INAUGURATION
OF NEW PARLIAMENT COMPLEX ON SAVARKAR’S BIRTHDAY SHALL NOT WHITEWASH HIS
ANTI-NATIONAL & ANTI-HUMANITY CRIMES!
Indian
PM Modi is set to inaugurate new complex of Indian Parliament on May 28 (2023) which
is also the 140th birth
anniversary of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar who is described as ‘great son of
India’ and ‘Veer’ [gallant/fearless] by the RSS-BJP lot. Thus the new
Parliament built under the direct supervision of PM Modi and his chosen few will
be dedicated to Savarkar. It is a horrendous and shameful decision in many
respects. Dedication to Savarkar will mean rejection of the whole idea of an
egalitarian, democratic and secular India which came into being on August 15,
1947. Honouring of Savarkar would also mean dishonouring of the martyrs and participants
of the Indian freedom struggle. Let us know the truth as told by Savarkar
himself or contained in the archives of Hindu Mahasabha.
Savarkar’s Hatred for the Tricolour
Savarkar,
like the RSS, abhorred every symbol of the Indian people’s united struggle
against the British rule. In a circular issued on September 22, 1941 to be
followed by the Hindu Mahasabha cadres, he
declared,
"So far as the flag question
is concerned, the Hindus know no flag representing Hindudom as a whole than the
‘Kundalini Kripanankit’ Mahasabha flag with the ‘Om and the Swastik’ the most
ancient symbols of the Hindu race and policy coming down from age to age and
honoured throughout Hindusthan…Therefore, any place or function where this
Pan-Hindu flag is not honoured should be boycotted by the Hindu sanghatanists
at any rate…The Charkha-Flag [before the present national flag spinning-wheel
used to be at the centre of the Tricolour] in particular may very well
represent a Khadi-Bhandar, but the Charkha can never symbolize and represent
the spirit of the proud and ancient nation like the Hindus."
[Bhide, A. S. (ed.), Vinayak Damodar
Savarkar’s Whirlwind Propaganda: Extracts from the President’s Diary of his
Propagandist Tours Interviews from December 1937 to October 1941, na,
Bombay, 1940, p. 470-73.]
Savarkar preceded Jinnah in propounding two-nation theory
Muslim league under MA Jinnah demanded Pakistan in March 1940. Long
before it Savarkar had laid down his two-nation theory. Savarkar took over the
leadership of Hindu Mahasabha [HM] in 1937. While addressing the 19th Session
of Hindu Mahasabha at Ahmedabad in the same year stated:
“As
it is, there are two antagonistic nations living side by side in India, several
infantile politicians commit the serious mistake in supposing that India is
already welded into a harmonious nation, or that it could be welded thus for
the mere wish to do so…India cannot be assumed today to be a Unitarian and
homogenous nation, but on the contrary there are two nations in the main: the
Hindus and the Moslems, in India.”[i]
[Samagra Savarkar Wangmaya: Hindu
Rashtra Darshan (Collected works of Savarkar in English), Hindu Mahasabha,
Pune, 1963, p. 296.]
This shameless
collusion between Savarkar and Jinnah was described by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in
the following words:
“Strange as it
may appear, Mr. Savarkar and Mr. Jinnah instead of being opposed to each other
on the one nation versus two nations issue are in complete agreement about it.
Both not only agree, but insist that there are two nations in India-one the
Muslim nation and the other Hindu nation.”
[Ambedkar, BR, Pakistan
or the Partition of India, Government of Maharashtra, Bombay, (reprint of
1940 edition), p. 142.]
Hindu Mahasabha led by Savarkar declared unconditional support to
the British government during Quit India Movement
The Quit India Movement began on August 9, 1942 as per
Gandhi's call to 'Do or Die' in order to expel the British from India. The
British rulers swiftly responded with mass detentions on August 8th itself.
Over 100,000 arrests were made which included the total top leadership of
Congress including Gandhi, mass fines were levied and demonstrators were
subjected to public flogging. Hundreds of civilians were killed in state
sponsored violence, many shot by the police and army. Congress was banned. During
these times of repression Savarkar announced full support to the British rulers
in line with the Muslim League.
Addressing the 24th session of the Hindu Mahasabha at Kanpur
in 1942, Savarkar outlined the strategy of the Hindu Mahasabha of co-operating
with the rulers in the following words:
“The Hindu Mahasabha holds that the leading principle of all
practical politics is the policy of Responsive Co-operation [with the
British].” He called upon HM councillors, ministers, legislators and conducting
any municipal or any public bodies to offer “Responsive Co-operation which
covers the whole gamut of patriotic activities from unconditional co-operation
right up to active and even armed resistance…”
[V. D. Savarkar, Hindu Rashtra Darshan, vol. 6, Maharashtra
Prantik Hindusabha, Poona, 1963, p. 112.]
