eBOOK ON RSS: EQUIP IDEOLOGICALLY TO CHALLENGE THE
ANTI-NATIONAL RSS
Friends from India and abroad who are concerned about the increasing
threats to the democratic-secular Indian polity from the Hindutva
organizations have been writing to me for preparing a concise document on
the anti-national game-plan of the RSS and other like-minded offshoots. The
need of 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 would be able to
challenge the fountain-head of the Hindutva politics. This document is based
solely on the documents drawn from the RSS archives.
This document underlines the following cardinal principles of the RSS World
view:
(1) RSS IDOLIZES FASCISM & NAZISM.
(2) RSS WANTS MAN USMR1 T I TO REPLACE DEMOCRATIC-
SECULAR CONSTITUTION OF INDIA.
(3) RSS HAS ETERNAL BELIEF IN CASTEISM.
(4) RSS DENIGRATES THE NATIONAL FLAG.
(5) RSS AGAINST DEMOCRAY AND FOR TOTALITARIANISM.
(6) RSS AGAINST F EDERALISM.
(7) RSS‘ HATRED FOR MUSLIMS & CHRISTIANS.
(8) RSS AGAINST COMPOSITE INDIAN NATIONALISM.
(1) RSS IDOLIZES FASCISM & NAZISM
Doubtlessly Hitler is a great hero for RSS. The RSS as great champions of
Hindutva want to deprive minorities of their all civil and human rights
shamelessly and openly adhering to the totalitarian models of Hitler. This
fascist outlook towards minorities specially Muslims and Christians was
clearly elaborated by the senior ideologue of the RSS, MS Golwalkar, in his
book, We or Our Nationhood Defined. This book published in the year 1939,
gives an insight into the thinking of the RSS leadership. We find Golwalkar
in this book idealizing the Nazi cultural nationalism of Hitler in the
following words:
"German Race pride has now become the topic of the day. To keep up
the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by
her purging the country of the Semitic Races—the Jews. Race pride at
its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well-
nigh impossible it is for Races and cultures, having differences going to
the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in
Hindusthan to learn and profit by."
[MS Golwalkar, We Or Our Nationhood Defined, Bharat Publications,
Nagpur, 1939, p. 35.]
Golwalkar unhesitatingly wanted to model his Hindu Rashtra or Nation on
Hitler’s totalitarian and fascist pattern as is clear from the following words
of his in the same book:
"It is worth bearing well in mind how these old Nations solve their
minorities [sic] problem. They do not undertake to recognize any
separate element in their polity. Emigrants have to get themselves
naturally assimilated in the principal mass of the population, the
National Race, by adopting its culture and language and sharing in its
aspirations, by losing all consciousness of their separate existence,
forgetting their foreign origin. If they do not do so, they live merely as
outsiders, bound by all the codes and conventions of the Nation, at the
sufferance of the Nation and deserving no special protection, far less
any privilege or rights. There are only two courses open to the foreign
elements, either to merge themselves in the national race and adopt its
culture, or to live at its mercy so long as the national race may allow
them to do so and to quit the country at the sweet will of the national
race. That is the only sound view on the minorities [sic] problem. That is
the only logical and correct solution. That alone keeps the national life
healthy and undisturbed. That alone keeps the nation safe from the
danger of a cancer developing into its body politic of the creation of a
state within a state."
[MS Golwalkar, We Or Our Nation/100d Defined, Bharat Publications,
Nagpur, 1939, p. 47.]
(2) RSS WANTS MANUSMRITI TO REPLACE DEMOCRATIC-
SECULAR CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
RSS and its fraternal organization, Hindu Mahasabha were very angry when
Indian Constituent Assembly adopted a democratic-Secular Constitution
under the supervision of Dr. BR Ambedkar. VD Savarkar as leader of
Hindutva believed:
“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.]
The democratic-secular Indian Constitution was adopted by the Constituent
Assembly on November 26, 1949, RSS English organ, Organizer in an
editorial on November 30, 1949, complained:
“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”.
How loyal the RSS is to the Constitution of India can be known by the
following statement of 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.]
(3) RSS HAS ETERNAL BELIEF IN CASTEISM
Golwalkar, the most prominent ideologue of the RSS like Savarkar, believed
that Casteism was a natural integral part of Hinduism. In fact, Golwalkar
Went to the extent of declaring that Casteism was synonymous with the
Hindu nation. According to him, the Hindu people are none else but,
"the Virat Purusha, the Almighty manifesting himself...
