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Development of Telangana
- Study of the situation in - Dr T H Chowdary
Andhra Pradesh - Demand
Sri Jeevan Reddy, a former Telugu Desam Minister in the
for the formation of the
Telangana state first NT Rama Rao Cabinet and later, a Congress-person
had said that the backwardness of Telangana will be a
Submission to the Sri Krishna
Commission perpetual issue. We may add that it is just like the
backwardness of Muslims as asserted by them and conceded
- National Integration and Security
by Congressmen and ‘secularists’ despite various
– Religious Fundamentalism
appeasement measures periodically launched. It is amazing
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how many of us are unaware that in 1956 in the wake of
states’ reorganization, the Constitution of India was amended
Editor : Dr. T. H. Chowdary investing Governors of states with special responsibilities
under Article 371 (2) for the development of the economically
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backward regions of the states. Sri P C Alexander who
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8, P&T Colony, 2. Article 371 (2) enables the President to assign to the
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website: www.drthchowdary.net making good the backlog of development. Sri Alexander says
Legal Adviser: Sri CVL Narasimha Rao that although this provision was made in the light of the states
reorganisation which brought about the linguistic states like
All that is necessary for evil Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in which certain
to triumph is for good men regions are relatively undeveloped as a historic legacy,
to do nothing political leaders in the states were not keen to entrust the
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special executive responsibility for Home, was opposed to the the backlog was of the order
to the Governor in the belief Governor’s initiative on the of more than Rs.14,000
that politicians as elected ground of constitutional crores. He issued directives
representatives could do more impropriety of a governor under the constitutional powers
justice rather than the Governor exercising the powers that were conferred upon the governor,
who is appointed by the legally bestowed on the elected to hike the allocations for
President and who does not representatives of the people. removal of the backlog within
represent the people. Undaunted by Sri Chawan’s four years. Thus, from an
opposition, Sri Alexander on allocation of Rs.500 cr in 1984,
3. In July 1984, the
the strength of the resolution of he hiked it to Rs.1720 cr. in
Legislative Assembly and the
Maharashtra Legislature 2001-02 and more afterwards.
Legislative Council of
constituted separate It is this determined exercise
Maharashtra passed a
development boards for of the Governor that nearly
resolution recommending to the
Vidharba, Marathwada and removed comparative
President that the Governor
rest of the state. Vidharba backwardness.
exercise his powers. The
accounted for 21.3% of the
central government took no 5. His tactful handling of
population, Marathwada
action. Chief Minister and other leaders
16.11% and the rest for
and the definite time frame that
4. When Sri P V Narasimha 62.59%. Sri Alexander felt that
he set up for wiping out the
Rao was the Prime Minister of allocation from now on purely
backlog have been largely
India, acutely aware of the on the proportion of the
responsible for the disparities
under-development of population would not remove
to be dramatically brought
Telangana as well as Vidharba the pent-up, i.e., accumulated
down. As Chancellor of the
(from where he was once backwardness. Therefore he
Universities, Sri Alexander took
elected to the Parliament), he suggested constitution of a
an active role in seeing that in
got Sri Sarad Pawar also to committee of expert
regard to admissions to various
agree to implement both the economists to develop
professional courses, students
Article of the Constitution as parameters to measure
from the backward regions
well as the 1984 resolution of backwardness and to estimate
were specially helped. He also
Legislatures of Maharashtra. how much amount was
counseled and prevailed upon
Sri Alexander, a consummate, required to be spent to
the Government of Maharashtra
intrepid civil servant of high remove the accumulated
during his tenure as Governor
integrity and national backlog of backward ness
to see that people from different
consciousness, set up an for each of the regions. A
regions got equitable
example as to how the government’s committee
representation for recruitment
backward regions could be identified the backlog as of
to government offices and to
brought abreast of the 1984 as Rs.3,187 crores. The
the state-owned companies.
developed regions by using the state government was making
constitutional power conferred small allocations ranging from 6. Why is it that in Andhra
upon the Governor. Sri Rs.200 to Rs.500 cr per year Pradesh, this article 371 (2) of
Alexander says (page 441) that to clear the backlog. Sri the Constitution has not been
a senior leader, Sri S B Alexander was not satisfied. invoked by any Governor, even
Chawan of Maharashtra and He appointed another as the backwardness of
the former Chief Minister of committee of experts in 1995. Telangana has been becoming
that state, then Union Minister That committee estimated that the cause of periodical
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agitations and convulsions? between different regions like Hyderabad Free Zone
One reason, as some Telangana Rayalaseema and
Congress leaders currently are north-east Andhra Pradesh and The unanimous resolution
saying is that some Talangana Rayalaseema could be got over of the Andhra Pradesh
politicians used the and the periodic stomach- Legislature that Hyderabad
backwardness only to get into aches and convulsions of should not be a Free Zone is
power and not for correcting politicians launching agitations astounding! If people from non-
Hyderabad Zone are not entitled
the backwardness. It is said could be avoided.
for any job in the offices
that the first Telangana
7. Considering the several concerned with the
movement in 1969 got
agreements and the failures in administration of the entire
ministerships including Chief state like the Secretariat, the
implementation, followed by
Minister for some Telangana High Court, the Commiss-
periodic agitations about non-
leaders after the movement in ionarates and the Directorates
development of Telangana had
1969, whereas in 2004, some then why should they consider
all been of no consequence, it
(notably the Telangana Rashtra this city as their capital and
would be better if the expert
Smaiti or TRS which forged an why should they have to be in
committees’ estimates of the
alliance with Sonia Congress a state in whose capital they
amount required and schemes
with the understanding that if are not entitled to a an Andhra
proposed to end the
Congress got elected by Pradesh government job?
backwardness of Telangana
defeating the the Telugu
are implemented not by state
Desam Party, Telangana state 2. How is it that the MLAs
government agencies but by a in non- Hyderabad zone are
would be carved out) got
centrally constituted comm- quite happy to get residential
ministerships at the Center and
ission or corporation, of a plots in government land for
in the State even without a
specified life under the direct building their houses but they
movement! Most of Governors
supervision of the Governor. are not agreeable to the
of Andhra Pradesh excepting
For this purpose, the Governor people whom they represent,
Dr C Rangarajan, had been
may be given a special getting dis-entitled to get a job
politicians (Congress except
executive commissioner. In the in government offices in
two). That could be one reason Hyderabad?
review meetings, the governor
why they cared little for the true
may include the state
welfare of all the regions of the 3. How would the anti-Free
government-designated
state. Though Dr Rangarjan Zone MLAs, political parties and
ministers and officers. If instead
was brilliant in his faculty of leaders take to a resolution
of this way, the usual package
economics, he was too non- passed by the Delhi State
solution is adopted, then the
assertive. It would be great if Assembly that no person who
package may be distributed
Andhra Pradesh seeks and is not for generations a
into suitcases and eaten away
gets a Governor of the caliber resident of Delhi should get
case by case, just as it
of Sri Alexander and the a job in any central government
happened for the packages of
Legislative Assembly passes offices located in Delhi.?
tens of thousands of crores of
a resolution requesting the
rupees in the north-east and J 4. Will the protagonists of
President to require the
& K, and consequent non- Samaikyandhra apply their
Governor to exercise the
abatement of backwardness, mind to the questions raised
powers, the Constitution’s
separatism, (insurgencies in here with true conscience?
