Roles Of Sangh Parivar

Nanda notes that the Indians’ success in the global market have attributed to Hindu values. These are constantly promoted by media and politicians. Ultra nationalism, worshiping Hindu gods and India itself has become a civil religion.

might take offense if I accidentally referred to him as an Indian, though I could not really imagine Mr. Pirzada being offended by much of anything. “Mr. Pirzada is Bengali, but he is a Muslim,” my father informed me. “Therefore he lives in East Pakistan, not India.” His finger trailed across the Atlantic, through Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and finally to the sprawling orange diamond that my mother once told me resembled a woman wearing a sari with her left arm extended. Various cities had been circled with lines drawn between them to indicate my parents’ travels, and the place of

He’s saying that it is unfair to have religion based teams, because it creates an unhealthy rivalry. It’s unsportsmanlike to separate the teams this way, and would cause the players to not act as a team all the time. “When Pakistan wins a cricket match and my country is defeated, why should Indian Muslims celebrate? Why should they have that jubilation mood? They should shed tears for our

In 1939 World War II broke out in Europe. Britain proclaimed India’s involvement in the war without consulting the Indian people. This led to increased protest and volatility. In 1942 India established a national army and proposed the Quit India Movement. This movement promised to lend Indian military support to Britain in return for complete independence. If they refused this treaty the Indian people promised civil disobedience. In 1947 India was granted its independence and became self governing (Luscombe, 2012). On January 26, 1950 the Republic of India was proclaimed and it drafted a constitution. The first democratic elections were held in 1952. However the Hindus and Muslims were not united and colonial India was divided into Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India (History, 2010).

however he does not show any religious bias when describing the treatment of the Indians,

Other thing he mentioned, is that Indians will react with joy, which I think is not correct for him to say that, because whit what he had mentioned before, I think the Indians would be mad to know that they will have to change their traditions and leave their lands.

His quote, “Did you ever hear of Christ teaching his disciples that they ought to despise one because his skin color was different than theirs?” (Apess B: 157). “I believe that Indians have as much right to choose their partners among the whites if they wish”, is a reference to the double standard applied to white Americans (Apess B: 158).

The state of Mussolini’s Fascist Italy and Hitler’s Nazi Germany, can be highly comparable in their policies and ideologies. Fascism is a political ideology, in which the country is to be racially and culturally pure. Mussolini said himself that “Fascism desires the state to be strong and organic and to always be prepared for conflict”. Fascism includes things such as nationalism, hostility to democracy, racism, the love of symbols such as uniforms, parades and army discipline. It is a totalitarian philosophy which worships the state and nation. Fascism is an extreme right-wing that celebrates the nation or race as a pure community which exceeds all other loyalties and expectations (Downing, 2001). Most of the time it celebrates masculinity and male supremacy, rarely it will promote female solidarity (De Grand, 1995). Fascist aims are to prepare for conflict and violence and to prepare and educate the youth. Both were able to gain support from military associations,

The Indian population is generally classified on two bases: linguistic and religious. The religious classification is more impressive and arresting for the foreigner. One who is interested in the struggle of the masses must

Meanwhile the articles “Multicultural community organizing: a strategy for change”by Gutierrez, Lorraine and “Multiculturalism and "American" religion: the case of Hindu Indian Americans” by Kurien, Prema relates to each other on the perspective of the voices of those within the multicultural community and what the disadvantages are living in a society that has not completely conformed to different cultures and religions. For example in "American" religion: the case of Hindu Indian Americans” Kurien touched bases on how Hindus were treated so unfairly that it was time for them to speak up so they wrote a letter to the president at time saying “ Hindus are very much a part of our nation…….. Hindus are a peace-loving people. We never

“So India’s problem turned out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.” This quote is said by Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses. Rushdie coming from an Indian background shows the cultural aspects of life in an Indian culture. The quote said by Rushdie can be controversial in many ways. The people who believe in God would not accept this quote in a good way because the higher archie for them would be their God which is being dishonoured in Rushdie’s quote. This connects to the book The Satanic Verses as Rushdie explains the different appearances in an Indian culture such as Reincarnation, Miracles and the Indian Identity. These three references play a major role in this book and specifically in the Indian society.

