RSS
Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh
as
a Terror Outfit
Evidence from
its archives
BY
Shamsul Islam
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Contents
RSS modelled after Nazi and Fascist parties 5
Linkages with Benito Mussolini
6
RSS celebrated the Holocaust & planned to execute it for
cleansing Indian Muslims and Christians 7
RSS friendship with the Myanmar military rulers 9
RSS celebrated rise of the Fascists in Europe 10
RSS rolls out racist project of producing ‘Aryan’ babies in India 10
RSS’ hatred for democratic-secular India 13
RSS worships arms while claiming to be a cultural-religious
organization 14
Call to assassinate Congress leaders, Muslims and Christians
declared dacoits 15
Golwalkar planned massacre of Muslims on the eve of Indian
Independence 15
The
heinous justification for killing a Muslim girl by a senior RSS leader during
the Partition violence 16
Even Sardar Patel, the first home minister of India abhorred the massacre
of Muslims during the Partition by the RSS
17
Highly decorated Indian police officer on the RSS terror under Modi
rule 18
For RSS Indian Muslims & Christians are ‘Internal Threat’
number one & two respectively 19
Golwalkar’s lie on cow-slaughter paved the way for lynching of
Muslims 20
Will Taj Mahal meet the fate of the mosque at Ayodhya? 23
RSS zealot's hilarious sense of ‘History’ 24
Three ways Taj Mahal can be harmed 26
Sikhism, Jainism, and Buddhism not independent religions 27
Prominent RSS ideologue Nana Deshmukh who justified 1984 massacre
of Sikhs conferred highest state award by the Modi Government 27
Nana Deshmukh awarded ‘Bharat Ratna’ (the Jewel of India), the
highest national award 29
RSS wants all references of 1984 Sikh massacre dropped from the
text Books 29
RSS Linkages with International Fascist Organisations 30
Neo-Nazi mass murderer of Norway, Breivik’s linkages with the RSS 31
Even Father of the Nation, MK Gandhi not spared 31
Celebration of the assassination of Gandhi as the ‘Vadh’
(slaying) of a demon at the altar of the Hindu Rashtra 32
BJP IT-cell in-charge calls for auction of Gandhi's murderer Godse’s
revolver to prove his popularity 32
RSS as a
North Indian high Caste Oligarchy 33
For RSS Casteism is synonymous with Hindu Nation 34
A selection of Laws of Manu denigrating Dalits/Untouchables 34
A Selection of Laws of Manu demeaning Hindu women 35
RSS Hatred for dark-skinned south Indians 37
Golwalkar on human crossbreeding in Kerala: Denigrating Kerala
Hindus specially women 38
Use of conspiracies for terrorist activities by the RSS 39
Superior Hindu Aryan Race to rule the World 40
RSS modelled
after Nazi and Fascist parties
The process of the Hindutva
takeover of the democratic-secular Indian polity got huge push with Narendra
Modi, a seasoned RSS ideologue becoming the prime minister of India in 2014.
His commitment to the cause of the Hindutva politics and hatred for the Indian
democratic-secular polity has been unambiguous. While ruling the State Gujarat
as the chief minister in 2013 he had declared himself to be a Hindu
nationalist. It
was first time in the history of Independent India that any person occupying a
constitutional office identified him/herself as Hindu nationalist. It is to be
noted that terrorists who assassinated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, regarded as
Father of the independent India, on January 30, 1948 at Delhi, described
themselves, too, as the Hindu nationalists.
His taking over as the prime
minister was celebrated by the RSS and its innumerable known and unknown
organisations by declaring open war against the democratic-secular Indian
polity on a large scale. The Hindutva cadres and mobs ruled the streets of
India with vehemence never seen after Independence. RSS leaders declared that
with Modi as the PM India was once again under a Hindu ruler after Prithvi Raj
Chauhan (1178-92); almost 1000 years later! One leading RSS office-bearer,
Rajeshwar Singh declared:
Our target is to make India a Hindu
Rashtra by 2021. The Muslims and Christians don’t have any right to stay
here…So they would either be converted to Hinduism or forced to run away from
here.
The terrorism is in the genes of the
RSS (which translates as “national volunteer association”) as evidence from its
own archives will prove. It was formed in 1925 by Keshav Baliram Hedgewar
(known as Doctorji in the RSS fraternity), Balakrishna Shivram Moonje, his
mentor and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the propounder of the idea of Hindutva;
all Brahmins. Hedgewar was in the Indian National Congress (INC) but left it as
he was against the anti-British freedom struggle led by MK Gandhi which
treated people of all religions as part of the Indian nation and stood for an
inclusive independent India. A biography of Hedgewar published by the RSS
describes that he parted with INC because,
Gandhiji worked constantly with one
eye on Hindu– Muslim unity…But Doctorji sensed danger in that move. In fact, he
did not even relish the newfangled slogan of ‘Hindu– Muslim Unity’.
Linkages
with Benito Mussolini
This group of Hindu nationalist
leaders declared India to be a Hindu nation where the main enemies were Muslims
and Christians of India. According to them Muslims and Christians remained out
of this nationhood because they did not assimilate into the Hindu cultural
heritage or the Hindu religion. Savarkar argued that they,
cannot be recognized as Hindus; as
since their adoption of the new cult they had ceased to own Hindu civilisation
[Sanskriti] as a whole. They belong, or feel that they belong to, a
cultural unit altogether different from the Hindu one. Their heroes and their
hero-worship, their fairs and their festivals, their ideals and their outlook
on-life, have now ceased to be common with ours.
Indian Muslims and Christians were
thus ‘emigrants’ following foreign religions, and not entitled to be part of
the Indian nation which was a Hindu nation. In order to tackle the Muslims and
Christian ‘problem’ they found the Nazi and the Fascist projects of cleansing
the Jews very attractive. The Italian researcher, Marzia Casolari has done
pioneering work in making public the direct linkages between RSS and Mussolini
based on Moonje’s diary. Moonje, “a politician strictly related to the RSS” had
man-to-man meeting with Mussolini on the evening March 19, 1931 at Rome.
According to Moonje’s own diary he told Mussolini that
I just saw this morning and
afternoon the Balilla [Italian Fascist Youth Organisation] and the Fascist
Organisations and I was much impressed. Italy needs them for her development
and prosperity…Every aspiring and growing Nation needs such
organisations…’Signor Mussolini–who appeared very pleased–said–Thanks but yours
is an uphill task. However I wish you every success in return.’
According to Moonje’s diary
immediately after his return from Rome he called upon Hindu nationalist leaders
to
Imitate the youth movements of
Germany and the Balilla and Fascist organisations of Italy. I think they are
eminently suited for introduction in India, adapting them to suit the special
conditions. I have been very much impressed by these movements and I have seen
their activities with my own eyes in all details.
March 31, 1934, Moonje, Hedgewar and
Laloo Gokhale had a meeting, the subject of which was again the military
organisation of the Hindus, along the Italian and German lines. Moonje called
upon the gathering that they should work for
standardisation of Hinduism
throughout India... But the point is that this ideal cannot be brought to
effect unless we have our own swaraj with a Hindu as a dictator like
Shivaji of old or Mussolini or Hitler of the present day Italy or Germany...
But this does not mean that we have to sit with folded hands until some such
dictator arises in India. We should formulate a scientific scheme and carry on
propaganda for it…
According to Marzia, Moonje publicly
admitted that his idea of militarily reorganizing Hindu society was inspired by
the “military training schools of England, France, Germany and Italy” Moonje’s
‘Preface to the Scheme of the Central Hindu Military Society and its Military
School’ declared at the outset:
This training is meant for
qualifying and fitting our boys for the game of killing masses of men with the
ambition of winning victory with the best possible causalities of dead and
wounded while causing the utmost possible to the adversary.
