Freedom and Democracy The following Cablegram was sent by Br. Savarkar, the President of the Hindu Mahasabha, to President Roosevelt of U.S.A. on 23rd April, 1939: “If your note to Hitler is actuated by disinterested human anxiety for safeguarding Freedom and Democracy from Military Aggression, pray ask Britain too to withdraw her armed domination over Hindusthan and let her have free and self-determined Constitution. A Great Nation like Hindusthan can surely claim at least as much international justice as small nations in your opinion do.” Britain’s Policy towards India The statement issued by the Viceroy regarding Britain’s policy towards India with reference to the present war situation is disappointing to a degree. The four or five columns of the verbose statement could have well been compressed into four or five sentences, so far as substance is concerned. The rest is full of platitudes. The Viceroy refers to the old and often discarded declaration that India’s ultimate goal is Dominion Status, made somewhere in 1919 A. D. It has not materialised since during the last twenty years and was almost forgotten till this war broke out. The present repetition of those same vague phrases may share the same fate, if things are allowed to drift in this manner by the Indians, till another war breaks out some twenty years hence. H.E. the Viceroy should realise that India is sick of running after this wordy mirage. She refuses to look upon the Dominion Status as an ultimate goal. But instead, insists upon it as an immediate step to be taken. A constitution based on that Status must be conceded by Britain to India, just at the end of this war, at the latest. A definite and the shortest time limit to the actual introduction of this constitution was the essential thing, which was expected by the Indian political world and it is precisely this very point that has studiously been omitted in the statement issued by His Excellency. Even now, it is not too late to mend. The British Government must bear in mind that India can never extend a willing co-operation unless she feels that the cause of her own freedom is likely to be served in a substantial measure by offering responsive co-operation to Britain. The Advisory Board contemplated in the statement is welcomed. But then, it has not its functions and powers defined. If it is going to be a mere appendage to serve as a camouflage to conceal autocratic high-handedness,

then it can only mean an insult added to injury. But if it is made to serve as a tentative measure with powers, more or less equal to a Federal Board of Ministers, is entrusted without reservation with matters concerning Indian defence during the war time and if its advice carried into effect as that of a responsible Council of Ministers, it may prove a step in advance on the line of political progress. But much will still depend on its composition. The Hindu Mahasabha must secure such a representation on it as is in keeping with the proportion to population of the Hindus! ❏

Moslem Chinaman: Hidden Motive of Chinese Moslem Mission to India The following statement is issued by Barrister V. D. Savarkar, the President of the Hindu Mahasabha, in connection with the Chinese Moslem Mission to India: We had no mind to give expression to the details, which point beyond doubt to well-concerted activities on the part of the Indian Moslems to inject the Chinese Moslems too with the Pakistani virus, while the Chinese Moslem Mission led by Mr. Woo was in India on behalf of our friendly neighbour China. But the Moslem Mission is grievously transgressing its national and friendly task and has, in its message recently sent to the Moslems at Nellore, been guilty of betraying anti-Hindu tendency. It has, consequently, forfeited the right of a national hospitality on the part of the Hindus and I feel myself quite justified in exposing the real nature of the movement, so that Hindudom may be warned of the dire consequences, which must result, if it is not watched, opposed and checked in time. Burma Lesson A couple of years ago, I had issued a statement warning the Burmese that there was growing rapidly a hybrid Moslem population in Burma, which would in near future constitute a similar danger to the homogeneity of the Burmese people, as it did in the case of India. The Moslems used to marry Burmese girls in large numbers for at least a century in the past and were very particular in bringing up their progeny as Moslems, while no Moslem would, as a rule, give his girl in marriage to a Burmese. The easy-go-lucky Burmese hardly suspected political danger out of such designed social relations. But soon after that, the Burmo-Moslem riots, miscalled the Indo- Burmese riots, started. The Moslems paid a heavy price for their mischief and the eyes of the Burmese got opened. Just then, the Japanese invasion took place and held all such questions in suspension. China Follows Suit Next to Burma comes China. The Moslem population there is to be counted in crores. China was once ruled by the Tartars, and when the Tartars embraced Islam, these Moslems made China their home and for a short period, even looked upon themselves as a ruling class. But the great Buddhistic Empire, which rose on the ashes of the Tartars, showed the Moslems their right place and they were more or less thoroughly reduced to

