RSS
and Fascism
By Shyam
Chand
Mainstream
30 June, 2003
At the beginning
of the last century, there were many reformation movements to cleanse
the Hindu society and free it from the ritualistic tyranny of Brahmanism.
The Brahmo Samaj, the Arya Samaj and the reform movement of Ranade were
aimed at freeing the Hindu society from superstition, idol-worship and
other social ills.
The non-Brahmin
movement in the Madras Presidency culminated in the formation of the
Jusice Party to fight for the political rights of non-Brahmins. The
Brahmin population in the Madras Presidency was only three per cent.
They took maximum advantage of Christian educational institutions and
health facilities. They entered these institutions, services and professions
and formed cliques from where non-Brahmins were excluded.
Out of sixteen
successful ICS candidates between 1892 and 1904, fifteen were Brahmins.
In 1913, out of 128 district munsifs 93 were Brahmins. In 1914, out
of 650 graduates of Madras University 452 were Brahmins. The same was
the case in the Bombay Presidency. (Society and Politics in India by
Prof Andre Beteille) Dr Murli Manohar Joshi still curses Macaulay!
The Justice Party sent a delegation to London to present its case before
the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the British House of Parliament,
set up in connection with the Government of India Bill and got separate
reservation.
Veer Savarkar
and Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya had revived the defunct Hindu Mahasabha
at Banaras in 1923 to fight for the political rights of Hindus and assimilate
Dalits in the Hindu fold by opening schools, wells and temples for them.
Sikhs in Punjab were fighting for the liberation of their Gurudwaras
from the clutches of the Mahants.
It was in 1925
when Brahmanism was under attack from all sides that Dr Hedgewar, still
basking in the reflected glory of the Peshwas, joined hands with three
other BrhaminsB.S. Munje, Baharao Savarkar (brother of Veer Savarkar)
and B.B. Thalkarto stage a counter-revolution. Number 4 is not
considered a good number by the Hindus. They recruited young Brahmin
graduates for the service of their community and when the number reached
ninetynine they assembled in a forest(!) to take some esoteric oath,
which is their hidden agenda. (Ninetynine is a multiple
of 9 which is considered auspicious but 99, one short of a century,
keeps a man in Chakra. The Vajpayee Government lost the vote of confidence
by one vote in 99.)
At that time Hitler was a rising star in Germany. He was influenced
by Nietzsche who had written an anti-Christ treatise after reading Manusmriti
translated into German, in which he condemned Christianity and eulogised
Manu. Hitler was impressed by Manus superman, the Brahmin, imposing
his will on the weak. Standing before the bust of Nietzsche, Hitler
would read passages from Manusmriti. Its extracts were read at Nazi
functions. Nietzsches sister and cousin had praised Hitler for
immortalising their sibling. But Hitler did not know that one day Manusmriti
and superman would tear Germany apart before India. Hitler was mad and
his madness was equally matched by the madness of the German people.
The RSS sent
Munje to Italy and Germany. In Italy (let Modi know), he met Mussolini
for aid and advice. In Germany he studied Hitlers methods of recruitment
and training of his terrorist Storm Troopers, their use of arms, pyrotechnics,
subversive activities and art of Goebbelsian propaganda. Many skeletons
of Hitlers Nazi era are lying in the cupboard of the RSS at Nagpur.
Tagore described fascism as an exact counterpart of Brahmanism.
(Rabindranath Tagore by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson)
Hitlers party, National (Rashtriya) Socialists and his Schutz
Staffe (Guard detachment) or SS for short, stand for Swayamsevak
Sangh. Hitlers stiff-hand salute and Swastika are the RSS
symbols. Swastika had been the symbol of the Teutonic Knights and Free
Corps Units. Writes John Toland, Hitlers biographer:
For centuries it had represented not only for Europeans but also for
certain North American Indian tribes the wheel of the Sun or cycle of
life. From now on, and perhaps forevermore, the Swastika would have
a sinister connotation.
It is pertinent to note here
that the RSS was born in 1925. Why didnt Dr Hedgewar and his friends
join the Hindu Mahasabha, which was revived in 1923? The answer is simple.
The RSS is not a Hindu but a Brahmanical organisation and it doesnt
want to reform the Hindu society but wants to Revive Social Supermacy
(RSS) of the Brahmins.