The renowned Indian historian,
Professor Ramchandra Guha underscoring the continuation of Fascist Italian
legacy by the current RSS-BJP regime wrote,
The Italian State of the 1920s bears
a striking resemblance to Modi’s regime today which speaks respectfully of the
Constitution while blatantly violating its spirit and essence, which appeals to
ancient wisdom while displaying a contempt for modern science, which claims to
exalt ancient culture while manifesting an utter philistinism in practice…
Benito Mussolini and his fascists
thought they would rule Italy forever. Narendra Modi and the BJP think
likewise. These fantasies of eternal rule will not come to fruition; but so
long as the present regime remains in power, it will continue to extract a
horrendous cost — in economic, political, social, and moral terms. Italy took
decades to recover from the ravages of Mussolini and his party; India may take
even longer to recover from the ravages of Modi and his party.
RSS
celebrated the Holocaust & planned to execute it for cleansing Indian
Muslims & Christians
The most prominent ideologue of the
RSS, MS Golwalkar (known as Guru Golwalkar in the RSS fraternity) who
became RSS Supremo in 1940 and who is credited by the present Indian PM to have
groomed him into a political leader declared:
If, as is indisputably proved,
Hindusthan is the land of the Hindus and is the terra firma for the
Hindu nation alone to flourish upon, what is to be the fate of all those, who,
today, happen to live upon the land, though not belonging to the Hindu Race,
Religion and culture.
It would be like the Jews under
Hitler and Mussolini. Thus Golwalkar glorified the Holocaust 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.
Golwalkar, finally, following into
the foot-steps of Hitler, arrived at the following solution for the minority
“problem” in India; Muslims and Christians who were declared belong to foreign
races,
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.
Savarkar went on to support Hitler’s
anti-Jewish pogroms and on October 14, 1938, he suggested the same solution for
the Muslim problem in India:
A
Nation is formed by a majority living therein. What did the Jews do in Germany?
They being in minority were driven out from Germany.
It may be confusing for anyone to
find that RSS celebrated the Holocaust by openly supporting Hitler (1940s and
early 1950s) but now zealously supports the Jewish State. Mohan Bhagwat, the
current Supremo of the RSS, addressing the ‘Yuva Sankalp Shivir’ (Youth pledge
camp) at Agra on November 3, 2014 advocated “treading the path of Israel while
serving the cause of nationalism.”
Devsena Mishra while writing in the Jerusalem Post, a leading Israeli
daily underlined this love between the RSS and Israel in the following words,
whenever
a BJP (a political affiliate of the RSS) government comes to power, the
vibrancy in India-Israel relations reaches new heights.
It is normal for the RSS. It is not
contradictory but shows two equally important Fascist traits of the
organization. Its support to the Holocaust was the outcome of its love for the
Aryan race and support to the Jewish State, today, only underlines
its unbridled hatred for Muslims; the non-Aryans. According to the renowned
author Khushwant Singh the Hindutva icons, Savarkar and Golwalkar who laid down
this path for the RSS,
Both believed in the superiority of
the Aryan race and approved of Adolf Hitler’s extermination of millions of
Jews in gas chambers. Nevertheless, they supported Zionism and the Jewish state
of Israel for no other reason but that it was forever waging wars against its
Arab neighbours who were Muslims. Islamophobia became an integral part
of Hindutva.
RSS
friendship with the Myanmar military rulers
These are not Mussolini and Hitler
only who have been favourites of RSS. In fact, diverse totalitarian ideologies
and regimes of the 20th century have been darlings of the RSS. One of the most
ruthless ruling gang, the junta which ruled Myanmar was a darling of it.
According to a report in the official organ of the RSS, Organiser dated
February 28-March 5, 2000, filed by its own correspondent in Burma:
The 50th anniversary of the Sanatan
Dharma Swayamsevak Sangh (SDSS-The RSS counterpart in Myanmar) was held at the
National Theatre on Mayoma Kyaung Street, Yagnon, recently. Secretary-2 of the
State Peace and Development Council, Lt. Gen. Tin Oo attended the meeting. The
programme was attended by ministers and senior military officers. Minister for
Commerce, Brig. Gen. Pyi Sone; Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and
Resettlement, Maj. Gen. Sein Htwa; Minister for Health, Maj. Gen. Ket Sein were
among the prominent persons who attended the function.
This report appeared with two
photographs. In one photograph five military Generals including second in
command of the military junta, Lt. Gen. Tin Oo, were seen standing on the stage
in the midst of SDSS leadership wearing khaki shorts [RSS attire which is
changed to brown trousers now]. In the other photograph leading lights of the
Burmese military junta were seen sitting in the front row of the auditorium.
With these old links with the
Myanmar military rulers the inimical attitude of the RSS-BJP Indian rulers
towards the persecuted Rohingyas in Myanmar is neither accidental nor sudden.
Indian government led by Modi falling in line with the Myanmar rulers has
refused to admit that genocide of the Rohingyas is taking place. Thousands of
persecuted Rohingyas who escaped to India to save themselves from genocide are being
forced to leave India.
RSS
celebrated rise of the Fascists in Europe
When the present day Europe was
shocked by the resurgence of fascist groups in France, Germany and Austria at
the beginning of the 20th century, RSS true to its totalitarian breed
celebrated this Fascist revival. It was described as resurgence of
“nationalism” and “patriotism”. According to Organiser dated May 26,
2002:
The post-September Eleven world is a
different place to live. People all over the world are growingly becoming more
and more nationalistic and patriotic…The recent presidential elections in
France have clearly indicated the large amount of support that has come to
exist for ultra nationalist Jean Marie Le Pen. Although he was defeated in the
elections, according to reports in world media, he was successful in getting
almost 6 million votes, which is no small success keeping in view the hate
campaign that was run against him in the liberal and left establishment and in
media. And these are not the only leaders and parties who have gained due to
the resurgence of sentiments of nationalism in their respective countries.
Other countries of significance like
Germany are also witnessing a similar political phenomenon. The rise of Ronald
Schill has chilled many communist sympathisers. Austria has a coalition
government in which the ultra-nationalist Freedom Party of Jorg Haider is a
partner.
RSS rolls out racist
project of producing ‘Aryan’ babies in India
According to RSS, Nazism is to be
followed not only for cleansing of Muslims and Christians but also for
producing the ‘Aryan’ babies as was done in Germany under Hitler. RSS has
officially shared the information that one of its offshoots, Garbh Vigyan
Sanskar (Uterus Science Culture), following the Vedic preaching and experiments
in Germany, is conducting live trials in many parts of India for producing
‘fair’ and ‘tall’, ‘customized’ perfect babies. According to Dr. Hitesh Jani,
convener of the Arogya Bharati (health wing), another outfit of RSS
which is part of the project,
Parents apparently have small, dark
babies because they are impure, but purification is fortunately a simple,
protocol-driven process tied to the lunar calendar. Prospective parents should
copulate by astrological schedule and watch what they ingest, hear and think.
Thus they will clean up the chromosomes in their gametes, and the original sin
tattering the telomeres.
Speaking to a prominent English
daily of India, the top office-bearers associated with this “top-priority”
project of the 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.
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 whole-timer for over
30 years and national organising secretary of the Arogya Bharati,
said that apart from a university in Jamnagar (Gujarat), two other institutions
have incorporated Garbh Vigyan Sanskar in their curriculum: Children
University in Gandhinagar and Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University in Bhopal,
all in India.
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 counseling sessions
were held in Delhi, Mumbai, and smaller cities such as Udupi (Karnataka),
Kasaragod (Kerala), Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh), Kolkata (West
Bengal), Rohtak and Gurgaon (Haryana). The RSS was hopeful that by 2020 to have
thousands of ideal infants on the production line.
This RSS love for a Race which is of
“fair” complexion is part of its ideological legacy that Indians are Aryans;
fair, tall, honourable, respectable and noble who speak Sanskrit language. RSS
stands for the Aryan supremacy and believes that only Hindu Brahmins of North
India are from that stock. We will discuss this issue in detail later.