unquestioning subjection. But the fall of the Chinese Empire, the Japanese conquest of the large portions of the Chinese territories and the simultaneous rise and spread of the pan-Islamic movement about the time of the last great European war stirred up the Moslems in China too, with the consciousness which was latent in all Moslems through the Koranic teaching itself of being a separate entity unallied with and even antagonistic to, anyone else, who did not believe Koran and especially the Hindus, including Buddhists. We know how the Moslems bore a special hatred to and massacred the Buddhists on their way to India and how the word Buddha prashasti, which means, in fact, the worship of the Lord Buddha, had come to mean the greatest sin man can commit in the Moslem eyes. The Chinese Moslem Federation was formed and a large section of the Chinese Moslems refused to merge themselves with the Chinese, but maintained that they should keep up their separate entity and even a political brotherhood. The Marshal’s Fable We have great respect for Marshal Chiang Kai Sheik as a doughty warrior and a farsighted statesman. But that is the very reason why he could not but tell us the fairy tale that in China they were all Chinese first and last and in politics there was no clash between the Buddhists and the Moslems. But in face of facts we cannot but take this statement of the Great Marshal with a pinch of salt. Was it not only a couple of years ago that a batch of young Chinese Moslems was sent to Turkasthan and Egypt to get themselves initiated into pan-Islamic mysteries and who, on reaching Bombay, sought the interviews of Mr. Jinnah and other Leaguers, discarded their National Chinese dress and paraded their newly-bought fez caps as an insignia of a new order? This present mission, led by Mr. Woo, is a far more significant step on the part of the Chinese Moslems and is primarily meant and was perhaps invited by the Indian Moslem Leaguers themselves to establish a closer pan-Islamic contact. They have chosen to interview the leading lights of the Pakistani movement including the Nizam, and they are already emboldened to talk such trash as that they would not fail to help their Islamic brothers in India after the war is over. But are they sure whether they themselves would be in a helping or a helpless position at the end of this war? A covenant between the sparrows and the rabbits to defeat the eagle has no sense so long as the eagle dominates the field. Again, what kind of help

and against whom are these Chinese Moslems going to render to the Islamic brothers in India after the war? Against the Hindus and to prop up Pakistan? The appointment of Sir Mohomed Zaffarulla Khan as Indian Agent General in China under such circumstances bodes nothing but evil. He may represent the pan-Islamic or Pakistani principles there as every dutiful Moslem is expected to do. A Mere Dream! The Indian Moslems, who want to carve out a Western Pakistan from Delhi to the Tribal regions, have openly declared more than once that they would depend upon their co-religionists outside India from Afganistan to Turkey. But they could not indulge in any such airy nothings, regarding the support for their Eastern Pakistan to be constituted out of Bengal and Assam. That is why they are trying desperately to forge a pan-Islamic line between the Burmese and the Chinese Moslem groups and now that the Chinese Moslems have promised them help after the war on the Eastern side, they may very well build castles in the air hoping thereby to frighten the Hindus in the East, too. If that be so, I can only remind them that the Hindus have also some trump cards in their hand. If it is feasible for the Indian Moslems to have a united Chinese Moslem front on the East, whether cultural or political, then it is at least as feasible, if not more, for the Hindus to have a united Hindu- Buddhist front from Jammu to Japan. Just as the frog cannot but remain a frog even if she jumps into the sea, so also the hopeless Indian Moslem minority can never grow into a dominating majority, even if Mr. Woo woos them with all the Chinese Moslems. —Mahratta, 29-5-42 ❑