Article 371(2) confers. Maybe,
the North-East and intefada.
as in Maharashtra in a period
In the J&K; and Maoist’s war
of five years (perhaps, in a
on the State of India in as
lesser period) the government
many as about 200 districts in
can make special grants and
India).
the disparities in development
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STUDY OF THE SITUATION IN ANDHRA PRADESH - DEMAND FOR THE
FORMATION OF THE TELANGANA STATE
SUBMISSION TO THE SRI KRISHNA COMMISSION
- Dr T.H.Chowdary
We submit the following with industries, housing, 5. The main motive for
reasons at the end of this infrastructure and most some Seemandhra people
submission: importantly, in real estate; that wanting to perpetuate the
is, development of more or integrated (Samaikhya) Andhra
1. The Telangana state
less fallow and rocky lands Prasdesh and not create a
comprising of the territory
into residential and business separate state for Telangana
which was merged to form the
areas with modern buildings is the fear that they would be
united state of Andhra Pradesh
fit to be lived in by the adversely discriminated against
in 1956 may be created
educated and prosperous by the Telangana people. In
immediately. Any delay would
sections of the people business the last few years, leaders of
only increase the animosity and
districts fit for location of some political parties and even
strife and hatred between the
prestigious multinational academicians from Telangana
opinion -makers in the two
corporations. Most of this have been making insulting,
regions and hence among the
development and the threatening and overawing
people also.
settlement is in the outlaying speeches that are inciting
2. The Bhadrachalam area areas of the old Hyderabad commoners as well as
lying to the north-east of the city. The areas designated as government officials to hate
river Godavari used to be part Cyberabad which are all people from Seemandhra. This
of the East Godavari district. It around Hyderabad is the place hatred is reaching the same
was transferred to the where the development has dimensions as that of Muslims
Khammam district in taken place in less than the for Hindus in the run up to the
Telangana after the formation last 15 years . And it is here partition of India. The speeches
of Andhra Pradesh. It should that 90% of the money brought that are made by some
therefore revert back to East in by Seemandhra people is Telangana state protagonists
Godavari district. invested. This area Cyberabad are fully reminiscent of the
3. The capital of is also resided in by over speeches made by the Muslim
Telangana should naturally 80% of the people (estimated League leaders when they
be Hyderabad. This city is at about 30 lakhs) that have launched the Direct Action
the heart of Telangana both moved from Seemandhra and Day 16 Aug 1946 to wrest
in recent times and historically settled in the city. This flight Pakistan from India by the
also. underlies the increase of the division of the latter. Some
number of MLAs in Telangana Seemandhra leaders are
4. However, since it from 104 before the year 2004 responding in an exacerbating
happens to be the capital of to 119 by year 2009 elections. manner. The more the delay
Andhra Pradesh state people Further, out of the 150 is the creation of Telangana
from Rayalaseema as well as Corporators elected to the state, the more violent and
coastal Andhra had come to Greater Hyderabad Municipal uncontrollable the movement
live in this city and its environs. Corporation (GHMC) about 25 for Telangana would become,
They have brought in huge are people who have made just like the movement for
amounts of capital by sale of the environs of Hyderabad as division of India and creation
their fertile agricultural lands their home , that is Cyberabad of Pakistan by the Muslim
and invested here in various from Seemandhra area. League and Muslims in general
activities like businesses, in the period 1940-47.
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6. In order to allay the Cantonments there are under Rayalaseema was in fact
fears and as well as to do the Ministry of Defense of the backward compared to the
justice to the millions of Government of India, so coastal areas. The prosperity
Seemandhra people who had could Cyberabad and its police of coastal districts is entirely
come to the environs of and HD/SSD Cantonments due to the irrigation systems of
Hyderabad only as it is the could be under the Krishna and Godaravai rivers
capital of their state and as administrative control of the in the coastal areas. The
it is here that 90% of the new Union Home Ministry and the Tungabhdra and Nagarjuna
businesses had come up, Defense Ministry respectively. Sagar irrigation schemes came
Cyberabad which already has to Rayalaseema only after the
9. Since a large part of
got a separate Police formation of the combined
the revenues ( corporate &
Commissi-onarate may be state of Andhra Pradesh in
personal income tax, sales tax
made a Union Territory (UT). 1956.
/VAT, excise etc) in Telangana
80-90% of the interests of
come form Cyberabad areas, Even now there is
Seemandhra people will be
it may be that for a few years considerable public opinion in
protected in this UT as it
part of such income could be Rayalaseema, articulated by
contains most of them and
allocated to Telangana. Sri T.G. Venkatesh, MLA and
their businesses and
other MLAs from Rayalaseema
properties. 10. Rayalaseema:
that since Rayalaseema is as
7. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar had When the Telugu people in backward as Telangana and
long ago (early 1950s) argued the Telugu districts that were since it might not get justice
and established that India in the undivided Madras state from the coastal area people,
should have a second capital were agitating for a separate if Andhra Pradesh is to be split
as it had been having for Telugu -speaking state to be to create Telangana, in their
centuries (when the British carved out from the then view the state should be
were rulers, they were Calcutta Madras Presidency, reorganized into three –
and Simla and alterwards Rayalaseema (also called Telangana, coastal Andhra
Delhi and Simla; when the ceded districts - Ananthapur, and Rayalseema. As
Mughals were ruling, they were Chittoor, Kadapa and Kurnool) backwardness is not only
Delhi and Srinagar). He ruled people were hostile to their economic and social and
out for reasons he inclusion in the new Telugu natural resources but mainly a
enumerated, Mumbai, Calcutta state to be carved out of mental attitude, it would be
and Chennai as possible Madras Presidency. It was right that Rayalaseema
second capital and established through the efforts of the late should be created into a
that Hyderabad would be best Desoddharaka Nageswara separate state along with
qualifying to be the second Rao Panthulu garu that the Telangana, unless the
capital of India. leaders from the ceded Rayalaseema public opinion
districts and coastal districts overwhelmingly favours
8. It would be unjust if the
met together in Panthulu Samaikyandhra (ceded
whole of Hyderabad is treated
garu’s house called “Sri Bag” +coastal) without any
as UT. The area of the old
in Madras and signed an conditions. Conditions signed
Municipal Corporation of
agreement which has come to either by leaders or incorporate
Hyderabad (MCH) should be
be known as “Sri Bag Pact”. in any act will never be fulfilled
part of Telangana and be the
This was a gentlemen’s just as even the pious hopes
capital of that state. Cyberabad
agreement which distributed and injunction and provision in
could be administered by the
the location of the capital, the the Constitution of India are
Union Government. Just as the
High Court and universities not implemented even after six
police in New Delhi and Delhi
and some government offices decades after adoption of the
are together under Ministry of
in the coastal and Constitution. So, Andhra
Home Affairs and just as the
Rayalaseema areas.
