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    PERVERSION OF INDIA'S POLITICAL

    PARLANCE

    By

    Sita Ram Goel

    Published By Voie o! I"dia

    Ne# Delhi$ I"dia

    Chapter 1 : Something Seriously Wrong Somewhere

    Chapter 2 : Words Which Defy Dictonaries

    Chapter 3 : The Sources of Leftist Language

    Chapter 4 : The Character of Leftist Language

    Chapter : The !istory of Leftist Language

    Chapter " : The #ole of Leftist Language

    Chapter $ : The %lace of &ahatma 'andhi

    Chapter ( : Towards a Language of )ndian *ationalism

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    C%APTER & Somethi"( Se)iously *)o"(

    Some#he)e

    )t was the summer of 1--. ) was wor,ing as secretary of anorganisation of which the late Shri /ayapra,ash *arayan was the president. 0ne day an #SS leader wal,ed into my office. ) had ,nownhim for a numer of years. fter some small tal, he suggested that )

    should reuest /.%. to 5isit an #SS camp which was eing held in *ewDelhi at that time. /.%. also happened to e in town. ) was diffidentaout the proposition. !a5ing wor,ed with /.%. for more than an year) had sensed his preferences and pre6udices. +ut ) promised to the #SSleader that ) would do my est. ) roached the su6ect to /.%. ne7t dayas soon as ) found him alone which was a rare e5ent. /.%. seemed to e stunned as if ) had uttered an oscenity. There was an e7pression of displeasure on his face which made me too feel uncomfortale. !ewas a gentle person who seldom lost his temper. +ut now he seemedto e on the 5erge of e7ploding. The atmoshphere ecame tense. 8or amoment none of us could find words to rea, the spell of silence. t

    last /.%. controlled himself and said : "Do you know what you aretalking, and to whom ?" There was a touch of temper in his 5oice.

    +y now ) had also managed to collect my wits to a certain e7tent. )said: " I knew that the suggestion would be annoying to you. Even so, I took a chance." !e rela7ed. ) also hea5ed a sigh of relief. !e said:"You know that I have a certain standing in the country and a certainreputation in public life. You should not epect me to get mied upwith an organisation which is known for its communal, reactionaryand revivalist character." ) said: " It is eactly because of your standing in the country and your reputation in public life that i haveconveyed their invitation to you." 

    !e said: " I do not understand. !ould you make yourself a little moreclear ?" 

    ) e7plained: " Your standing in the country is that of a man of reasonand your reputation rests upon the keenness of your moral sense. I am sure you will live upto that standard in this instance as well." 

    !e said: " I try to do my best according to my understanding and strength of will. ell me where and how I have failed." 

    This encouraged me and ) said: " You have been practisinguntouchability towards a section of your own people. You have nevermet the #$$ people face to face. You have never listened to their sideof the story. Yet you have formed an unsavoury opinion about them.his does not sound reasonable to me, nor %ust." 

    !e ecame thoughful. ) continued: " Your status today is not that of a party politician seeking power and fomenting partisan strife. You havebecome a father figure for the nation as a whole, almost theconscience&keeper of your people. You raise your voice whwnever and wherever you feel that an in%ustice has been done or that %ustice is

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    being denied. hat is why people of all persuasions !ongressmen,$ocialists, !ommunists, 'kalis, (ational !onference men and so on &come to you for consultation, for registering their complaints, for presenting their point of view, and for seeking your advice. You do not always agree with them. Yet you listen to them patiently and give them your advice. hey do not always agree with your view of men andmatters, nor always follow your advice. he points is that you arealways accessible to them. You always go out and meet themwhenever they invite you. It is only the #$$ and allied people whom

     you avoid, so much so that one of their leaders could not come to youdirectly and had to convey an invitation through a small fry likemuself. ell me if this is not tantamount to practising untouchability."!e closed his eyes and shoo, his head se5ral times. !e seemed to eengaged in some inner struggle. ) pressed the point: " I am notinviting you to get mied up with the #$$. (or is it their intention to spread some snare for you. )hat they epect from a man like you isthat you should try to know them first&hand rather than depend uponhearsay and political gossip in a partisan press controlled almostentirely by people who are hostile to them. *ay be you find that youhave been mistaken about them. *ay be they benefit from the advice

    that you give them. +ut all this can happen only when you meet them,listen to what they have to say, tell them frankly what you feel aboutthem and thus open the door for a fruitful dialogue in days to come. In any case, the heavens are not going to fall because you go and visit one of their camps. hat is all I have to say. #est is for you to decide." !e opened his eyes smiled somewhat sadly and said: " You have putme in a rather awkward position. +ut I can see the point in what youhave said. I cannot easily refute your accusation. I can really be held guilty of practising untouchability." 

    ) ,ept uiet and waited for him to ma,e up his mind. !e did it in amoment and said: " kay, you win. I am willing to visit the #$$ camp. *ake an appointment with them and let me know. I hope tomorrowevening will suit them. Day after I am leaving Delhi." 