Gandhi-Jinnah Negotiations (September 29, 1944) Emphasising that the proposal to vivisect India had assumed ‘a far more dangerous aspect today when the Gandhi-Jinnah talks are adjourned than it had on the day when the talks began’, Mr. V.D. Savarkar, President of the Hindu Mahasabha, in a statement, appeals to all those opposed to the partitioning of the country to support the Akhand Hindusthan Leaders’ Conference to be held at Delhi on October 7 and 8. Mr. Savarkar says: Mr. Jinnah demands vivisection of India even more relentlessly than before. Gandhiji wants to placate that intolerable demand even more relentlessly than before. The Moslems are openly claiming that they have nothing to do with the so-called Indian nation, that they are a different nation by themselves and that they want to cut off as many provinces of India as possible, utilise them as a territorial base to rear up an anti-Hindu Moslem state quite independent of any central Indian Government. Gandhiji, who confidently asserts in getting the Congress to support him, is ready to hand over, at any rate, four frontier provinces, which form the natural and invulnerable Himalayan borderline of our Motherland, to the Moslems for the above treacherous objective, for the mere asking of it without firing a shot. The tragedy of it all is that the ‘Indian National Congress’, which was ushered into existence to consolidate the Indian nation, has itself betrayed its sole mission. The very justification of its existence and falling a victim to the pseudo-nationalistic malady, had dealt the unkindest cut of all at the ‘Indian national integrity. The Indian National Congress itself is indulging in treacherous conspiracies to vivisect the oneness of that Indian nation so as to wipe out the very name of India from the map of the world. When Gandhiji started from Wardha by ‘the Pakistani train’ almost in a triumphal mood, he left orders behind to the country or to the Congress at any rate to keep peace, to have complete confidence in him and not to criticise the Gandhi-Rajaji proposal while his talks with Jinnah continued to find out a way to Hindu-Moslem unity on the basis of handing over to them some of the holiest and cherished parts of India and acknowledging their right to form a separate and sovereign state there. This trick, in fact, was so transparent that it was not likely to dupe any sensible politician. What reliance could there be on the assurance of a

leader like Gandhiji, who only the other day, asserted that vivisection was a sin and is today supporting Rajaji’s Pakistani proposals. Only those Congressites and some other leaders among the Hindus, who had grown in the habit of accepting any Gandhist ‘mumbo-jumbo’ as a gospel truth, obeyed those orders and tried their best to stand tongue-tied. Not only that, but they wanted to hush-hush even the Hindu Sanghatanists and other far- sighted politicians, who refused to be duped by that flimsy political trick and refused to acquiesce in such a guilty silence. Whirlwind of protest The whirlwind of protest raised by the indignant people, the forest of black flags and picketings, through which that triumphal Pakistani train had to pass crestfallen from Poona to Panchagani, Panchagani to Wardha and Wardha to Bombay, the trenchant statements issued by some of our foremost leaders in the country condemning the treacherous proposal, those thousands of meetings and signed protests wherein millions of Indian citizens led by the Hindu Sanghatanists pledged themselves to stand by the integrity of their Motherland and to resist the Pakistani proposals, defeated the design of the Gandhist group to lull the whole country into a false sense of security, and by demonstrating the fact that there was a country-wide challenge thrown to them, made it impossible for Gandhiji and others of his persuasions to claim the leadership of the whole country in general and of the Hindus in particular. It was to organise this whirlwind of protest against these sinful designs to break up the integrity of Hindusthan, as a nation and a state, and to consolidate all those leaders and citizens who had thus protested publicly against the Pakistani proposal that the Akhand Hindusthan Leaders’ Conference was convened to meet at Delhi on October 7 and 8. It was supported by hundreds of prominent leaders from all parts of India including the accredited representatives of the Sanghatanists, Sikhs, Arya Samajists and other Hindu Sanghatanist organisations, as well as by several leaders of note in their personal capacity. This conference had, from its very inception, almost nothing to do, to the beginning or ending of the Gandhi- Jinnah talks. It is an independent effort to consolidate those who stand by the integrity of India into a common front. Many of those Congressites and others who had secret sympathy with Gandhiji’s unholy mission either through conviction or want of foresight, tried their best to frustrate the efforts of holding such an Akhand Hindusthan Leaders’ Conference.

