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Hindu-bashing through the decades - Organiser

Mayank Jain ()
18 May 1997

Title : Hindu-bashing through the decades
Author : Mayank Jain
Publication : Organiser
Date : May 18, 1997

"Our English schools are flourishing wonderfully... The effect of
education on the Hindus is prodigious. No Hindu who has received
an English education ever remains sincerely attached to his
religion. Some continue to profess it as a matter of policy, and
some embrace Christianity. It is my belief that, if our plans of
education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater
among the respectable classes in Bengal, thirty years hence, and
this will be effected without any efforts to proselytise; without
the smallest interference with religious liberal, by natural
operation of knowledge and reflection. I heartily rejoice in this
project"-so said T.B. Macaulay in a letter to his father in 1836.

Macaulay's project was secular and vet the main aim of the project
seems to have been Christianising India 'without the smallest
interference with religious liberty' and without any efforts to
proselytise. Secularisation of Indian education therefore, was just
a mask or a smokescreen behind which the main intention of
de-Hinduisation and Christianisation of Hindu society lay.
Strangely, at that time secularism in Europe was fighting an
ideological battle against theocratic stranglehold of the Church on
the state and individual whereas in India a grossly? perverted
secularism was being used as a mask for spreading Christianity.
Even if Macaulay's aim of Christianising India did not succeed as
much as he would have liked. the new education system ensured a
considerable self-alienation of elitist Hindus from their parent
culture.

Macaulay's project of 'educating' Indians was centred around
distorting, misinterpreting and misrepresenting Hindu scriptures.
No effort was spared to defile and debase Hinduism. The elite
section of Hindu society was subjected to meticulous indoctrination
and brainwashing. They began considering Indians of ancient times
bigoted, uncivilised, superstitious, cowardly and prejudiced. This
in the long run created ideal germinating conditions for the
implantation of Marxist thought categories in self-alienated
Hindus. 'Brown in skin' but 'English by taste and temperament'
they later joined the opponents of Hindu society-Islam,
Christianity and Marxism. Small wonder that Hindu-baiters are
generally Islamophiles too. Enemies of enemies are friends.

The first person to form a communist party outside Russia, comrade
M.N. Ray, carried a deep animus towards his parent culture and
wished to strike a crushing blow on Hinduism with the active help
of Islam and a bloody revolution. He wrote in the early thirties
and published in -1937 a book tilled, The Historical Role of Islam
which is utterly contemptuous towards Hinduism and full of love and
admiration for Islam. He writes, "...the educated world has
rejected the vulgar theory that the rise of Islam was a triumph of
fanaticism over sober and tolerant people. The phenomenal success
of Islam was primarily due to its revolutionary significance and
its ability.. to lead the masses out of the hopeless situation
created by the decay of antique civilisations not only of Greece
and Rome but of Persia and China-and that of India."

The credit goes to Macaulay that the intellectuals of Hindu Society
started looking at themselves with western eves, they were thus
convinced about the 'hopelessness' of Hinduism and every thing
Hindu became 'foolish, inferior and reactionary'. They felt like
traitors to the Hindu nation and later on with an ideological
alliance with Islam they formed a united front against the Hindu
society to disrupt its perennial values and to hijack the Indian
establishment after Independence.

M.N. ROY? writes: "No civilised people in the world is so ignorant
of Islamic history ,and contemptuous of the Mohammedan religion as
the Hindus... The average educated Hindu has little knowledge of,
and no appreciation for, the immense revolutionary significance of
Islam .... the expansion of Islam is the most miraculous of all
miracles ...He expects Hindus to do a 'dispassionate' and
'scientific study of this fascinating chapter in the history of
mankind'. And yet, there is no scientific study on any aspect of
Islamic theology or Hindu spiritualism in the entire book. He
should have put to scientific test the origin of Islam, its concept
of monopoly of a unique God, unique prophethood, division of human
society in terms of believers and non-believers, the acts of loot,
plunder, rape and murder performed by the believers on
non-believers and Islamic iconoclasm. M.N. Roy had no knowledge of
Islamic theology and could only lead us to funny conclusions. His
conclusions have nothing to do 'with scientific analysis because
science is based on hard facts and not on mindlessness.

Macaulay's brown children who subsequently became Marxists are also
the Trojan horses of Islamic imperialism. Superiority of Muslim
military machine, for them, was superiority, of Muslim culture as
well. They started looking down at their own people and culture
like bloated brown sahibs and possessed a deep-seated inferiority
complex vis-a-vis the modern west. They gained a false sense of
self-confidence by taking to the ways of their conquerors and
finding faults in all expressions of Hindu society. M.N. Roy says,
"...there lived in India multitudes of people who had little reason
to be faithful to Hindu laws and the traditions of Brahmin
orthodoxy, and were ready, to forsake their heritage for the more
equitable laws of Islam which offered them Protection against the
tyranny of triumphant Hindu reaction."