     *e7t day he spent nearly two hourse in the #SS camp witnessingtheir mass drill mo5ed y their prayer of de5otion to the motherlandmeeting and tal,ing to their leaders as,ing all sorts of uestions andoffering his own comments. 8inally he sat on a chair facing a groupof aout a hundred #SS wor,ers from se5eral parts of the country.The wor,ers who sat on the ground in row after row stood up one yone to introduce themsel5es to their honoured guest of the e5ening.9ach one of them told his name without mentioning any surname

    indicati5e of caste or community his educational ualifications the pro5ince from which he came and the years he had spent as aswayamse5a,a. ) could see that /.%. was highly impressed. !is facewhich had een grim so far softened suddenly and 5isily. &ost of theSwayamse5a,as held graduate and postgraduate degrees in arts orcommerce or science. ll of them were etween the ages of 2 and3.

    8inally /.%. was reuested to say a few words and less the youngmen. That he politely refused. !e whispered to me that he was uiteconfused and did not really ,now what to say. ) con5eyed his feelings

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    to the #SS leader who showed immediate understanding and did not press him any more.

    s he was ta,ing lea5e /.%. loo,ed at the +hagwa dhwa6a andoser5ed: "hat I suppose is the *aratha flag." 

    The #SS leader e7plained: "he *arathas did not invent it. heyborrowed it from an older national tradition. he saffron colour hasalways been the colour par ecellence of Indian spirituality as well as

    of Indian nationalism." 

    /.%. saids "I do not know. I have not been a student of history. +utthat is what a weel&known historian told me." 

    The #SS leader smiled and remained silent. The parting was 5erywarm on oth sides.

    0n our way ac, /.%. muttered as if he was tal,ing to himself: "heyhave a lot of young and very disciplined workers. heir workers arealso highly educated. I never knew that. In our socialist movementmost of our workers are not even matriculates." ) ,ept uiet and

    waited for him to say something more. !e made one more commentas we got out of the car at the end of our 6ourney. !e said: "sitaram%i, I am grateful to you for helping me to break down what looked likean insurmountable wall. +ut I am not at all satisfied that it is not anattempt to revive the *aratha empire." 

    ) could ha5e as,ed him as to what was wrong with &aratha theempire. ) could ha5e also told him that the &aratha empirerepresented the triumph of a tough and long;drawn;out struggleagainst )slamic imperialism. +ut ) was not prepared for some morefrowns on his face. &y 5ersion of )ndian history was after all not the

    5ersion which was eing taught in school and college te7t;oo,s allo5er the country. /.%. was repeating what most of our historians weresaying from their august seats in uni5ersities and research institutes.ccording to the professors the &ughal empire was a many;splendoured national mansion while the &aratha confederacy was acongregation of self;see,ing marauders. What was my locus standi for raising a contro5ersy aout what had come to e uni5ersally acceptedin the world of learning< ) was not e5en a school teacher.

    *%+ I %AVE TOLD T%IS STOR+

    ) ha5e told this story not as a part of my autoiography ut in order to point out the gulf which di5ided a national leader from a nationalmo5ement. !ere was a leader who had fought for national freedomand who was acti5ely thin,ing and e7perimenting with methods ofnational reconstruction. nd here was a national mo5ement whichtoo, its irth at a critical 6uncture in the same fight for nationalfreedom and which was now concentrating on training our youth forthe same tas, of national re5itali=ation. >et the two of them ;; thenational leader and the national mo5ement ; stood apart and could notsee eye to eye on matters of ma6or importance.

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     *or ha5e ) chosen /.%. simply ecause ) happened to see himfunctioning from close uarters at one time. ) ha5e chosen him ecause he was a leader who had continued to grow out of closedideologies who had shed pre6udices and who was sincerely in searchof a wider 5ision. !e was not li,e %andit *ehru and many otherswhose thought;processes ecame fossili=ed in the ?thirties or the?forties and who had suseuently failed to ha5e a fresh loo, atnational or international affairs. )t was all right for /.%. to disown

    e5en denounce the #SS so long as he was an orthodo7 socialist withhis moorings in &ar7ist thought. +ut the e5ent ) ha5e descried too,  place se5eral years after he had pulicly renounced &ar7ism andaffirmed his faith in the path shown y &ahatma 'andhi.

     *or yet is it my intention to uild a case for the #SS which is uitecapale of loo,ing after itself. ) ha5e chosen the #SS as the symol of an ancient society and culture which ha5e suffered for a long time andin no small measure from successi5e wa5es of aggressi5e imperialismlet loose y )slam and Christianity now 6oined y Communism. Theaggression from all these dar, forces is still continuing. There aremany people li,e myself who ha5e ne5er een a part of the #SS utwho ne5ertheless feel strongly that this aggression should stop thatour people should come into their own in their ancestral homelandand that our culture should flower and contriute to the greater goodof man,ind.

    /. %. had at last 5isited an #SS camp. !e had een positi5elyimpressed y the uality of the wor,ers whom the #SS had moili=edin the ser5ice of the nation. nd yet he had retained his earlierreser5ations aout the #SS. !e could not 5isualise that the #SS wasnot a miracle which had materiali=ed out of the lue. !e could not seethat there must e something in a society and a culture and historical

    tradition which had created such a splendid and of selfless wor,erswithout the enefit of any patronage from the powers that e and inthe face of much malicious propaganda in the national andinternational press.

    These were some of the thoughts which rose in my mind at that time. )felt 5ery strongly that there was something seriously wrongsomewhere. +ut ) could not resol5e the contradictions. ) failed to laymy finger on the sore spot in that sorry situation.