Gandhi-Jinnah talks were over simply because Gandhiji said: “Let no one speak against the Gandhi-Rajaji proposal till we are trying to arrive at a compromise with brother Jinnah!” But the organisers of the Akhand Hindusthan Leaders’ Conference did not yield to these efforts simply because the very starting point of those Gandhi-Jinnah talks was the acceptance in this or that form of the treacherous concession of Pakistan. It was impossible, as the Rt. Hon. Shreenivasa Shastriji said, for a genuine Indian nationalist to remain tongue-tied while the integrity of our Motherland and hoty land was being openly sold at auction. Political Matricide Even now that the Gandhi-Jinnah talks are over for the time being, none should overlook the point that Gandhiji had made it quite clear that they are only adjourned ‘sine die.’ Are we also going to remain tongue-tied without raising a finger in defence of the integrity of our nation or without uttering a single word of protest against the political matricide and keep looking on it unconcerned ‘sine die’? I earnestly request those Congressites and other leaders who wanted to wait till the Gandhi-Jinnah talks were over but were in their heart of hearts against the Pakistani proposal, to take courage in both hands to conquer their own inferiority complex and come forward to condemn all further efforts to vivisect India and attend the Akhand Hindusthan Leaders’ Conference to consolidate the anti-Pakistan front. They would doubtlessly be welcomed in the conference by each and every one who had consented to attend it. But even if some of those do not find themselves to do so, the Akhand Hindusthan Leader’s Conference will meet at Delhi irrevocably on 7th and 8th of October. The prominent leaders of our Sikh brotherhood, the Mahantas of different Mathas and Ashramas, His Holiness Shankaracharya of Puri, the Sanatani, the Arya Sanghatanist leaders and their personalities occupying prominent position in the social and political life of the country, have already consented to attend the conference. A hope that specially in view of the adjournment of the Gandhi-Jinnah talks and the consequent commitment, which Gandhiji and almost all the Congressite press, and the fact that the Congressite following has now made to accept this or that proposal to vivisect India, it is all the more urgent to consolidate the anti-vivisection party. As a first step towards it, the genuine

national leaders all over India will not fail to join the Akhand Hindusthan Leaders' Conference at Delhi.

Problems before Hindudom After Bloodless (!) Vivisection RETALIATION The vital interests of Hindudom demand that some maxims and arguments emphasized in chorus by the Congressite Ministers, leaders and the press should be promptly refuted. For example, Pandit Nehru has been reiterating, of late, that the right of retaliation or punishment belongs to the state alone and in no case, the people (meaning in this case Hindu-Sikhs) could be justified in exercising it on their own initiation and responsibility. In laying down this maxim, Panditji has happily refused to indulge in the mischievous mumbo-jumbo of Gandhistic morals. He stated clearly that he was not talking about the morals of this question but the practical aspects of it only. So far so good. But he conveniently forgot to touch the most crucial and practical aspect of the question—what were the people to do, when the state proved either so unwilling or so pusillanimous as to fail miserably even to defend its own people, not to speak of retaliating to avenge the wrongs perpetrated on their hearths and homes and honour? Even an individual has a legal right of self-protection and of retaliation in so far, at any rate, as it forms an inevitable weapon of self-defence against a violent aggressor, when the police is nowhere in evidence or is unable, or the worst of it all, is unwilling to face the aggressor for fear of displeasing him. Verily a people must have this fundamental right that every citizen possesses. What were the thousands of Hindu-Sikhs to do when faced by an imminent danger of being massacred in cold blood, looted, ‘burnt alive,’ forcibly converted, in short, of being exterminated as a racial and national being by the most barbarous attacks of an organised, dangerously armed and fanatically hostile foe, and especially when the state as such was nowhere in evidence so efficiently as to render any the least protection to them? While the state of Pakistan allowed firearms and explosive to be distributed to the Moslem population throughout Western Punjab, the League leaders were openly inciting their people that Pakistan was but a springboard to pounce upon Hindusthan and the Moslems in their thousands were parading in the streets, in towns and in cities, dangerously armed and raising terror-striking slogans ‘Haske liya Pakistan, marke lenge Hindusthan.’ While the Moslem state was planning in this wise definite

