Why Nehru acted like a bloated Brown Sahib who distrusted Hindus and Hinduism

Editor’s observe: The late Sita Ram Goel, a outstanding historian, author, and writer, had Left leanings in the course of the Nineteen Forties, however later turned an outspoken anti-communist. He additionally wrote extensively on the harm to Bharatiya tradition and heritage wrought by Nehruvianism. The above article is an extract from Goel’s guide, How I Grew to become a Hindu, first revealed by Voice of India in 1982.

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Right this moment, I view Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as a bloated Brown Sahib, and Nehruism because the mixed embodiment of all of the imperialist ideologies — Islam, Christianity, White Man’s Burden, and Communism — which have flooded this nation within the wake of international invasions. And I shouldn’t have the least doubt in my thoughts that if India is to stay, Nehruism should die. After all, it’s already dying underneath the load of its sins towards the Indian individuals, their nation, their society, their economic system, their setting, and their tradition. What I plead is {that a} acutely aware rejection of Nehruism in all its varieties will hasten its demise, and save us from the mischief which it’s sure to create additional whether it is allowed to linger.

I’ve reached this conclusion after a examine of Pandit Nehru’s writings, speeches and insurance policies ever since he began looming massive on the Indian political scene. However lest my judgement sounds arbitrary, I’m making clear the premises from which I proceed. These premises themselves have been labored out by me by way of extended reflection on the society and tradition to which I belong.

I’ve already described how I returned to an abiding religion in Sanātana Dharma underneath the steering of Ram Swarup. The subsequent proposition which turned more and more clear to me in discussions with him, was that Hindu society which has been the automobile of Sanatana Dharma is a superb society and deserves all honour and devotion from its little children. Lastly, Bhāratavarša turned a holy land for me as a result of it has been and stays the homeland of Hindu society.

There are Hindus who begin the opposite manner spherical, that’s, with Bharatavarsa being a holy land (punyabhumi) just because it occurs to be their fatherland (pitribhumi) in addition to the sphere of their exercise (karmabhumi). They honour Hindu society as a result of their forefathers belonged to it, and fought the international invaders as Hindus. Small surprise that their notion of nationalism is solely territorial, and their notion of Hindu society not more than tribal. For me, nevertheless, the place to begin is Sanatana Dharma. With out Sanatana Dharma, Bharatavarsha for me is simply one other piece of land, and Hindu society simply one other meeting of human beings. So my dedication is to Sanatana Dharma, Hindu society, and Bhiratavarsha — in that order.

On this perspective, my first premise is that Sanatana Dharma, which is named Hinduism at current, shouldn’t be solely a faith but additionally a complete civilisation which has flourished on this nation for ages untold, and which is struggling to return into its personal once more after a protracted encounter with a number of types of predatory imperialism. Alternatively, I don’t regard Islam and Christianity as religions in any respect. They’re, for me, ideologies of imperialism… I see no place for them in India, now that India has defeated and dispersed Islamic and Christian regimes.

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I’ve no use for a secularism which teats Hinduism as simply one other faith, and places it on par with Islam and Christianity. For me, this idea of secularism is a gross perversion of the idea which arose within the fashionable West as a revolt towards Christianity and which ought to imply, within the Indian context, a revolt towards Islam as nicely. The opposite idea of secularism, specifically, sarva dharma samabhava, was formulated by Mahatma Gandhi with the intention to remedy Islam and Christianity of their aggressive self-righteousness, and cease them from effecting conversions from the Hindu fold. This second idea was deserted when the Structure of India conceded to Islam and Christianity the appropriate to transform as a basic proper. Those that invoke this idea with the intention to browbeat the Hindus are both blind to the Mahatma’s intention, or are intentionally distorting his message.

Mahatma Gandhi. Getty Pictures

My second premise is that Hindus of their ancestral homeland aren’t a mere group. For me, the Hindus represent the nation, and are the one people who find themselves within the unity, integrity, peace and prosperity of this nation. Alternatively, I don’t regard the Muslims and the Christians as separate communities. For me, they’re our personal individuals who have been alienated by Islamic and Christian imperialism from their ancestral society and tradition, and who’re being utilized by imperialist forces overseas as their colonies for creating mischief and strife within the Hindu homeland. I due to this fact, don’t subscribe to the thesis that Indian nationalism is one thing aside from and above Hindu nationalism.