The RSS has nothing to do
with nationalism or Hinduism. It had betrayed both. The RSS had played
a traitorous role during the freedom struggle. It did not take part
in the freedom struggle and many RSS volunteers like K.B. Limaye, the
chief of the Bombay RSS unit, left it. Golwalkar asked the RSS volunteers
to preserve your energy. He was afraid of a ban on the RSS.
It betrayed the Hindus during the civil disobedience movement (1938-39)
against the Nizam of Hyderabad where the Hindus were under attack. Dr
Hedgewar refused to land his volunteers saying that the RSS was a cultural
organisation. Savarkar was constrained to say:
The epitaph of the RSS volunteer
will be that he was born, he joined the RSS and died without accomplishing
anything.
Short of calling the RSS a Brahmanical outfit as it would have adverse
impact on the Hindu Mahasabha, Savarkar asked its members not to attend
RSS shakhas which was a normal practice.
The RSS did not participate in the protests organised by the Congress
party, Muslim League, Communists and Forward Bloc in Calcutta in 1946
when Rashid Ali was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for taking
part in the Naval mutiny. Two persons were then killed and fifty injured
in police firing. When Nehru and Bhulabhai Desai were pleading the INA
case in Lal Quilla, no RSS volunteer was seen near its wall. Now L.K.
Advani wants to change the name of Lal Quilla. What about Lal Krishna
Quilla? It did not oppose the partition of India whereas an equally
communal Jamait-e-Islami, under Maulana Maududi and his softas, opposed
tooth and nail Savarkars Two-Nation Theory adopted
by Jinnah and the partition of India. Golwalkar by his utterances facilitated
the partition knowing that in an undivided India, an RSS activist like
Atal Behari Vajpayee would never become the Prime Minister and the RSS
desire of imposing its will on the nation would remain a dream.
The prime objective of fascism
is to grab power at any costNation, Humanity and Peace. For that
it misappropriates, uses, misuses and disuses national and cultural
symbols without any moral compunction.
The cultural symbol of the
RSS had been Aurobindo Ghosh for many decades. The day L.K. Advani started
his rath yatra from Somnath to Ayodhya he dumped Aurobindo Ghosh on
the way as the latter did not recognise Rama as a historical figure.
Now the RSS has adopted Swami Vivekananda as its cultural symbol. His
concept of the nation having a Hindu mind and a Muslim body, the declaration
of Ramakrishna Pramhans that Christ was an incarnation and the registration
of the Ramakrishna Mission as a minority institution are against the
philosophy of the RSS.
Golwalkar does not recognise Rama and Krishna as national ideals. For
him Bhagwa Dhwaj is at once universal and all absorbing in its
appeal. (Bunch of Thoughts, p. 395) Now the RSS and its outfits
have made Ayodhya a bargaining counter for vote-bank politics.
As a matter of fact the priestly
class refused to perform the coronation ceremony of Rama saying that
the humbler of Parsurama and slayer of Ravana
did not deserve such a ceremony. Priests who performed that ceremony
were socially boycotted by other Brahmins and they were forced to settle
down across the river, Saryu. They are still known as Saryupari Brahmins.
A Saryupari Brahmin, at the time of his daughters marrage, touches
the feet of his son-in-law that he has been kind enough to accept the
hand of a socially boycotted fathers daughter! Brahmins worship
Rama in the temple and Parsurama at home!
Krishna is the most celebrated
and popular deity in the Hindu pantheon whom the priestly class did
not accept as a Kshatriya. That is why Golwalkar does not recognise
Krishna as a national ideal. He defeated Indra and asked his folks not
to worship him. He also defeated Shiva and wounded his son, Skanda,
the god of war. Krishna also tortured Kasi, the seat of Shiva. Parsurama
did his best to see that Krishna was not married in any royal family.
But he checkmated him and eloped with Rukmani. Shishupal, whom Krishna
killed, did not accuse him of loose morals. When Duryodhan
called Krishna of low origin and loose morals,
gods in heaven came down to listen to Duryodhan and showered flowers
on him! In the Gita Krishna was made to say that he was the originator
of the caste system. Thus Manu was exonerated from the sin of dividing
the Hindu society.
