ANTI-NATIONAL RSS: DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE FROM ITS ARCHIVES
Friends from India and
abroad who are concerned about the increasing threats to the democratic-secular
Indian polity from the Hindutva organizations have been feeling the need for a
concise document on the anti-national game-plan of the RSS and other like-
minded offshoots. The need for such a document is rightly felt for countering
the Hindutva propaganda at all
levels. The following document is an attempt to accomplish this objective. It
is hoped that equipped with this document all those who love India as a
democratic-secular nation and want to save our beloved country from the Hindutva
onslaught would be able to challenge the fountainhead of the Hindutva politics;
RSS. This document is based solely on the documents drawn from the RSS
archives.
AGAINST SECULAR
INDIA
The editorial (titled
‘Glorious Hindu Nation’) in the maiden issue of the English organ of RSS dated
July 3, 1947 strongly rejected any talk of an Indian nation where Hindus and
Muslims would stay as equal partners. It branded the concept of a composite Indian
nation as a British conspiracy and
went on to decry Mr. Hume (one of the founders of the Indian National Congress) for
advancing the theory that
“Muslims were
equal partners in this land of the Hindus—Hindusthan—and propagated the theory
that Hindus and Muslims combined could only make a nation. Unfortunately,
neither the Hindu masses nor the leaders could see the trap and they began to
honestly believe that India’s salvation
lay in Hindu-Muslim unity, for which they strove with all
their might. Things proceeded according to British plan and the Muslims began
to claim equal partnership in the country.”[1]
Importantly, Organizer in an editorial
(titled ‘Whither’) on the very eve of Independence,
dated 14 August, 1947, while rejecting the whole concept
of a composite nation wrote:
“Let us no
longer allow ourselves to be influenced by false notions of nationhood. Much of
the mental confusion and the present and future troubles can be removed by the
ready recognition of the simple fact that in Hindusthan only the Hindus form the nation and the national
structure must be built on that safe and sound foundation…The nation itself
must be built up of Hindus, on Hindu traditions, culture, ideas and
aspirations.”[2]
DENIGRATING THE NATIONAL
FLAG
The RSS English organ Organizer in its editorial (titled ‘The
Nation’s Flag’), dated July 17, 1947, while reacting to the news that the
committee of the Constituent Assembly of India on national Flag had decided in
favour of Tricolour as the National Flag since it was acceptable to all parties and communities wrote:
“We do not
at all agree that the Flag ‘should be acceptable to all parties and communities
in India’. This is sheer nonsense. The Flag represents the nation and there is
only one nation in Hindusthan, the Hindu Nation, with an unbroken history
extending over 5,000 years. That is the nation and the flag must symbolize that
nation and that nation alone. We can not possibly
choose a flag with
a view to satisfy
the desires and
wishes of all the communities. That is to complicate matters and is unwarranted
and entirely unnecessary…We cannot order the choice of a flag as we order a
tailor to make a shirt or coat for us…
“If the
Hindus in Hindusthan had a common civilization, culture, customs and manners, a
common language and common traditions, they had also a flag, the oldest and the
noblest in the world, just as they and their civilization are the oldest in the world. That is the historical
perspective through which the question of our National Flag should be
approached and not in the slipshod manner in which it is being done at present.
It is true that temporary misfortunes following foreign invasions and all the
horrors that attended them threw the National Flag of Hindus into the shade. But all knew that it is bound to rise again one day
to its pristine glory and greatness. There is something
immensely endearing to the nation’s heart and soul in this unique colour of the
Flag which is the colour peculiar to the morn [morning] when life-giving sun
makes his slow but majestic appearance in the east. In the same way, our
forefathers have handed down this glorious flag of ours as the life-giving
force to the world. It is only the ignorant and the malicious who can not find
or appreciate this peculiar charm, nobility and grandeur in the Flag—a charm,
nobility and grandeur as glorious as that of the sun itself. This Flag and this
alone can be the true national Flag of Hindusthan. That and that alone will be
the only one acceptable to the
nation. There is growing evidence of this insistent demand on the part of the
public and the Constituent Assembly would be well advised to carry out their
wishes.”[3]
Shockingly, RSS organ
Organizer on the eve of Independence of India carried a long piece, ‘Mystery behind the Bhagwa Dhawaj’, which while demanding hoisting of saffron flag at
the ramparts of Red Fort in Delhi openly denigrated the choice of the Tricolour
as the National Flag.
