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.