EQUIP IDEOLOGICALLY TO CHALLENGE THE
ANTI-NATIONAL RSS
Friends from India and abroad who are concerned
about the increasing threats to the democratic-secular Indian polity from the
Hindutva organizations have been writing to me for preparing a concise document
on the anti-national game-plan of the RSS and other like-minded offshoots. The
need of such a document is rightly felt for countering the Hindutva propaganda
at all levels. The following document is an attempt to accomplish this
objective. It is hoped that equipped with this document all those who love
India as a democratic-secular nation would be able to challenge the
fountain-head of the Hindutva politics. This document is based solely on the
documents drawn from the RSS archives.
This document underlines the following cardinal
principles of the RSS world view:
(1) RSS
IDOLIZES FASCISM & NAZISM.
(2) RSS
WANTS MANUSMRITI TO REPLACE DEMOCRATIC-SECULAR CONSTITUTION OF INDIA.
(3) RSS HAS
ETERNAL BELIEF IN CASTEISM.
(4) RSS
DENIGRATES THE NATIONAL FLAG.
(5) RSS
AGAINST DEMOCRAY AND FOR TOTALITARIANISM.
(6) RSS
AGAINST FEDERALISM.
(7) RSS'
HATRED FOR MUSLIMS & CHRISTIANS.
(8) RSS
AGAINST COMPOSITE INDIAN NATIONALISM.
(1) RSS
IDOLIZES FASCISM & NAZISM
Doubtlessly
Hitler is a great hero for RSS. The RSS as great champions of
Hindutva
want to deprive minorities of their all civil and human rights shamelessly and
openly adhering to the totalitarian models of Hitler. This fascist outlook
towards minorities specially Muslims and Christians was clearly elaborated by
the senior ideologue of the RSS, MS Golwalkar, in his book, We or Our
Nationhood Defined. This book published in the year 1939, gives an insight
into the thinking of the RSS leadership. We find Golwalkar in this book
idealizing the Nazi cultural nationalism of Hitler in the following words:
"German Race pride has now become the topic of the day.
To keep up
the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the
world by her purging the country of the Semitic Races—the Jews. Race
pride at
its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown
how well-nigh impossible it is for Races and cultures, having differences going
to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in
Hindusthan to learn and profit by."
[MS
Golwalkar, We Or Our Nationhood Defined, Bharat Publications, Nagpur,
1939, p. 35.]
Golwalkar
unhesitatingly wanted to model his Hindu Rashtra or Nation on
Hitler’s
totalitarian and fascist pattern as is clear from the following words of
his in the same book:
"It
is worth bearing well in mind how these old Nations solve their
minorities
[sic] problem. They do not undertake to recognize any separate element
in their
polity. Emigrants have to get themselves naturally assimilated in the principal
mass of the population, the National Race, by adopting its culture and language
and sharing in its aspirations, by losing all consciousness of their separate
existence, forgetting their foreign origin. If they do not do so, they live
merely as outsiders, bound by all the codes and conventions of the Nation, at
the sufferance of the Nation and deserving no special protection, far less any
privilege or rights. There are only two courses open to the foreign elements,
either to merge themselves in the national race and adopt its culture, or to
live at its mercy so long as the national race may allow them to do so and to
quit the country at the sweet will of the national race. That is the only sound
view on the minorities [sic] problem. That
is the only logical and correct solution. That alone keeps the national life
healthy and undisturbed. That alone keeps the nation safe from the danger of a
cancer developing into its body politic of the creation of a state within a
state."
[MS
Golwalkar, We Or Our Nationhood Defined, Bharat Publications, Nagpur,
1939, p. 47.]
(2) RSS WANTS MANUSMRITI TO REPLACE DEMOCRATIC-SECULAR
CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
RSS and its fraternal organization, Hindu
Mahasabha were very angry when Indian Constituent Assembly adopted a
democratic-Secular Constitution under the supervision of Dr. BR Ambedkar. VD
Savarkar as leader of Hindutva believed:
“Manusmriti is that scripture which is
most worship-able after Vedas for our Hindu Nation and which from ancient times
has become the basis of our culture-customs, thought and practice. This book
for centuries has codified the spiritual and divine march of our nation. Even
today the rules which are followed by crores of Hindus in their lives and
practice are based on Manusmriti. Today Manusmriti is Hindu Law”.
[VD
Savarkar, 'Women in Manusmriti' in Savarkar Samagar (collection
of Savarkar's writings in Hindi), vol. 4, Prabhat, Delhi, p. 416.]
The democratic-secular Indian Constitution was
adopted by the Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949, RSS English organ, Organizer
in an editorial on November 30, 1949, complained:
“But in our constitution there is no mention of
the unique constitutional development in ancient Bharat. Manu’s Laws were
written long before Lycurgus of Sparta or Solon of Persia.
