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| Vol. LI, No. 41 | NEW DELHI, April 30, 2000 |
April Last updated: April 29, 5:00 p.m. |
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Years Ago Indianisation : the only way for India TIME will come when history records with the proverbial letters of gold that the Jana Sangh, by its insistence on Indianisation at the Patna session, pointed to India the only way of escape from the present jungle of political, economic, religious and cultural confusion. Understood properly and adopted as a motto and practised as a creed, Indianization will mean salvation for Bharat and its people, in particular its two major communities; the Hindus and Muslims. Both these communities need Indianization. Only the degree of need varies. Gandhi and Azad would have welcomed Indianisation The ways of God are inscrutable and cannot be questioned. But one cannot help wondering how the shape of things in India would have been today had the idea of Indianization, clear as it was spelt out by the Jana Sangh, occurred to leaders such as Gandhiji and Abdul Kalam Azad, to mention only two. As genuine lovers of India, they were better qualified to know the real meaning and significance of Indianization and realise that, practised as policy and creed, it could not have failed to recover for Bharat its past glory, added to it, enhanced its worth and made our country the ideal of all other nations. The vanity of Nehru On Jawaharlal Nehru Indianization would perhaps have been waste. Or he might have given it a casual thought and dismissed it out of hand as "too narrow". Nehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of practical politics. With a reics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of practical politics. With a reics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of practical poliics. With a reeics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of practical politics. With a reics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of practical polics. With a reehics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of practical politics. With a reics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of practical poics. With a reehrics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of practical politics. With a reics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of practical pics. With a reehruics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of practiics. With a reehru was ics. With a reehru was allics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of praics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of practical politics. With a reics. With a reehru was alics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of pracics. With a reehru was all for internationalics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the sliics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of practical politics. With a reics. With a reehru was all for internationaics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the sligics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slightest idea of practical politics. With a reics. With a reehru was all for internationics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism. He had not the slighics. With a reehru was all for internationalism and universaliIf at the crucial time Gandhiji and Nehru had thought of Indianization and convinced Jinnah of the need for it instead of trying to accommodate him till he, with the help of the British, stampeded them into consenting to matricide, Jinnah would have, I feel sure, found in Indianization the ideal solution. He was no fanatical Muslim, for the simple reason that he did not know the ABC of Islam-to the extent that he never even prayed, again for the simple reason that he did not know how to pray or what to say when at prayer. He was a practical man to whom the Mahatma's Ahimsa and Nehru's internationalism were contemptible mysteries. The practical idea of Indianization would not have failed to impress him. In the course of time, however, Jinnah began to undergo a slow change which enhanced his ego and altered his outlook. This was the logical consequence of the weak-kneed policy of Congress.... May 2, 1970 |
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