“The people who have come to power by the kick of fate may give in our
hands the Tricolour but it never [sic]
be respected and owned by Hindus. The word three is in itself an evil, and a
flag having three colours will certainly produce a very bad psychological
effect and is injurious to a country.”[4]
It was in July 1947 that the Constituent Assembly of
Independent India deliberated on the issue of the
National Flag of the country and adopted the Tricolour as the national Flag.
However, RSS under the leadership of M. S. Golwalkar refused to accept as one.
While addressing a Gurupurnima gathering
in Nagpur on July 14, 1946, stated that it was the saffron flag which in
totality represented their great culture. It was the embodiment of God: “We firmly
believe that in the end the whole nation will bow before
this saffron flag.”[5]
Even after independence when
the Tricolour became the National Flag, it was the RSS which refused to accept
it as the National Flag. Golwalkar opposed this choice of the national Flag in
an essay entitled ‘Drifting and Drifting’ (reproduced from in the book Bunch of Thoughts, a collection of
Golwalkar’s writings in English published by
the RSS in 1966). Citing
examples of ‘Drifting’ from the Hindutva goals by the
Founding Fathers, Golwalkar wrote:
“…Our leaders
have set up a new flag for our country. Why did they do so? It is just a case of drifting and imitating. How
did this flag come into being? During the French Revolution, the French put up three
stripes on their flag to express the triple ideas of ‘equality’, ‘fraternity’ and ‘liberty’. The
American Revolution inspired by similar principles took it up with some
changes. Three stripes therefore held a sort
of fascination for our freedom fighters also. So, it was taken up by the
Congress. Then it was interpreted as depicting the unity of the various
communities-the saffron colour
standing for the Hindu, the green for the Muslim and the white for all
the other communities. Out of the non-Hindu communities the Muslim was specially named because in the minds of
most of those eminent leaders the Muslim was dominant and without naming him
they did not think that our nationality could be complete! When some persons
pointed out that this smacked of a communal approach, a fresh, explanation was
brought forward that he ‘saffron’ stood for sacrifice, the ‘white’ for purity
and the ‘green’ for peace and so on. All these interpretations were discussed
in the Congress Committees during those days. Who can say that this is a pure
and healthy national outlook? It was just a politician’s patchwork, just political
expediency. It was not inspired by any national vision or truth based on our
national history and heritage. The same flag has been taken up today as our
State Flag with only a glorious past. Then, had we no flag of our own? Had we
no national emblem at all these thousands of years? Undoubtedly, we had. Then,
why this void, this utter vacuum in our minds?”[6]
AGAINST NAMING THE COUNTRY
AS INDIA
When the Constituent
Assembly decided to name the country as India, it was RSS which vehemently
demanded it to be named as ‘Hindusthan’,
the land of and for Hindus. In an editorial (titled ‘Hindusthan’) in its English organ, Organizer dated July 31, 1947, it demanded that whether it was the
issue of naming it or finalizing the character of its polity, the exclusive
Hindu character must be guaranteed. It read:
“Great
responsibility rests on the shoulders of the men now sitting and discussing
details about the constitutional structure of Free Hindusthan. Posterity will judge them by their actions. Let them
not betray the nation and her cherished ideals and aspirations. Let their guide
be the innermost feelings and aspirations of the vast majority of the people of
this country. Unquestionably, they want
their Mother Country to be named and known as Hindusthan. [Italics as in
the original] the word Hindusthan spontaneously
brings to mind happy association of oneness of people of this land, their
common culture, common history, common law and the common glorious ancestors,
while the word India denotes the anti-thesis of these. It has nothing to
inspire the nation. On the other hand, there is a whole chain of events that makes us feel ashamed and our souls
revolt. This alone is enough justification to
cast away the name India and adopt the natural one, Hindusthan. There can be no
compromise on this. Those who are bent upon compromise, sacrificing fundamental
principles are not only shirking their responsibility to the nation but they
are thereby doing the greatest harm to it.” The editorial concluded with the
following demands: “Emphatically; the National Flag should be the traditional
