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Articles: My Thoughts | Cry for a Hindu Nation
- Miss swatireddy swati
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I cannot help coming to the conclusion that the Muslim and British invasions of India, though defeated and dispersed, have yet managed to 'crystallize' certain 'residues' – psychological and intellectual – which a battered Hindu society is finding it very difficult to digest. It is suspected that these residues in the monopoly control of the Congress party are now in active alliance with powerful international forces and are being aided and abetted on a scale which an impoverished Hindu society cannot match.
Although at loggerheads among themselves till 2004, these residues have forged a 'United Front' which is holding Hindu society under a siege today. This grave mortal danger is as much promoted 'from within' as 'from without'.
It is against this background it has become necessary for all the Hindus of India, living in India and abroad, to become resolved in their collective declaration to the world: 'We Hindus are a nation'.
In 1946 when the Muslim League's demand for partition of India and creation of a separate State of Pakistan was being seriously debated, someone asked M.A. Jinnah: 'You keep taking of Pakistan. Could you explain what is your concept of this Pakistan? What do you really mean by it?' Jinnah replied: 'Of course. In just five words'. Then Jinnah uttered those five famous words: 'We Muslims are a Nation' and he went on to elaborate his thesis of cultural difference, incompatibility and impossibility of co-existence with Hindus, and so on.
An outstanding intellectual and brilliant scholar who paid a heavy price for his unimpeachable integrity in the Indian Administrative Service to which belonged, Abhas Chatterjee, wrote a seminal book 'The Concept of Hindu Nation' in 1995, a few years before his death. If his name had been Christopher Chatterjee or if he had converted to Islam and called himself Abayathulla Killji, the mafia of pseudo-secular mass media would have highlighted the importance of this work for promoting the hegemony of religious minorities in India.
According to Abhas Chatterjee, our misconception regarding Hindu Nation, Hindutva and Hindu Rashtra has arisen from the fact that we have not tried to comprehend the definition of a nation. We normally take a nation to stand for a country, a land mass, a specific portion of the globe. But a nation never means a land as such. A nation indicates a group or community of people which has been traditionally living in a particular land, which has its own distinctive culture, and which has an identity separate from other peoples of the world by virtue of the distinctiveness of its culture.
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