Towards balkanization

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Towards balkanization >Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:19:39 -0700 > >Title: Towards

Balkanisation >Author: Varsha Bhosle >Publication: Rediff >August 12,

2002 > > On August 2, the Supreme Court heard Solicitor General Harish Salve

read > out a 1992 question paper set for West Bengal's higher secondary Hindi >

examination under the auspices of its Communist government. Students were >

asked to write an essay on one of the following: > > National unity and

integrity are false political slogans. > In Hindustan, there is no place for

Hindu and Hindi. > Five-year plans are a sham. > Statistics on national

development are a fraud. > Democracy is a conspiracy. > National revolution is

the only way for progress. > > The students were also given a choice to précis

the passage: "New Delhi is a > heartless administrative seat, on which sit not

elected representatives of > people, but anti-social poisonous snakes coming

out of the caste jungle. Progress has been > destroyed by tradition, education

by the English medium, religion by political secularism, human > beings by

greed, idealism by dirty consumerism..." > > Or, expanding upon: "Red Flag in

Red Fort is the demand of Hindustan." > > Next came a question in the

mathematics paper for the 1999-2000 annual examination for Class > VI students

in a higher secondary school: "Three friends, Pervez, Atal and Bill went on a

picnic. > Pervez bought 750 grams of meat at Rs 120 a kg; Atal bought other

food for Rs 75, and Bill gave > some money to Atal and Pervez, so that their

expenditure was equal. How much money did Atal > and Pervez receive from Bill?"

> > At which point, Justice M B Shah got the gist of it and asked Mr Salve "not

to read any more." > > Of course the papers are hilariously blatant examples of

leftist indoctrination, variations of which > are being hammered into Indian

children since the prime ministership of Jawaharlal Nehru, he of > Glimpses of

World History. However, more hilarious and blatant are the comments in The >

Telegraph's report: > > Salve *dramatically* brought out a question paper... >

Justice Shah stopped the court room *drama*... > Salve also attached *BJP

propaganda material* against this question... > > When the scribe -- or the

copy editor -- couldn't avoid reporting material damaging to his > ideological

masters, he ensured that readers at least got the impression that the Solicitor

General > of India is no more than a loud actor, one carrying a Hindutva party

card. No matter that the > "propaganda" Mr Salve "attached" to his argument

was: "Marxists, who have reached ideological > bankruptcy, are now targeting

young students through education in West Bengal. They are making > an attempt

to sow poisonous seeds, reflective of their low thinking, into the

consciousness of the > children in Burdwan district of West Bengal." > > But

even more comical is the impetus for Mr Salve's sins: The court is hearing a

public interest > litigation filed by social activist Aruna Roy, columnist B G

Verghese and sociologist Meena Tyabji, > challenging the revised national

curriculum -- which is "saffron" and "impinges on the country's > secular

character," hahahahahaha... > > And how reasonable was the pinko attack? Well,

when their counsel repeatedly made disparaging > references to Hindu castes and

scriptures, the Bench shot him down with: "Do not abuse any > caste, do not

abuse the word 'Brahmin' as it has a wider meaning... How can India live

without the > Vedas and the Upanishads which are the essence of the spiritual

heritage of the country? If you > look at it with a coloured approach, it is

coloured." Thank god for the Supreme Court. > > "Islam and Christianity are the

only religions which treated man with honour and equality," is an > extract from

a textbook for Class V in West Bengal. From the books written by our "eminent" >

historians, we learn that Veer Savarkar, Khudi Ram Bose and Hardayal were

terrorists; Bengal's > disparate revolutionaries, bound by their devotion to Ma

Kali, were terrorists; Aurangzeb was a > "zinda pir"; in ancient India, "people

ate beef but did not take pork on any considerable scale"; > Chhatrapati

Shivaji's victories were a mere "growth of Maratha national sentiment"; Jats

were > "plunderers"; the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur "was due to the