The RSS belief of the Aryan superiority
has been borrowed from Hitler and his Nazi Party of Germany. According to the
website of the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum, Adolf Hitler even before
becoming chancellor of Germany was obsessed with the ideas about superiority of
the Aryan Race. He believed in the 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 state ideology and were propagated publicly
through posters, on the radio, in movies, in classrooms, and in the 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.
In fact, the present project of the
RSS aimed at producing ‘fair’ and ‘tall’ customized 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 the
“Lebensborn” under the direct supervision of the 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.
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 the 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
Christians who were not “Aryans”..However, these will not be only Muslims and
Christians who will face the Hindutva scientists and lynching mobs but also
most of the South Indians who have already been declared as “Black”.
RSS’ hatred
for democratic-secular India
The RSS, contrary to the principles
of democracy, constantly demanded India to be ruled under a totalitarian
regime. Golwalkar while delivering a speech before the 1350 top level cadres of
the RSS in 1940 declared,
RSS
inspired by one flag [saffron], one leader and one ideology is lighting the
flame of Hindutva in each and every corner of this great land.
This slogan of one flag, one leader
and one ideology was directly borrowed from the programmes of Nazi and Fascist
parties of Europe.
The English organ of the RSS, Organiser,
on the very eve of Independence (August 14, 1947) editorially chalked out its
concept of the Hindu nation in the following words:
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.
RSS worships arms while
claiming to be a cultural-religious organization
RSS
claims to be a cultural organization and the largest organization of the Hindus
of the world. But it is the only cultural-religious organization on this earth
which worships armaments as a Hindu festival. The RSS was founded on Dussehra
(Vijay Dashmi; festival celebrated as the day of victory of God Ram over
Ravana). On this day the RSS holds its biggest programme of the year which is
also celebration of its founding day. The most important part of the
celebration is the ''shastr pooja" (worship of the arms) by the Supremo of
the RSS. This ''shastr pooja" has never been skipped, last time it was
done by Mohan Bhagat on October 8, 2019. RSS true to its Fascist heritage has
turned it into a Hindu festival.
This
brazen show of love for arms by the RSS was, shockingly, borrowed by Narendra
Modi when he was chief minister of Gujarat. He began ''shastr pooja" as an
official function of the state coinciding with the RSS worshipping of the arms
on Dussehra. It was first time in the history of democratic-secular India that
one of the highest constitutional functionaries of India was worshipping arms
and not the Constitution of India. The photos of Modi's ''shastr pooja"
which were officially released were quite unnerving. There are no records to
show that even Hitler and Mussolini indulged in such shows of love for arms.
Worship of arms continues despite strong
protests from the civil society. Prakash Ambedkar, grandson of BR Ambedkar
echoed the concern in the following words:
We have an Arms Act in the country
which prevents anyone from possessing weapons. The RSS people are found
possessing weapons. Photographs of Bhagwat and (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi
with weapons like AK 47, multi-firing guns, shoulder to fire rockets etc have
been published. I have asked the government to explain why no action is being
taken against him.
Call
to assassinate Congress leaders, Muslims and Christians declared dacoits
Ramchandra Guha relying on the
intelligence reports wrote that on December 6, 1947, Golwalkar convened a
meeting of RSS workers in the town of Govardhan (Mathura), not far from Delhi.
The issue discussed was
how to ‘assassinate the leading
persons of the Congress in order to terrorise the public and to get their hold
over them’…Two days later, Golwalkar addressed a crowd of several thousand
volunteers at the Rohtak Road Camp in Delhi. The police reporter in attendance
wrote that the RSS leader said that ‘the Sangh will not rest content until it
had finished Pakistan. If anyone stood in our way we will have to finish them
too, whether it was Nehru Government or any other Government...’ Referring to Muslims,
he said that no power on earth could keep them in Hindustan. They should have
to quit this country... ‘If they were made to stay here the responsibility
would be the Government’s and the Hindu community would not be responsible.
Mahatma Gandhi could not mislead them any longer. We have the means whereby
[our] opponents could be immediately silenced’.
Six weeks later, Gandhi was
assassinated, and Golwalkar and his colleagues put in jail. Released a year
later on a bond of good behaviour, they retained a dogged commitment to their
ideas. Golwalkar himself argued that “in this land Hindus have been the owners,
Parsis and Jews the guests, and Muslims and Christians the dacoits’.
Golwalkar
planned massacre of Muslims on the eve of Indian Independence
So RSS under Golwalkar was committed
to the cleansing of Muslims from India. He was personally involved in this evil
project as was corroborated by the first home secretary of Uttar Pradesh,
Rajeshwar Dayal, and a senior bureaucrat in his autobiography.
I must record an episode of a very
grave nature when the procrastination and indecision of the UP Cabinet led to
dire consequences. When communal tension was still at fever pitch, the Deputy
Inspector General of Police of the Western Range, a very seasoned and capable
officer, B. B. L. Jaitley, arrived at my house in great secrecy. He was
accompanied by two of his officers who brought with them two large steel trunks
securely locked. When the trunks were opened, they revealed incontrovertible
evidence of a dastardly conspiracy to create a communal holocaust throughout
the Western districts of the province. The trunks were crammed with blueprints
of great accuracy and professionalism of every town and village in that vast
area, prominently marking out the Muslim localities and habitations. There were
also detailed instructions regarding access to the various locations, and other
matters which amply revealed the sinister purport.
Greatly alarmed by those
revelations, I immediately took the
police party to the Premier’s [Govind Vallabh Pant of the INC] house. There, in
a closed room, Jaitley gave a full report of his discovery, backed by all the
evidence contained in the steel trunks. Timely raids conducted on the premises
of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) had brought the massive conspiracy to
light. The whole plot had been concerted under the direction and supervision of
the Supremo of the organization
[Golwalkar] himself.
Of course, Pant an RSS mole in the
Congress party took no action despite Golwalkar present in the area. He was
never charged for this attempt to massacre Muslims.
The heinous justification
for killing a Muslim girl by a senior RSS leader during the Partition violence
How
RSS cadres were experimenting with newer forms of murder on the eve of India's
Partition can be known from the following first person account of a
perpetrator. It is from autobiography of a senior RSS pracharak (preacher or
whole-timer), Krishna Gopal Rastogi titled, Aap Beeti [autobiography]. While describing an incident in which he
personally led a mob of armed Hindus against Muslims in Kaliar town situated
between Roorkee and Haridwar went on to state without any remorse how he did
not spare even a young Muslim girl. According
to Rastogi’s heart-chilling version:
It was an old locality inhabited by
the Muslims. They, armed with daggers, spears, guns were fully prepared to meet
any situation. When I learnt of their intentions to attack some Hindu areas, I
organized 250 people including some known gangsters and raided Kaliar. Then a
strange thing happened. While we had been killing men in one of the houses, we
spotted a very beautiful young girl. The assailants led by me were instantly
enamoured. They even started fighting among themselves to take possession of
the girl. I faced an extremely awkward situation and did not know what to do. I
tried my best to get the assailants to focus on real issues. I abused and
threatened them but they would not listen to me. And suddenly the solution
came. The girl was after all causing this trouble and had to be eliminated. I
took my gun and shot her. She died. My associates were shocked and returned to
the work. Though it was against our principle to assault a woman, but it was
done in an emergency and I still regret it."
Even
Sardar Patel, the first home minister of India abhorred massacre of Muslims during
the Partition by the RSS
It is well-known that the then Home
Minister of India, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, had a soft-corner for the RSS and
continues to be a favourite with the RSS. However even Sardar Patel found it
difficult to defend the RSS for its role in the post-Partition massacre of
Muslims. In a letter written to Golwalkar (the then Supremo of the RSS), dated
11 September 1948, Sardar Patel stated:
Organizing
the Hindus and helping them is one thing but going in for revenge for its
sufferings on innocent and helpless men, women and children is quite another
thing…
Highly
decorated Indian Police officer on the RSS terrorism under Modi rule
There are instances of honest senior
officials who had the courage to bring in public domain record RSS’ terrorist
activities. How RSS spread hatred and terrorized minorities of India in less
than a year of Modi first term as the PM (2014-19) of India was described in
detail by one of the most decorated cops of India, Julio Ribeiro, former
ambassador to Romania and recipient of the Padma Bhushan, a prominent national
award in the following words. Petrified as a Christian, he wrote on March 17,
2015:
Today, in my 86th year, I feel
threatened, not wanted, reduced to a stranger in my own country. The same
category of citizens who had put their trust in me to rescue them from a force
they could not comprehend have now come out of the woodwork to condemn me for
practising a religion that is different from theirs. I am not an Indian
anymore, at least in the eyes of the proponents of the Hindu Rashtra.