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Pradesh should not merely solution is to declare all There is a great difference
bifurcated but it may rivers as national asset and in the understanding of the
desirably be trifurcated now resource and administer it word, development in the
itself inorder to save the only by the Central Telangana on the one hand
new Andhra state e from government. In passing, we and in Seemandhra on the
periodic convulsions as we may mention that if this other. Until the year 1800, the
have been having in Andhra different states can not share entire territory which is now
Pradesh, some times for god -given water and man- Andhra Pradesh was ruled by
Telangana state and produced electricity, then we the Nizam of Hyderabad. By
sometimes for an Andhra state don’t deserve to be one- that year 1800, first the
and now -a- days for a nation state. Sarkars (coastal dist) and later,
Samaikhyandra; that is, 12. White Paper : Only the the Ceded districts
continuance of the two state government under the (Rayalaseema) had been given
unwilling and quarreling scrutiny of and consultation away by the Nizam first to the
regions in the same state. with non-Andhra experts, French and later to the English
should produce a White Paper in return for protection that
11. Liabilities and Assets:
as to how much capital has British offered to the Nizam
The state has got a debt, been invested in the three against the Marathas and
as of 31 March 2010 of Rs. regions of the state since Tippu Sultan. What is now
1,22,000 cr . It has 1956, by government and by Telangana has continued to
commitments for the the private sector; how much be under Muslim rule from the
Jalayagnam scheme totaling of additional land has been time the Kakatiyas empire
about Rs. 1 lakh cr. Some brought under irrigation; how was broken up in 1323, till the
important welfare schemes many tube wells had been 17 Sept 1948 . When
like ArogyaSree, Pavala vaddi sunk in the 3 regions; how Hyderabad was liberated
(loans of Rs. 1 laksh each to much has been the energy fromteh Nizam and Razakars.
1 cr women at an interest of consumption in the 3 regions; Then followed the insurgency
3%p.a) and loan waivers to how many additional jobs had of communists in Telengana
farmers, weavers weaker been created; what is the against the government of
sections and Muslims all population growth in the three India itself till Sept 1951.
totaling about Rs.9000 cr. regions;and the growth among In the Telangana region
These must be apportioned Hindus, Muslims & Christians Urdu was the medium of
between three regions. ; what has been the literacy instruction. All schools were
Even as one combine, state in 1956 and now in the 3 only with Urdu. The High
of Andhra Pradesh, there are regions; how many colleges Courts, the government and
disputes and disagreement for ( engineering, medical, the universities every was using
sharing of river waters dentistry, MCA, MBA, only Urdu .90% of the jobs in
between Andhra Pradesh on pharmacy, law, B.Ed, nursing government were for
the one hand and Maharastra, ) are in the three regions ; Muslims for their 10%
Karnataka and Orissa on the similarly how many population. The Nizam was
other. This will be accentuating. universities, intermediate collecting taxes. There was
There will be more furious colleges and high schools and hardly any development.
disputes (and armed actiosn primary schools; what is the Therefore the budget was
perhaps) between Telangana telephone density in the three always surplus, whereas in
and Seemandhra A regions what are the electricity British India and later in the
mechanism for dealing with connections for 1 lakh people Seemandhra area since 1947,
such things should be of the three regions and there have been planned
discussed and put in place. so on, all as in 1956 and now. development and it was
For river waters the right 13. Development: financed by borrowings in
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part; that is why Andhra had entrepreneurship were not making the Nizams dominion
deficit budgets. there in Telangana to the an independent sovereign state
The argument that same degree as in allied to Pakistan. Unfortunately,
Telangana was a revenue- Seemandhra. Development there has been no meeting of
surplus state is a fallacious could come only from the minds of political leaders
because the revenue surplus government in Telengana. in the two regions of the
in Telangana till 1956 was In contrast in Seemandhra state.
mainly due to non-development under the British rule and then Even in Andhra Pradesh
and deficit in Seemandhra was under the Congress the development has been only
due to development by government in 1937 and since, in and around Hyderabad and
borrowings also. 1946 representative institutions nowhere else by governments
Under the Nizam’s rule, like Village Panchayats, Taluka efforts and even this
every development like roads, Boards, District Boards and development took place in the
electricity, water schemes, Legislative Assembly were last 15 years with the IT and
even businesses like the there. There were elections, engineering education as
Railways were by government, education, schools in Telugu engines of development. Right
whereas in British India, even medium and in the college statistics and correct
the Railways were owned by education through English interpretation will show that the
private companiess. Here, medium. Therefore there was coastal areas and
under the Nizam, the road higher awareness and Rayalaseema had seen much
passenger transport was also participation and less development than
by the government. The people entrepreneurship in the Telangana, although Telangana
were not allowed to have their Seemandhra areas. For them, mostly meants Hyderabad and
own enterprises and since development means the its environs. Usually,
government was run by government undertaking development in the economic
Muslims the Muslims, had irrigation projects and not and education sense always
enough employment only in putting up sugar factories or centers on the state’s capital
government offices but passenger road transport; the .eg; Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta,
government-run Railways, later type of things should be Chennai, Bengaluru. And that
government-run passenger undertaken by people development is contributed
road transport, sugar factory, themselves. So, the integration not only by the people of the
glass works , asbestos cement of the once British ruled and state but by all Indians.
factory etc. So, in Telangana, democracy-having More Union Territories:
development meant mainly Seemandhra areas and the
14. Perspective: It is a
government doing everything Nizam-ruled, purposely kept
cruel fact that caste, religion
and Hindu people working like backward Telangana areas,
and regionalism and linguism
slaves. That is why we hear was a mis-joint from the
are being invoked and fostered
old Telugu-speaking villagers beginning. This disparity was
by all vote-seeking politicians
in Telangana, often say., known to leaders from both
and political parties. Nation
parts of the state. That is why
nee banchenu... nee kall building is suffering Nation
the Telangana leadership and
mokta -meaning: I am your disintegration is being
95% of the people who were
slave.. I touch your feet. promoted at accelerated pace
consulted had all opposed the
There were no by foreign political ideologies
combined state. It was foisted
representative bodies like as well as religious exertions.
by the Government of India
Panchayats or Zilla Paroshads If we have to arrest this and
in view of the history of
or a popularly elected reverse, then all India
Razakars, the Communist
Legislative Assembly. That is national spirit must be
uprising and the Nizam’s and
why ideas of self – promoted in as many cities
his Muslim’s intentions of
government, self- improvement and territories as possible.
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developments in every sector
That is why the ideas that all like the situation between India region- wise since the
big cities be declared as – Pakistan. formation of the state of A.P.