Hindu flag, the National Language, Hindi, and this dear homeland of ours, Hindusthan.”[7]
MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS & COMMUNISTS AS INTERNAL THREATS
The ‘Holy’ book for the RSS cadres
Bunch of Thoughts, has a long chapter titled
as
‘Internal Threats’ in which Muslims and Christians are described as threat number 1 and
2 respectively. Communists are played at number 3. This chapter
opens with the following statement:
“It has been the tragic lesson of the history of many a country in the
world that the hostile elements within the country pose a far greater menace to
national security then aggressors from outside.”[8]
While treating Muslims as hostile element
number 1 he goes on to
elaborate,
“Even to this
day there are so many who say, ‘now there is no Muslim problem at all. All
those riotous elements who supported Pakistan have gone away once for all. The
remaining Muslims are devoted to our country. After all, they have no other
place to go and they are bound to remain loyal’….It would be suicidal to delude
ourselves into believing that they have turned patriots overnight after the
creation of Pakistan. On the
contrary, the Muslim menace has increased a hundredfold by the creation of
Pakistan which has become a springboard for all their future aggressive designs
on our country.”[9]
He goes on to spit venom against common Muslims in the following words:
“...within the country there are so many Muslim pockets, i.e., so many ‘miniature Pakistans’… The conclusion
is that, in practically every place, there are Muslims who are in constant
touch with Pakistan over the transmitter…”[10]
While deliberating on the ‘Internal Threat’ number 2, the Christians, he says,
“such is the role of Christian
gentlemen residing in our land today, out to demolish not only the religious and
social fabric of our life but also to establish political domination in various
pockets and if possible all over the land.”[11]
RSS DEMANDED TRANSFER OF DELHI MUSLIMS
TO PAKISTAN
Organizer dated September 25, 1947, demanded
that all Muslims
residing in Delhi should
be repatriated to Pakistan. It wrote:
“Delhi for
long formed part of the Punjab and since the exchange of population has been
undertaken between West Punjab [Pakistan] and East Punjab [India], the right and only course left for the
Government is to evacuate the Muslims of Delhi to west Punjab. It is pointed
out that any other course would lead to grave trouble again, for the public
mind, still remains disturbed due to fear that Muslims would create further
trouble whenever they get an opportunity.”[12]
Golwalkar’s hatred for
Muslims was inexhaustible and never-ending. So far as his hatred for Muslims
was concerned there was no difference in his views contained in We or Our Nationhood Defined in 1939, or
his hatred for Muslims in 1960. In fact, this hatred got wilder. While
addressing the leading RSS cadres of south India in Bangalore on November 30,
1960, he declared:
“Right from Delhi to Rampur, Muslims are busy hatching a dangerous plot,
piling up arms and mobilizing their men, and probably biding their time to
strike from within.”[13]
Shockingly, no proofs were
given and law and order machinery was not informed about such a critical
situation but this Guru of Hate continued spitting venom against patriotic
Indian Muslims. His only purposed
seemed to be to
create mob-hysteria against Muslims. More shocking was that
Indian State took no action against Golwalkar for creating enmity between 2 major religious
communities of India.
For Golwalkar and RSS, Communists are described as ‘Internal Threat’
number 3 as the
latter rise in defence of a democratic-secular Indian polity and challenge the
Hindutva forces which are working overtime to undo an all-inclusive India.[14]
RSS DECRIED THE DEMOCRATIC-SECULAR CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
The second sarsanghchalak of
the RSS, MS Golwalkar led the organization during 1940- 1973. What RSS thought about
the Indian Constitution would be clear from the following words of his
reproduced from Bunch of Thoughts [p. 238]:
“Our
Constitution too is just a cumbersome and heterogeneous piecing together of
various articles from various Constitutions of Western countries. It has
absolutely nothing, which can be called our own. Is there a single word of
reference in its guiding principles as to what our national mission is and what
our keynote in life is? No! Some
lame principles form the United Nations Charter or from the Charter of the now
defunct League of Nations and some features form the American and British
Constitutions have been just brought together in a mere hotchpotch.”