campaign of invading Eastern Punjab and capturing Delhi in order to celebrate the inauguration of Pakistan, what were the Government of Indian state doing in their capital at Delhi to counteract these dangerous developments on the part of our enemies? The first step the Congressite Ministers took was to deny emphatically that there existed any enmity at all between the two states, that they had won a triumph in bringing about a bloodless revolution by vivisecting our Motherland to avoid bloodshed and the only thing that their immediate duty demanded was to order a day for general rejoicings to celebrate the inauguration of their Indian State. In Delhi itself, they allowed some fifty thousand Meos and several Khaksars to concentrate with secret stores of firearms and explosive and with an ill- conceived design to capture the capital wherein fifty per cent of the police were allowed to be Moslems under the command of Moslem Commissioner. The Hindu Sanghatanists kept shouting from housetops throughout India ‘Danger Ahead’! This is no time for rejoicing, while you are stranded on the top of a volcano already in erruption! But they were declared as traitors and communalists, and were hunted out and imprisoned from provinces to province. The Frontiers of East Punjab were left to rally undefended. The consequence was that two days before the 15th of August rose, a general massacre of the Hindu-Sikh population accompanied with indescribable horrors became the order of the day. But while that Moslem Province was resounding with shrieks of thousands and thousands of Hindu-Sikh women, men and children being outraged, murdered, thrown into flames alive, and was having a bloodbath in rivers of Hindu-Sikh blood there, here in Delhi, the Ministers of the Indian State were literally feasting and fiddling to celebrate their bloodless revolution! Nehru Nero Under these circumstances, what wonder is there that millions of Hindu- Sikhs prompted by the instinct of self-preservation and animated by the spirit of pan-Hindu consolidation, rose in arms in East Punjab, in Bharatpur, in Alwar, in Patiala and in Delhi itself and responded to the best of their might and means so furiously and effectively as to checkmate the Moslem hoards from attempting an invasion of East Punjab, threw them on their defensive and saved Delhi itself from being captured by the Moslems concentrated there. If Panditji and his Congressite comrades are still safe and secure in their seats, they owe it to this brave fight which the Hindu Sanghatanist and Sikh forces gave in the nick of time. And still, it is he,

who unblushingly comes forward to deliver to them a sermon on the exclusive right of the State to retaliate! Had a Shivaji or a Ranjit Singh been at the head of the State, they could have demanded with propriety that the people should leave the right of retaliation in their hands alone. But when the puny Pandit tries to demand it in the accents of Shivaji, it strikes as funny as it would do, if a pigmy standing on his tiptoes tried to rival a giant in height. Nevertheless, in all sincerity, I exhort once more my Hindu brethren in the Congress and the cabinet to take a lesson, at least now, from past errors, cease to be ideologues and join hands with Hindu Sanghatanists, to face realities as revealed by the recent happenings. The stark realities in the main are these: (1) That the Moslems have tacitly declared a war on Hindusthan with a view to transforming it altogether politically, religiously and culturally into a Moslem-Sthan (2) That intense preparations to invade Hindusthan with up-to-date arms and air force are already afoot and with the help of the Pathans and Baluchis across the Frontiers and perhaps under the lead of the Amir of Afghanistan, they mean to open two extensive fronts in the main, one from Kashmir to Junagad, both included, and the other in the South under the command of the Nizam threatening the territory from Macchallipatam to Goa on one side and C.P. and Berar on the other. (3) That the Moslem, in India are bound to rise in revolt simultaneously with this invasion from outside to sabotage and stab our state from within. (4) That to forestall and counteract this Islamite peril, our State must raise a mighty force exclusively constituted of Hindus alone, must open arms and ammunition factories exclusively manned by the Hindus alone, and mobilize everything on a war scale. (5) That we should make it quite clear that the Moslem minority in Hindusthan shall receive the same treatment for better or worse, in kind and in scale, which the Hindu-Sikh minority receives at the hands of the Moslem Government, in all respects such as representation, services and even rights of citizenship. (6) As in the very nature of things and on their own confessions neither the Gandhistic ideology nor the pseudo-nationalistic ideology of the Congress can ever cope with this Islamite offensive and as the Hindu Sanghatanist ideology alone can and will be able to fight out this danger