Golwalkar reluctantly accepts Shiva and not his trishul-wielding flock
of demons surrounding him. Was Golwalkar referring to the flock
of demons who destroyed Rishi Dakshas sacrifice or was he
visualising the trishul-wielding flock of demons dancing
and destroying Babri Masjid? Now, political stunts-turned-VHP saints
are blackmailing the Hindus by arousing their basest emotions!
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Now the RSS, through Vinay
Katiyar, President of the UP unit of the BJP and a former chief of the
flock of demons (courtesy Golwalkar), is trying to misappro-priate
Dr Ambedkar by misrepresenting him. Perhaps Vinay Katiyar does not know
three things. In Riddles in Hinduism, Dr Ambedkar has termed Manus
social system as Satanic dispensation and his law book an
outlawry. He also burnt the copy of Manusmriti. Secondly,
perhaps Vinay Katiyar does not know that Advani and Co had spent millions
of rupees on Worshipping False Gods to denigrate Dr Ambedkar and
its writer, Arun Shourie, has been suitably rewarded with membership
of the Rajya Sabha and a Cabinet berth.
Thirdly, the RSS holds Hitlers
Mein Kampf in one hand for Mayawati and her peers in and around NDAkill
your allies like your enemies one by oneand Manusmriti in the
other for Vinay Katiyar and his tribewomen, Vaishyas and
Shudras are born of the womb of sin. But Vaishyas should be used
to keep the common men, Shudras, under leash. What for are there Vishnu
Hari Dalmiya, Ashok Singhal, Giriraj Kishore and Vinay Katiyar? But
they know that Paramhans Ramchander Das refused to offer shiladaan to
the Faizabad Commissioner who happened to be a Baniya.
The RSS has misappropriated
Guru Govind Singh whose five Deliverances are an anti-thesis of the
RSS philosophy. Dharam Nash or freedom from previous social and
religious practices and customs; Karam Nash or the obliteration
of the past bad deeds; Janam Nash or giving up the family
influence and caste effects; Sharam Nash or the disapparance
of hereditary professional distinction; and Braham Nash
or discarding the rituals prescribed by previous practices. Guru
Govind Singh said: Temples and mosques are the same. For
him mans caste is one History of Sikh Gurus
by Prof Hari Ram Gupta, former Head of History Department, Punjab University.
Now Sardar Patel is being misappropriated. Modi has styled himself as
Chhota Sardar. Can there be any comparison between a swan and a cunning
crow? The Iron Man stands alone like Prince Chandras
Iron Pillar at Mehrauli, which cannot be compared with any other iron
manufactured from the scrap in the RSS foundry.
Now Savarkar has been adopted
as a hero of the freedom struggle. In fact, the RSS never fought for
the freedom of the country and hides its past behind the badge of pseudo-nationalism.
Savarkar tendered apology and came out of the Andaman-Nicobar jail.
Now, its airport has been named after him. His portrait is in the Central
Hall of Parliament. If the BJP comes to power on its own at the Centre,
Godses statue will replace Gandhijis. Both Godse and Savarkar
faced trial for the assassination of Gandhiji.
Fascism takes roots when
democracy is weak and the middle class become panicky. With the rise
of the RSS there is a corresponding increase in social crimes and corruption.
Atrocities on minorities, weaker sections of the society and women present
a horrifying picture. This NDA Government is neck-deep in corruptionsecurity
scams to IT scams and even trading in coffins. They make the middle
class panicky. The conglomeration of about two dozen parties, with diverse
and conflicting ideologies, where allies make private deals to remain
in power, has rendered democracy weak. The allies have been reduced
to the position of BJP employees.
Fascism flourishes when there
is conflict within and without. From Ayodhya to Gujarat there is a concerted
effort to create conflict and terror. The Kargil conflict (not because
of intelligence failure but the leaderships act of omission and
commission to win the Lok Sabha elections), the IC-814 Airline hijack
fiasco (not to detain hijackers at the Amritsar airport for forty minutes)
which brought national humiliation at the dawn of the new millennium,
the Agra summit when Mian Musharraf deralied the Chanakya from its height,
the ceasefire but no talk allowing terrorists to spread their network
from Kashmir to Kolkata, the attack on Parliament when the government
had prior information but did not beef up securityall these present
a sequence of events along Hitlers method of subversive activities.
The conflict within and without had given ample opportunity to Dr Murli
Manohar Joshi to tamper with history and saffronise secular institutions.