Is it coincidence or a
well-thought-out plan that the systematic targeting of a small and peaceful
community should begin only after the BJP government of Narendra Modi came to
power last May? ‘Ghar wapsi’, the declaration of Christmas as ‘Good Governance
Day’, the attack on Christian churches and schools in Delhi, all added to a
sense of siege that now afflicts these peaceful people.
Christians have consistently punched
above their weight — not as much as the tiny Parsi community, but just as
noticeably. Education, in particular, has been their forte. Many schools,
colleges, related establishments that teach skills for jobs have been set up
and run by Christians. They are much in demand. Even diehard Hindus have sought
admission in such centres of learning and benefited from the commitment and
sincerity of Christian teachers. Incidentally, no one seems to have been
converted to Christianity, though many, many have imbibed Christian values and
turned ‘pseudo-secularist’.
The Indian army was headed by a
Christian general, the navy more than once, and same with the air force. The
country’s defence forces have countless men and women in uniform who are
Christians. How can they be declared non-Indians by Parivar hotheads out to
create a pure Hindu Rashtra?
It is tragic that these extremists
have been emboldened beyond permissible limits by an atmosphere of hate and
distrust. The Christian population, a mere 2 per cent of the total populace,
has been subjected to a series of well-directed body blows. If these extremists
later turn their attention to Muslims, which seems to be their goal, they will
invite consequences that this writer dreads to imagine.
What happened to the Gujarati
Muslims when Golwalkar’s favourite RSS student, Modi ruled the state would be
clear from the following words of an editorial in a prominent English daily of
India, Hindustan Times,
Daughters were gang-raped in front
of their fathers and then had their heads bashed in. Their fathers were doused
with petrol and set on fire. Their property was looted. Their businesses were
destroyed. And the police stood by and did nothing.
For
RSS Indian Muslims & Christians are ‘internal threat’ number one & two
respectively
In fact, 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 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.
While treating Muslims as ‘Internal
Threat’ number one, Golwalkar 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.
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…
According to him every Muslim in
India is untrustworthy and disloyal,
Even today, Muslims, whether in high
positions of the Government or outside, participate openly in rabidly
anti-national conferences.
While deliberating on the ‘Internal
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.
This book from the Guru of Hate,
Golwalkar denigrates the Indian Constitution, concept of equality, justice and
the Tricolour; the national flag. These offences attract at least 50 Indian
Penal Code charges but this poisonous book continues to be sold in all Indian
languages and remains best-seller for RSS.
Golwalkar’s
lie on cow-slaughter paved the way for lynching of Muslims
With Modi’s coming to power as PM in
2014 RSS zealots started lynching Muslims for cow-slaughter, apart from burning
and looting their properties. There have been hundreds of such cases and
continue to happen. A leading RSS cadre who also happened to be the chief
minister of State of Haryana, Manohar Lal Khattar declared:
Muslim rahein, magar is desh mein
beef khaana chhodna hi hoga unko. Yahan ki manyata hai gau (Muslims can continue to live in this country, but they
will have to give up eating beef. The cow is an article of faith here).
So with the beginning of the Modi
rule in 2014, RSS added one more condition for the Indian Muslims to stay in
India. The ideological basis for these series of lynching was provided by the
RSS Guru Golwalkar, who as a shameless liar declared that cow-slaughter,
Began with the coming of foreign
invaders to our country. In order to reduce the population to slavery, they
thought that the best method to be adapted was to stamp out every vestige of
self-respect in Hindus…In that line cow slaughter also began.
The inference was clear; Muslims
were responsible for starting the cow-slaughter in India. It was immaterial to
this Indian heir of Nazi propagandist Paul Joseph Goebbels that the claim that
beef-eating started with the arrival of the Muslims in India was not even in
keeping with the Vedic version of history as narrated by the ‘Hindu’
chroniclers. Swami Vivekananda regarded as a great Hindu philosopher by the
RSS, while addressing a meeting at the Shakespeare Club, Pasadena, California,
USA (February 2, 1900) on the theme of ‘Buddhistic India’ told the gathering:
You
will be astonished if I tell you that, according to old ceremonials, he is not
a good Hindu who does not eat beef. On certain occasions he must sacrifice a
bull and eat it.
At another occasion he went on to
disclose,
There was a time in this very India
when, without eating beef, no Brahmin could remain a Brahmin; you read in the
Vedas how, when a Sannyasin, a king, or a great man came into a house, the best
bullock was killed; how in time it was found that as we were an agricultural
race, killing the best bulls meant annihilation of the race. Therefore the
practice was stopped, and a voice was raised against the killing of cows.
This fact was corroborated by the
other research works sponsored by the Ramakrishna Mission established by
Vivekananda. According to C. Kunhan Raja, a prominent authority on the
history and culture of the Vedic period:
The Vedic Aryans, including the
Brahmanas, ate fish, meat and even beef. A distinguished guest was honoured
with beef served at a meal. Although the Vedic Aryans ate beef, milch cows were
not killed. One of the words that designated cow was aghnya (what shall not be
killed). But a guest was a goghna (one for whom a cow is killed). It is only
bulls, barren cows and calves that were killed.
Dr. BR Ambedkar, one of the greatest
researcher and authority on the Indian politics, religions and culture produced
a brilliant essay on the subject titled ‘Did the Hindus Never Eat Beef?’
Dr. Ambedkar after studying a large
number of Vedic and Hindu scriptures arrived at the conclusion that,
when the learned Brahmins argue that
the Hindus not only never ate beef but they always held the cow to be sacred
and were always opposed to the killing of the cow, it is impossible to accept
their view.
Ambedkar concluded his essay with
the following words:
With this evidence no one can doubt
that there was a time when Hindus, both Brahmins and non-Brahmins, ate not only
flesh but also beef.
The violence unleashed by the
Hindutva cadres on vulnerable sections of Indians also underscores hypocrisy as
an integral trait of the RSS. In fact, to say that it indulged in double/triple
speak would be an understatement in its case. The RSS cadres are killing
indiscreetly poor Indians, not only for slaughtering cows but for even
transporting these animals. At the same time the RSS-BJP are ruling States of
Goa, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal and Manipur where cow slaughter is
legal and beef is staple diet.
As was expected RSS chief, Mohan
Bhagwat remained in denial mode about lynching. While addressing the annual
gathering of the RSS at its headquarters on October 8, 2019. He declared that
lynching was a “western construct” and should not be used in the Indian context
to defame the country. According to him,
Lynching is not the word from Indian
ethos, its origin is from a story in a separate religious text. We Indians
trust in brotherhood. Don’t impose such terms on Indians.
It was natural that Supremo of RSS
would come forward to dilute the issue which he attempted in his recent annual
address at RSS headquarters on Dussehra (October 8, 2019). He went on to
declare,
Nowadays, there have been reports
that members of a community in our society have been attacked by another
community, making them victims of social violence. Such incidents have not been
one-sided. There are reports of incidents happening from both sides and
allegations and counter-allegations. It has also come to light that some
incidents have been deliberately fabricated while some others have been
published in a distorted manner.
It may be noted that few years back
when there was a spurt of rape cases in India same Bhagwat had declared rapes
as foreign!
Will
Taj Mahal meet the fate of the mosque at Ayodhya?
