77th
INDIAN CONSTITUTION DAY
RSS MOURNED
WHEN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY PASSED DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION
The Constituent
Assembly (CA) of India passed the Constitution on November 26, 1949, after
almost 3 years' deliberations. It was an amazing contribution in the history of
the modern liberal democracies as it was not only the lengthiest constitution
in world history (underlining the fact that the polity it was to govern was
diverse and vast) but also created a polity based on egalitarian, democratic
and non-sectarian ideals never attempted in the past in non-Western world. This
commitment was explicit in the Preamble of the constitution which read:
"WE, THE
PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens: JUSTICE, social,
economic and political;
LIBERTY of
thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; EQUALITY of status and of
opportunity; and to promote among them all;
FRATERNITY
assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the
Nation;
IN OUR
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this 26th day of November 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND
GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION."
RSS DEMANDED MANUSMRITI AS CONSTITUTION
The two ideals
namely Socialist and Secular added in 1977 only strengthened the resolve of the
CA that India was going to be a non-sectarian polity with the people of India
in thoughts. It is shocking that the RSS which has complete sway over the
Indian politics through its political appendage, Bhartiya Janata Party and its
cadres loaned to the latter (like PM Modi) mourned the birth of Indian
Constitution. The RSS was very angry when Indian Constituent Assembly adopted a
democratic- Secular Constitution under the supervision of Dr. BR Ambedkar. We
know that the Constituent Assembly of India passed the Constitution on November
26, 1949, the
RSS organ Organizer came out with an editorial on
November 30, 1949 titled 'Constitution' declaring :
“The worst
about the new Constitution of Bharat is that there is nothing Bhartiya about
it…There is no trace of ancient Bhartiya constitutional laws, institutions,
nomenclatures and phraseology in it…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.”
How RSS
denigrates the Constitution of India can be known by the following statement of
the most prominent ideologue of the RSS, Golwalkar:
“Our
Constitution too is just a cumbersome and heterogeneous piecing together of
various articles from various Constitutions of the 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!”
[MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu,
Bangalore, 1996, p. 238.]
By demanding Manusmriti as constitution of India,
RSS, in fact was following the belief of its darling Hindutva icon, VD Savarkar
who had declared long back:
“Manusmriti is that scripture which is
most worship-able after Vedas for our Hindu Nation and which from ancient times
has become the basis of our culture-customs, thought and practice. This book
for centuries has codified the spiritual and divine march of our nation. Even
today the rules which are followed by crores of Hindus in their lives and
practice are based on Manusmriti.
Today Manusmriti is Hindu Law”.
[VD Savarkar,
'Women in Manusmriti' in Savarkar Samagar (collection of
Savarkar's writings in Hindi), vol. 4, Prabhat, Delhi, p. 416.]
Faith of RSS
brass in Manusmriti, naturally, leads
them to believe in Casteism too which gave birth to the debased practice of
Untouchability. For RSS Casteism is the essence of Hindu Nationalism. Golwalkar
did not mince words in declaring that Casteism was synonymous with the Hindu
Nation. According to him, the Hindu people are no one but,
"The Hindu
People, they said, is the Virat Purusha, the Almighty manifesting Himself.
Though they did not use the word „Hindu‟, it is clear from the following
description of the Almighty in Purusha-Sukta [in the 10th book of Rig Ved]
wherein it is stated that the sun & the moon are His eyes, the stars and
the skies are created from his nabhi [navel] and Brahmin is the head, Kshatriya the hands, Vaishya the thighs and Shudra
the feet. [Italics as in the original text] This means that the people who
have this fourfold arrangement, i.e.,
the Hindu People, is [sic] our God.
This supreme vision of Godhead is the very core of our concept of „nation‟ and
has permeated our thinking and given rise to various unique concepts of our
cultural heritage."
[Golwalkar, M.
S., Bunch of Thoughts, collection of
writings/speeches of Golwalkar published by RSS, p.36-37.]
What kind of a
Hindutva civilization the RSS wants to build by enforcing the laws of Manu, can
be known by having a glimpse of the laws prescribed by Manu for the lower
castes, Untouchables and women. Some of these dehumanizing and degenerated
laws, which are presented here, are self-explanatory.
A selection of
Laws of Manu denigrating Dalits/Untouchables
1.