Now security has been made a poll plank. Manu, Chanakya and the
lot would outdo Machiavelli any day, opined unsaffronised Arun
Shourie in Hinduism!
Never allow people to cool
off, never admit a fault, blame your enemy for everything wrong, never
make compromise and people will accept a bigger lie sooner than the
smaller one if repeated again and again, keep fascism alive and flourishing.
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Both the RSS and fascism
have disturbing similarities. Both are devoid of conscience and morality;
both have inherent cannibalistic instincts; and both practise apartheidracial
and social discrimination, intole-rance, intimidation and murder. The
Beer Hall Putsch, Crystal Night and genocide in Hitlers Germany
had been replicated at Ayodhya, mayhem in Bombay and the genocide in
Gujarat. Both indulge in subversive activities behind the facade of
nationalism. Imagine Indian and Pakistani armies arrayed against each
other last year and shilaniyas at Ayodhya and genocide in Gujarat. Only
Modi knows the Why, How and Who
of Godhra. Nehru described the RSS, as anti-national, communal,
violent and subversive. He has been vindicated. He saw no threat
to Indias unity and integrity from communism but from Hindu fundamentalism,
which the RSS represents, in the form of Hindutva which is the substitute
of Hitlers Aryans to blackmail the Hindus.
Both are anti-reformation,
anti-intellectualism and draw on mythology for propaganda purposes to
arouse the basest instincs of men and cloak them with nobility.
Both are against womens empowerment. Hitler replaced girls with
boys at the workplace and prescribed a dress code for them. Golwalkar
does not want one more ism, sexism, for equal rights of
women. The Womens Reservation Bill has been pending in the Lok
Sabha for a long time which can be passed with the support of Congress
party, CPI and CPM.
Both are anti-secular and
anti-democracy. They destroy democracy and democratic institutions from
within.
Both suffer from the Messiah complex. Hitler imagined himself to be
the Christ to free the Church from money-changers (Jews). Dr Hedgewer
had been declared as an incarnation by Golwalkar.
Both are terrorist mafias and preach violence and war. Both control
the media. Any opposition invites retaliation. Two journalists of Delhi,
Iftikhar Gilani and Kumar Badal of tehelka, had to face the fury of
undeclared Emergency behind the bars.
Both start with small-time shopkeepers and trade unionists and end up
supping with the corporate sector to finish them the way they kill their
allies like their enemies.
Both enforce state-sponsored
religion and state-sponsored books and literature for teaching in the
educational institutions. RSS chief K.S. Sudarshan wants Christians
and Muslims to worship Hindu gods. He is trying to expand the clientage
for the recognised parasites Dr Murl Manohar Joshi is producing as Prohitiyas.
He himself is so ungrateful not to worship his own creator.
In the post-Mauryan period
Patanjali and his hirelings under the patronage of Pushyamitra tempered
with all the ancient texts. All interpolations, manipulated mutilations,
stuffings and subtractions were effected with concatenation in retrospect.
Ashoka, who is considered the greatest monarch the world has ever produced,
was buried under the debris of Buddhist monasteries. Two hundred years
ago India did not know anything about Ashoka. It was Cunnigham who retrieved
Ashoka from there and foreign historians brought him in the history
books. That is why Dr Joshi does not like foreign historians. Historians
who attribute Indias slavery to the caste system and hold the
priestly class responsible; for that they are termed by him as Leftists.
The Leftists have conscience. Fascists are devoid of both conscience
and morality. Now Dr Murli Manohar Joshi and some historians with dubious
credentials whose names are kept secret, are tampering with history.
L.K. Advani has objected to the Ashoka Wheel in the tricolour, which
was adopted by the Constituent Assembly unanimously when Dr Shyama Prasad
Mukherjee was the Minister in Nehrus Cabinet.
Both advocate one-party and
one-man rule in the name of the nation to destroy it in the name of
Pan-nationalismPan-German and Akhand Bharat, from Iran to Malaysia
and from Tibet to Sri Lanka to befool the gullibles.
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The RSS is an organised hypocrisy,
criminalised communalism, institutionalised terrorism and mytho-logised
falsehood. It pretends to be a cultural organi-sation but it is a criminal
mafia of the anti-national fascist forces. It represents those old dark
forces and relics of the past with their frozen articles
of faith who brought shame and slavery of centuries for India
resulting in the division of the country. Social union is the most important
ingredient of a nation which the RSS wants to destroy.
