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?"

Do not allow Non-Hindus in Hindu Mahasabha The following telegram was sent to Dr. Shyamaprasad Mukherjee by Veer Savarkar on 27 July, 1947 after partition: “In as much as the proposal of throwing open full or associated membership of Hindu Mahasabha to nationalist non-Hindus has been publicly discussed in press, I must express my view in time against it. If non-Hindus are admitted as members in the Hindu Mahasabha, whether on political or economical point, it is bound to be detrimental to the Hindu solidarity because every political question is in India, either religious or cultural and every religious and cultural question is political. Shuddhi, though religious, is political and Pakistan, though camouflaged as political, is religious. The Hindu Mahasabha is a mandir for Hindu worship where Hindus alone can go to worship their nationalist Shiv. Let us not turn that mandir into a masjid or bazar. By such an error, the Hindus will lose their self by those very steps by which the Congress degenerated into a chaos. We may join any nationalist association on a separate platform, where we Hindus as an undivided entity join hands in special matters like the election campaigns, so far as it is not detrimental to Hindu interests, with our non-Hindu nationalists. But the Hindus must have an organisation of their own, where they can think, plan, consolidate and act as Hindus without check, from any non-Hindu, who enters by right. Otherwise, one day, a Moslem may come to preside over the Hindu Mahasabha too. As long as there are purely Muslim, Christian and Parsee bodies in India, so long at least, the Hindus must have an exclusive organisation of their own. On this spirit, the Hindu Mahasabha was found and rose to be the center of Hindu solidarity and power. Let us not undo this monumental work for the vicious temptation of a few seats of offices. Let us leave to the next generation, true ambition of rendering the Hindu Mahasabha itself, the National Parliament of Hindusthan.” — V. D. Savarkar

Oppose the united front of the Christian, the Congress and the Muslim League The following statement had been issued to the press by Swatantrya Veer V. D. Savarkar on 6-7-1959: “I exhort the Hindu Sanghatanists in Kerala to render all possible support to the Communist Government led by Shri E. M. S. Nambudripad in their struggle, which they are bravely carrying against the united front of Christian, the Congress and the Muslim League, all of whom are sworn enemies of Hindu cause. “The Hindu Sanghatanists cannot forget the religious and political persecution to which the Congress Government led by the Christians had subjected them and from which they got liberated by the advent of the present Communist Government alone. “Even when and if elections come, specially on the issue of the Education Bill, the Hindu Sanghatanists should vote, in their own interest, for the Communist candidate as long as there is no Hindusabhaite candidate, just as the Hindu Sanghatanists are doing in Maharashtra on the issue of United Maharashtra. “I also exhort the Communist Government never to resign under the pressure even of the central government to intervene and to take over the administration or never to compromise especially on the leading issue of Education Bill.” — V. D. Savarkar ❑

On Immediate Problems To Shri N. C. Chatterji, Bar-at-Law Dear Mahashaya, Though I have since long been confined to sick-bed due to age debility and protracted illness and had consequently been forced to retire from all public activities, still I feel it my duty to congratulate you publicly on your thumping electoral success, defeating the rival Congress candidate for the Lok Sabha. I strongly hope that now at any rate, our Bengali Hindus and Hindudom in general, will find an able and indomitable advocate in you to defend the Hindu cause in the Lok Sabha. Three demands above all and immediately must be emphasised. First, all Hindus in East Bengal should be allowed to come over to Western Bengal and at least an equal number of Moslems from West Bengal should be sent to Eastern Bengal, if necessary, per force. Second, for every aggressive step taken by Pakistan, whether military or otherwise must be met by prompt reprisals, military or otherwise by the Hindusthan Government kind for kind, measure for measure. Third, not an inch of our land should be surrendered to Pakistan without the consent of the Hindu Public either on the Eastern frontier or the Western. Bombay, Yours Sincerely, 28th December 1947 V. D. Savarkar

Co-operation with Other Parties

It is imperative that in the interest of Hindudom, it is absolutely necessary that there should be an organisation manned by Hindus only to represent Hindudom as a whole and to protect the interests political, social, cultural, economical, etc., of the Hindu people as a whole. It was with this particular mission that the Hindu Mahasabha was started by such eminent patriots like Lala Lajapat Rai, Madan Mohan Malviya and others and led by Dr. Moonje, Bhai Paramanandji and other great champions of the Hindu cause. Ever since its start, the Hindu Mahasabha has been recognised by other political organisations and even by the British Government also as the foremost, if not the only, political representative of Hindudom. Consequently, any question of a merger or a compromise for a common front for elections or any other object, which demands first of all the liquidation of the Hindu Mahasabha as a political body representing Hindudom and seeks to reduce it to a social and cultural organisation only, cannot but prove most detrimental to the Hindu cause and should never be countenanced at all. Inasmuch as the proposals made recently for such a compromise to one and all seek to deprive the Hindu Mahasabha of this, its main mission of representing and defending the political interests of the Hindus and inasmuch as seek to compel it to merge as a Hindu political body into any old or new organisations, which are open to non-Hindus as well, the acceptance of any such proposal cannot but constitute the betrayal of the two most fundamental bedrocks, on which the Hindu Mahasabha was founded and has been solidly and devotedly taking its stand, namely its mission of representing Hindudom alone and being manned by Hindus alone. Consequently, none of these proposals or any new one of the same nature should ever be even entertained, much less accepted. Nevertheless, a common front for elections or for any issues commonly accepted can be formed with the Hindutwanishtha bodies in particular, and with any political body in general, if that co-operation with those bodies does, in no way, affect the existence and freedom of the Hindu Mahasabha as a Hindu organisation representing Hindudom politically and in all other spheres of national life. In short, co-operation and no amalgamation or merger is the formula that should guide all activities of the Hindu Mahasabha. □□□

Notes [←1] Sakharam Gorhe—he was one of those accused persons in the Nasik revolutionary conspiracy trial who stated in the High Court to have been subjected to police tortures and morpolurs starvatonary to wring out confessions from them so as to implicate other persons as well. The High Court held that the story was an exaggeration and partly a fabrication! History in the long end may record who was right and spoke the truth. All that can be said now is that Sakharam did not implicate anyone else, was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment and died while in a jail, a martyr’s death.

[←2] This petition expressing the political views of the revolutionaries in general and Mr. V. D. Sawarkar in particular was written to the Government chiefly with the intention of pressing no sooner than the passage of the Reforms through the Parliament. For, Mr. Savarkar had several reasons to believe that the Government was then anxious to know what effect the bill would have on the revolutionist attitude. He was several times approached by the authorities there and invited to express his views. He was convinced that the Reforms were chiefly addressed to the revolutionists.