    95er since ) ha5e pondered o5er the su6ect. nd ) ha5e at last come

    to a conclusion which ) can now present with some confidence.

    PO*ER OF A POLITICAL PARLANCE

    To my mind the ,ey to an understanding of the whole situation is to e found in the political parlance which has een pre5alent in thiscountry for more than fi5e decades. 05er the years this parlance has een parodying the #SS as a "rightist, reactionary and revivalistmovement of militant -indu communalism." 05er the years this parlance has een pillorying !indu society as a "crowd of caste&

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    ridden, cow&worshipping and superstitious primitives." 05er the yearsthis parlance has een regarding !indu culture as a "close preserve ofobnoious obscurantism." &ost of this mud has got stuc, to the #SSas well as to !indu society ecause neither the #SS nor !indu societyhas thought it fit to put up a defence not to spea, of turning the taleson their ad5ersaries.

    /.%. was not the only one who had swallowed hea5y doses of this political parlance in his younger days in )ndia and aroad. There are

    so many others who ha5e done the same in shcools and colleges inseminars and conferences in discussions and deates. 8or this pernicious parlance has een and is still eing doled out on a large;scale in most of the media and other a5enues of education all o5er thecountry.

    /.%. had at least tried to disgorge this poison and succeeded to a largee7tent in the later years of his life. There are many others who do note5en suspect that they are eing fed on poison not to spea, of ma,ingan effort to disgorge the doses which they ha5e already imied.

    ) am not referring to those who ha5e consciously chosen to e inspired y Christianity or )slam or Communism and who ha5e made it a profession to e hostile towards e5eryu effort at strengthening !indusociety and culture as a means to strengthening the nation. They arethe haw,ers of this poison and find the profession 5ery profitale. &yreference here is to that 5ast intelligentsia who see a lot that is5aluale in !indu culture ut who run away when it comes to thedefence of the society which ser5es as the 5ehicle of that culture orwho 6oin the haw,ers of poison whene5er they find that this society isnot going to ta,e it any more. ) ha5e done some in5estigation into thehistory and role of this political parlance which has y now ecome petrified into a series of stereotyped slogans. Today e5eryone is

    shouting these slogans ac, and forth. +ut ) fear that there are notmany people not at least in the political fieldd who ha5e tried to findout the source of these slogans and the nature of causes they ser5e.

    ) therefore feel emoldened to present my in5estigation is thechapters that follow.

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    C%APTER , *o)ds *hih De!y

    Ditio"a)ies

    s one sur5eys )ndias political parlance the first features one noticesis that while certain people and parties are descried as Leftist certainothers are designated as #ighist. 0nce in a while political scientistsand 6ournalists add nuances to this road rac,eting when they

     pronounce some splinter group as Left or #ight of Centre. +ut one isleft guessing aout the location of the Centre itself. )t is sometimessuggested that the Centre is constituted y the ruling Congress %arty.The Congress %arty howe5er repudiates this description.

    The second feature which in5ites attention is that thesecontradistincti5e laels ; Leftist and #ightist ; ha5e ne5er eenapportioned among people and parties con5erned y an impartialtriunal li,e say the 9lection Commission. What has happened is thatcertain people and parties ha5e appropriated one lael ; Leftist ; forthemsel5es and reser5ed the other lael ; #ightist ; for their oppoents

    without permission from or prior consultation with the latter.

    The third feature which one disco5ers 5ery soon is that people and parties who call themsel5es Leftist also claim to e progressi5ere5olutionary socialist secularist and democratic. t the same timethey accuse the "#ightists" of eing reactionary re5i5alist capitalistand fascist. t this stage the laels cease to e merely descripti5e.They ecome laudatory and denuciatory instead. Laels li,e progressi5e and re5olutionary etc. acuire an aura of 5irtue andholiness. 0n the other hand laels li,e reactionary and re5i5alist ect.start smelling of 5ice and sin.

    The fourth feature of the )ndian political scene needs a somewhatdeeper loo, ecause it goes eyond the merely political and orderson the philosophical. The Leftist claim that they are committed to ascientific interpretation of the world;process including economicsocial political and cultural de5elopments and that therefore their plans and programmes are not only pertinent ut also profitale for themodern age. Simultaneously they accuse that the "#ightists" areaddicted to an oscurantist 5iew of the same world;process andtherefore to such outmoded forms of economy polity and culture asshould find no place at this stage of human history.

    Lastly one finds that the Leftists in general are pretty self;rightenousas if some supreme power which presides o5er the world;process hasnot only entrusted them with the destiny of the )ndian people ut alsoassured them of ultimate and ine5itale 5ictory. t the same time theLeftists e7pect the "#ightists" to feel sorry for themsel5es as if thelatter ha5e committed or are out to commit some heinous crimesagainst humanity and therefore should not ha5e any future e7cept thedustin of history.

    )t would e an interesting in5estigation to loo, up the dictionarymeanings of these words which are eing andied around y the

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    Leftists as political laels and see if they really stic, where they ha5e een made to stic,. !uman history has ,nown many instances inwhich the wolf has prowled and preyed in sheeps clothing while the poor sheep has een presented as a wolf y sheer tric, of language.The secular 5ersion of medie5al )ndia under &uslim rule as taught inour schools and colleges at present is a case in point. 8oreignin5aders and mass murderers are eing portrayed as illustriousemperors while patriots and freedom fighters are eing pilloried as petty upstarts.