One of the Greatest Wonders of the
World, the only one being in India, Taj Mahal becomes the newest target of the
Hindutva killer/demolition squads during PM Modi’s government. This monument
was ordered to be built by Mughal king Shahab-ud-din Muhammad Khurram known as
Shahjahan (1592-1666) in the memory of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
A Hindutva icon from the western Uttar
Pradesh and a fire-spitting RSS cadre, Sangeet Som after inaugurating a statue
of 8th century Hindu king Anangpal Singh Tomar at Sisauli village near Meerut
(October 16, 2017) was once again in top gear while denigrating Muslims and
Islam. However, it was not from his earlier repository of hate like cow, love
jihad, ghar wapsi etc. etc. On this occasion he chose a new theme. It was Taj
Mahal being attacked as part of the Hindutva polarizing agenda.
According to press reports Som in
this speech told the gathering:
Many people were pained to see that
the Taj Mahal had been removed from the list of historical places, what
history, history of which place, which history. The person who made Taj Mahal
[Shahjahan] imprisoned his father, he targeted the Hindus of Uttar Pradesh and
India. If these people still find place in history, then it is very unfortunate
and I guarantee that history will be changed.
Som continuing his diatribe said
In the past few years, there have
been attempts to distort history in India and Uttar Pradesh. Today, the
governments of India and UP are working to bring that history on the correct
path, from the history of Ram to Krishna, Maharana Pratap to Shivaji Rao, they
are trying to incorporate them in the books. And the blots which are in our
books be it of Akbar, Aurangzeb, Babur, the government is working to remove
them from history.
RSS
zealot's hilarious sense of ‘History’
This Hindutva sermon on the Indian
history was atrocious as well as hilarious so far as facts were concerned which
matter least for the RSS zealots. One could see the clear imprint of RSS
‘boudhik’ (intellectual) training which produces such intellectuals. Shahjahan
becomes Aurangzeb! Shah Jahan, who got Taj Mahal built in the memory of his
wife Mumtaz Mahal, was told to be the one who jailed his father. On the
contrary it was Shahjahan who was imprisoned by his son Aurangzeb till former’s
death. But so far as aim of communal polarization was concerned there was no
confusion in his diatribe.
Som a beloved of RSS is a seasoned
religious bigot. He was implicated for his provocative statements in the
Muzaffanagar riots of 2013 that claimed at least 60 lives and displaced 50,000
people. The Justice Vishnu Sahai Commission report on Muzaffanagar riots named
him among the people responsible for inciting the riots. In the last UP
assembly elections he was also charged with instigating communal hatred after
his supporters screened a documentary that allegedly polarized voters. This
RSS-BJP leader was also accused of stoking communal tensions in Dadri’s Bisada
village after the 2015 mob lynching of Mohammed Ikhlaq.
It was in recognition for such
prominent services to the cause of Hindutva politics that he was felicitated
with awards like Hindu Hriday Samrat and Mahathakur Sangharsh Veer
by ‘Hindu’ organizations. His prominence in the Hindutva hierarchy can be
gauged by the fact that instead of being behind bars he was provided Z-category
security by the RSS-BJP government.
It is true that a section of the BJP
leaders did half-heartedly express difference with Som’s opinion but took care
that their response did not hurt this perpetrator of the hate. The then UP
tourism minister Rita Bahuguna Joshi made it clear that the Taj was part of our
heritage. But when asked directly about Som’s denigration instead of condemning
the hate campaign against the Taj Mahal she simply said,
Well,
every individual is free to make an opinion but as far as the government is
concerned Taj is very much on our priority list.
There is no doubt that Som’s
diatribe was neither an exception nor an aberration. He was religiously
expressing the RSS-BJP point of view on the monument. In June 2017 chief
minister Yogi Adityanath had no hesitation in declaring that “the Ramayana and
the Gita represent Indian culture and not the Taj Mahal.” He went on to
emphasize that the ivory-white marble mausoleum did not represent “Indian
culture”.
How the RSS-BJP intends to use the
issue of Taj Mahal for its polarizing agenda can be known by the statement of
another seasoned RSS-BJP leader, Vinay Katiyar, BJP Rajya Sabha MP which he
made 2 days after Som’s venom spitting against Taj Mahal. According to him Taj
Mahal was built by Mughal emperor Shahjahan after demolishing a Hindu temple
dedicated to Shiva called Tejomahal. It is to be
noted that Katiyar is facing criminal charges for being a facilitator of the
demolition of Babri mosque on December 6, 1992 at Ayodhya.
It was no different with the BJP
national spokesperson and a senior RSS cadre, G V L Rao who though expressed
difference with Som but treated Taj Mahal as a heritage of the killer and
barbaric Islamic rule as Som had done. He declared
As a party, we do not have a view on
any individual monuments. But, broadly speaking, the period of Islamic
rule—around 800 years—was a period of extreme exploitation, insane barbarism
and unprecedented intolerance to the other faith. If anyone tries to gloss over
these facts, it will be actually distorting history. It is well documented by
historians of world stature that Muslim invasion and its rule represented the
most oppressive and regressive world over.
The RSS hatred for the Taj Mahal, a
great example of the Mughal architecture which is a symbol of India in the world
never gets abated, on the contrary, this hatred is preached brazenly in the
highest echelons of the corridors of power. As late as third week of September
2020, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath once again reiterated
that the monument could not be India’s icon and “How can our heroes be
Mughals?”
Three
ways Taj Mahal can be harmed
There is real danger to the safety
and existence of Taj Mahal. The rulers having allegiance to the RSS cannot be
trusted despite all kinds of assurances. India has not forgotten how Hindutva
bandwagon especially RSS cheated and reneged on the Babri mosque despite having
given assurances to the Supreme Court, Indian Parliament and the then PM of
India, Narsimha Rao that the mosque would not be harmed. There can be 3 kinds
of immediate dangers to the Taj Mahal.
1. Mobs may be allowed
to damage/destroy Taj Mahal for being a symbol of the Islamic repressive rule
as was done on December 6, 1992 or in 2006-7 in Kandhmal against Churches and
seminaries of ‘anti-national’ Christians. It may be noted that many ‘Hindu’
historians/intellectuals have been claiming that Taj Mahal was a temple.
2. Taj Mahal is
damaged/destroyed using a fake Islamist group or conspiring with some Islamist
group claiming that mausoleum like Taj Mahal is not allowed in Islam. It may be
noted here that RSS relies on conspiracies for achieving its objects. Dr.
Rajendra Prasad who rose to be the first President of the Indian Republic
warned even first home minister of India, Sardar Patel on this aspect of the
functioning of the RSS which we will discuss later in the book.
3. Even if Taj Mahal is
not demolished its beauty and gorgeousness for which the Taj Mahal is known can
be damaged permanently by the conspiratorial use of sub-standard and harmful
chemicals for cleaning. This can be done through experts/consultants committed
to the cleansing of India of the ‘Islamic’ heritage.
In order to check and counter any
such attempt the highest court of justice in India, the Supreme Court, must
take immediate charge of the World Heritage Site as governments both at the
Central level as well as the State level are committed to what creatures like
Yogi Adityanath, Som, GL Rao and Vinay Katiyar have been propagating. The UNO,
especially UNESCO must monitor the situation to save the Taj Mahal.
Sikhism,
Jainism, and Buddhism not independent religions
RSS regards followers of Islam and
Christianity as emigrant or foreigners and demands their cleansing as these two
religions are declared to be foreign religions. However, RSS has no respect for
Indian religions like Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism as these are not treated as
independent religions but part of Hinduism. Guru Golwalkar set the agenda by
declaring that, “the Buddhists, the Jain, the Sikh are all included in that one
comprehensive word ‘Hindu’.”
In fact, Golwalkar learnt this
denial to Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism the status of independent religions
from senior Hindutva icon, Savarkar who believed that the followers of,
Vaidicism, Sanatanism, Jainism,
Buddism, Lingaitism, Shikhism, the Arya Samaji, the Brahmasamaj, the Devasamaj,
the Prarthana Samaji and such other religions of Indian origin are Hindus and
constitute Hindudom, i.e., the Hindu people as a whole.