Union Territories (UT) is
3. Decide the issue of And also decide upon the
most welcome. From this
Rayalaseema, whether it likes division of assets and liabilities
point of view to declare
to be with the Coastal Andhra and arrangements for the
cities also as UT would be
or wants to be a separate execution and completion of
very good. The Commission
state. If it want to be with projects which will fall in all the
will do well to take a long
Coastal Andhra it must be three regions, especially in
term view of India and propose
without any conditions and regard to the Jalayagnam and
that beginning with Cyberabad
terms and agreements. It electricity schemes.
and Visakha-patnam,
may be the 3rd Telugu State. 8. For fostering Telugu
Government of India should
think of declaring more of the 4. Cyberabad (co- language and literature and
big cities and newly terminus with the police culture and narrow the
developing cities as UTs Commssionerate which goes differences between the
where every body can feel by that name) should be UT Telugu speaking people in the
as an Indian and not as preferably the second capital three regions, there may be
belonging to a particular of India in as short a time as a supra-state language &
linguistic or caste group. possible so that the security Culture Commission to which
Such UTs will attract huge and self- respect and protection the government of the different
amounts of capital and there of Seemandhra Telugu people Telugu speaking states should
would be development around settled out here (because it contribute
such cities. Goa, Chandigarh was the capital of their state) 9. Like -wise, there should
and Puducheri are definitely could be adequately be a supra-state water &
prospering at higher rates safeguarded. electricity authority for
than the state in which those 5. The Bhadrachalam development and management
cities are city or islands. area across the river to the of river waters, power, and
15. Finally, we would north-east which was part of energy resources.
summarize our submission East Godavari District must
as: revert to that district and
taken away from Khammam
1. Create Telangana state
district.
soonest. On June 7, 1947
Mountbatten decided that India 6. Visakhapatnam may be
will be partitioned. It was declared as UT along with
effected by the 14 of Aug Cyberabad. The chief of the
1947 within three months. A TRS was on record to say he
determined action by the will be wiling to Hyderabad
Government of India could becoming UT provided
do as well to create Visakhapatnam also becomes
Telangana state in a few UT. That is a great
month,s not years. beginning for the idea of a
large number of UTs as
2. The longer the delay,
Indian in nature and not local
the greater the disputation, the
and regional.
higher the hatreds, more the
vandalism and uncontrollable 7. Government must bring
the strife be, leading to violence a White Paper on the
“Those who carry on great public schemes must be proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most
mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults and what is most of all, the presumptuous judgement
of the ignorant.” - A message from the famous Cadillac Company
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NATIONAL INTEGRATION AND SECURITY – powerful that the Mughals were
wanting to bring the entire India
RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM under their sway with in -different
- Dr T.H.Chowdary results. From this preliminary
exposition, we should conclude
that we had been, for milenia one
I begin this paper by quoting people, one nation, one country
nation which now consists of 17 but with different kingdoms.
the profound ideas on nation independent sovereign states,
and nation building. These were And the modern Indian nation -
despite the people being of the state has been in the making
expounded by Kulapati K. Munshi same race, same religion and
in his small but seminal book, mostly since the time of the
have the same language. Yet British imperial rule.
“Warnings of History” published they all think of themselves as
by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. Arab nation. We have always 3. The encounter with the
(Now out of print). Three factors considered ourselves as British imperial rulers shook us
are invariably found in virile inhabitants of Bharat Varsha. Hindus out of torpor, out of a
nations : common memory of withdrawal into a shell, forced
achievement, will to unity and The nation state which is largely upon us by hundreds of years -
habitual urge to collective political in nature, is just about long life and death struggle to
actions (more are given at 200 years old. Modern Germany preserve Hinduism from the
Annexure#1). came into being by integration by onslaughts of the invader Islamist
conquest of 22 separate kingdoms rulers and converts under
In respect of all these three, by the Kaiser of Prussia under
the history of India from the time unnatural circumstances co-opted
the Chancellorship of Ottovon into Islamist ruling circles. Swamy
of the British rule in particular Bismark, in 1871 . Even here
and the Muslims invasions in Dayananda, Vivekananda,
Austria which is German in race, Lokamanya Balagangadhar Tilak
general and very significantly language and religion is a separate
after-independence and electoral and Gandhiji several others had
state with a separate nationality. been responsible for building in
democratic politics, our nation- UK is a construct of only about
hood is increasingly under assault. our people a sense of common
300 years comprising of England, nation hood, the reinvention of our
India has been in our literature Scotland and Wales (and Northern
known as Bharata Varsha. The past nation-hood. Into this nation-
Ireland); Italy has become the hood which is essentially Hindu in
faith belief and life’s practices all nation state by submergence of
over the county were derived from inspiration and roots we have no
dozens of kingdoms, only about difficulty in accommodating the
the Vedas, the Upanishads, 150 years ago Giuseppe
Mahabharata, Ramayana and such millions of settlers and native
Garibaldi(July 4, 1807 – June 2, converts to other religions like
epic literature. We have always 1882) and Giuseppe Mazzini
considered ourselves as one Islam and Christianity. This has
(June 22, 1805 – March 10, 1872) been the fundamental genius of
country and one people; our were the great Italian patriots who
life was guided by the Hinduism in which we have
inspired and led all the Italian always held,
principles of Sanatan Dharma speaking people in different
as expounded in our vast kingdoms to merge into one Italian Ekam sath, vipraha bahudha
classical literature and nation-state (just as Sardar Patel vaanti - (truth is one but the wise
popularized by singing itinerant integrated over 600 princely states speak of it variously)
ministrels and from discourses, of into the Union of India within two and the truth can be searched
our Rishis, Siants and Sadhus. years!). The USA was invented in in different ways through different
Although we had several kingdoms, 1776 with 13 colonies becoming disciplines and faiths without any
some of which tried to extend the United States and it grew to hostility between these different
their territory through warfare, the a 50 -state nation state just about paths of seeking the truth. What
people were not divided into different 150 years ago. In contrast to all is essential is to live in dharma
nationalities, requiring passports these of just a few hundred years to uphold dharma and to
and visas for movement. The of nation state -hood we have constantly expand it to cover
system of Teerthayatras and been a nation -hood people the changes that come through
universal reverence for our Rivers, for thousands of years. Our nation development of technology
for our Forests, for our Mountains -state was being shaped from the and progressing ways of life
and for our Seas kept us as British times onwards. Earlier, like agriculture, industry and
onepeople despite several the idea that the whole of India information.
kingdoms. The nearest modern was one people had been so
equivalent of this is the Arab 4. Islam has been posing a
unique problem unparalleled in the
“Secularism” Combat, April 2010 9
history of mankind. It has divided the religious cause of Muslim Vandemataram, Md. Ali objected
mankind into believers and non- Indians for the Khilafat movement to this and insisted that if they
believers or kafirs. The brother (1919 -’24). India had nothing to said Vandemataram, Allah ho
-hood in it is confined to the do with the Islam’s Caliph in Akbar ! At the Kakinada Congress
believers and the latter are either Turkey, who also was the ruler of session (1923) over which Md. Ali
to be converted (by all available that country. After the first World presided he saw to it that, the
means) or ruled over as dhimmis; War he was stripped off his proceedings did not start with
that is permitted to live by paying possessions in Arabia and other Vandemataram. Today it is that
taxes, zezia. Christianity also lands of Arabs. While no Muslims same disrespect to
divided mankind into believers anywhere in the world launched Vandemataram and Saraswati
and pagans. The latter included any movement for restoration Vandana and Bharat so dear to
Hindus for long. Both these of the Caliph’s privileges, the Hindus that Muslim Indians
religions are proselytizing and their Muslim Indians launched the display stridently.