Savarkar led Hindu Mahasabha ran coalition governments with
Muslim League during Quit India Movement
Hindu Mahasabha and Jinnah led Muslim League joined hands in
running coalition governments in Bengal and Sind (and later in NWFP) in 1942.
Defending this collusion between HM and ML against Congress Savarkar stated,
"In practical politics also the Mahasabha knows that we
must advance through reasonable compromises. Witness the fact that only
recently in Sind, the Sind-Hindu-Sabha on invitation had taken the
responsibility of joining hands with the League itself in running coalition
Government. The case of Bengal is well known. Wild Leaguers whom even the
Congress with all its submissiveness could not placate grew quite reasonably
compromising and socialable [sic] as soon as they came in contact with
the Hindu Mahasabha and the Coalition Government, under the premiership of Mr.
Fazlul Huq and the able lead of our esteemed Mahasabha leader Dr. Syama Prasad
Mookerji, functioned successfully for a year or so to the benefit of both the
communities."
[Samagra Savarkar Wangmaya: Hindu
Rashtra Darshan (Collected works of Savarkar in English), vol. 6, Hindu
Mahasabha, Pune, 1963, pp. 479-80.]
It is to be noted that Mookerji was deputy premier and held the
portfolio of suppressing Quit India Movement in Bengal.
Backstabbing Netaji Subhash Chander Bose
When Netaji Subhash Chander Bose was planning to liberate India
militarily, Savarkar offered full military co-operation to the British masters.
Addressing 23rd session of Hindu Mahasabha at Bhagalpur in 1941, he
declared:
“Our best
national interests demands that so far as India’s defence is concerned,
Hindudom must ally unhesitatingly, in a spirit of responsive co-operation with
the war effort of the Indian government in so far as it is consistent with the
Hindu interests, by joining the Army, Navy and the Aerial forces in as large a
number as possible and by securing an entry into all ordnance, ammunition and
war craft factories…Again it must be noted that Japan’s entry into the war has
exposed us directly and immediately to the attack by Britain’s enemies…Hindu
Mahasabhaits must, therefore, rouse Hindus especially in the provinces of
Bengal and Assam as effectively as possible to enter the military forces of all
arms without losing a single minute.”
[Samagra Savarkar Wangmaya: Hindu
Rashtra Darshan (Collected works of Savarkar in English), vol. 6, Hindu
Mahasabha, Pune, 1963, p. 460.]
According to HM
documents Savarkar was able to inspire one lakh Hindus to join the ranks of the
British armed forces.
Savarkar’s mercy petitions were no ruse but instruments of abject
surrender
Savarkar
submitted minimum 5 mercy petitions [MP] in 1911, 1913, 1914, 1918 and 1920.
Savarkarites claim that these were submitted not as an act of cowardice but “as
an ardent follower of Shivaji, Savarkar wanted to die in action. Finding this
the only way, he wrote six letters to the British pleading for his release”. A perusal of the two available
mercy petitions will prove that there cannot be a lie worse than the claim that
Savarkar’s MP petitions were in league with the tricks which Shivaji used to
hoodwink the Mughal rulers successfully. The mercy petition dated 14th
November, 1913 ended with the following words:
“[Therefore] if the government in their manifold beneficence and mercy release
me, I for one cannot but be the staunchest advocate of constitutional progress
and loyalty to the English government which is the foremost condition of that
progress. …Moreover my conversion to the constitutional line would bring back
all those misled young men in India and abroad who were once looking up to me
as their guide. I am ready to serve the Government in any capacity they like,
for as my conversion is conscientious so I hope my future conduct would be. By
keeping me in jail nothing can be got in comparison to what would be otherwise.
The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the
prodigal son return but to the parental doors of the Government?”
The petition dated 30th March 1920 from this prodigal
son of the British masters ended with the following words:
“The
brilliant prospects of my early life all but too soon blighted, have
constituted so painful a source of regret to me that a release would be a new
birth and would touch my heart, sensitive and submissive, to kindness so deeply
as to render me personally attached and politically useful in future. For often
magnanimity wins even where might fails.”
[Available with the National Archives, Delhi.]
There
was nothing wrong on the part of the CJ detainees in writing mercy petitions to
the British. It was an important legal right available to the prisoners. Apart
from Savarkar, Barin, HK Kanjilal, and Nand Gopal too submitted petitions.
However, these were only Savarkar and Barin who sought forgiveness for their
revolutionary past. Kanjilal and Nand Gopal did not demand any personal
favour but status of political prisoners.