    0n 13 ugust 1-34 %andit *ehru had written to &ahatma 'andhi thatsocialism had "a clearly defined meaning in the English language.The &ahatma had written ac,: "I have looked up the dictionarymeaning of socialism. It takes me no further than where I was before I read the definition. )hat will you have me to read to know its fullcontents?" ESan,ar 'hosh "$ocialism and !ommunism in India" +omay 1-$1 p. 1(3F.

    The 5arious words which the Leftists now employ in order to applaudthemsel5es and denigrate those who differ from them can e found in

    any standard dictionary of the 9nglish language. +ut the dictionariesdo not 5ouchsafe for the 5alues with which the Leftists load thesewords. )n most cases the dictionaries assume prior definitions deri5edfrom different uni5erses of discourse.

    LEFTIST VERS-S RIG%TIST

    Dictionaries define a Leftist as "the more progressive or activelyinnovating party or wing from its sitting in some legislature to the president/s left0" . The same dictionaries define a #ightist as "an

    adherent of the political right conservative0" . *either of thesedefinitions is 5ery illuminating unless we ha5e prior notions of progressi5e and conser5ati5e. *or are the 5alues attached to thesewords e5ident in these definitions.

    We shall discuss the word "progressive" when we come to it at aslightly later stage. #ight here we can ta,e up the word"conservative" . The dictionaries define it as "tending or having power to keep entire, to retain, to preserve" and also as "averse ofchange" . There is nothing intrinsically wrong with ,eeping entireretaining and preser5ing unless it has een pro5ed first that what is eing ,ept entire retained and preser5ed is undesirale. *or need ana5ersion to change e ad in itself unless the change that is eingsought to e rought aout has already een pro5ed as desirale.

    PROGRESSIVE VERS-S

    REACTIONAR+

    This second pair of laels is generally used to co5er segments of socio;political opinion which are uite often roader than those

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    co5ered y the first pair that is Leftist and #ightist. There are many people who do not relish eing called Leftists. +ut they feel flatteredwhen they are proclaimed to e progressi5es. Similarly there aremany people who do not mind eing called #ightists. +ut they ta,efright as soon as they are called reactionaries. Leftist politics ma,es acle5er use of this confusion. )t ropes in as progressi5es many many people who are not prepared to e ,nown as Leftist. t the same timeit scares away or silences many peoples y randing them asreactionaries.

    Dictionaries define a progressi5e as one who is "moving forward,making progress." That sounds tautological unless we ha5e fi7edsome prior meaning of mo5ing forward odr ha5e some prior notion of  progress. The Leftists cannot get away with this lael for themsel5esunless it is assumed aritrarily that whate5er they do or ad5ocateshould automatic5ally pass for progress. *ot is it easy to arri5e at auni5ersally agreed definition of progress particularly at the presenttime when all nineteenth century notions of progress are eingsu6ected to serious uestioning.

    0n the other hand the dictionaries define a reactionary as "one whoattempts to revert to past political conditions." This is a 5ery 5aguegeneralisation. 8irstly it is 5ery difficult almost impossile for any people at any stage of history to re5ert to past political conditionsunless those conditions are confined to uite narrow limits such as for instance the restoration of a royal dynasty. )n fact the word"reactionary" was used e7actly in this sense during the 8rench#e5olution. Secondly the past happens to e a rather long stretch oftime in the history of most nations. )t is not at all clear as to which part;; ancient or medie5al or modern ; of a nations past is implied in thisdefinition. Thirdly we cannot deride all attempts to re5ert to the pastunless we assume aritrarily that the past of all people was always

    worse than their present.

    REVOL-TIONAR+ VERS-S

    REVIVALIST

    This third pair of laels is 5ery weighty indeed. The 5ery sound of theword "revolution" casts such a magic spell on our intelligentsia thatmany a time ordinary criminals draw applause from otherwise decent people y claiming to e re5olutionaries. %eople who ahor their

    5iolence appro5e of them as misguided idealists. *o one has any tearsto shed for the 5ictims of these re5olutionaries. The mangled odies of  policemen and other people are sho5ed away as symols of an un6ustsocio;political system.

    The dictionaries define re5olution as "a great upheaval1 great change,

    i.e. in outlook, social habits and circumstances1 a radical change in government." )t is nowhere indicated in this definition that this greatuphea5al this great change this radical change in go5ernment isnecessarily and in5arialy ound to e for the etter. 95en if it is forthe worse it will still e regarded as a re5olution. !uman history has

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    ,nown se5eral uphea5als which ha5e left the prople affected in aninfinitely worse situation. )t may e psychologically satisfying forsome people to press for a great uphea5al a great change a radicalchange in go5ernment. +ut that is no reason for them to feel superiorand self;righteous unless they can pro5e that they are wor,ing for afuller freedom of man for a greater measure of social prosperity for adeeper culture of the human soul and for a larger fraternity amongdifferent sections of man,ind.

