Real culprits of the Two-Nation theory

• Real culprits of the Two-Nation theory

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  • Author: Rakesh Sinha
    Publication: The Pioneer
    Date: March 27, 2002

  • The only subscriber of the pernicious Two-nation Theory, besides the All India Muslim League, was the Communist Party of India (CPI). No Hindu group supported or demanded Partition. When the constituent Assembly was discussing the future constitution and polity of the country, Hindu groups do not demand for a Hindu state. The manipulation and distortion of facts have always been the tools of ideological history to reproach adversaries keeping the present in the mind for any historical blunder. Indian historiography is barely free from such lapses on the part of "professional" historians. It is due to this, VD Savarkar or Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, Hindu Mahasabha leaders, are equated with Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Liaquat Ali. In its political trajectory, at no point of time the Mahasabha, least to say the RSS, demanded Partition of the country.

    Savarkar's work, Hindutva, indeed delineating that Hindus and Muslims are two different civilisations and cultures, should not and does not infer his advocacy for two nation theory. He also discussed racial and ancestral unity of both the communities. It should not be forgotten that he always emphasised common citizenship to the minorities in the independent India.

    "Anti-Pakistan day" was a favourite programme of the HMS in 40s. Yet Marxist historians do not evaluate his philosophy in totality and only selective quotes have been used to equate him with Jinnah. Not only this, he is more hated personality in the secularist discourse than the founders of Pakistan.

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Q & A | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

• Q & A | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

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  • Questions and Answers

  • Jinnah's two-nation theory is not only implicit in Savarkar's concept of 'Hindutva'; Savarkar also stated it explicitly. Speaking at the Hindu Mahasabha session at Ahmedabad in 1937 he said," India cannot be assumed to be an unitarian and homogenous nation, but on the contrary there are two nations in the main, the Hindus and the Muslims in India". Critics of Savarkar have gone so far as to call him the father of the two-nation theory! Comment.
    

    The two-nation theory long antedated Savarkar's 1937 Hindu Mahasabha presidential speech. In 1930, Sir Muhammad Iqbal became Muslim League President and for the first time publicly demanded an independent, sovereign Muslim state. "I would like to see the Punjab, the North-West Frontier Province, Sindh and Baluchistan amalgamate into a single state. Self-government within the British Empire or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me the final destiny of the Muslims at least of North-Western India," declared Iqbal. Indeed, the roots of Pakistan may be traced to Islamic theology that considers Muslims to be an ummah that is distinct and indeed at constant war with infidels. Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto bluntly wrote, .The starting point of Pakistan goes back a thousand years to when Muhammad-bin-Qasim set foot on the soil of Sind and introduced Islam in the sub-continent" (quoted in 'The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India', KS Lal, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 1992, p 327). Savarkar was a keen student of Islam and being a hard realist, he merely stated the obvious.

  • Mahasabha President Veer Savarkar gave the above clarification when asked about the statement issued by some journalists in Nagpur.
    .You always say that in Hindusthan, Hindus are a nation and that the Mussalmans and others are communities. How does one reconcile this statement and the statement that there are two nations in Hindusthan?. When asked this question, Veer Savarkar replied, .I had clarified this in my Nagpur interview. But instead of reporting this, journalists simply reported that I accept the two-nation theory. This has resulted in the whole misunderstanding. I am surprised that a storm has been raised now on this issue. Because I have always been referring to the two-nation theory right from my Ahmedabad speech.

    It is a historic truth that the Mussulmans are a .nation.. I had clarified the historical and racial background of this theory in Nagpur. Islam is a theocratic nation based on the Koran right from its inception. This nation never had geographical boundaries. Wherever the Mussulmans went, they went as a nation. They also came to Hindusthan as a .nation.. Wherever they go, Mussulmans shall either remain foreigners or rulers. As per the Koran, those who are not Mussulmans are kafirs, enemies of Islam. Even today, after praying in the mosque, Mussulmans ask for atonement for committing the sin of living in a kafir-ruled state. As per the principle of Mussulmans, the earth is divided into two nations . Dar-ul Islam (land of Islam) and Dar-ul Harb where Islam does not rule (enemy land). As per their religious command, their campaign on Hindusthan was as a separate nation.