When the RSS floated its political outfit, the Bharatiya Jan Sangh (now
the BJP), Nehru described it as an illegal child of the RSS.
Since then the RSS has given birth to so many illegal children who after
attaining puberty have not only become a headache to their parent but
a nuisance and threat to society.
Till now, intra-Sangh Parivar
relations and occasional tantrums were termed as naumachy to confuse
people. The VHP has now attacked the Prime Minister after his Goa musings.
First, a Prime Minister, as a national symbol, belongs to the entire
nation and a poet to the entire humanity. But when a poet-Prime Minister
indulges in petty partisan politics, the last mask tears itself off
the facade and the true Swayamsevak appears before the nation.
Secondly, the popular belief is that no sin is attached when a man says
what he does not mean by crossing his middle and index fingers. How
people are shocked to see our worthy Prime Minister indulging in emotional
rhetorics by crossing and uncrossing both the fingers with magic-movements.
Hindutva is neither Hinduism, nor culture nor nationalism, but Hitlers
Aryan with all its sinister connotations! This Hindutva has nothing
noble. It is the hidden agenda of ninetynine Brahmins who took oath
in the forest to destroy the social union of India for their self-aggrandisement.
The word Hindutva was coined by Savarkar who also propounded the Two-Nation
Theory which had divided India. Hindutva has a sinister connotation
to balkanise the rest of India.
After few days of his Goa musings Vajpayee congratulated and supported
Dr Murli Manohar Joshi for saffronising history and not greening it.
The green colour is in the tricolour. It is also the colour of his allys
turban (the Chief Minister of Haryana O.P. Chautala) who was present
in the meeting. The green colour also symbolises prosperity in Islam.
Reference to the green colour betrayed his Hindutva mindset. The Hindutva
anti-national forces term the genocide in Gujarat as cultural renaissance.
Vajpayees soul is the RSS and not India. His dharma is like Kauravas,
Bhishmas dharma (when Draupadi was being disrobed)very subtle.
It varies from person to person, from place to place and from time to
time. His dharma would have enjoined on him to sack the butcher of Gujarat.
He buckled under RSS pressure that threatened to plunge India through
the flashing loop of civil war if Modi was sacked. This is the pseudo-nationalism
of the RSS.
Some of the blame lies with the members of the Opposition parties who
described Vajpayee as a gentleman in a wrong party. Can a gentleman
keep the company of those who are not so gentle for fifty long years
without wearing the mask over his mantle?
The RSS was born on Dussehra Day in 1925. When Ravan was killed, it
seems, his soul had entered into the RSS that day!
Fundamentalism supports and nurtures funda-mentalism. Dr Joshi has given
thousands of computers to Madrasas which the RSS paints in black colour.
The RSS terrorismthe demolition of the Babri Masjid and
mayhem in Bombayhave given birth to Muslim fundamentalism. The
day the RSS closes its shop, Muslim fundamentalism would be buried deep
in its own grave.
Abrogation of Article 370 and Common Civil Code are on the agenda of
the RSS and BJP. Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was a Minister in Nehrus
Cabinet when Article 370 was incorporated in the Constitution. The Common
Civil Code is applicable to the civil society. Can we claim to be a
civil society when there are female infanticides, female foeticides,
dowry, bride-burning, glorification of sati, untouchability, caste system
and temple prostitution in the name of the Devdasi system? And what
are the custodians of culture or vendors of Hindutva doing?
These people draw on mythology and the so-called Dharamgranths that
Gandhiji refused to accept and called them the creations of poets and
nothing else. He also urged upon the Hindus to purge from these texts
those prose portions that are abhorrent to human dignity. For that he
paid the price of his life. According to Manusmriti, women, Vaishyas
and Shudras are born of sin. Manu does not differentiate between women.
Can a Hindu whose mother is born of the womb of sin say with pride that
he is a Hindu? Gowalkar says that Hinduism is not a religion but a way
of life. How can then these texts be called Dharamgranths? Dharamgurus
who preach these texts are worst than fagins!
If the people of this country do not challenge and confront the anti-national
fascist forces, the four founding Brahmin members of the RSS would prove
to be the pallbearers of this nation!