The present government, much like Savarkar, is subtley, or not-so-subtley, trying to create a Hindu rashtra. This leads to many asking the question – “is mainstreaming Savarkar as a national hero and propagating his work a part of the BJP's unfinished agenda?”9 Echoing Savarkar's thoughts, the BJP claims that “Hindutva is not a religious concept, but rather, it is cultural nationalism.”10 However, it is evident that the phrase “cultural nationalism” is a mere euphenism to cover the ideology of promoting a Hindu rashtra. Ghar Wapsi – an attempt to re-Hinduize converts, or convert non-Hindus to Hinduism is rampant, even more so after the new rightist government came to power. Consumption and posession of beef has been criminalized in a bid to protect the Hindu 'gow mata', and please the elite Hidutva propagating Hindus who form a considerable share of the vote bank. Government officials have been caught saying that all non-Hindus are 'illegitimate children', bringing to mind Savarkar's claim that all Hindus have common blood. Intolerance today is not as subtle as Savarkar's disregard for those who converted to Islam and Christianity. Rationalists such as Kalburgi are being killed for offending 'Hindu sentiments.' Education is being saffronized in order to indoctrinate the Hindutva ideology into young minds. Despite critisicm from rationalists, the government continues to do so and defends their actions by stating that “we must value everything that is 'Indian', as it is our inherent strength.”11 History is being re-written to glorify the Golden Age of Hinduism. This re-written history, talks about how 'outsiders' (Muslims and Christians) infiltrated the land, diluting the purity of the nation. This goes hand-in-hand with Savarkar's explanation of a Hindu being one who considers the land to be his pitrubhumi and punyabhumi, and that once upon a

Secularists like JN Nehru, Universalists like RN Tagore, Emperors like Akbar and Asoka, Philosophy like Upnishads, Immortal leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, intellectuals like Swami Vivekananda have been part of this rich tradition and they propounded the inclusive and tolerant idea of India. Each of them epitomises the essence of India’s belief system. We have oldest Jewish community in the world outside of the middle-east and a Christian community going back to the first decade after Christ. New religions came in India and assimilated in its extraordinarily flexible and accommodative culture. Each community thrived and none faced any

Under the British Empire, India had remained fairly peaceful up until the 1940s. Its two major religious groups, the Hindus and the Muslims, began lashing out at each other and their beliefs causing strife all throughout India. There is a long history of violence between the two, so it was only a matter of time before India split apart. The Partition of India was a decree written mostly by the All-India Muslim League that created the separate nation of Pakistan. The Indian state of East Punjab was created in 1947 for the Hindus, when the Partition of India split the former British province of Punjab between India and Pakistan (Hasan 35). The Muslim exodus from India, as well as the Hindu influx in to India and East Punjab is still one of the most important events in India’s history. This was not completely unexpected, however. The Muslim and Hindu/Sikh populations found all throughout India were at odds often. They were in constant turmoil over religious beliefs and living spaces, so the Indian government had to figure out a way to resolve the conflict before India broke out into a civil war. Strong efforts were made to try and unify Hindus and Muslims in India, but because of their inability to cooperate, their strong beliefs, and the ongoing violence between each other, the separate nation of Pakistan had to be created to establish peace.

Amidst the ongoing campaigns to challenge British encroachments on the rights of Indians in early 20th century South Africa, Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi coined a new phrase for the spiritual approach he took to his political work: satyagraha. Gene Sharp has written perhaps the most concise explanation of Satyagraha. “Satyagraha,” he writes, “is best translated as the firmness which comes from reliance on truth, and truth here has connotations of essence of being.” Sharp’s description of satyagraha as constituting, on a basic level, notions of “truth” and “essence of being” requires that we treat satyagraha as site of inquiry rather than as an explanation. Firstly, we should interrogate Gandhian ideas about truth and being and, secondly, we should examine how these ways of knowing and ways of being were reinterpreted for the black freedom struggle in the United States. In this way, it’s possible to break the concept of satyagraha into its constituent parts: what does “firm being” mean for Gandhi? What about truth? And how do these religious ways of knowing square with Gandhi’s politics? Such questions gain clarification by examining the deep influence of Jain ideas on the Hindu Gandhi. Growing up in the city of Rajkot in the Gujarat region of Western India, Gandhi was surrounded by Jains and Jain ideas, but a wealthy Jain jeweler named Raychand inspired Gandhi to refract fundamental religious questions about being and truth through the prism of Jain principles. “What is