For
the sake of the prosperity of the worlds (the divine one) caused the Brahmana,
the Kshatriya, the Vaisya, and the Sudra to proceed from his mouth, his arm,
his thighs and his feet. (I/31)
2.
One
occupation only the lord prescribed to the Sudras, to serve meekly even these
(other) three castes. (I/91)
3.
Once-born
man (a Sudra), who insults a twice-born man with gross invective, shall have
his tongue cut out; for he is of low origin. (VIII/270)
4.
If
he mentions the names and castes (jati) of the (twice-born) with contumely, an
iron nail, ten fingers long, shall be thrust red-hot into his mouth. (VIII/271)
5.
If
he arrogantly teaches Brahmanas their duty, the king shall cause hot oil to be
poured into his mouth and into his ears. (VIII/272)
6.
He
who raises his hand or a stick, shall have his hand cut off; he who in anger
kicks with his foot, shall have his foot cut off. (VIII/280)
8. A low-caste
man who tries to place himself on the same seat with a man of a high caste,
shall be branded on his hip and be banished, or (the king) shall cause his
buttock to be gashed. (VIII/281)
As per the Manu
Code if Sudras are to be given most stringent punishments for even petty
violations/actions, the same Code of Manu is very lenient towards Brahmins.
Shloka 380 in Chapter VIII bestowing profound love on Brahmins decrees:
“Let him never
slay a Brahmana, though he have committed all (possible) crimes; let him banish
such an (offender), leaving all his property (to him) and (his body) unhurt.”
A selection of
Laws of Manu demeaning Hindu women
1.
Day
and night woman must be kept in dependence by the males (of) their (families),
and, if they attach themselves to sensual enjoyments, they must be kept under
one‟s control. (IX/2)
2.
Her
father protects (her) in childhood, her husband protects (her) in youth, and
her sons protect (her) in old age; a woman is never fit for independence.
(IX/3)
3.
Women do not care for beauty, nor is
their attention fixed on age; (thinking),
„(It is enough
that) he is a man,‟ they give themselves to the handsome and to
the ugly.
(IX/14)
4.
Through
their passion for men, through their mutable temper, through their natural
heartlessness, they become disloyal towards their husbands, however carefully
they may be guarded in this (world). (IX/15)
5.
(When creating them) Manu allotted
to women (a love of their) bed, (of their) seat and (of) ornament, impure
desires, wrath, dishonesty, malice, and bad conduct. (IX/17)
[The above
selection of Manu‟s Codes is from F. Max Muller, Laws of Manu, LP Publications, Delhi, 1996; first published in
1886. The bracket after each code incorporates number of chapter/number of code
according to the above edition.]
The reproduced
parts of the Manu Code above need no further elaboration and commentary. They
are too glaringly venomous, Fascist and degenerated against Untouchables who
are referred to as Sudras by Manu. Perhaps this was the reason that the German
philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche who contributed immensely to the growth of
totalitarian ideas in Europe in the 20th century, fell in love with this work.
It is to be
noted here that a copy of Manusmriti was
burnt as a protest in the presence of Dr. BR Ambedkar during the historic Mahad
agitation on December 25, 1927. Dr Ambedkar called upon Dalits to commemorate
each December 25 as the Manusmriti Dehen
Diwas (Manusmriti burning day) in
future. In fact, Brahmanism as basis of the RSS world-view is the original
Fascism in the history of human civilization.
[https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/manusmriti-dahan-divas-protest-staged-
at-collectorate/article30396588.ece]
RSS HATRED FOR
DEMOCRACY
It is true that
when RSS faced the wrath of the Indian State when Sardar Patel was the home
minister of India it criticized the detention laws without trial. In an
editorial in Organizer it wrote:
"Section
21 and 22 providing for detention without trial reduce all the wordy assurances
about liberty, equality and fraternity to just near meaningless verbiage."
[Organizer,
November 30, 1949]
But once in
power the RSS-BJP rulers led by PM Modi have returned to Hindutva's Fascist and
Nazi heritage. They have converted Indian democratic-secular polity into a
totalitarian Hindutva oligarchy where any kind of dissent is treated as
anti-national and anti-Hindu. It is the continuation of hatred for democracy as
decreed by Golwalkar as early as 1940. Golwalkar while addressing the 1350 top
level cadres of the RSS declared:
"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."
[Golwalkar,
M.S., Shri Guruji Samagar Darshan (collected
works of Golwalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur, nd., volume 1, p.
11.]
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