In fact, RSS wanted this
Constitution to be replaced by Manusmriti
or Codes of Manu. When the Constituent Assembly of India had finalized the Constitution of India RSS was not
happy. Organizer in an editorial
(‘The Constitution’) on November 30, 1949, complained:
“The worst
about the new constitution of Bharat is that there is nothing Bhartiya about it. The drafters
of the Constitution have incorporated in it elements of British,
American, Canadian, Swiss and sundry other constitutions. But there is no trace
of ancient Bhartiya constitutional laws, institutions, nomenclature and
phraseology in it…But in our constitution, there is no mention of the unique
constitutional development in ancient Bharat. Manu’s Laws were written long
before Lycurgus of Sparta or Solon of Persia. To this day his laws as
enunciated in the Manusmriti excite the admiration of the world and
elicit spontaneous obedience and conformity. But to our constitutional pundits
that means nothing.”[15]
RSS IS COMMITTED
FOR CONVERTING DEMOCRATIC-SECULAR INDIAN INTO A HINDU RASHTRA
Against Secularism
The RSS is
committed to establish a Hindu Rashtra in opposition to a Secular India will be
clear by the perusal of the oath (pratigya)
which every member must take before admission into the RSS and prayer (pararthana) which is recited in its
meetings.
Oath:
“Before the
all-powerful God and my ancestors, I most solemnly take this oath, that I
become a member of the RSS in order to achieve all round greatness of
Bharatvarsha by fostering the growth of my sacred Hindu religion, Hindu
society, and Hindu culture. I shall perform the work of the Sangh honestly,
selflessly with my heart and soul, and I
shall adhere to this goal all my life. Bharat Mata Ki Jai.”[16]
Thus they are not faithful
to the Indian Nation as it exists as a legal entity but want to subvert it into
a theocratic state like Muslim League which created Pakistan in the name of
Islam.
Prayer:
Affectionate Motherland, I eternally bow to you/O
Land of Hindus,
you have reared me
in comfort/O Sacred
Land, the Great Creator of Good, may this body of mine be
dedicated to you/I again and again
bow before You/O God almighty, we the integral part of the
Hindu Rashtra salute you in reverence/For Your cause have we girded up our
loins/Give us Your Blessings for its accomplishment...”[17]
AGAINST DEMOCRACY
What kind of political
system the RSS wants to usher in and run will be clear from the following words
of MS Golwalkar’s speech which he delivered before the 1350 top level cadres of
the RSS at Resham Bagh, the RSS headquarters at Nagpur in 1940:
“RSS inspired by one flag, one leader and one ideology is lighting the
flame of Hindutva in each and every corner of this great land.”[18]
AGAINST
FEDERALISM
The RSS is also dead against
federal structure of the constitution, again a ‘Basic’ feature of the India
polity. This is clear from the following communication of Golwalkar which he
sent to the first session of the National Integration Council in 1961. It read:
“Today’s federal form of government not only gives birth but also
nourishes the feelings of separatism, in a way refuses to recognize the fact of
one nation and destroys it. It must be completely uprooted, constitution
purified and unitary form of government be established.”[19]
Even in 1954 Golwalkar while
presiding over one anti-federalism conference at Bombay demanded: “India should have Central Rule and from
administrative point of view states should be administered territories.”[20]
These have not been some stray ideas of the RSS ideologue on Indian Federalism. The
‘Holy’ for the RSS cadres, Bunch
of Thoughts, has an exclusive chapter titled, ‘Wanted
a unitary state.’ While
presenting his remedy to the federal set-up of India Golwalkar wrote:
“The most
important and effective step will be to bury deep for good all talk of a
federal structure of our country’s Constitution, to sweep away the existence of
all ‘autonomous’ or semi-autonomous ‘states’ within the one state viz., Bharat
and proclaim ‘One Country, One State, One Legislature, One Executive’ with no
trace of fragmentational, regional,
sectarian, linguistic or other types of pride being given a scope for playing
havoc with our integrated harmony. Let the Constitution be re- examined and
re-drafted, so as to establish this Unitary form of Government and thus
effectively disprove the mischievous propaganda indulged in by the British and
so unwittingly imbibed by the present leaders, about our being just a
juxtaposition of so many distinct ‘ethnic groups’ or ‘nationalities’ happening
to live side by side and grouped together by the accident of geographical
contiguity and one uniform supreme foreign domination.”[21]
RSS & CONSPIRACIES ARE TWO SISDES
OF THE SAME COIN
The central publication
house of the RSS, Suruchi Prakashan, Delhi, published a book in 1997, titled
Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par (ON
THE ROAD TO GREAT GLORY)
penned by Sadanand Damodar Sapre, a senior RSS functionary. This book
contained details of more than 40 organizations created by the RSS for different tasks but more
importantly it described how many of
these organizations are run in a clandestine manner for hidden agendas. This
publication showed that the whole network ran like a well-organized mafia through
its subsidiaries and satellites. There has always been a conscious attempt to create confusion about its different
fronts which provide RSS with the opportunity to dissociate with any of these
as per its convenience. For instance, it used Hindu Jagaran Manch (HJM) for
attacking Christians in late 1990s and when public opinion, media and
Parliament seemed to turn against it, RSS denied any relation with HJM.