    0n the other hand the dictionaries define a re5i5alist as "one who promotes religious, architectural or other revival." 05iously theLeftists cannot e aiming any guns at architectural re5i5al. Theiro6ection has always een to religious re5i5al. #eligion has always een an anathema to the Leftists. This is understandale when we loo, at closed creeds li,e Christianity and )slam which stri,e at the 5eryroots of rationalism humanism and uni5ersalism. +ut the o6ection ecomes lind when it comes to the religions of the ancient world ofwhich the sole sur5i5or today is the commonwealth of SanatanaDharma. They ought to distinguish etween deeper dri5es of thehuman spirit from the fer5our and fanaticism of the outer mind of

    man. nd their ignorance in this matter is no reason for a lan,et lac,ening of all religious re5i5al.

    SOCIALIST VERS-S CAPITALIST

    This fourth pair of laels arouses intense emotions Socialism too is amagic word which paralyses all thin,ing processes in a ma6ority ofour politically conscious intelligentsia. )t calls for no uestions andstands self;pro5ed. There is no political party in india which does notswear y Socialism. 95er since the ruling party has espoused

    socialism the socialist ran,s ha5e ecome swollen y a large numerof self;see,ers who cannot e5en spell the word. Seeing these peopleone cannot help oser5ing that while all socialists are not scoundrelsall scoundrels are socialists.

    The dictionaries define Socialism as "as a scheme of socialorganisation which places means of production in the hands of thecommunity." The same dictionaries define capitalism as "the economic system which generates and gives power to capilatists." !ere thechoice is clear for all these who place pulic weal ao5e pri5ate profit.They would always 5ote for Socialism. The prolem arises when the

    community is euated with the state and the state with a monolithic party machine which cho,es out allindi5idual freedom. nd that ise7actly what the Leftists ha5e done. They hail as socialist only thosecountries where totalitarian states ha5e reduced the communities toconglomerations of dum;dri5en sla5es. )n )ndia the Leftists descriethe pulic sector as a signpost of Socialism self;satisfied ureaucratsand swollen;headed aus who are ried andGor amoo=led yanother cartel of freeooters ,nown as the pri5ate secto. The twocartels fatten together with utter disregard for the suffering and pri5ation they inflict on the community.

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    0n the other hand the Leftists denounce as capitalist precisely thosecountries where powerful laour unions free press parliamentaryinstitutions and 5igilant pulic opinion ha5e comined to ma,e pri5ateenterprise accountale to the community. The rising standards ofwages and consumption the social security measures and otherwelfare schemes spea, 5olumes aout how pulic good is gainingground o5er pri5ate greed. The meaning of Socialism as well asCapityalism would ha5e een crystal clear ut for the conceptualswindle practised y the Leftists. They ha5e succeeded eminently in

     painting the lac, as white and 5ice 5ersa.

    SEC-LAR VERS-S CO..-NAL

    This fifth pair of laels has attained the widest currency of all politicalwords. We face a peculiar prolem here. The meanings which thesewords ha5e acuired in )ndias political parlance are not e5en remotelyrelated to the meanings which the dictionaries assign to them. )t wouldnot e an e7aggeration to say that although these two words elong tothe 9nglish language their meanings in )ndia ha5e ecomee7clusi5ely )ndian.

    The word secular is defined in the dictionaries as "the belief that the state, morals, education, etc. should be independent of religion." +utin )ndia it means only one thing ;; eschewing e5erything !indu andespousing e5erything )slamic.

    95ery one who wants to ualifying as secular should suscrie to thefolowing articles of faith :

    1. the &uslims in )ndia after independence ha5e ecome a poor 

    and persecuted minorityH

    2. they are eing depri5ed of their fair share in the fruits of de5elopmentH

    3. their religion and culture are not getting legitimate e7pression in pulic life and mediaH

    4. they are not eing gi5en employment in pulic and pri5atesectors in proportion to their populationH and

    5. the preponderance of !indus in the security forces puts in gra5e

     peril the li5es honour and properties of &uslims.

    95ery !indu politician or pen;pusher who aspires to pass the test hasto

    1.  proclaim that )slam stands for euality and human rotherhoodH

    2. celerate the prophets irthday with fanfare and throw an iftar dinner at the end of #am=anH

    3. attend Irs of sufis and Irdu mushairasH

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    4. support the claim of Irdu to e the second state language in allstates where &uslims are in a minorityH

    5. admire whate5er passes for )slamic art and architectureH

    6. relish &uslim coo,ing and appreciate &uslim dress anddemeanourH

    7. ause )srael and applaud ra countries.

    !e should also ,eep uiet or loo, the other way when &uslims

    1.  reed li,e ratsH

    2. refuse to gi5e modern education to their childrenH

    3.  push their women into purdahH

    4.  practise polygamyH

    5. start street;riots at the slightest prete7tH

    6. re6oice o5er e5ery %a,istan 5ictory and e5ery )ndian defeat insportsH and

    7. in5ite and protect infiltrators from across the orders. nd heshould not whisper a word when ra go5ernments pour petro;dollars and professional preachers of )slam into this country inorder to con5ert the wea,er sections of !indu society.