To this day his laws as enunciated in the Manusmriti excite the admiration of
the world and elicit spontaneous obedience and conformity. But to our
constitutional pundits that means nothing”.
How loyal the RSS is to the Constitution of
India can be known by the following statement of Golwalkar:
“Our
Constitution too is just a cumbersome and heterogeneous piecing together of
various articles from various Constitutions of the Western countries. It has
absolutely nothing which can be called our own. Is there a single word of reference
in its guiding principles as to what our national mission is and what our
keynote in life is? No!”
[MS Golwalkar, Bunch
of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p. 238.]
(3) RSS
HAS ETERNAL BELIEF IN CASTEISM
Golwalkar, the most prominent ideologue of the
RSS like Savarkar, believed that Casteism was a natural integral part of
Hinduism. In fact, Golwalkar went to the extent of declaring that Casteism was
synonymous with the Hindu nation. According to him, the Hindu people are none
else but,
"the Virat
Purusha, the Almighty manifesting himself… [according to purusha sukta]
sun and moon are his eyes, the stars and the skies are created from his nabhi
[navel] and Brahmin is the head, Kshatriya the hands, Vaishya the thighs
and Shudra the feet. This means that the people who have this fourfold
arrangement, i.e., the Hindu People, is [sic] our God. This supreme
vision of Godhead is the very core of our concept of ‘nation’ and has permeated
our thinking and given rise to various unique concepts of our cultural
heritage. [Italics
as in the original]
[MS Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts,
Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, pp. 36-37.]
(4) RSS DENIGRATES THE NATIONAL FLAG
The English organ of the RSS, Organizer
(dated August 14, 1947) carried a feature titled 'mystery behind the bhagwa
dhawaj' (saffron flag) which while demanding hoisting of saffron flag at the ramparts
of Red Fort in Delhi, openly denigrated the choice of the Tri-colour as the
National Flag in the following words:
"The people who have come to power by the
kick of fate may give in our hands the Tricolour but it never be respected and owned
by Hindus. The word three is in itself an evil, and a flag having three colours
will certainly produce a very bad psychological effect and is injurious to a
country."
Thus the National Flag was declared to be
inauspicious and injurious for India!
(5) RSS AGAINST DEMOCRAY AND FOR
TOTALITARIANISM
The RSS since its inception loves absolute
power. Golwalkar while addressing the 1350 top level cadres of the RSS at its
headquarters at Nagpur in 1940 declared:
“The RSS
inspired by one flag, one leader and one ideology is lighting the flame of
Hindutva in each and every corner of this great land.”
[MS Golwalkar, Shri Guruji Samagar
Darshan (collected works of Golwalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna,
Nagpur, nd, vol. I, p. 11.]
This slogan of one flag, one leader and one
ideology was directly borrowed from the programmes of the Nazi and Fascist
Parties of Europe.
(6) RSS AGAINST FEDERALISM
On federalism Golwalkar sent the following
message to the first session of the National Integration Council in 1961. It
read:
“Today’s
federal form of government not only gives birth but also
nourishes the feelings of separatism, in a way refuses to recognize the fact of
one nation and destroys it. It must be completely uprooted, constitution
purified and unitary form of government be established.”
[MS Golwalkar, Shri Guruji Samagar
Darshan (collected works of Golwalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna,
Nagpur, nd, vol. III, p. 128.]
These have not been some stray ideas of the RSS
ideologue on the Indian
Federalism. The Bible of the RSS, Bunch of
Thoughts, has an exclusive chapter titled, ‘Wanted a unitary state’ in which
Golwalkar presenting his remedy to the federal set-up of
India wrote:
"The most important and effective step
will be to bury deep for good all
talk of a federal structure
of our country’s Constitution, to sweep away the existence of all ‘autonomous’
or semi-autonomous ‘states’ within the one state viz.,
Bharat and proclaim ‘One Country, One State, One Legislature, One Executive’
with no trace of fragmentational [sic], regional, sectarian,
linguistic or other types of pride being given a scope for playing havoc with
our integrated harmony. Let the Constitution be re-examined and re-drafted, so
as to establish this Unitary form of Government..."
[MS Golwalkar, Bunch
of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p. 227.]
(7) RSS' HATRED FOR MUSLIMS & CHRISTIANS
Organizations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad
(VHP), Hindu Jagran Manch (HJM) and Bajrang Dal (BD), and other affiliates of
the RSS after using Gujarat as a laboratory for religious cleansing of
minorities specially Christians and Muslims for last so many years are
spreading their tentacle throughout India. The leaflets containing highly
provocative statements like,
“‘Muslims
are filth of the gutter, don’t let them enter in your houses’, or ‘Wherever
Christian priests have gone in the world, they loot the people.