For me, Hindu nationalism is similar as Indian nationalism. I’ve no use for the slogans of “composite tradition”, “composite nationalism” and “composite state”. And I’ve not the slightest doubt in my thoughts that each one those that mouth these slogans in addition to the slogan of “Hindu communalism”, are wittingly or unwittingly being traitors to the reason for Indian nationalism, it doesn’t matter what ideological attires they placed on and what positions they occupy within the current set-up.

My third premise is that Bhäratavarsa has been and stays the Hindu homeland par excellence. I repudiate the outline of Bhāratavarša because the Indian or Indo-Pak subcontinent. I refuse to concede that Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have ceased to be integral elements of the Hindu homeland just because they’ve handed underneath the heel of Islamic imperialism. Hindus have by no means laid declare to any land exterior the pure and well-defined borders of their historical homeland, both by proper of conquest or by invoking a promise made in some scripture. I, due to this fact, see no cause why Hindus ought to give up their declare to what they’ve legitimately inherited from their forefathers however what has been taken away from them via armed drive. Furthermore, until the Hindus liberate these elements of their homeland from the stranglehold of Islam, they may proceed to face the specter of aggression towards the half that is still of their possession at current. These so-called Islamic nations have been used up to now, and are getting used at current as launching pads for the conquest of India that has survived.

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My fourth premise is that the historical past of Bhāratavarsa is the historical past of Hindu society and tradition. It’s the historical past of how the Hindus created a civilisation which remained the dominant civilisation of the world for a number of millennia, how they turned complacent as a result of extra of energy and prosperity and uncared for the defences of their homeland, how they threw again or absorbed within the huge advanced of their society and tradition a collection of early invaders, and the way they fought the onslaughts of Islamic, Christian, and British imperialism for a number of centuries and survived.

I don’t recognise the Muslim rule in medieval India as an indigenous dispensation. For me, it was as a lot of a international rule because the latter-day British rule. The historical past of international invaders varieties no a part of the historical past of India, and stays part of the historical past of these nations from which the invaders got here, or of these cults to which they subscribed. And I don’t settle for the idea of an Aryan invasion of India within the second millennium BC. This principle was initially proposed by students as a tentative speculation for explaining the truth that the language spoken by the Indians, the Iranians and the Europeans belong to the identical household. And a tentative speculation it has remained until at present as far as the world of scholarship is anxious. It’s only the anti-national and separatist forces in India that are presenting this speculation as a incontrovertible fact with the intention to browbeat the Hindus, and fortify their divisive designs. I’ve studied the topic in some depth, and discover that the linguistic truth may be defined much more satisfactorily if the path of Aryan migration is reversed.

The advanced Muslim debate. Representational Picture from Reuters

These are my principal premises for passing judgement on Pandit Nehru and Nehruism. Many minor premises may be deduced from them for an in depth analysis of India’s religious traditions, society, tradition, historical past, and modern politics. It might be remembered that Pandit Nehru was not at all a novel character. Neither is Nehruism a novel phenomenon for that matter. Such weak-minded individuals and such subservient thought processes have been seen in all societies which have suffered the misfortune of being conquered and subjected to alien rule for a while. There are all the time individuals in all societies who confuse superiority of armed may with superiority of tradition, who begin despising themselves as belonging to an inferior breed and finish by taking to the methods of the conqueror with the intention to regain self-confidence, who start discovering faults with every thing they’ve inherited from their forefathers, and who lastly be a part of arms with each drive and issue which is out to subvert their ancestral society. Seen on this perspective, Pandit Nehru was not more than a self-alienated Hindu, and Nehruism shouldn’t be far more than Hindu-baiting born out of and sustained by a deep-seated sense of inferiority vis-à-vis Islam, Christianity, and the fashionable West.