    95en these positi5e ser5ices rendered to )slam are not sufficient for a!indu politician or pen;pusher out to earn the secular certificate. 0neis not secular unless one harours and e7presses a pronounced anti;!indu animus. 0ne should lodge an immediate protest against the leastlittle e7pressionm of !indu religion or culture in pulic media and atgo5ernment functions. 0ne should frown upon e5ery go5ernmentdignitary performing a poo6a in a !indu temple or going to !indu place prilgrimage. 0ne should accuse all educational cultural andresearch institutions of hiding !indu communalists. 0ne should putthe lame suarely on the #SS for e5ery communal riot. nd so onthe list of ones grie5ances against !indu society should e as long asones lo5e for )slam and &uslims.

    The definition of communal is a logical corollary of the ao5e

    definition of secular. The dictionaries define the word communal as"pertaining to community, owned in common,, shared." +ut !indus in)ndia ha5e only to say that they elong to a community and that theyshare a culture in common. They immediately pro5o,e secularists ofall hues to come down upon them. )n fact the word -indu itself has ecome a dirty word almost an oscenity in )ndia political parlance.Woe etide the !indu who dares say that )ndia is his ancestralhomeland and that his religion and culture also ha5e a case. !e will eimmediately denounced as a !indu chau5inist. !indu who lundersinto reading )ndian history with his own eyes who finds that hissociety has suffered immeasuraly at the hands of )slamic

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    imperialism and who cries out that this aggression should now stopma,es the Leftists mad with fury. They rand him as an enemy of pulic peace and national integration. They find in him a fiend who is plotting a genocide of the "poor *uslim minority." 

    DE.OCRATIC VERS-S FASCIST

    This si7th pair of laels is not so much in fashion these days as it usedto e at one time. The Leftists in5o,e these laels only when they arein search of a united front of all democratic forces in order to fight the forces of fascism. They use the word democrat to entice someelements who do not rise immediately to the ait of a united front.nd they hurl the word fascist when they find that their other swear;

    words li,e reactionary and re5i5alist etc. ha5e failed to hurt.

    The dictionaries define a democrat as "one who adheres to or promotes democracy as a principle," and a fascist as "one whobelieves in using forceful methods." The definitions ma,e it easy tofind out where the caps fit. The Leftists swear y democracy only solong as they are in the opposition. They elie5e and proclaim that theywill use force to transform society once they are in power. They arecon5inced that they alone ,now what is good for the rest of thecommunity. They di5ide e5ery society into shepherds and sheepreser5ing the formers role for themsel5es. Their self;righteousnessand e7treme intolerance of e5ery other point of 5iew mould them intothe first class fascists whate5er the ism with which they adornthemsel5es. They promote and profit y an irrational anti;intellectualatmosphere. They suspect and shout a conspiracy ehind e5ery mo5eof e5ery other party. )t is therefore difficult to understand how theLeftists lael themsel5es as democrats. +ut it is easy to understand

    why they denounce as fascists all those who do not suscrie to theiraims and methods. )t is simply a case of the thief crying thief.

    PROFITS OF PERVERSION

    0ne cannot help concluding that the dictionaries are not at all helpfulin desciphering the Leftist language. The souces of that language hasto e sought elsewhere. +ut one has also to notice that this languagehas so far pro5ed 5ery profitale for the Leftists. They ha5e no rootsin )ndia and are altogether an alien implant on our ody;politic. +utwith the help of this language they ha5e so far managed to pass as paragons of partriotism progress and pulic welfare.

    0ne is reminded of a fol,tale from !aryana which illustrates theLeftist way of reasoning. 6at EpeasantF was carrying a ,hat EcotF ashe passed y the house of a teli EoilmanF. The teli was a poet. !e urstout in rhyme: "2at re %at, tere sir par 3hat you %at, on your head you have a 3hat0." The 6at has also a poet. !e hit out: "eli re teli,tere sir par kholu you oilman on your head you have an oilpress0." The teli protested: "*y friend, your lines do not rhyme. The 6atsmiled with self;satisfaction and said: "o hell with rhyme4 )ho cares

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     for rhyme? )hat matters is that you are going to collapse under theweight of the kolhu." 

    That is e7actly what is happening in )ndias politics. The so;called#ightists are collapsing under the weight of certain words which theLeftists ha5e heaped upon their heads without rhyme or reason.

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    C%APTER / The Sou)es O! Le!tist

    La"(ua(e

    Leftist professors and pulicists claim that their language gotformulated in the course of )ndias fight for freedom from +ritish rule.They also claim that this language was used in the field at 5ariousstages of the struggle for freedom. This is a plain and a ig lie. The

    annals of that freedom struggle pro5ide no e5idence that this languagewas used in )ndias politics till the late thirties of this century. Some prominent words of this language were totally asent from )ndias political parlance prior to that time. Some other words which we dofind in that parlance were used to con5ey meanings that were entirelydifferent from the meanings they acuired at a later stage. nd e5enwhen these words ecame current in their present;day sense theirconsumption was confined to a small Leftist coterie inside and outsidethe freedom mo5ement. )t was only after the attainment ofindependence that this parlance spread li,e a plague particularlyduring the period when %andit /awaharlal *ehru dominated the )ndian

     political scene.

    The record has therefore to e put straight. We ha5e to go ac, to theactual political parlance which otained in this country at differentstages of the struggle for freedom. )n the process we shall disco5ernot only the stage at which Leftist language was interpolated into)ndias parlance ut also the source from which this language wassmuggled.