followers believe that their Khilafat movement for a Muslim 6.2 This separatism, based on
Prophets had obliged and cause and Gandhiji in the hope religion was not invented in the
advised the followers to and belief that the if Hindus 1940s but it has its origin in the
convert everybody else to their supported Muslims, the latter views and speeches of no leas
only truthful religion, would join India’s a person than Sir Sayyed Ahmed,
unquestionably believing in their independence movement. Tens the first popular Muslim intellectual
God, in their Prophet, in their of thousands of Hindus went to leader who advocated, modern
Book and the interpretation of jails for this Muslim cause. education for Muslims and who
that Book and religion by the Gandhiji hailed the leaders of the told Muslims that the British rule
“authorized” person, the Pope in khilafat movement, brothers was god -given and that was
Christianity and the Mulla- Malvi- Mohammed Ali and Shaukat Ali preferable to the rule of Hindus,
Maulana institutions in Islam. as his own brothers and yet this who as a majority would, in
is what Mohammed Ali said, independent India be lording over
5. In India, unlike in the rest speaking at Aligarh and Ajmere in
of the world, invaded by Islamist Muslims. In a speech to Muslims
1924 said: in Meerut in the 1888, he asserted
rulers, Hindus resisted the
invader-conquerors for several “However pure Mr. Gandhi’s that Muslims are a separate
hundred years and despite character may be, he must nation that the Muslims nation,
extensive conquests and rule appear to be from the point of cannot share power with
by Islam’s kings and Nawabs, view of religion inferior to any Hindus. Extracts of his speech
Islamists lost power and Hindus Musalaman, even though he are at Annexure#2.
gained the upper hand by the be without character”. 6.3 Yet another eloquent
closing years of Aurangzeb’s rule The Statement created a great statement that Muslims are not
(1st decade of the 18th century by stir. Many did not believe that Mr. Indians and that they are a
the heroic,patriotic campaigns of Mohamed Ali, who testified to so separate nation was thunderously
the Maratha and Sikhs. Less much veneration for Mr. Gandhi, made clear by Md. Ali Jinnah’s
than 20% of the people left their was capable of entertaining such speech at the Muslim League
mother religion Hinduism and ungenerous and contemptuous conference in Lahore in March
even among many of these sentiments about him(Gandhi). 1940. He said,
converts, Hindu beliefs and (Later) When Mr. Mohamed Ali “It is extremely difficult to
practices and even laws of was speaking in a meeting held appreciate why our Hindu friends
inheritance prevailed until recently, at Aminabad Park in Lucknow, he fail to understand the real nature
even during the British rule. was asked whether the sentiments of Islam and Hinduism. They are
6. The separatism separate attributed to him were true. Mr. not religions in the strict sense of
national idea and the Mohamed Ali without any hesitation the word, but are, in fact, different
“unintegrationability” of Muslims or compunction replied. and distinct social orders and it
with the Indian nation which is Yes! According to my religion is a dream that the Hindus and
predominantly Bharatiya Hindu is and creed, I do hold an Muslims can ever evolve a
evident from the speeches of adulterous and a fallen common nationality, and this
three highly venerated Muslim’s gentleman to be better than Mr. misconception of one Indian nation
leaders of India. Gandhi” has gone far beyond the limits
6.1 Mahatma Gandhi and is the cause of most of our
Also, during the movement troubles and will lead India to
committed the Indian National when Congress -men were
Congress which was secular to destruction if we fall to revise our
raising the slogan, notions in time. The Hindus and
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Muslims belong to two different between the Islamic state of Corporations
religious philosophies, social Pakistan and the secular state of 3. _ Minority Welfare
customs, literature. They neither India because Muslims can never Departments
intermarry, nor interline together be integration with the Indian
and indeed they belong to two nation. Even the Muslim League 4. _ Minority Educational
different civilizations which are advocated the exchange but since Institutions (these are selling
based mainly on conflicting ideas Gandhiji and the Congress were 70% of the seats to Hindus and
and conceptions. Their aspects hell-bent upon keeping Muslims yet claiming general entry as well
on life and of life are different. in India, although they asserted as reserved entry into non-
It is quite clear that Hindus and that they were not of Indian minority that is, government and
Mussalmans derive their inspiration nation. While Pakistan drove out Hindus -manged educational
from different sources of history. almost all Hindus and Sikhs, institutions)
They have different epics, different India is left with the Muslims and 5. _ Jawaharlal Nehru himself
heroes and different episodes. their progeny who rioted and moved a bill for subsidising the
Very often the hero of one is a voted for the division of this country. Muslims pilgrimage, Haj from
foe of the other and likewise their After Independence and the death government coffers (this evil
victories and defeats overlap. To of Sardar Patel and Rajendra practice had been extended by
yoke together two such nations Prasad, the Nehru dynasty had the Christian Chief Minister of
under a single state, one as a taken the complete control of the Andhra Pradesh for Christians’
numerical minority and the other Indian National Congress and as pilgrimages to Jerusalem.
as a majority, must lead to growing its vote percentage was declining, Fortunately, challenged by a PIL
discontent and final destruction it looked to Muslims as the the Andhra Pradesh High Court
of any fabric that may be so built captive vote-bank. It has been put an injunction against it)
up for the government of such vilifying Hindus and parties like
a state. Jana Sangh and the BJP as 6. _ The UPA government
inimical to Muslims and itself as appointed the Sachar Panel which
Muslim India cannot accept invented the great fiction of Muslims
any constitution which must the protector of Muslims who
have once again come to be ‘ backwardness due to
necessarily result in a Hindu discrimination by the majority
majority government. Hindus and called “minority”. Is it not shameful
that when Muslims assert that community that is Hindus. And
Muslims brought together under a we now have the Muslim First
democratic system forced upon they were not a minority but a
separate nation, the Congress programs in 90 districts where
the minorities can only mean Hindu they are in considerable numbers
Raj. Democracy of the kind with reverts to its characterization of
Muslims as a minority and which will ultimately become
which the Congress High Command Muslim majority, seek
is enamored would mean the Muslims started having great
ideas of special privileges and autonomy then fight for
complete destruction of what is independence. Sardar Patel
most precious in rights for the “minority” as they
were given under the British integrated 600 and odd Princely
Islam.Mussalmans are not a states within an year of
minority as it is commonly known (separate electorate, weighted
representation; that is 33 1/3% Independence.