Prominent
RSS ideologue Nana Deshmukh who justified 1984 Massacre of Sikhs conferred
highest state award by the Modi government
RSS claims to have always stood for
the Hindu-Sikh unity. It occasionally expresses its gratitude to Sikhism for
saving Hinduism from the Muslim aggression. However, it may not be irrelevant
to note here that RSS does not treat Sikhism as independent religion which
discarded Casteism and Brahmanical hegemony but part of the Hinduism. The
RSS-BJP leaders have been blaming the Congress Party for the 1984 Sikh massacre
which is true but the role of the RSS has not been much different. The perusal
of the contemporary RSS documents show that major focus was on condemning the
Sikh extremism, eulogizing Indira Gandhi and welcoming the crowning of Rajiv Gandhi
as new prime minister.
The most shocking proof of such a
dehumanized attitude towards the massacre of Sikhs is a document circulated by
Nana Deshmukh, a prominent whole timer and ideologue of the RSS [now deceased].
This document titled as ‘Moments of soul searching’ was circulated by Deshmukh
on November 8, 1984, may help in unmasking the whole lot of criminals involved
in the massacre of innocent Sikhs who had nothing to do with the killing of the
then Indian prime minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi.
This document may also throw light on where the cadres came from, who
meticulously organized the killing of Sikhs. Nana Deshmukh in this document is
seen outlining the justification of the massacre of the Sikh community in 1984.
1.
The massacre of Sikhs was not the handiwork of any group or anti-social
elements but the result of a genuine feeling of anger.
2. Deshmukh did
not distinguish the action of the two security personnel of Indira Gandhi, who
happened to be Sikhs, from that of the whole Sikh community. According to his
document the killers of Indira Gandhi were working under some kind of mandate
of their community.
3. Sikhs themselves
invited these attacks, thus advancing the Congress theory of justifying the
massacre of the Sikhs.
4. He glorified
the Operation Blue Star and described any opposition to it as
anti-national. When Sikhs were being killed in thousands he was warning the
country of Sikh extremism, thus offering ideological defense of those killings.
5. Sikh community
as a whole was responsible for the violence in Punjab.
6. Sikhs should
have done nothing in self-defence but showed patience and tolerance against the
killer mobs.
7. These were Sikh
intellectuals and not killer mobs which were responsible for the massacre. They
had turned Sikhs into a militant community, cutting them off from their Hindu
roots, thus inviting attacks from the nationalist Indians. Moreover, he treated
all Sikhs as part of the same gang and described attacks on them as a reaction
of the nationalist Hindus.
8. He described Indira
Gandhi as the only leader who could keep the country united and assassination
of such a great leader such killings could not be avoided.
9. There was not a
single sentence in the Deshmukh document demanding, from the then Congress
Government at the Centre or the then home minister Narsimha Rao (a Congress
leader dear to the RSS who later silently watched the demolition of the Babri
mosque by the Hindutva goons as prime minister of India in 1992) remedial
measures for controlling the violence against the minority community. Mind it,
that Deshmukh circulated this document on November 8, 1984, and from October 31
to this date Sikhs were left alone to face the killing gangs. In fact November
5-10 was the period when the maximum killings of Sikhs took place. Deshmukh was
just not bothered about all this.
10. It is generally believed that the
Congress cadres were behind this genocide. This may be true but there were
other forces too which actively participated in this massacre and whose role
has never been investigated. It could be one of the reasons that actual
perpetrators remain unknown. Those who witnessed the genocide were stunned by
the swiftness and military precision of the killer/marauding gangs (later on
witnessed during the Babri mosque demolition, burning alive of Dr. Graham
Steins with his two sons, 2002 pogrom of the Muslims in Gujarat and cleansing
of Christians in parts of Orissa) which went on a burning spree of the innocent
Sikhs. This, surely, was beyond the capacity of the thugs led by many Congress
leaders.
Nana
Deshmukh awarded ‘Bharat Ratna’ (the Jewel of India), the highest national
award
As if it was not enough injustice to
the martyrs and survivors of the 1984 massacre, on the eve of the 2019 Republic
Day RSS-BJP rulers of India, bestowed the highest national award Bharat
Ratna (the gem of India) on Nana Deshmukh. Indian Prime Minister Modi
praising Deshmukh said,
He
personifies humility, compassion, and service to the downtrodden. He is a
Bharat Ratna in the truest sense.
RSS
wants all references of 1984 Sikh massacre dropped from the textbooks
The RSS wants the nation to forget
the 1984 Sikh massacre. The senior RSS ideologue, Dina Nath Batra on behalf of
the RSS-affiliated Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas demanded that any reference to
violence against minorities in the text-books should be removed which included
references to a simple apology tendered by the former PM Manmohan Singh over
1984 violence. Singh offering the apology in Parliament on August 12, 2005, had
stated:
I have no hesitation in apologizing
to the Sikh community. I apologize not only to the Sikh community, but to the whole
Indian nation because what took place in 1984 is the negation of the concept of
nationhood enshrined in our Constitution.
Shockingly, even such a simple
apology was not acceptable to the RSS.
RSS linkages with international Fascist organisations
Report
in the New York Times
The world has not bothered to take
any notice of a new terrorist network developing fast in India and its
neighbourhood between RSS and the two ultra nationalist Buddhist groups of
Myanmar and Sri Lanka against minorities (Muslims and Christian) in the region.
In a startling and focused disclosure The International New York Times (October
16, 2014) in an editorial titled ‘Deadly alliances against Muslims’ wrote:
On his 79th birthday in July, the
Dalai Lama appealed to Buddhist extremist groups in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to
stop instigating attacks against Muslim minorities that have killed scores.
Instead, in an affront to Buddhism’s core message of compassion, leaders of
those groups announced an alliance to make common cause against Muslims.
The time has come to ally
internationally,’ Galagodaththe Gnanasara, the leader of the radical Sri Lankan
Buddhist group Bodu Bala Sena, announced at a convention held in Colombo last
month. The guest of honor was Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist radical whose picture
Time magazine put on its July 1 covers as ‘The Face of Buddhist Terror. The
government of Prime Minister Mahindra Rajapaksa ignored pleas by Sri Lankan
Muslim and Christian civil groups, fearful of more anti-Muslim violence in
their country, to deny Mr. Wirathu a visa. Granting Mr. Wirathu a visa can only
reinforce the fears of many Muslims that the government—and perhaps more
powerful regional allies—back Bodu Bala Sena, which translates as Buddhist
Power Force.
Last week, Mr. Gnanasara claimed he
was in discussions ‘at a high level’ with the right-wing Indian Hindu group
Rashtriya Swayam Sevak to form what he called a ‘Hindu-Buddhist peace zone’ in
South Asia. A Rashtriya Swayam Sevak spokesman, Ram Madhav, promptly denied
that there were any such discussions. But Mr. Madhav, now general secretary of
India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party, has written comments sympathetic to
Bodu Bala Sena and Mr. Wirathu’s group 969 in Myanmar on his Facebook and
Twitter accounts.
It is folly for the governments of
Mr. Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka, President Thein Sein of Myanmar and Prime Minister
Narendra Modi in India, or their political allies, to give even the appearance
of tolerating these Islamophobic groups in a region that has too often been convulsed
by religious sectarian violence. They should condemn this mad alliance before
it can spread further.
Neo-Nazi
mass murderer of Norway, Breivik’s linkages with the RSS
Gnanasara’s revelation that
ultra-orthodox Buddhists in South Asia were entering into deadly alliances with
RSS for cleansing minorities in the region was not first of its kind. Neo-Nazi
mass murderer of Norway, Anders Behring Breivik, glorified Indian ‘Hindu
Nationalists'.
He opened Pandora’s Box when declared “Hindu Nationalist” movement of India as
a key ally in a global struggle to bring down democratic regimes across the
world. Just before he went to massacre a large number of people in Norway he
released a “manifesto” of 1,518 pages, of which 102 pages dealt with the
glorification of Hindutva movement of India. It declared support to “Sanatana
Dharma movements and Indian nationalists in general.”
