in Kolkata, Rohtak and Gurgaon. The RSS is hopeful
that by 2020 to have thousands of ideal infants on the production line.
This RSS love for „fair‟ and
„tall‟ babies and subsequent hatred for „dark-skinned‟ people is being
proclaimed soon after another RSS ideologue, Tarun Vijay. Tarun Vijay, the
former editor of RSS Hindi organ, Panchajanya, in-charge of the RSS project of
spreading Hindutva politics in Tamil Nadu, ex-member of the Rajya Sabha who
also heads India-Africa Parliamentary Friendship Group while talking to a
global news network had stated that White Indians from North of the country were
living with “black people around us” who inhabited
in Tamilnadu, Kerala, Karnataka
and Andhra. Tarun‟s statement reemphasized the racist understanding of RSS
about India;North Indians are White (Aryans) whereas South Indians are Black (Dravidians)
thus belonging to two different races. The Aryans of the North are doing a
favour to Black South Indians by allowing the latter to stay with the former.[ii]
This RSS love for a Race which is of “fair” complexion is
part of its ideological heritage that Indians are Aryans; fair, tall,
honourable, respectable and noble who speak Sanskrit. RSS stands for Aryan
supremacy and believes that only Hindu Brahmins of North India are from that
stock. The most prominent ideologue of RSS and second Supremo, Guru Golwalkar
while addressing a gathering of faculty and students of the School of Social
Science of Gujarat University on December 17, 1960 shared the wisdom that
Namboodri Brahmins from North India were sent to Kerala to improve breed of
Hindus there. According to him: “Today experiments in cross-breeding
are made only on animals. But the courage to make such experiments on human
beings is not shown even by the so-called modern scientist of today. If some
human crossbreeding is seen today it is the result not of scientific
experiments but of carnal lust. Now let us see the experiments our ancestors
made in this sphere. In an effort to better the human species through
cross-breeding the Namboodri Brahamanas [sic] of the North were settled in
Kerala and a rule was laid down that the eldest son of a Namboodri family could
marry only the daughter of Vaishya, Kashtriya or Shudra communities of Kerala.
Another still more courageous rule was that the first off-spring of a married
woman of any class must be fathered by a Namboodri Brahman and then she could
beget children by her husband.”[iii]
The above statement of Golwalkar
once again as a hardened Racist stressed the belief India had a superior Race
or breed and also an inferior Race which needed to be improved through
crossbreeding. Namboodri Brahamans, belonging to a superior Race were sent from
the North to Kerala to improve the breed of inferior Hindus there.
The RSS belief of Aryan
superiority has been borrowed from Hitler and his Nazi Party of Germany. Adolf
Hitler even before becoming chancellor of Germany was obsessed with ideas about
race. He believed in racial “purity” and in the superiority of the “Germanic
race” which he described as Aryan “master race.” He declared this Aryan race
must remain pure in order to rule the world one day which was not far away.
According to Hitler, the ideal “Aryan” was blond, blue-eyed, and tall.
When Hitler and the Nazis came to power, these beliefs
became the government ideology and were spread in publicly displayed posters,
on the radio, in movies, in classrooms, and in newspapers. The Nazis began to
put their ideology into practice with the support of German scientists who
believed that the human race could be improved by limiting the reproduction of
people considered “inferior.” Beginning in 1933, German physicians were allowed
to perform forced sterilizations, operations making it impossible for the
victims to have children. Among the targets of this public program were Roma
(Gypsies), an ethnic minority numbering about 30,000 in Germany, and
handicapped individuals, including the mentally ill and people born deaf and
blind. Also victimized were about 500 African-German children, the offspring of
German mothers and African colonial soldiers in the Allied armies that occupied
the German Rhineland region after World War I.
When Hitler and the Nazis came
to power, these beliefs became the government ideology and were spread in
publicly displayed posters, on the radio, in movies, in classrooms, and in
newspapers. The Nazis began to put their ideology into practice with the
support of German scientists who believed that the human race could be improved
by limiting the reproduction
of people considered “inferior.”
Beginning in 1933, German physicians were allowed to perform forced
sterilizations, operations making it impossible for the victims to have
children. Among the targets of this public program were Roma (Gypsies), an
ethnic minority numbering about 30,000 in Germany, and handicapped individuals,
including the mentally ill and people born deaf and blind. Also victimized were
about 500 African-German children, the offspring of German mothers and African
colonial soldiers in the Allied armies that occupied the German Rhineland region
after World War I.[iv]
In fact, the present project of
RSS aimed at producing „fair‟ and „tall‟ „customised‟ babies is direct
borrowing from the Nazis‟ “Lebensborn” (“Spring of Life”) program to create an
Aryan master race. Under this project of breeding of children of pure Aryan
race, some 8,000 children were born in Germany and around 12,000 in Norway as
part of “Lebensborn” under the direct supervision Nazi theoretician and leader,
Heinrich Himmler to encourage women of pure blood” to bear fair-tall Aryan
children. Interestingly, most of such bred children did not grow into fair-tall
and blond babies. However, it was an integral part of a murderous racial policy
that on the one hand aimed at producing pure Aryan children and on the other
hand exterminating non-Aryans like Jews, 6 million of them killed and the
forced sterilization of people with hereditary diseases.[v]
The RSS project of “uttam
santati”; a white and tall “customised child” in its first gear attempts to
follow the Nazi Racist project,”Lebensborn”. As a natural corollary, soon it
will go for the second part of the project like Nazis; eliminating all those Indians
who are not found to be “Aryan” of pure blood.It is to be noted that Hindutva
gang historically has been worshipper of Nazi ideals. The most prominent
ideologue of RSS even penned a highly despicable book We Or Our Nationhood
Defined in 1939. In this book, Golwalkar not only glorified cleansing of
millions of Jews by Hitler but also advised the Hindutva organizations in India
to emulate the Nazis in exterminating Muslims and Christianswho were not
“Aryans”.[vi] However,
these will not be only Muslims and Christians who will face the lynching mobs
but also most of the South Indian who have been already been declared as
“Black”.
Shamsul Islam is a retired Professor of University
of Delhi.
Email:
notoinjustice@gmail.com
For some of S. Islam‟s writings
in English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Telugu &
Gujarati see the following link:
Facebook: Shams Shamsul
Twitter: @shamsforjustice
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/05/15/rss-rolls-on-nazi-racist-project-of-producing-aryan-babies-in-india/
4644280/&http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/ayurvedic-eugenics-rss-health-
wing-ideal-babies-4646657/
[ii]
http://indianexpress.com/article/blogs/tarun-vijays-take-that-people-ofsouth-india-are-black-is-not-surprising/
[v]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/nazi-program-to-breed-master-race-lebensborn-children-break-silence-a-446978.html
[vi]See, Islam, Shamsul, Golwalkar’s We Or Our Nationhood Defined: A Critique With Full Text of the Book, Pharos Media, Delhi, 2nd edition 2011.
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