    FIRST P%ASE OF A LIBERAL

    LANG-AGE

    )ndias fight for freedom started se5eral decades efore the )ndian *ational Congress was founded in 1((. )t assumed the form of alarge;scale reellion in *orth )ndia in 1($. The reellion failed andthe repression that followed was rutal as well as widespread. +utwhat is pertinent for our purposes at present is that throughout this period the +ritish were tal,ing aout the white mans urden in themidst of a "primitive society." 

    8or almost two decades after 1($ national effort had perforce to e

    confined to religious re5i5al social reform and cultural renaissance.The )ndian *ational Congress although founded y an 9nglishman ecame a part of this road national effort. The religious social andcultural mo5ements were more powerful and per5asi5e. )n fact itwere these non;political mo5ements which shaped the politicalattitudes of different people who participated in Congress acti5itiesstages of the freedom mo5ement.

    The political parlance at this first stage consisted almost entirely ofsuch phrases as were current in 1-th century +ritish lieralism. ma6ority of 9nglishmen and their press in this country did not loo, 

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    ,indly at what they regarded as "the pretensions of natives andniggers" . They started duing the Congress as a "-induorganisation dominated by +engali +abus" . Some &uslim politicianswho fancied themsel5es as successors of erstwhile ruling race pic,edup these 6ies. Their leader Sir Syed hmed Jhan did some sare;rattling on ehalf of his community. The Congressmen on their parttried to pro5e that the Congress was not a !indu ut a *ationalorganisation. The in5ited some prominent and willing &uslimgentlemen to preside o5er some annual sessions of the Congress and

     paid the railway fare and other e7penses of some &uslim delegates.

    The only significant de5elopment at this stage was the 6u7taposition of the word "-indu" against the word "(ational" . So far the two wordshad meant one and the same thing. This was the commencement ofthat political parlance which in due course reduced the nationalsociety to a mere "ma%ority community" as against the "*uslimminority" . +oth !indu and &uslim politicians were participating inthis parlance. +ut the word communal had not yet ecome an ausi5e political lael. This word was used in its normal and neutral sense andthat too when some one referred to the communal 5uestion for

    settling which some constitutional de5ices had to e sought for andfound.

    SECOND STAGE OF NATIONAL SELF

    ASSERTION

    The ne7t stage was reached after the %artition of +engal in 1-. Theradical nationalist forces which had een maturing in the meanwhileleaped to e forefront. The old guard of the Congress felt the ground

    slipping from under its feet. )t swam with the current to a certaindistance. +ut asically it was not happy with this new turn of e5ents.The show;down came at Surat in 1-$. The old guard was ale tosa5e the situation for itself. !owe5er the 5ictory it won pro5edtemporary as was to e seen 5ery soon.

    Some new words now appeared in the political parlance of )ndia. Theold guard started descriing itself as *oderates while it denouncedthe other side as Etremists. +ut the lael which the new entrants usedfor themsel5es was (ationalists. This description included there5olutionaries with whom the *ationalists had close lin,s and whomthe old guard as well as the +ritish rulers dreaded as erritories.

    The *ationalists had to pass through the fire of +ritish repression. +utthey sur5i5ed the storm to capture the Congress after a few years. The&oderates had to withdraw from the national organisation to formtheir Lieral 8ederation. &eanwhile the *ationalists had greatlyimpressed a new generation of &uslim politicians y the methodsthey used and the power they e7ercised o5er the mass mind. The&uslim politicians now started thin,ing loudly of 6oining hands withthe *ationalists in order to settle their own parochial and pan;)slamicscores with the +ritish.

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    )t is a different story that the *ationalists led y Lo,amanya Tila,failed to diagnose the moti5ations of &uslim politicians and madese5eral ig concessions on issues of crucial importance when theysigned the Congress;League %act at Luc,now in 1-1". So far as the political parlance of this period is concerned the *ationalists werestill ,nown as *ationalists. Their opponents of earlier years the&oderates had suc, into oli5ion particularly after the ad5ent of&ahatma 'andhi on the national political scene. *oody had yetthought of calling the *ationalists y any other name. *o word of the

     present;day political parlance had yet gained acceptance in therele5ant writings and speeches of this period.

    T%IRD STAGE OF SOVIET

    S-BVERSION

    The language of nationalism which had triumphed after a longstruggle was soon to e su5erted y an alien and anti;nationallanguage. This new language had een coined y Lenin. )t started

    stealing into )ndia in the wa,e of the +olshe5i, coup detat in #ussiain *o5emer 1-1$. )n suseuent years the flow of finance from theSo5iet Inion ecame progressi5ely more plentiful for the promotionof this language in india.

    Communist %arty of )ndia ; Section of the Communist)nternational had een floated in far;off Tash,ent in 0ctoer 1-2.The national mo5ement would not ha5e noticed the party for uitesome time ut for se5eral conspiracy cases which the +ritishgo5ernment of )ndia launched against the %arty with great fanfare etween 1-24 and 1-2-. The language in which the comrades spo,e

    in the courts attracted the attention of old;time re5olutionaries. &ostof them were men of action rather men of thought. Their attlecry sofar had een +ande &ataram. *ow they too, to shouting )nuilaKindaad also.