This manifesto also laid down a plan
of co-operation between Neo-Nazi movements of Europe and “Hindu Nationalist”
organizations of India. It said that it was essential that these two “learn
from each other and cooperate as much as possible” as “Our goals are more or
less identical.” This manifesto specially mentioned the name of the fountain
head of the Hindutva politics like RSS and its subsidiaries like BJP (political
wing of the RSS), ABVP (student wing of the RSS) and VHP (RSS wing to bring the
world under Hindutva hegemony) in this regard.
Importantly, the manifesto pledged military support “to the nationalists in the
Indian civil war and in the deportation of all Muslims from India” as part of a
larger campaign to “overthrow of all western European multi-culturalist
governments.
In the light of these facts it can
be assumed that RSS is gradually working to build an international terrorist
network to spread and execute its politics of hatred against Muslims,
Christians and liberal elements. Its goal of cleansing minorities is being globalized
with very serious repercussions for the region and the world.
Even
Father of the nation, MK Gandhi not spared
Hindu Mahasabha and RSS were jointly
responsible for the murder of Father of the Nation, MK Gandhi, was corroborated
by Sardar Patel in a letter to a prominent leader of Hindu Mahasabha, Syama
Prasad Mookerjee. On July 18, 1948 Sardar wrote:
As regards the RSS and the Hindu
Mahasabha, the case relating to Gandhiji’s murder is sub judice and I should
not like to say anything about the participation of the two organizations, but
our reports do confirm that, as a result of the activities of these two bodies,
particularly the former, an atmosphere was created in the country in which such
a ghastly tragedy became possible. There is no doubt in my mind that the
extreme section of the Hindu Mahasabha was involved in the conspiracy. The
activities of the RSS constituted a clear threat to the existence of Government
and the State. Our reports show that those activities, despite the ban, have
not died down. Indeed, as time has marched on, the RSS circles are becoming
more defiant and are indulging in their subversive activities in an increasing
measure.
Celebration
of the assassination of Gandhi as ‘Vadh’ (slaying) of a demon at the
altar of the Hindu Rashtra
After the Modi Government came to
power in 2014, the RSS-BJP leaders have been demanding national recognition, as
freedom fighters, for the killers of Gandhiji. Temples have been coming up with
the idols of Nathuram Vinayak Godse who was the main killer of Gandhi. The Hindutva
organisations have been celebrating the killing of Gandhiji as the ‘vadh’
of a demon at the altar of Hindu Rashtra. It is to be noted that
Nathuram Godse and others who conspired to kill M.K. Gandhiji, claimed to be
‘Hindu Nationalists’. Sakshi Maharaj,
Pragya Thakur, Usha Thakur declared Godse as the greatest patriot.
BJP
IT-cell in-charge calls for auction of Gandhi's murderer Godse’s revolver to
prove his popularity
Vicky Mittal, BJP IT-Cell Indore
in-charge demanded that in order to decide who is more popular in India,
whether Gandhi or Godse, “once put on sale respected Godse’s pistol you would
know whether he was a terrorist or a patriot?”. He seemed to be sure that
Godse, the killer of Gandhi would win hands down!
His FB page appears with an intimate photograph of his with PM Modi.
If you believe that all this is
happening without the knowledge of the RSS/BJP’s top leadership, you are
grossly mistaken. A prominent Hindutva organisation, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti
(HJS), allied to the RSS, has been regularly holding national conventions for
‘Establishment of a Hindu Nation’ in India. In June 2013 (6-10) one such
convention was held in Goa. It is to be noted that members of one avatar of the
HJS, Sanatan Sanstha, have been found indulging in bomb blasts at Muslim
institutions and are under investigation for the murder of renowned
intellectuals like Govind Pansare and Narendra Dabholkar, MM Kalburgi and Gauri
Lankesh. This convention started its proceedings with a felicitation message
from the then chief minister of Gujarat, Narendrabhai Modi wishing the HJS all
success in its project of turning India into a Hindu Nation.
Shockingly, from the same dais in this convention from where Modi’s
felicitation message was read, one of the prominent speakers, K.V. Sitaramiah,
declared on June 10, 2013 that Gandhi was ‘terrible, wicked and most sinful’.
Rejoicing at the killing of M.K. Gandhi, he went on to declare,
As Bhagwan Shri Krishna said in the
Gita, Paritranaya Sadhunam Vinashaya Cha Dush-kritam/
Dharamasansthapnaya-Sambhavami-Yuge-Yuge (For the protection of the good, for
the destruction of the wicked and for the establishment of righteousness, I am
born in every age) on...30th January 1948 evening, Shri Ram came in the form of
Nathuram Godse and ended the life of Gandhi.
The report of this speech was
deleted from the website of the HJS,
but it is available on the website of US-based “Forum for Hindu Awakening”. It only shows how RSS cadres in USA are
misusing right to freedom of speech for spreading hatred.
RSS as a North Indian high Caste
Oligarchy
Those who believe that RSS wants
cleansing of Muslims and Christians only know half of the reality. Its project
of Hindu nation demands sub-human existence for Sudras (Dalits) and Hindu
women. In fact, RSS wanted this Constitution to be replaced by Manusmriti or
Manu Code (laws of Manu) that is notorious for its derogatory and inhuman
references to Sudras, Untouchables and women. The Constituent Assembly of India
finalized the Constitution of India on November 26, 1949, RSS was not happy.
Its organ, Organiser 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.
By demanding promulgation of Manu
Code in the Independent India RSS was simply following its mentor, philosopher
and guide VD Savarkar who declared:
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.
For
RSS Casteism is synonymous with Hindu nation
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 none
else 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."
What kind of a Hindutva civilization
the RSS and Hindutva camp want 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 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
December 25 as the Manusmriti Dehen Diwas (Manusmriti burning
day) in future. In fact, the Brahmanism as basis of the RSS world-view is the
original Fascism in the history of human civilization.
The story does not end with Manusmriti.
The RSS book stores sell titles like How to lead a Household Life by
Swami Ramsukhdas which openly preach violence against the Hindu women. This
title is part of low priced anti-woman literature published by Geeta Press.
Here is a glimpse from this book which is in the question-answer form and
available in English, Hindi and other regional Indian languages.
Question: What should the wife do if
her husband beats her and troubles her?
Answer: The wife should think that
she is paying her debt of her previous life and thus her sins are being
destroyed and she is becoming pure. When her parents come to know this, they
can take her to their own house because they have not given their daughter
training to face this sort of bad behaviour.
Question: What should she do if her
parents don’t take her to their own house?
Answer: Under such circumstances
what can the helpless wife do? She should reap the fruit of her past actions.
She should patiently bear the beatings of her husband. By bearing them she will
be freed from her sins and it is possible that her husband may start loving her.
There is blatant preaching in favour
of the inhuman Sati as we will see in the following:
Question: Is ‘Sati Pratha’ (viz.,
the tradition of the wife being cremated with the dead body of the husband on
the funeral pyre) proper or improper?
Answer: A wife’s cremation with the
dead body of her husband on the funeral pyre is not a tradition. She, in whose
mind truth and enthusiasm come, burns even without fire and she does not suffer
any pain while she burns. This is not a tradition that she should do so, but
this is her truth, righteousness and faith in scriptural decorum.
RSS
hatred for dark-skinned South Indians
Another important Fascist-Nazi trait
of the RSS is hatred for ‘dark-skinned’ or non-Aryan people. It was not long
ago that a senior RSS ideologue, Tarun Vijay, the former editor of the RSS
Hindi organ, Panchajanya, ex-member of the Indian Parliament who apart
from being in-charge of the RSS project of spreading Hindutva politics in Tamil
Nadu also headed the ‘India-Africa Parliamentary Friendship Group’ reaffirmed
it. Talking to a global news network while denying that Africans nationals were
attacked in India due to Racism, he could not hide the reality that he was a
die-hard Racist. According to him:
If we were racist, why would (we)
have the entire south (India) which is completely… you know Tamil (s), you
(know people from) Kerala, you know Karnataka and people from Andhra. Why do we
live with them? We have black people around us.