and understood. Mussalmans are
a nation according to any definition representation for 25% population 7. _ Under the undefined word
of a nation and they must have in Legislative bodies). “secularism” which has been
their homelands, their territory and 7. As the Congress was smuggled into the Constitution
their state”. getting weakened, regional parties (along with socialism) during the
came up and they started Emergency of Indira Gandhi, it
(More extracts are at has now come to pass that all
Annexure #3). competing with the Congress for
the Muslim vote. Also all of Muslims & Christians are secular
6.4 Dr. Ambedkar was the only them together have brought out a and whoever says he is a Hindu
statesman besides to some situation where: is not secular, is communal .
extent, Sri C. Rajagopalachari who 8. National Security
deliberated deeply and concluded 1. _ Minority Commissions are
constituted in every Hindu majority (Internal):
that Muslims can never form
part of the Indian nation. state and at the Union level but 8.1 India is the largest victim
Dr.Ambedkar developed this in his no Minority Commissions where of Islamist zihadi terrorism, (apart
masterly book, India Divided or Hindus are a minority as in J&K from aggressive, incendiary
Pakistan. He advocated the total and in north eastern states. communal riots which invariably
exchange of minority populations 2. _ Minorities Finance start in Muslim-majority areas of
towns and cities). More than
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10,000 lives have been lost in place and declares solatium for Democratic Parties in Germany
J&K,Gujarat, UP, A P, Maharastra, the bereaved. This is all too and Italy which have been ruling
Kerala, Delhi, Punjab, Tamilandu, shameful. those countries. Here in India,
Karnataka ...). There are 8.2 Right way to deal with there is a Muslim League and a
thousands of sleeper cells which zihadism: Muslims Ithehadul Muslameen
are tasked, nourished and and several such outfits to protect
launched into action from Pakistan · __ Blow up the houses where the interests of Muslims. To
, Bangladesh and by All Queda zihadis lodged and sheltered. protect the interest of Hindus
from anywhere in the world. · __ Declare the hosts as it is necessary that there is a
Resident non-Indians are traitors and strip them of Hindu national party.
sheltering them, providing safe citizenship. What are the dangerous to
houses n and facilitating Hindus Muslims used to be about
reconnaissance, targeting and · __ Since the zihadis ( and
Maoists are by their own 10% after partition of India. They
finances. Moved by religious are now anywhere between 15%
fraternity, the hosts of zihadi assertion) are at war with the
State of India, treat them as to 20% and their fast breeding
terrorists are not, as required by continues. It appears that with
loyal citizens, revealing to the law enemy soldiers in combat; there
can be no civil or human rights to differential birth rates between the
enforcement agencies, the two communities Hindus will be
identities and habitats of the enemy soldiers at war.
reduced to minority and to
zihadis. This is treachery. · __ Form an all-minority impotence much earlier. In Kerala,
The minority (nation) is (police) intelligence unit in every the Hindu population of 65% in
unconcerned with the infiltration state, tasked to collect intelligence 1951 have come down to 51%.
and terrorism of those infiltrators. about the zihadi terrorists and It will under 50%very soon as
Marriages provide “legal” cover. If their infrastructures. Muslims ( and Christians) are
suspects are interrogated or taken · __ Stop the funding of furiously proliferating. In order to
into custody, swarms of the mosques and Madrassas by check this, Indian must enforce
minority descend upon police Saudi Arabia and such a two-child norm for all families
stations and under threats of fundamentalist States. and withdraw every welfare
violence and intervention of · __ State & government must and every privilege and
threatening MLAs (eg: MIM in be religion -blind when applying consideration for the entire
Hyderabad which is the factory law. family which has more than
and sanctuary for zihadis) and two children, as soon as the
intervention of indebted /obligated · __ Impose collective fines on third child is born.
( for votes) Ministers, free the vandals & their support structures
1. _ All the minority
arrested. The “seculars”, “ Human · __ Constitute vigilance groups commissions and minority
rights”, “ civil liberties” activists to report on infiltrators & illegal educational institutions, Minority
(mostly above-ground Maoists) residents Finance Corporations, Minority
raise a cacophony about minority- Welfare Departments should be
· __ Marriages with foreigners
bashing. Few are apprehended; abolished. In a open democratic
must have prior approval of
fewer are charged and tried and society, minorityism based upon
government
almost none, even when the religion or language should not
Supreme Court sentences and · __ Returns from Saudi Arabia
be perpetuated by state measures.
fixes a date for hanging the and other Gulf countries must be
terrorist, is punished. India is the compulsory de-bried 2. _ The Common Civil Code
safest place for “minority” as envisaged in the Constitution
terrorism. Impotent and unwilling must be enacted.
to put down zihadi terrorism India 9. What Can We Do :
3. _ Art-370 should be
supplicates to USA, Pakistan, It is necessary that there is abolished and J&K integrated with
Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh etc., to a Hindus Nationalist Party . The the rest of India like any other
catch the zihadi terrorists ! The BJP which has come out of the former princely states. In fact,
Prime- minister routinely Bharatiya Janasangh has become it should be broken into three
expresses shock whenever a another “secular” party in and out states - Kashmir Valley, Jammu
suicide zihadi bomber kills dozens of season asserting that it is & Laddak. Laddakh may be Union
of people; declares zero tolerance secular. It is also having Territory and Jammu may be a
to terrorism ( for the period when “minority cells” thus perpetuating full -fledged state like Himachal
the next blast comes), assures the separateness of Muslims from Pradesh or Uttaranchal.
that no more bombings will take the rest. There are Christian
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4. _ State should not in any of Hindus, but I wonder whether of a nation is the will to national
way assist the purely religious the same would be said about unity in a people. Nationalism
schools like Madrasas of Muslims. them two decades hence. implies a sustained effort on the
The Haj subsidy for Muslims‘ Historic forces often have not part of the people to will
pilgrimage to Macca should be given a common memory to themselves into a nation.
withdrawn communities living in a single But who are the people? In all
country; they often look upon their collective affairs of men, we should
past from different angles, and, in remember, it is what Toynbee
consequence, cannot form a nation. calls the dominant minority
Hindus looked up to Rana Pratap which speak, create and leads
and Shivaji as their heroes; the that counts. The masses are
Annexure#1 Muslims admired Mahamud Ghazni passive, following its lead or
Warnings of History and Aurangazeb; in this antagonistic submitting to its influence or
(Excerpts from Dr K.M.Munshi’s outlook lay the seed of Pakistan. coercive power. When I speak of
Book) The common memory, though the will to unity, therefore, it is
limited, which we now share in India primarily the will of the
(Headings and sentences in is that of mutual influence in the dominant minority that I mean.
brackets are my insertions - Dr past, and of freedom struggled for
T.H.Chowdary ) * Dissipation of Will to Unity:
and won in the present.
