Crushing Reply to Sir Kishan Prasad

The following statement is issued by Br. Savarkar, the President of the Hindu Mahasabha, in reply to the Article published by Maharaja Sir Kishan Prasad of Hyderabad regarding the Hindu Civil Resistance Movement: In spite of the personal respect, which every Hindu feels for the elderly, noble and highly placed Maharaja Sir Kishan Prasad, we cannot but denounce the statement he has recently issued carrying down the Hindu Mahasabha and Arya Samaj Civil Resistance Movement against the intolerably anti-Hindu policy of the Nizam Government as untrue, timid and treacherous. His charges against the Arya Samaji in particular are not only baseless but base. For, if during the last fifty years or so, any section of Hindudom had really proved itself to be the Defender of the Hindu faith, culture and community, it is the Arya Samaj that has done so. Neither the Hindu Mahasabha nor the Arya Samaj has launched this civil resistance movement in a light mood. Thousands of Hindus groaning under the Nizam Rule had for years been calling upon the Hindu Mahasabha to come to their rescue. Just on the very eve of the Civil Resistance Movement, the Maharashtra Provincial Hindu Sabha had deputed trusted workers to investigate into the grievances of our co-religionists in the Nizam State and they, after studying the situation on the spot, had published reports full of unimpeachable facts and figures to substantiate that the condition of the Hindus was actually worse than what had come to light. The leaders of the Civil Liberties Union, who hail from the state itself, have borne ample testimony to the same fact. Nay, the Hindu leaders, who now under the spell of the State Congress, are persisting in a guilty silence had only the other day, been loudest in condemning the Nizam Government’s policy as most detrimental to Hindu interest and dictated by Moslem fanaticism. Does the Maharaja, Sir Krishan Prasad venture to say that he has any better right to represent the Hindu feeling than these thousands of aggrieved Hindus in the State? But apart from all that, the very statement of Maharaja carries with it its own refutation. During the course of the statement, he boastfully asserts that he and his ancestors had ever gloried in living contentedly under the subjection of the Moslem rule for generations together. The long subjection of the Hindus in Hyderabad State is a historical fact and one can understand if a Hindu tolerates it as an inevitable evil. But what are we to think of a