He was candid in sharing his belief
learnt at the RSS intellectual forums that White Indians from North of the
country were living with “the black people around us” who inhabited in Tamil
Nadu, 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
message from him was that Aryans of the North were doing a favour to Black
South Indians by allowing the latter to stay with the former.
Golwalkar
on human Crossbreeding in Kerala: Denigrating the Kerala Hindus specially women
RSS which claims to be the largest
world organization of Hindus is, in fact, working over-time to establish the
hegemony of the North Indian Brahmanical over the Hindu society. The RSS brand
of Brahmanism treats South Indian Hindus as inferior racially. In its
world-view North Indian Brahmins are the superior lot in comparison to the
rest.
And RSS does it brazenly. Golwalkar
was invited to address the students of the School of Social Science of Gujarat
University on December 17, 1960. In this address, while underlying his firm
belief in the Race Theory, he touched upon the issue of cross-breeding of human
beings in the Indian society in history. He said:
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 cross-breeding 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 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. Today this experiment will be called
adultery but it was not so, as it was limited to the first child.
The above statement of Golwalkar was highly worrying in many
respects. Firstly, it proved that Golwalkar believed that even in the Hindu
society India had a superior Race or breed and also an inferior Race which
needed to be improved through cross-breeding. Secondly, a more worrying aspect
was his belief that Brahmans of the North (India) and specially Namboodri
Brahamans, belonged to a superior Race. Due to this quality, Namboodri
Brahamanas were sent from the North to Kerala to improve the breed of inferior
Hindus there. Interestingly, this was being argued by a person who claimed to
uphold the honour and unity of the Hindus world over. Thirdly, Golwalkar as a
male chauvinist believed that a Namboodri Brahman male belonging to a superior
Race from the North only could improve the inferior human Race from South. For
him wombs of Kerala’s Hindu women enjoyed no sanctity and were simply objects
of improving breed through intercourse with Namboodri Brahamanas who in no way
were related to them. Thus, Golwalkar was, in fact, confirming the allegation
that in the past male dominated high Caste society forced newly-wedded women of
other castes to pass their first nights by sleeping with superior Caste males.
Shockingly, Golwalkar expressed
these Racist, anti-women and anti-egalitarian views not in the presence of some
uneducated or anti-social elements but before a noble gathering of gentry
consisting of the faculty and students of a prime university in Gujarat. In
fact, Golwalkar was welcomed by Dr. B. R. Shenoy, Director of the School while
he arrived at the auditorium. The press reports make it clear that there was no
murmur of protest against such fascist and ridiculous ideas. It shows the
degree of respectability which high caste oratory enjoyed in Gujarat and
explains why Hindutva could make inroads in this region.
It is also surprising that despite
holding such ideas which openly denigrated women and society of Kerala and
defending the institution of Casteism, RSS has been able to create pockets of
influence in Kerala. There is no denying the fact that after Gujarat and
Orissa, it is Kerala where we find RSS well-entrenched.
Use of conspiracies for terror activities by the RSS
Like any other terrorist outfit RSS
too indulges in conspiracies. The central publication house of the RSS, the Suruchi
Prakashan, has published a book in Hindi, Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par
(The Road to Glory) in 1997 giving details of more than 40 organizations
created by the RSS for different tasks.
The above publication of the RSS shows how the organization is run in a covert
manner. It runs 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. When
nefarious designs of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal and Dharam Sansad [religious
parliament] were exposed before the Nation, RSS announced that these were
independent organizations.
It will be interesting to know that
many of the organisations have been organized in a secret manner, a
characteristic of a Fascist set-up. For instance while giving the details of
Hindu Jagaran Manch (HJM), the book says,
From the point of view of Hindu
awakening this kind of forums (HJM) 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.
It is clear that this mode has been adapted
to scrutiny by the law enforcing agencies and the government. Such an
organizational mode provides an opportunity to RSS to disown any individual or
organization. How it conspires 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.
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 the 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.
Sardar Patel, the first home
minister of India was familiar with this nefarious character of the RSS. In a
letter to the Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru he admitted:
In the case of secret organization
like the RSS which has no records, registers, etc. securing of authentic
information whether a particular individual is active worker or not is rendered
a very difficult task.
Superior
Hindu Aryan Race to rule the world
Savarkar, who is the greatest
Hindutva icon for RSS and Prime Minister Modi, concluded his book Hindutva
(1923) with the war-cry that Hindus who were Aryans were destined to rule the
world. He declared that Hindus as a great race of
thirty crores of people [the then
Hindu population], with India for their basis of operation, for their
Fatherland and for their Holyland with such a history behind them, bound
together by ties of a common blood and common culture can dictate their terms
to the whole world. A day will come when mankind will have to face the force.
Golwalkar, following into the
footsteps of Savarkar’s imperialistic ambitions, foresaw the world under the
supremacy of the Hindu power...Hindus were
destined to rule for the reason because they were the only,
noble specimen of humanity, truth
and generosity, under the divine influence of which not one of the hundreds of
millions of the people, ever told a lie or stole or stole or indulged in any
moral aberration; and all this long before the west had learnt to eat roast
meat instead of raw!
According to Golwalkar, Hindus simply
had to reawaken their Race-spirit and national consciousness in order to be
world rulers. The following words of Golwalkar did not seem to be different
from the calls of Hitler and Mussolini to rule over the world.
The Race Spirit has been awakening.
The lion was not dead, only sleeping. He is rousing himself up again and
the world has to see the might of the regenerated Hindu nation strike down the
enemy’s hosts with its mighty arm. The star has risen and is steadily climbing
up the firmanent [sic]. At no distant date the world shall see it and
tremble with fear or dance with delight.
He called upon the Hindus to ‘rally
to the Hindu standard, the Bhagwa Dhwaja (Saffron Flag), set our teeth
in grim determination to wipe out the opposing forces’.
According to Golwalkar, to rule over the world was the heavenly task ordained
to the Hindu race. They had no reason to be afraid of their future and no cause
to despond.
All we have to do to remount our
throne is to respond to the awakened Race-spirit and re-rouse our national
consciousness, and victory is in our grasp. The undying voices of our sages
call; let us gird up our lions and follow them. The spirit of the race beckons
to us and has lighted for its benighted children the path to their cherished
ideal, with beacons of undying spiritual splendour. Let us rouse ourselves to
our true nationality, let us follow the lead of our race-spirit, and fill the
heavens with the clarion call of the Vedic seers ‘from sea to sea over all the
land—one nation,’ one glorious, splendorous Hindu nation benignly shedding
peace and plenty over the whole world.
In fact, Golwalkar believed that
Hindus ruled major parts of the world in the past and if the ‘Race-Spirit’ was
awakened once again they could be the world rulers. He declared that the RSS
was established to fulfil one real practical world mission and that was to
bring back the glories of the golden past in which,
our arms stretched as far as America
on the one side—that was long before Columbus ‘discovered’ America!—and on the
other side to China, Japan, Cambodia, Malaya, Siam, Indonesia and all the
South-East Asian countries and right up to Mongolia [sic]
and Siberia in the North. Our powerful political empire too spread over these
South-East areas and continued for 1400 years., the Shailendra Empire alone
flourishing for over 700 years—standing as a powerful bulwark against Chinese
expansion.
With this plan of establishing the
hegemony of the Hindutva brand of Hinduism, RSS according to its own admission
works in 39 countries overtly. There must be many more countries where it must be
working covertly with many Fascist organisations.
With these facts available in the
official archives of the RSS, it is not difficult to realize that RSS as a
terrorist outfit represents the most lethal danger not only to the
democratic-secular Indian polity but to the world peace and the ideal of
co-existence. All those individuals and organisations which stand by these
ideals and do not want the world under the Iron Heel must meet the challenge
head-on.
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