successfully, the Government should consist of such Ministers alone, who are pledged to the Hindu Sanghatanist ideology alone. If the Congressite Ministers are unwilling to accept this indispensable programme, they should at least be patriotic enough to resign and hand over Government to the Hindu Sanghatanists and Sikhs. It is a self-conceited plea that questions the ability of the Hindu Nation to replace the present Congressite Ministers by leaders as able or even by better ones. If the Government is handed over to a Sikh-Hindu Sanghatanist coalition, a cabinet could be formed within a week, which will be not only more efficient but what is chiefly important, shall also be far more willing to accept and carry out undoubtedly the above programme, which as we have proved, is absolutely indispensable to face the stark realities as noted above. —Mahratta, 25-9-47 ❑

Nehru’s Nightmare — Hindu Raj? Carpet Knights The Gandhist ministers, leaders and newspapers have recently trotted out a new stunt to cover their dismal and disastrous failure to protect the life, property and honour of our nation and perhaps with a crafty design to capture Moslem votes in the joint electorates to come. Pandit Nehru, their megaphone, has recently been addressing a number of meetings, wherein instead of assuring and enlightening the people as to how his government is going to forestall and frustrate the covert machinations and overt challenges of the Moslems to conquer and convert the whole of Hindusthan into a Pakistan, he has been indulging into furious denunciations against the demand for a Hindu State! As if the mere demand for a Hindu Raj constitutes a danger to his Government, so much more imminent, impending, incalculably disastrous as to call for his immediate attention than the already established Moslem Raj in Pakistan, where fanatical atrocities, arson, bloodshed and butchery have been the order of the day and millions of Moslems keep parading the streets with such war cries as ‘Haske liya Pakistan! marke lenge Hindusthan!’ Pusillanimous enough to tolerate these diabolical actions and threats on the part of the Moslems against his ‘Indian Union,’ Pandit Nehru and his pseudo-nationalistic section in the Congress are delivering mock heroics against the Hindus and swearing that they will fight tooth and nail against those who demand a Hindu Raj! Pandit Nehru swaggers on, that if the Hindu Sanghatanists persist on in their efforts to establish a Hindu Raj, they would meet with the fate of Hitler and Mussolini. He forgets that the Hindu Sanghatanists are led by hundreds of those seasoned veterans, who had fought in the vanguard of Indian Revolutionist forces against Britain when Gandhiji, speaking politically, was still in his clothes and the Pandit was not yet born. So many of them defied the sword and the scaffold, and the sacrifices and the sufferings undergone by each of them in the fight for Indian Independence outweigh the sacrifices of all the Gandhist ministers totalled together. They cannot be terrorised by the threat of such Carpet Knights as the Pandit and his clan. In case they fail in aiming so high, they are prepared to face any fate in the defence of the honour, greatness and glory of Hindudom. But what in case they succeed in establishing a Hindu Raj? What fate should the Pandit and such other traitors to the Hindu Raj deserve?