Savarkar secured remission of 37.5 years in his sentence of 50
years
Savarkar was incarcerated at Andamans on July 4, 1911 for two life
terms [50 years]. On May 2, 1921 [after NINE years TEN months] he was
transferred along with his elder brother, Babarao, to the mainland. He was
finally released conditionally on January 6, 1924 [total imprisonment TWELVE
years SIX months] from Yeravda Jail.
Savarkar as a worshipper of Manusmriti and Casteism
Savarkar is
glorified as a rationalist and crusader against Untouchability. Let us compare
these claims with Savarkar’s beliefs and acts as recorded in the HM archives. While
delivering presidential address to the 22nd session oh Hindu
Mahasabha at Madura He declared Manu to be the lawgiver for Hindus and
emphasized that once we “re-learn the manly lessons” which Manu taught “our
Hindu nation shall prove again as unconquerable and conquering a race as we
proved once”. [Samagra
Savarkar Wangmaya: Hindu Rashtra Darshan (Collected works of Savarkar in
English), vol. 6, Hindu Mahasabha, Pune, 1963, p. 426.]
He declared Manusmriti to be “that scripture which is most
worship-able after Vedas for our Hindu Nation …Today Manusmriti is Hindu
law. That is fundamental”. [Savarkar, VD,
‘Women in Manusmriti’ in Savarkar Samagr (collection of writings
of Savarkar in Hindi), vil. 4, Prabhat, Delhi, p. 415.]
So far his crusade for Untouchables entry into Hindu temples was
concerned he gave undertaking to Brahmins that “the Hindu Maha Sabha shall
never force any legislations regarding the entry of untouchables in the ancient
temples or compel by law any sacred ancient and moral usage or custom
prevailing in those temples. In general the Mahasabha will not back up any
Legislation to thrust the reforming views on our Sanatani brothers so
far as personal law is concerned”.
[Bhide, A. S. (ed.), Vinayak Damodar
Savarkar’s Whirlwind Propaganda: Extracts from the President’s Diary of his
Propagandist Tours Interviews from December 1937 to October 1941, na,
Bombay, 1940, p. 425.]
Savarkar wanted Nepal King to
rule India in case the British decided to leave India
Savarkar
even preached that it was legitimate to have the King of Nepal as ‘Free
Hindusthan’s Future Emperor’ if the British plan to leave India. His advice to
the British rulers was very clear:
"If an
academical [sic] probability is at all to be indulged in of all factors
that count today, His Majesty the King of Nepal, the scion of the Shisodias
[sic], alone has the best chance of winning the Imperial crown of India.
Strange as it may seem, the English know it better than we Hindus do...It is not impossible that Nepal may even be
called upon to control the destiny of India itself. Even Britain will feel it
more graceful that the Sceptre [sic] of Indian Empire, if it ever slips out of
her grip, should be handed over to an equal and independent ally of Britain
like His Majesty the King of Nepal than to one who is but a vassal and a
vanquished potentate of Britain like the Nizam." [Italics as in the
original]
[Bhide,
AS, (ed.), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s Whirlwind Propaganda: Extracts from
the President’s Diary of his Propagandist Tours Interviews from December 1937
to October 1941, na, Bombay, 1940, pp. 256-57.]
Savarkar
criticized Shivaji for not allowing molestation/rape of captured Muslim women
Savarkar
was a great defender of molestation and rape as a political tool against the
women of adversaries. In his important work of Hindu history, Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History, originally written in Marathi and translated in English in
1971 he included a chapter titled ‘Perverted Conception of Virtues’ (chapter
VIII). He criticized Shivaji and Chimaji Appa for restoring back to the
families the women of defeated Muslim and Portuguese governors. Since Shivaji
did not allow molestation of captured women Savarkar complained:
“Did not the
plaintive screams and pitiful lamentations of the millions of molested Hindu
women, which reverberated throughout the length and breadth of the country,
reach the ears of Shivaji Maharaj and Chimaji Appa?”
He went on to lament that “It was the suicidal Hindu idea of
chivalry to women which saved the Muslim women (simply because they were women)
from the heavy punishments of committing indescribable sins and crimes against the Hindu women.
Their womanhood became their shield quite sufficient to protect them”.
[‘Perverted conception of virtues’
in V. D. Savarkar (tr. By S. T. Godbole), Six Glorious Epochs of Indian
History, Bal Savarkar India, Delhi, 1971, pp. 147-159.]
With these irrefutable facts about
Savarkar, PM Modi bent upon honouring him on this May 28 will only accelerate
the undoing of democratic-secular India, egalitarian part of the Indian
civilization for which RSS has been dreaming since its inception in 1925.
Shamsul Islam
May 24, 2023
Email: notoinjustice@gmail.com
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