intrigues of some members of > his family"; and Alauddin's attack on Chittor to

get Padmini is a "popular legend." > > Fortunately, my school curriculum was

regulated by, what was known as, Senior Cambridge (yup, > a thorough

Macaulite). So I can discern why Prof Amartya Sen sees nothing wrong in "Red

Flag > in Red Fort is the demand of Hindustan," even as he claims an "organised

attempt [is] on to distort > history." Or why Prof Irfan Habib is silent about

"In Hindustan, there is no place for Hindu," even > as he states that the Sangh

Parivar wants to "present facts in such a fashion as to inculcate 'pride in >

the nation' which in turn is the India of their narrow imagination." > > "India

of their narrow imagination"? Not too long ago, Pakistani columnist Irfan

Hussain wrote in > the Dawn: "Recently, a very perceptive and learned Indian

reader wrote me a long e-mail in > which... he argued that over time, large

groupings of disparate nationalities like India would break > up into their

component parts which would then be more vibrant entities, freed from the

stifling > stranglehold of the centre." Need we wonder about the ideological

moorings of this Indian > reader...? Especially in the light of "National unity

and integrity are false political slogans"? > > Did you, for instance, know that

the thesis of a Sikh homeland -- propagated as "Khalistan" in the > 1980s -- was

propounded for the first time by the Communists in the 1940s, had its roots in

the > Soviets' Thesis of Nationalities, and was drafted by CPI-M's Harkishan

Singh Surjeet...? > Though the final draft of the Sikh homeland thesis was

published in the name of senior leader > Gangadhar Adhikari on behalf of the

CPI in 1944 (the Punjabi translation was done by CPI's > Avtar Singh Malhotra

in 1946), Surjeet is the one to whom we owe the concept of Khalistan. > > The

creation of political instability is a key feature of the Left's politics. They

neither believe in > parliamentary democracy nor do they accept the existence of

one Indian nationality -- their views > on nationality inclining towards the

balkanisation of the Indian state. During the 1940s, the CPI > supported the

Muslim League's demand for Pakistan and Gangadhar Adhikari became the >

self-styled spokesman of the League. The pinkos held that the country must

concede the Muslims' > "right to self-determination accompanied by the right of

autonomous state of existence" -- > prompting Khwaja Ahmed Abbas, himself a

leftist, to say, "India was killed by the CPI, which > provided the Muslim

separatists with an ideological basis for the irrational and anti-national >

demand for Pakistan." > > Even after Independence, the 1951 Madurai congress of

the CPI, and the third party congress in > 1953, endorsed the "right of

nationalities and their right to self-determination." That spirit of >

balkanisation still exists in their concept of Indian nationality -- and is the

mooring of the "learned > Indian reader" who dreams of an India shattering into

tiny pieces. Hindutva at least has an > imagination of India; Communism wishes

its annihilation. > > Which is why India is touted as a "multilingual,

multinational and multiracial subcontinent, and it > was merged into a single

state under British rule by the British bayonet." Which is why Adivasis > are

"animists." Which is why "if India had a golden age before the coming of the

Muslims, it was a > Buddhist age." Which is why there's nothing like a Hindu

period in Indian history. Which is why > Ramakrishna Missions are attacked by

the CPI-M's goons. Which is why a separate identity is > legitimised as a

"sub-nationality." Which is why the demand for the UCC is condemned as an >

attack on the existence of minorities... > > Bottom-line: Should India's 85 per

cent majority get a sense of pride in its Hindu identity, the Red > blocks would

swiftly come tumbling down. > > Nevertheless, I must admit that pinkos think

laterally. While the few proud Hindus who still exist in > India are busy

defending their religion in their own backyard, the leftists have embarked on

an > attack to weaken Hinduism's roots abroad -- among whites! Wow, I didn't

even know about the > threat of Hinduism entering mainstream America. Ace pinko

Vijay Prashad brought it to my notice > with his article, "Suburban Whites and

Pogroms in India," in Z Magazine. > > Overtly, this piece acts as a warning to

whites to stop funding the Sangh Parivar for its supposed > pogroms against

minorities in India, and is the usual spit-and-bile trash pinkos regularly

churn out. > Normally, like the other 15-per-week of this genre, I'd have

junked the piece after a scan. But this > got my attention with its

anti-Hinduism undercurrent -- one that subtly ridicules whites for being >

attracted to or being conned towards Hinduism. Thus: > > what do we do about

the romantic entry of suburban whites into Hinduism > "Asia" functions as an

alibi for a politics to transcend the condition of the suburb > Are "curiosity"