The demand for a Hindu Raj, these pseudo-nationalists say, is communal, stupid, mediaeval, theocratical, a menace to the progress of mankind itself! But they conveniently refuse to tell us what they precisely mean by Hindu Raj, before they characterise it in the above-mentioned vilifying terms. Nevertheless, assuming for the sake of argument that the demand for a Hindu State deserves this condemnation on all these counts, may we ask them, was not the demand for a Moslem State at least equally condemnable on these very counts? Did the Moslems not base their claim to own the Pakistani Provinces on the ground that the Moslems constituted the major community predominating there? How then that communal claim was respected by you as so fundamentally national as to vivisect our Motherland to make room for an Independent Moslem State? Why did you not refuse to listen to that ‘Communal‘ claim as ‘stupid’? Did the Direct Action the Moslems resorted to, not prove it to the hilt that the Moslem State they demanded was avowedly theoretical, setting the hands of the clock of Human Progress back not only to the ‘Mediaeval’ but to the beastial age? But instead of fighting against that demand for a Moslem Raj, you actually abetted the crime of cutting integrated India right into two pieces directly on communal lines, which the Anglo-Moslem conspirators perpetrated and handed over Pakistan to the Moslems so ceremoniously, with such ease and grace as you would hand over a cup of tea to a welcome guest! With what face now can you vilify the demand for a Hindu Raj on these very counts, even if it could be said to possess all the above traits? Perverse Gandhism Had not Gandhiji himself conspired with the Ali Brothers to invite an invasion by the Pathans and to enthrone the Amir of Afghanistan as the Emperor of India? Had he not declared again in the year 1940 in writing and repeated it now and then that if the Nizam, subduing the Hindu Princes and with the support of Frontier tribes, took Delhi and became the ruler of India that would be a perfect Home rule, a cent per cent Swaraj? Thus, a Pathani or a Nizami Moslem Raj is to Gandhiji a cent per cent Swaraj. But a Hindu Raj! Oh no! It would be communal, fascist, anti-national and an anathema!!! You contend further on that our country and our state can not be called Hindusthan and a Hindu State as some non-Hindu minorities too are citizens thereof. But how is it that in spite of the presence of Hindus, Christians, Parsees and other non-Moslem minorities in its territory, all of

you and Gandhiji in particular, keep ‘salaming’ saluting the newly, carved out Moslem Raj as ‘Pakistan’, which avowedly and literally means a Holy Moslem Land, a Moslem State? Is it not a fact that almost all states and nations are called after the names of what the League of Nations termed ‘National Majority’ predominating in each? Nor have you yourselves ever felt any qualm of conscience in recognising Baluchistan, Vaziristan, Afghanistan, Turkastan or the Turkish State as such, in spite of the presence of non-Moslem minorities there? How is it then that the very mention of the name of Hindusthan or the Hindu State alone takes your breath out, as if you were smitten by a snake bite? Bloodshed or? The only reason you have been so emphatically reiterating to defend your recognition of Pakistan as an Independent Moslem Raj in spite of all these objections to it, is to the effect that you were faced with the only alternative ‘bloodshed or Pakistan’ and so to avoid bloodshed, you were persuaded to accept Pakistan. Leaving aside, the fact that such a cowardly reason condemns your action more than defend it, we only ask, do you not thereby insinuate unwillingly enough that if but the Hindus too face you with a similar alternative bloodshed or Hindusthan, you will be persuaded to accept Hindusthan too with equal readiness? I warn the Hindu electorate categorically for the thousandth time that unless they remove these pseudo-nationalist leaders from the helm of our state, the Gandhistic Indianism will allow Moslems inside India to capture key posts in the army, the police, the state. These Moslems will rise from within as soon as the Pakistani forces invade India from North, East, West, South, as they are sure to do in near future, and taken ‘unawares’ as usual, this Gandhist Government of today will go down in no time and India will be converted by the Moslem conquest into an Akhand Pakistan. Warring Ideologies The choice, therefore, is not between two sets of personalities but between two ideologies, not Indian Raj or Hindu Raj but Moslem Raj or Hindu Raj, Akhand Hindusthan or Akhand Pakistan. The Hindu Sanghatanist ideology alone can, therefore, save our nation and re-establish an Akhand Hindusthan from Indus to the Seas. —Mahratta 25-9-47 ❑