What are the forces which lead The will to national unity is
The British and the French in hard to develop, but easy to be
to he rise or fall of nations? How do Canada, and the French, the
nations rise and fall? That implies dissipated. Generally it is
Germans and the Italians in dissipated under certain conditions:
another enquiry: What are the Switzerland, have short but living
factors which go to make a virile memories of common adventures First, if the dominant minority
nation? When do they run amuck? and triumphs sufficiently vital to has no sense of mission as
These factors, though often make them a nation. regards the future of the nation;
derived from geographical ( non- alignment ; undefinable
The USA has solved the problem socialism; pro-Muslim, Hindu-
compactness or the unity of in a characteristic way. Every year
language, are not necessarily indifferent, if not Hindu hostile
foreign emigrants pour into the ‘secularism”, cannot be “ missions”
dependent on them. Men living in country, fleeing from oppression or
the same geographical area do not of a nation).
seeking wealth. However, due to
necessarily make a nation. Men its educational system, in the Secondly, if its will to unity is
speaking the same language or third generation if not in the fragmented by contradictory
following the same religion do not second, their descendants loyalties;
always make a nation. Switzerland acquire, as if they were their (Muslims’ loyalty is non -
and Canada are multilingual own, the memories of territorial is to transnational Islamic
nations. U.K and USA; India and Washington and Abraham Umma and so they are Muslim
Pakistan , though speaking the Lincoln and of the colossal Indians & not Indian Moslems)
same language, are different achievements for which USA
nations. stands. Thirdly, if it becomes
psychologically alien to the
* Foundations of a virile In India, eleven years (by 1958 masses. (The English-medium
nation: when the book was written ; by now educated, de-Indianised, resident
Three such factors are 63 years are wasted) have been non-Indians)
invariably found in virile nations: wasted by a sterile educational
policy. Many things could have All nations which have risen to
common memory of greatness have been characterised
achievements, will to unity, and been done in this interval to give to
young men and women a by a sense of mission. In Japan we
habitual urge to collective found a deep sense of mission. Its
action. common memory of our struggle.
But it was not done. A generation ( people cannot think of themselves
First, the people constituting a as a lost people; they have faith in
two generations and half by now)
nation have a common memory their culture and destiny; they have
has now grown up which takes
of great heroes and exploits, of no regrets and no frustration.
freedom for granted but draws no
great adventures and triumphs The dominant minority in USA has
inspiration from the way it was
in the past. Japan, perhaps, also a sense of mission to spread
won.
represents the finest example of its free way of life throughout the
ancient memories, tenaciously The second factor which plays world, to combat totalitarianism
preserved. The same could be said a great part in the birth and growth and to be in eh forefront of
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dominate all other loyalties. That
material achievements. It is this has been so in Germany and Japan
Pillar of Fire which leads them on Mission during the struggle for and that is the cause of their rise
and leaves them no rest. This sense freedom even after their catastrophic
of mission we found very highly During the last hundred years collapse in World War II.
developed in Germany. In course of when we were struggling for The process going on in our
three decades the land twice came freedom, the dominant minority of country for the moment deserves
under the heels of foreign armies India had developed a sense of serious attention. In the past, the
and its people were desiccated as mission. We believed in our right Hindus had a superior loyalty to
never before in history. And yet their to be true to our own culture; in our their religion, to Aryavarta-the Karma
sense of destiny never dimmed; duty to suffer and, if need be die for Bhoomi-in which they were born.
they reconstructed their life long freedom; in our destiny to be free in But this group loyalty is being
before their conquerors could order that, with the aid of our displaced by Indian nationalism and
repair the ravages inflicted by spiritual heritage, we could almost in the hour of victory, it, as
victory. redeem mankind. ( as a well as the new nationalism, are
The strength of Communism is Jagatguru) being undermined by loyalty to
not in the validity of dialectical If our sense of mission the caste or the region. Prophets
materialism, not in its armies and weakens,- as it has been of late- of disintegration are talking about
collectives, not even in Sputniks. It that is, if we cease to be true to nationalities in India [Communist
lies in its intellectuals who, ourselves and our culture; if we lose Party (Marxist) Com. Yechuri
intensively indoctrinated for two confidence that we have a great role repeatedly asserts that India is a
generations, have but one to play in history; if we come to country of many nationalities. In
mission in life: to fulfil what they look upon ourselves as a Andhra Pradesh, in Khammam area
consider to be the predestined miserable, weak and poor there is the Communist Party of
role of Soviet Russia in people with no pride in our past the United States of India! not
communising the world and and no faith in our future-our the Indian nation]. In search of
dominating it. The fundamental outlook will cease to be positive. regional selfishness we are also apt
problem of the world therefore is Frustration, disappointment or to forget our paramount loyalty to
whether what is called the “Free despair will seize us. the country as a whole. (Some
World” can produce a matching Disintegration will follow. (The 90 politicians and intellectuals are
sense of mission . Muslim First Sachar designed saying that the Telugu-speaking
This sense is perhaps at its districts are as many Pakistans in people of Telangana are different
white heat in little Israel. Men the making) from the rest of Andhra Pradesh. In
and women come there from However, the Indian mind through their hatred, they are expressing
different parts of the world. Often the ages had a deep sense of love and admiration to the Muslim
they do not know any common mission, and sooner than we Nizam’s rule under which Telugu
language. Israel itself is suspended realise, the younger generation will was suppressed and 90% jobs were
precariously over the mouth of a recapture it. (Will it? In A P Samuel for the 10% Muslims) .
volcano-Arab hatred ( India is at the Rajasekhara Reddy did away with A pessimist would think that we
mouth of the Volcano of Pakistani Telugu as medium of instruction in are reverting to the pre-Akbar
hatred). And yet they are convinced schools to de-Indainise the young) period, when region warred with
that this little patch of a desert is region and all of them opened the
* Degenerate dominant
their “Promised Land”; that their gates to slavery. However, this is a
minority:
race is pre-destined to an honoured passing phase; but it will pass only
place among the nations. Their Take the second condition. If if the fundamental devotion of
passionate faith in eh Jewish nation a large section of the dominant the average Indian to the
therefore is a burning flame welding minority prefers caste, region, Motherland is so strengthened
them together. IT drives them to linguism or religion as the object that it will sweep away the caste
perform the superhuman task of of paramount loyalty, the will to unity or regional loyalties. We will
making ancient Hebrew a modern will be fragmented . In all countries, have to go through distressing trials
bond of unity ( while we in India most people who constitute the if this does not happen in the
denigrate Sanskrit, the mother of dominant minority have a variety of immediate future. (Now Telangana
all our and Europe’s languages) and loyalties; loyalty to one’s family, to versus Seemandhra Assamese
face the potential disasters with the one’s caste or class, to one’s region versus Bengali’s & Hindus)
indomitable calmness of a God- or language, to one’s religion and
to one’s nation. In a property inter- * Conquering culture
inspired mystic.
related scheme of loyalties, the colonises the mind:
* We developed a sense of
loyalty to the nation should The third condition arises from
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an impact of a conquering culture seeks to force Western ourselves in jails.