and "respect" sufficient grounds for the entry of the suburban white into the >

theocratic fascism > Those so-called "Hindu values" that would not accept the

child's desire to live as a human > being in a complex world > The legacy and

persistence of racism provides respect to any artifact or institution of color

> that is worn or frequented by whites > Many came, mainly white women, who

study various aspects of Hinduism and are... > otherwise respected scholars of

Indology. Eager for cash, they disregarded the role they > played for Hindutva

> those whites who become Hindus in this day and age > > Ok, let's take the

funding of Hindutva pogroms. Prashad says, millions of dollars "finance >

right-wing activity in the subcontinent. This long-distance theocratic fascism

was part of the > destruction of the mosque at Ayodhya in 1992, the

anti-Christian riots in Gujarat... in the > state-engineered pogrom against

Muslims in Gujarat." Kanwal Rekhi claims, "recipients of their > money are out

to destroy minorities and their places of worship." Robert Hathaway adds,

"monies > so raised are used to promote religious bigotry." > > Yes, ok, we got

all that. But could you please tell us, into what do the millions of dollars

actually > go? Have you heard of Uzi firings in Gujarat, or RDX blasts in

Ayodhya, or Dara Singh's using > Stingers? Do the worthies of the RSS zip

around in private jets? No, na? Then where have these > millions disappeared??

To make accusations as grave as these stick, they must be supported by >

evidence about the other end of the saffron-dollar channel. But there's none

forthcoming! Except > stuff like "Hindutva-style cruelty devastates the

landscape" -- the kind of garbage spewed by a > mediocre "secular" columnist. >

> In December 1999, Thomson and Thomson (ie, Prashad and Biju Mathew) penned an

"exposé" > in Himal about saffron dollars. In it, they claimed to have begun a

"study of the Hindu Right in the > US several years ago." They vilified the

Indian Development and Relief Fund, they slammed the > Vanvasi Kalyan Kendra,

the Keshava Seva Samithi and the Hindu Heritage Endowment, all with > the

typical polemics against Hindutva. Point is, after the "several years" plus two

years, they still > can't offer a shred of evidence on monies funding Hindu

terrorism... > > But we all know what the desperation is all about, don't we?

It's the dreaded "A" and "D" words > -- Adivasis and Dalits, groups which are

being guided *back* to the Hindu stream by the Parivar. > For instance, in

January 1999, the Vishwa Hindu Sammelan re-converted 37 Adivasis from >

Christianity; in January 2002, 2 lakh Adivasis vowed to save Hinduism at a

rally organised by > Sewa Bharati at Jhabua. That's where the bulk of these

dollars go: to educate the tribals and Dalits > and make them aware of being

constituents of Hindu society. > > And that's what worries the pinkos,

Rekhi-with-a-Christian-wife, Father Prakash et al -- an > integrated Hindu

populace. No wonder Arundhati Roy moans, "How else can you explain why > Dalits

in Gujarat, who have been despised, oppressed and treated worse than refuse by

the upper > castes for thousands of years, have joined hands with their

oppressors..." (By the way, what > "thousands" of years? But novelists earn via

fiction. And bad novelists, via bad fiction.) > > Since decades, Christian

missionaries and Islamists have been pumping money into India. And > what did

that get Hindus...? Expulsion from Mizoram; massacres in Meghalaya; harassment

in > Nagaland; reduction to a minority status in J&K;, as well as in many

districts of Assam, West > Bengal, Bihar and Kerala; and subversive madarssas

in every nook and cranny of the country. > Do pinkos protest about any of this?

Any testimonies before the US Commission on International > Religious

Freedom...? > > Why would they?! Unlike the RSS' Adivasi programmes, those of

Islamists and Christian > fundamentalists take pinkos towards their ultimate

goal -- the balkanisation of India.

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