Lies and deceit are their religion. The Christian priests teach people
to tell lies, to steal in the name of religion…They curse Hindus, and
decry the Hindu religion. Awaken Hindus and struggle against these thieves who
lie, who rob you of your rights, and bring these people
to their senses and put their pride in place’, or ‘One addition in the
population of Christians or Muslims is not only the addition of anti-Hindu but
anti-national person.’”
[Leaflets
circulated by the RSS offsprings like VHP, Hindu Jagaran Manch, and Bajrang
Dal]
The
‘Holy’ book for the RSS cadres Bunch of
Thoughts, has a long chapter titled as ‘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.”
[MS Golwalkar, Bunch
of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p. 177.]
While
treating Muslims as hostile element number one he goes on to elaborate,
“Even to this day there are so many who say,
‘now there is no Muslim problem at all. All those riotous elements who
supported Pakistan have gone away once for all. The remaining Muslims are
devoted to our country. After all, they have no other place to go and they are bound to
remain loyal’….It would be suicidal to delude ourselves into believing
that they have turned patriots overnight after the creation of Pakistan. On the
contrary, the Muslim menace has increased a hundredfold by the creation of
Pakistan which has become a springboard for all their future aggressive designs
on our country.”
[MS Golwalkar, Bunch
of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, pp. 177-78.]
He goes
on to spit venom against common Muslims in the following words:
“...within
the country there are so many Muslim pockets, i.e., so many
‘miniature Pakistans’… The conclusion is that,
in practically every
place,
there are Muslims who are in constant touch with Pakistan
over the transmitter…”
[MS Golwalkar, Bunch
of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p. 185.]
While
deliberating on the ‘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.”
[MS Golwalkar, Bunch
of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p. 193.]
Golwalkar, finally, following into the
footsteps of Hitler had the following solution of the minority problem in India:
“From this stand point, sanctioned by the
experience of shrewd old nations, the foreign races in Hindusthan must either
adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn to respect and hold in
reverence Hindu religion, must entertain no idea but those of the glorification
of the Hindu race and culture, i.e., of the Hindu nation and must lose their
separate existence to merge in the Hindu race, or may stay in the country,
wholly subordinated to the Hindu Nation, claiming nothing, deserving no
privileges, far less any preferential treatment not even citizen’s
rights. There is, at least should be, no other course for them to
adopt. We are an old nation: let us deal, as old nations ought to and do deal,
with the foreign races who have chosen to live in our
country.”
[MS Golwalkar, We
Or Our Nationhood Defined, Bharat Publications, Nagpur, 1939, pp. 47-48.]
The RSS
hatred for Muslims and Christians does not mean that it accords equality to
other religious Indian minorities like Sikhs, Buddhist and Jains. It does not
accord the status of independent religions to Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism and
treats them as part of Hinduism.
(8) RSS AGAINST COMPOSITE INDIAN NATIONALISM
Importantly, the RSS organ Organizer in its
issue on the very eve of Independence, dated 14 August, 1947, rejected the
whole concept of a composite nation (under the editorial title ‘Whither’):
”Let us no longer allow
ourselves to be influenced by false notions of nationhood. Much of the mental
confusion and the present and future troubles can be removed by the ready
recognition of the simple fact that in Hindusthan only the Hindus form the
nation and the national structure must be built on that safe and sound
foundation […] the nation itself must be built up of Hindus, on Hindu
traditions, culture, ideas and aspirations”.
LINKS FOR MORE MATERIAL ON
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https://www.academia.edu/4727904/Rashtriya_Swayamsevak_Sangh_and_Politics_Conspiracy_is_the_Mantra
https://www.academia.edu/4898365/RSS_Ideologue_Nana_Deshmukh_Condoned_The_Massacre_Of_Sikhs_In_1984
https://www.academia.edu/4209015/The_Freedom_Movement_and_the_RSS_A_Story_of_Betrayal_Hindi_version_
https://www.academia.edu/2464034/RSS_s_Tryst_with_Terrorism_Past_and_Present
https://www.academia.edu/11936340/AAB_BARI_AMBEDKAR_KEE_Now_is_the_turn_of_Ambedkar_
http://www.academia.edu/4181477/Open_letter_to_Hindu_Nationalist_and_Gujarat_Chief_Minister_Narendra_Modi_in_Gujarati_
http://www.academia.edu/4091454/Hindu_Nationalist_Narendra_Modi_ke_naam_khula-patr_an_open_letter_to_Hindu_Nationalist_Modi_
https://www.academia.edu/11939263/The_Hijacking_of_Babasaheb
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https://www.academia.edu/3502488/Not_the_First_Controversy_Over_Vande_Mataram_by_Shamsul_Islam
https://www.academia.edu/1103098/Tiranga_For_Muslims_And_Saffron_For_Hindus_By_Shamsul_Islam_
http://du-in.academia.edu/ShamsulIslam
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