  • Seizing the right opportunity and taking advantage of the Congress. policy of surrender, the Muslim League once again emphatically put forth that same old theory of the Mussulman nation being a separate nation. If one turns a blind eye to this reality, the Hindu Nation is bound to be divided. So we do not care if you consider yourself to be a separate nation. The effort towards Hindu consolidation is to emphatically state that the Hindu Nation is a self-evident and unified Nation. The Mahasabha came forward as a separate and mighty national organization of the Hindu Nation. Hindu Nationalism gave a cutting edge to the effort of consolidation.
  • To summarize, the Hindu Mahasabha under Savarkar occupied positions of power whenever possible not to enjoy power per se but to safeguard Hindu interests. It is noteworthy that Savarkar himself never occupied a position of power. If he had wished, he could have joined the Congress and led a cushy life. He chose to stand up to the dominant line of thinking in the country at the time and speak what was in the best interests of the Hindus.
  • Guru Govind Singh was one of Savarkar.s heroes. Savarkar was honoured at the Golden Temple (Hari Mandir) in Amritsar during his tour of Punjab.

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गोत्र विवाह पर क्या कहता है हिंदू मैरिज ऐक्ट?-फोकस-विचार मंच-Navbharat Times

• गोत्र विवाह पर क्या कहता है हिंदू मैरिज ऐक्ट?-फोकस-विचार मंच-Navbharat Times

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  • गोत्र सिस्टम इसलिए बनाया गया, ताकि किसी शख्स के पूर्वजों का पता चल सके। जानकारों के मुताबिक हजारों साल पहले ऋषियों व मुनियों के यहां उनके तमाम शिष्य दीक्षा लेते थे। इनके बीच आपसी विवाह आदि वर्जित था। इनके वंशजों ने भी इस परंपरा को कायम रखा। ये शिष्य अलग-अलग जातियों के थे लेकिन इनके गोत्र का निर्धारण उनके गुरु के नाम के मुताबिक हुआ। परंपरागत मैरिज सिस्टम में एक गोत्र में शादी पर बैन है। अभी भी देश के कई इलाकों में एक गोत्र में शादी नहीं होती, लेकिन 1955 में हिंदू मैरिज ऐक्ट बना और सभी पुराने परंपरागत कानून बदल दिए गए।

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हिंदू तख्त ने जारी किया कैलेंडर और पंचांग - new calendar released - www.bhaskar.com

• हिंदू तख्त ने जारी किया कैलेंडर और पंचांग - new calendar released - www.bhaskar.com

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    हिंदू तख्त के मुख्य सेवादार राजीव टंडन व संजीव घई ने कैलेंडर संबंधी जानकारी देते हुए बताया कि पंजाब में कैलेंडर की दो लाख प्रतियों का निशुल्क वितरण किया जाएगा। उन्होंने कहा कि कैलेंडर जारी करने का मुख्य उद्देश्य नई पीढ़ी को संस्कारों व त्योहारों से परिचित करवाना है।

    
    
    

    आगामी आयोजन की जानकारी देते हुए अमर टक्कर ने बताया कि हिंदू तख्त की ओर से 2 मई को पठानकोट में विशाल हिंदू सम्मेलन का आयोजन किया जाएगा। महामंडलेश्वर स्वामी 1008 संजीव हरि की अध्यक्षता वाले इस सम्मेलन में सनातन धर्म प्रचार सामग्री वितरित की जाएगी। इस अवसर पर राकेश कपूर, संजीव घई, मनोज भाटिया, दविंदर कुमार, तेलुराम व शरणजीत चाहल उपस्थित रहे।

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पाक में हिंदू लड़की मदरसा में बंदी - A hindu girl is in captive in a Madarsa in Pakist - www.bhaskar.com

• पाक में हिंदू लड़की मदरसा में बंदी - A hindu girl is in captive in a Madarsa in Pakist - www.bhaskar.com

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  • पाक पंजाब के  रहीम यार खान जिले के लियाकतपुर की कच्ची मंडी से महंगा राम की 15 वर्षीय बेटी गजरी को पिछले साल 21 दिसंबर को एक पड़ोसी मुस्लिम ने अगवा कर उससे जबरी निकाह करवा लिया।
    
    इस समय गजरी मदरसे में रह रही है। अंसार बर्नी ट्रस्ट इंटरनेशनल के प्रमुख एवं पूर्व केंद्रीय मंत्री अंसार बर्नी ने बताया कि लड़की को उसके मां-बाप से मिलने नहीं दिया जा रहा।
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