upon another. It raises no problems experiments on our people while In recent years, the dominant
in USA and the countries of Europe, this class complains that the minority ( Macaulayan Indians,
for there basically the outlook of masses do not respond to its call, Nehruvian socialist and secularists
the dominating minority and the it does not see that the fault is its and Marxists, the fellow -travelling
masses is the same, for the own. It has not learnt to reflect the “eminent” historians centered
leaders have drawn inspiration mind of the masses. It does not around the Jawaharlal Nehru
from the soil. (Do Muslims and know the idiom of their life. IT is University) in India, with its sense
Christians place motherland above too deeply engrossed in leading, of mission weakened, has failed to
their religious community; Muslims directing and organising from a inspire us to collective action. At
refuse to sing Vandemataram) higher pedestal. It does not realise one time I thought that tree planting
In India and in several countries that the aliens, though they may would become a spontaneous
in Asia, however, the outlook of the not be in blood and religion but only national movement as in Japan; our
dominant minority which has grown in feeling and thought, could only officers, too superior to care for
up under the influence of an alien enforce a change, they could mass reaction, saw to it that it just
culture ( these are the outcome of never inspire it. That is why the lapsed back into a forest department
the western mainly British ruling class in many countries finds activity.
education , introduced by the Communist technique of
coercing the masses to their way Annexure#2
Macaulay who wrote the
following notorious Note, in 1835 of living so handy. As early as in 1888, that is
for the House of Commons of The Last Factor of great just 3 years after the Indian
Great Britain: “I have travelled importance which goes to make a National Congress was
across the length and breadth of vigorous nation is the capacity of founded, Sir Sayyed Ahmed
India and I have not seen one the people for collective action. Khan the first tallest western
person who is a beggar, who is a educated Muslim of India made
thief. Such wealth I have seen in
The will to national unity is a speech in Meerut on 16th
sustained only when the people are March 1888 asserting that
this country, such high moral led, time and again, by the dominant
values, people of such caliber, Muslims are a separate nation.
minority to act with a common He advised the Muslims not to
that I do not think we would ever motive. The will when untranslated
conquer this country, unless we join the Indian National
into action is only a morbid Congress. His speech was titled
break the very backbone of this sentiment. Lurid examples of such
nation, which is her spiritual and “One Country Two Nations”.
sentiment having dominated us in Here are excerpts.
cultural heritage and therefore I the past can be easily found in our
propose that we replace her old history.
and ancient education system, her
culture with ENGLISH!!!! ) which In the past, for instance, we In whose hands shall the
tends to differ from that of the dreamt of an Aryavarta and a administration and the Empire of
masses. As a result, the minority Vikramaditya for centuries but it did India rest? Now, suppose that all
is no longer emotionally responsive not generate power to take collective English, and the whole English
to the urges which characterise action When Prithviraj Chauhan army, were to leave India, taking
them, as it speaks, thinks and acts fought Mohamed Ghori on the with them all their cannon and
under the influence of an alien North-West Frontier, the rest of their splendid weapons and
outlook; the masses also do not Hindu India looked on, and some of everything, then who would be
feel a sense of identity with it. his Hindu neighbours nibbled at his rulers of India? Is it possible that
Once this situation arises, the home territory. (Just as Muslim under these circumstances two
dominant minority, however active, residents of India are unconcerned nations — the Mahomedans and
is looked upon as alien and the will with what Pakistan is doing in the Hindus — could sit on the
to unity becomes weak... Kashmir and communists are same throne and remain equal in
unconcerned wit what China is power? Most certainly not. It is
It was expected that, after wanting to do and doing in Arunachal necessary that one of them should
freedom , our dominant minority, Pradesh, Aksai Chin& Laddakh) conquer the other and thrust it
following the Gandhian lead, would down. To hope that both could
maintain this sense of identity with If any man knew the secret of remain equal is to desire the
the Indian masses. Unfortunately, inspiring collective action, it was impossible and the inconceivable.
a new class (Macaulayans, Gandhiji. Not only he gave us a At the same time you must
Nehruvian socialist and secularist sense of mission but led us to spin remember that although the
and Marxist ) has sprung up which in a mass, to learn Hindu and to number of Mahomedans is less
again speaks in Western terms and invite Harijans into our temples, to than that of the Hindus, and
break laws and go and herd
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although they contain far fewer people who have To
received a high English education, yet they must
not be thought insignificant or weak. Probably they
would be by themselves enough to maintain their
own position. But suppose they were not. Then our
Mussalman brothers, the Pathans, would come out
as a swarm of locusts from their mountain valleys,
and make rivers of blood to flow from their frontier
in the north to the extreme end of Bengal. This thing
— who, after the departure of the English, would
be conquerors — would rest on the will of God.
But until one nation had conquered the other and
made it obedient, peace could not reign in the land.
This conclusion is based on proofs so absolute that
no one can deny it.
They (Bengalis,Hindus) are altogether ignorant themselves into one nation merely by means of
of the method by which a foreign race can maintain subjecting them to a democratic constitution and
its rule over other races. Therefore reflect on the holding them forcibly together by unnatural and artificial
doings of your ancestors... methods of British Parliament statutes. What the
unitary government of India for 150 years had failed
Oh! my brother Musalmans! I again remind you to achieve cannot be realized by the imposition of
that you have ruled nations, and have for centuries a central federal government .
held different countries in your grasp. For seven
hundred years in India you have had Imperial sway. History has presented to us many examples such
You know what it is to rule... as the Union of Great Britain and Ireland,
Czechoslovakia and Poland. History has also shown
He who had read the Koran and believes it, to us many geographical tracts, much smaller than
he can know that our nation cannot expect friendship the sub-continent of India, which otherwise might have
and affection from any other people. At this time been called one country but which have been divided
our nation is in a bad state as regards education into as many states as there are nations inhabiting
and wealth, but God has given us the light of them. The Bulkan peninsula comprises as many as
religion, and the Koran is present for our guidance, seven or eight sovereign states. Likewise, the
which has ordained them (the British) and us to be Portuguese and the Spanish stand divided in the
friends. Now God has made them rulers over us. Iberian Peninsula Whereas under the plea of unity
Therefore we should cultivate friendship with them, of India and one nation which does not exist, it
and should adopt that method by which their rule is sought to pursue here the line of one central
may remain permanent and firm in India, and may government when we know that the history of eh last
not pass into the hands of the Bengalis (i.e Hindus). twelve hundred years has failed to achieve unity and
Annexure#3 has witnessed, during these ages, India always
divided into Hindu India and Muslim India. The present
Md.Ali Jinnah ( b. 25 Dec 1876 d. 11 Sept
artificial unity of India dates back only to eh British
1948) who is identified as singularly responsible
conquest and is maintained by the British bayonet
for the division of India and creation of the Islamic
but he termination of the British regime, which is
state of Pakistan, had in his famous March 1940
implicit in the recent declaration of His Majesty’s
in Lahore speech to the Muslim League when
government, will be the herald of the entire break-up
it adopted the Pakistan resolution, once again
with worse disaster than has ever taken place during
asserted that Muslims are a separate nation,
the last one thousand years under Muslims. Surely,
separate from Hindus and other non – Muslims.
that is not the legacy which Britain would bequeath
Here are excepts from his speech.
to India after 150 years of her rule,nor would Hindu
Notwithstanding thousand years of close contact, and Muslim India risk such a sure catastrophe.
nationalities which are as divergent today as ever
cannot at anytime be expected to transform
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