Everytime a Marxist uses scare-words like 'Brahminical tyranny?'
and the 'caste system', Hindus are expected to hang their heads in
shame and keep quiet. They are expected to learn from 'Islamic
progressivism' and their 'proletarian paradise, the art of forming
- 'egalitarian society'. Said Sita Ram Goel. "Here we have
erstwhile traffickers in slavery and white trade trumpeting about
'brotherhood, and social service, and brushing aside the whole of
Hindu society as beehive of Brahmin domination, caste oppression,
degradation of women and bonded labour. Hindu society has Yet to
make a muster-role of their societies, and bring into open the true
character of 'brotherhood' and 'social service' from the annals of
their remote as well as recent history... Hindu society has yet to
peep into their 'proletarian paradise', and raise the curtain on a
vast slake empire sustained by mass-slaughter and unmitigated
terror. The day Hindu society does that, the socialist swearology
will lose its sting, and not know where to hide its malignant
mein." (Defence of Hindu Society, Voice of India. p.5)

Hindu society in its long history has known no slaves. has not
indulged in usurping other people's lands. never terrorised the
weak (the principal dharma of Kshatriya has been protection of the
weak), never used arms against non-combatant men, women and
children, never allowed any-one to clean or carry human faecal
matter etc. The ancient Hindu scholar Chanakya prescribes a severe
punishment on all those who would ask someone to clean or carry
human faecal matter. It is quite clear from Hindu tradition that
people used to defecate in open, or behind a bush as mentioned in
the Manu Smriti, the Shandilya Smriti, and the Bhardwaja Smriti.

This by itself eliminates the possibility of using the services of
any community to clean or carry human waste. The so-called Bhangi
community never existed before the coming of Muslims. The entire
Sanskrit literature does not contain a single word which could
describe Bhangi. It was the contribution of the 'Progressivism' of
Muslims that a toilet was put right inside the house in agreement
with their purdah system. A large contingent of captured soldiers
of defeated Hindu armies used to perform the shameful task of
carrying human waste on their heads hitherto punishable in
accordance with Hindu laws, Ignorant, motivated and prejudiced
Marxist historians Put the blame on Brahmins for the sorry plight
of Bhangis (who were actually Kashatriyas).

The main item on the agenda of Macaulay's brown children is the
weakening of Hindu society by dividing it on caste lines.
Jawaharlal Nehru writes in a letter (of October 12, 1933) to Asaf
Ali, "I realise that there is some feeling among the Muslims that
the Harijan movement is aimed at strengthening Hindus politically.
This is, of course, without foundation but nonetheless it is
there. As a matter of fact the aspect of Harijan Movement which
appeals to me most is that it will weaken the Hindu in the sense
that it will create a, spill amongst them. I like such splits ..."

Nehru relished tile weakening of Hindu society just like a good
brown sahib (western educated). Hindu society is an open society
and well-intentioned advice towards reform from Guru Nanak,
Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo,
Bankim Chandra, Subramaniyam Bharati and others was accepted with
profound willingness to rejuvenate and reawaken itself. On the
other hand, Macaulay's 'progeny' are the sworn enemies of Hindu
society. who indulge in the profitable pass-time of Hindu-bashing.
They spare no effort to create, exaggerate and propagate the
so-called weaknesses of Hindu society by raising scare-words like
Brahminism, casteism, obscurantism, polytheism. revivalism, etc-

"What have the Hindus done to these disciples of Christ that every
Christian child is taught to call the Hindu 'vile' and 'wretches',
and the most horrible devils on earth? ... Look again at the books
published in Madras against the Hindu religion. If a Hindu writes
one such line against the Christian religion, the missionaries cry
fire and vengeance... What is meant by those pictures in school
books for children where the Hindu mother is painted as throwing
her children to the crocodiles in the Ganga? ... What is meant by
those pictures which paint a man burning his wife at a stake with
his own hands, so that she may become a ghost, and torment the
husband's enemy? ... I have heard one of these gentleman preach in
Memphis that in every village of India there is a pond full of
bones of little babies." (Selected from the Complete Works of Swami
Vivekanand, Advaita Ashram, p.483).

A deep sense of hatred .vas nurtured in the western minds by
selling false stories and pumping millions of dollars in Christian
propaganda apparatus the world over. In India the white man's
burden was shouldered by the brown person. Along with their
Marxist and Islamic cohorts. this is a formidable 'united front'
against Hindu society. This front is very much alive. Unless the
Hindi people looks through the long-term evil designs and expose
their ideological goals. the future of Hindu society may be at
stake.


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