Muslim rule in medieval India had produced a complete class of such self-alienated Hindus. They’d interpreted the prevalence of Muslim arms as symbolic of the prevalence of Muslim tradition. Over a time frame, that they had come to assume and behave just like the conquerors and to look down upon their very own individuals. They had been most blissful when employed in some Muslim institution in order that they may move as members of the ruling elite. The one factor that could possibly be stated of their favour was that, for one cause or the opposite, they didn’t convert to Islam and merge themselves fully in Muslim society. However for a similar cause, that they had change into Trojan horses of Islamic imperialism, and labored for knocking down the cultural defences of their very own individuals. The identical class walked over to the British facet when British arms turned triumphant. They retained most of these anti-Hindu prejudices which that they had borrowed from their Muslim masters, and cultivated some extra which had been contributed by the British institution and the Christian missions. That’s how British rule turned a divine dispensation for them. The most common product of this double course of was Raja Ram Mohun Roy.

Luckily for Hindu society, nevertheless, the self-alienated Hindu had not change into a dominant issue in the course of the Muslim rule. His class was confined to the city centres the place alone Muslim affect was current in a major measure. Second, the capability of Islam for manipulating human minds via ideological warfare was lower than poor. It labored principally via brute drive, and aroused sturdy resistance. Lastly, all through the interval of Muslim rule, the training of Hindu youngsters had remained in Hindu arms by and enormous. So the self-alienated Hindu existed and functioned solely on the margins of Hindu society, and rarely within the mainstream.

The rising unfold of Christianity in India. ANI

All this modified with the approaching of the British conquerors and the Christian missionaries. Their affect was not confined to the city centres as a result of their outposts had unfold to the countryside as nicely. Second, they had been outfitted with a inventory of concepts and the means for speaking them which had been much more competent as in comparison with the corresponding gear of Islam. And what made the massive distinction in the long term was that the training of Hindu youngsters was taken over by the imperialist and the missionary institutions. As a cumulative end result, the crop of self-alienated Hindus multiplied quick and several other fold.

Add to that the blitzkrieg towards genuine Hindus and in favour of the self-alienated Hindus mounted by the Communist equipment constructed up by Soviet imperialism. It’s at least a surprise in human historical past that Hindu society and tradition not solely survived the storm, but additionally produced a counter-attack underneath Maharshi Dayananda, Swami Vivekanand, Sri Aurobindo and Mahatma Gandhi comparable to earned for them the esteem of the world at massive. Even so, the self-alienated Hindus continued to multiply and flourish in a cultural milieu principally dominated by the fashionable West.

And so they got here to the highest within the post-Independence interval when no stalwart of the Hindu resurgence remained on the scene. The facility and status which Pandit Nehru acquired inside a number of years after the dying of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had nothing to do along with his personal deserves, both as an individual, or as a political chief, or as a thinker. They had been the result of an extended historic course of which had dropped at the fore a complete class of self-alienated Hindus. Pandit Nehru would have by no means come to the highest if this class had not been there. And this class wouldn’t have change into dominant or remained so, had it not been sustained by institutions within the West, notably that within the Soviet Union.

Mahatma Gandhi with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Wikimedia Commons

It isn’t an accident that the Nehruvian regime has behaved just like the British Raj in most respects. The Nehruvians have checked out India not as a Hindu nation however as a multi-racial, multi-religious and multi-cultural cockpit. They’ve tried their finest, just like the British, to suppress the mainstream society and tradition with the assistance of “minorities”, that’s, the colonies crystallised by imperialism. They’ve additionally tried to fragment Hindu society, and create extra “minorities” within the course of. Actually, it has been their whole-time occupation to get rid of each expression of Hindu tradition, to subvert each image of Hindu satisfaction, and persecute each Hindu organisation, within the identify of defending the “minorities”, Hindus have been introduced as monsters who will commit cultural genocide if allowed to return to energy.

Patition of India

The Partition of the nation was led to by Islamic imperialism. However the Nehruvians blamed it shamelessly on what they stigmatised as Hindu communalism. A conflict on the newly born republic of India was waged by the communists within the pursuits of Soviet imperialism. However the Nehruvians had been busy apologising for these traitors, and operating hammer and tongs after the RSS. There are lots of extra parallels between the British Raj on the one hand and the Nehruvian regime on the opposite. I’m not going into particulars as a result of I’m certain that the parallels will change into apparent to anybody who applies his thoughts to the topic. The Nehruvian method is that Hindus ought to stand accused in each scenario, irrespective of who’s the true perpetrator.

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