[according to purusha sukta] sun and 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. 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. [Italics as in the original]
[MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, I996, pp.
36-37.]
(4) RSS DENIGRATES THE NATIONAL FLAG
The English organ of the RSS, Organizer (dated August 14, 1947) carried a
feature titled ‘mystery behind the bhagwa dhawaj' (saffron flag) which While
demanding hoisting of saffron flag at the ramparts of Red Fort in Delhi,
openly denigrated the choice of the Tri-colour as the National Flag in the
following words:
"The people who have come to power by the kick of fate may give in our
hands the Tricolour but it never 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."
Thus the National Flag was declared to be inauspicious and injurious for
India!
(5) RSS AGAINST DEMOCRAY AND FOR TOTALITARIANISM
The RSS since its inception loves absolute power. Golwalkar while
addressing the 1350 top level cadres of the RSS at its headquarters at Nagpur
in 1940 declared:
“The 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.”
[MS Golwalkar, Shri Guruji Samagar Darshan (collected works of
Golwalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur, nd, vol. I, p. 11.]
This slogan of one flag, one leader and one ideology was directly borrowed
from the programmes of the Nazi and Fascist Parties of Europe.
(6) RSS AGAINST FEDEILALISM
On federalism Golwalkar sent the following message 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.”
[MS Golwalkar, Shri Guruji Samagar Darshan (collected works of
Golwalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur, nd, vol. III, p. 128.]
These have not been some stray ideas of the RSS ideologue on the Indian
Federalism. The Bible of the RSS, Bunch of Thoughts, has an exclusive
chapter titled, ‘Wanted a unitary state’ in which Golwalkar presenting his
remedy to the federal set-up of India 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 [sic],
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..."
[MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p.
227.]
(7) RSS' HATRED FOR MUSLIMS & CHRISTIANS
Organizations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Hindu Jagran Manch
(HJM) and Bajrang Dal (BD), and other affiliates of the RSS after using
Gujarat as a laboratory for religious cleansing of minorities specially
Christians and Muslims for last so many years are spreading their tentacle
throughout India. The leaflets containing highly provocative statements like,
“‘Muslims are filth of the gutter, don’t let them enter in your houses’, or
‘Wherever Christian priests have gone in the world, they loot the
people. Lies and deceit are their religion. The Christian priests teach
people to tell lies, to steal in the name of religion...They curse Hindus,
and decry the Hindu religion. Awaken Hindus and struggle against
these thieves who lie, who rob you of your rights, and bring these people
to their senses and put their pride in place’, or ‘One addition in the
population of Christians or Muslims is not only the addition of anti-
Hindu but anti-national person.”’
[Leaflets circulated by the RSS offsprings like VHP, Hindu Jagaran Manch,
and Bajrang Dal]
The ‘Holy’ book for the RSS cadres Bunch of Thoughts, has a long chapter
titled as ‘lntemal Threats’ in which Muslims and Christians are described as
threat number one and two respectively. 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.”
[MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p.
177.]
While treating Muslims as hostile element number one 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.”
[MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, pp.
177-78.]
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. . .”
[MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p.
185.]
While deliberating on the ‘lntemal Threat’ number two, 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.”
[MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p.
193.]
Golwalkar, finally, following into the footsteps of Hitler had the following
solution of the minority problem in India:
“From this stand point, sanctioned by the experience of shrewd old
nations, the foreign races in Hindusthan must either adopt the Hindu
culture and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence
Hindu religion, must entertain no idea but those of the glorification of
the Hindu race and culture, i.e., of the Hindu nation and must lose their
separate existence to merge in the Hindu race, or may stay in the
country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu Nation, claiming nothing,
deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment not even
citizen’s rights. There is, at least should be, no other course for them to
adopt. We are an old nation: let us deal, as old nations ought to and do
deal, with the foreign races who have chosen to live in our
country.”
[MS Golwalkar, We Or Our Nationhood Defined, Bharat Publications,
Nagpur, 1939, pp. 47-48.]
The RSS hatred for Muslims and Christians does not mean that it accords
equality to other religious Indian minorities like Sikhs, Buddhist and Jains. It
does not accord the status of independent religions to Sikhism, Buddhism
and Jainism and treats them as part of Hinduism.
(8) RSS AGAINST COMPOSITE INDIAN NATIONALISM
Importantly, the RSS organ Organizer in its issue on the very eve of
Independence, dated 14 August, 1947, rejected the Whole concept of a
composite nation (under the editorial title ‘Whither’):
”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”.
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