HINDUTVA---THE DEFENCE OF THE HINDUS ... 1

HINDUTVA---THE DEFENCE OF THE HINDUS ... 1

The unity of India post-Partition thus far is standing on the shoulders of a large Hindu-majority population. The day this demographic balance significantly shifts, the country will see segmentation again. It is not the alleged divisive politics of BJP that will be responsible for it but that of forces opposed to it which are fuelling the growth of antinational activities to that effect. 

The Islamic political ideology of the transformation of Dar-ul-Harb (House of War) to Dar-ul-lslam (House of Islam) which was the mainspring of Muslim inspiration to partition India in 1947 is still vibrant in Muslim minds. If politicians stoke this fire of fanaticism, it will again raise its ugly head and divide India in due course as Muslim population spurts. So, to blame Hindutva which is the defence of Hindus and Hindustan against this separatist ideology and movement as the cause of a prospective second Partition is puerile, nay, perverse, if not outright perfidious. To obfuscate the real cause of separatist trouble that lies in Islamic scriptural mandate itself and put the blame conveniently and consistently on Hindutva is a cunning self-serving manoeuvre that is common among critical Communists and Congressmen and in indoctrinated Islamists and proselytising Christians. To run down Hindutva by damning the RSS, the BJP and all allied orders that are standing up to combat Islamic, Christian and Communist conspiracy to destroy our Sanatan civilisation, culture and dharma is the secular fashion of the day. But such antinational forces must not be trusted. Their constant challenge to rising Hindutva must in turn be challenged rationally on the basis of evidence, Islamic scriptural commandment and separatist activity, Christian conversion data, Communist ideology and historical fact. The rising tide of Hindutva is our civilisational response to the dangers that lie ahead in the face of growing Muslim population with its baggage of theological dictates to which all Muslims subscribe. Add to it Christian evangelism and Communist subversion, and you have your picture perfect of perfidious patriotism that pretends to protect our so-called secular fabric which was engendered though in a bloody genocide of Hindus in 1947. That Hindus did retaliate is another matter. But it was initiated and sustained by Muslim mass slaughter of Hindus.

'Unity in diversity' is the cry of passionate patriots wearing the armband of secularism. It is secularism indeed as critics of Hindutva claim it to be their Matrimantra. But more on that later. It needs depth-discussion.

Written by Sugata Bose