Before they vivisect India, let us vivisect their Pakistan first (23rd May, 1947) “Let Bengal Hindus beware of the scheming platitudes and pro-Muslim designs of Gandhiji, who started for Bengal straight after his interviews with Mr. Jinnah, avowing open hostility towards the demand for framing a Hindu majority province in Bengal. No compromise should dupe us into abandoning that demand as Moslems are sure to repudiate their part as soon as we are trapped. Pakistan or no Pakistan, we must have now a Hindu province in Bengal, Punjab and Sindh in the interest of Akhand Bharat itself. For, even if the impossible happens and Britain concedes integrity of India under a strong Central Government, then new Hindu majority province in Bengal can openly serve as a faithful sentry checkmating any further treacherous attempt on the part of Moslem majority there. On the other hand, in case Pakistan is thrust on us by Britain, the creation of these provinces shall form an unbroken link of Hindu majority provinces from East Punjab to West Bengal and with the Hindu kingdom of Nepal and Kashmir in the North and Hindu Assam in the east, would consolidate and enable Hindus to reannex the revolting Pakistani areas, provided of course we ‘Hinduise all politics and militarise Hindudom.” — V. D. Savarkar.

Bengal—A Hindu Majority Province The following Telegram was sent to Dr. Shyamaprasad Mukherjee by Veer Savarkar on March 21, 1947: “I support emphatically your demand for separate Hindu Majority Bengal province owing loyal allegiance to a consolidated strong and sovereign central Hindusthani state. We shall be better equipped to protect Hindu minority in eastern Bengal than we are at present.” —V. D. Savarkar

Independent Jewish State

The following statement was issued to the Press by Veer Savarkarji on 19- 12-1947: “I am glad to note that the overwhelming majority of the leading nations in the world should have recognised the claim of the Jewish people to establish an Independent Jewish state in Palestine and should have promised armed assistance to get it realised. After centuries of sufferings, sacrifices and struggle, the Jews will soon recover their national Home in Palestine, which has undoubtedly been their Fatherland and Holyland. Well may they, compare this event to that glorious day in their history when Moses led them out of the Egyptian bondage and wilderness and the promised land flowing with milk and honey came well within sight. Judging from the Indian Press in general, our public seems to be misinformed by a sinister pro-Moslem propaganda regarding this Palestine issue. It must be emphasized, therefore, that speaking historically, the whole of Palestine has been, from at least two thousand years before the birth of the Moslem Prophet, the National Home of the Jewish people. A long line of their great prophets and kings, of Abraham and Moses, of David and Soloman, has endeared that country to them as their Fatherland and Holyland. The Arabian Moslems invaded Palestine only a few decades before they invaded our Sindh and just as their fanatical fury exterminated the ancient Egyptians or Persians, they attempted to wipe out with fire and sword the Jewish people too. But they failed in this unholy ambition. The Fatherland and the Holyland of the Arabian Moslems lies in Arabia and not in the Palestine. In justice, therefore, the whole of Palestine ought to have been restored to the Jews. But taking into consideration the conflict of self-interests of the powerful nations in the UNO, their support to the resuscitation of the Jewish State in a part of Palestine at any rate, wherein they still happen to be in majority and which includes some of their prominent Holy Places constitutes an event of historical justice and importance. It is consequently to be regretted that the delegation that represented our Hindusthani Government in the UNO should have voted against the creation of the Jewish State. The speeches of Shrimati Vijayalaxmi in particular were justly ridiculed when she declaimed melodramatically that the Indian Government refused to stab the unity and integrity of the Palestine State in the back by carving out a separate Jewish State—

forgetting for the while that the very Indian Government had stabbed the unity and integrity of their own nation only the other day and gloated over it as an event for public jubilations! Pandit Nehru made his case more untenable by stating that the creation of the Jewish State was opposed by his Government to secure the goodwill of the group of the petty Moslem States in Asia. But what about the loss of the goodwill of the Jews in India and outside and of the powerful nations which voted in support of the Jewish State? As a policy, it is as absurd to sacrifice the goodwill of an army of giants as to secure the unjustifiable goodwill of a handful of pigmies. Moreover, can Hindudom, at any rate, forget that these petty Moslem States and even the Chinese-Moslems, who are conspiring to create a Chinese-Moslem State, are always enemically disposed to Hindusthan as a State?"