However, according to this publication Hindu Jagaran Manch was created by the
RSS as admitted in the
above-mentioned publication. The book confesses:
"From the point of view of Hindu awakening this kind of forums
[like Hindu Jagran Manch] at present are active in 17
states with different names like ‘Hindu Manch’
in Delhi, ‘Hindu Munani’ in Tamilnadu, ‘Hinduekjut’ in Maharashtra.
These are forums, not associations or organizations, that’s why it is not
required to have membership, registration and elections."[22]
How RSS indulges in
conspiracies can be known by the following disclosure in Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par about a case in Delhi immediately after
Partition:
"Swayamsevaks had posed to have adopted Musalman religion in order to
gain the confidence of Delhi Muslim League for knowing their
conspiracies."[23]
What these swayamsevaks, impersonating as Muslims,
on the eve of Independence were doing was made clear by none other than Dr.
Rajendra Prasad who later became first President of the Indian Republic. In a
letter to the first Home Minister of India, Sardar Patel, on 14 March 1948,
Prasad wrote:
"I am told that RSS people have a plan of creating trouble. They have got a number of men dressed as Muslims and looking like Muslims who are to create trouble
with
the Hindus by attacking them and thus inciting the Hindus. Similarly, there will be some Hindus among them who will attack Muslims and thus incite Muslims. The result of this kind of trouble amongst the Hindus and Muslims will be to create a conflagration."
[Rajendra Prasad to Sardar Patel (March 14, 1948) cited in Neerja Singh (ed.), Nehru - Patel: Agreement Within Difference—Select Documents & Correspondences 1933-1950, NBT, Delhi, p. 43.]
If RSS supporters feel that the above RSS documents reproduced are fake, author invites them to file a criminal
defamation case.
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[1] Organizer, July 3, 1947.
[2] Organizer, August 14, 1947.
[3] Organizer, July 17, 1947.
[4] Organizer, August 14, 1947.
[5] MS Golwalkar, Shri Guruji
Samagar Darshan (collected works of Golwalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya
Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur, nd., volume I, p. 98.
[6] MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996 [first edition
1966], pp. 237-238.
[7] Organizer, July 31, 1947.
[8] MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p. 177.
[9] MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, pp. 177-78.
[10] MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p. 185.
[11] MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p. 193.
[12] Organizer, September 25, 1947.
[13] Organizer, September 25, 1947.
[14] MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya
Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996,
p. 195.
[15] Organizer,
November 30, 1947.
[16] Shakha Darshikha, Gyan Ganga, Jaipur,
1997, p. 66.
[17] Shakha Darshikha, Gyan Ganga, Jaipur,
1997, p. 2.
[18] MS Golwalkar, Shri Guruji Samagar
Darshan (collected works
of Golwalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur, nd.,
Volume I, p. 11.
[19] MS Golwalkar, Shri Guruji Samagar
Darshan (collected works of Golwalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya
Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur, nd., Volume 3, p. 128.
[20] MS Golwalkar, Shri Guruji
Samagar Darshan (collected works of Golwalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar
Sadhna, Nagpur, nd., Volume 3, p. 70.
[21] MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996 [first edition
1966], p. 227.
[22] Sadanand Damodar
Sapre, Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par, Suruchi Prakashan, Delhi, 1997, p. 64.
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