    Later on the +ritish go5ernment made another ma6or contriution tothe spread of Leftist language. )t imposed a an on the Communist party and proscried the circulation of Communist literature thus estowing an aura of martydom and mystery on oth. 0n the otherhand it made the same Communist literature easily a5ailale tore5olutionaries rotting in its 6ails in order to wean them away from the path of what it descried as terrorism. &any of these sterling patriots

     ecame con5inced Communists while they were still in prison. Whenthey came out they swelled the ran,s of the Communist %arty andstarted ser5ing the interests of Communist imperialism. +ut in theeyes of the pulic at large they still retained the stature which theyhad earned in the ser5ice of the motherland.

    CONVE+ORBELTS OF CO..-NIST

    LANG-AGE

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    +ut in spite of all these fa5ourale factors Communist languagewould ha5e remained confined to party cadres had it not eenespoused and popularised y an important leader inside the nationalmo5ement. That was %andit /awahar Lal *ehru who had presidedo5er a momentous session of the )ndian *ational Congress in 1-2-.+ecause of his westernised upringing and education he had alwaysfelt ill;at;ease with the language of nationalism which had its sourcesin )ndias own history and cultural heritage. !e was also dissatifiedwith the language of 1-th century Western lieralism which he had so

    far shared with the +ritish. The Communaist language therefore cameto him as a great relief. !e lapped it up immediately and digested it inlarge doses.

    %andit *ehru also would ha5e ploughed a lonely furrow in thenational mo5ement if Communist thought and language had not in themeanwhile sperad to all prestigious seats of learning in the West. Weshall not go into the reason of this spread;out. Suffice it to say that inmany respects communism was only a continuation of Capitalistthought;processes with which the West had een familiar for a longtime. What is rele5ant for our purpose at present is that many )ndians

    who went to Western uni5ersities in the late twenties and early thirtiesimied Communist thought and came ac, tal,ing Communistlanguage. Some of them ecame professors in )ndian uni5ersities and passed on the lore to their students. Some others ecame 6ournalistsand political wor,ers who processed )ndian politics in terms ofCommunist categories and made Communist language popular amongan increasing numer of politically conscious people. ll this had amultiplier effect. nd y the middle of the thirties %andit *ehru had asolid astion of support inside as well outside the national mo5ement particularly among the 9nglish;educated intelligentsia.

    Thus y the time %andit *ehru ecame Congress president for thesecond time in 1-3" the whole political atmosphere had ecamechoc,;full of Communist catchphrases ;; ourgeois and proletarianclass struggle and class collaoration re5olution and counter;re5olution ourgeois nationalsim and proletarian internationalism ourgeois democracy and proletarian dictatorship progressi5e roleand reactionary resistance fascist forces and the democratic front etc.&any a periodical and pamphlet pulished in 9nglish and other )ndianlanguages was spreading the Communist 6argon with an acceleratedspeed.

    This was a highly technical almost an esoteric language. Lenin had

    used common parlance words to con5ey his own Communistmeanings and messages. *o one who was not con5ersant with theLeninist lore could decipher this language with the help of adictionary. )t was small wonder therefore that the *ationalists led y&ahatma 'andhi failed to understand the nature purpose and role ofthis language though they suspected it as something insidious. Some *ationalists pic,ed up parts of this language in order to sound in tunewith the times. Some others were thrown on the defensi5e when theywere lamasted y this language.

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    CO..-NISTS IDENTIFIED 0 B-T NOT

    CO..-NIST LANG-AGE

    The Communists were found out as a So5iet fifth;column y theSocialists in 1-3-;4 and y the )ndian *ational Congress as a wholeduring 1-42;4. They were e7pelled from the national organisation in1-4. +ut Communist thought and language were neither re;e7aminednor purged simultaneously or in suseuent years. The dominance of

    %andit *ehru for 1$ years in the post;independence period widenedthe field for Communist language. The only difference oser5aleafter the death of %andit *ehru is that while the patriarch was asincere fellow;tra5eller his progeny plays the game purely for purposes of democracy.

    Se5eral political parties ha5e een formed y factions which ha5ewal,ed out of the Congress. +ut these splits ha5e ta,en place solelyon the asis of personalities and seldom on the asis of ideology. Thenew parties ha5e se5ered their lin,s with the Congress organisation ut not with is ,nown as ?Congress culture. nd this culture consists

    almost entirely of the same catch;phrases which were once popularised y %andit *ehru.

    There has een only one political party which has grown outside theCongress and which started with an ideology and language of its own.+ut o5er the years this party also has tended to shed its ideologicalidentity. )t has pic,ed up progressi5ely )ndias pre5ailing political parlance. This parlance is supposed to e the only gateway to popular5ote and political power which we are told pri5ately will e used fornationalist purposes. The road to hell is often pa5ed with goodintentions.

    LEFTIST LANG-AGE 0 A LANG-AGE

    OF I.PERIALIS.

    There is no truth whatsoe5er in the Leftist claim that )ndias pre5ailing political parlance too, shape in the course of )ndias fight for freedomagainst +ritish imperialism. 0n the contraty this parlance wasimported from the So5iet Inion y a So5iet fifth;column and with thehelp of So5iet finances. nd it ecame predominant only towards thefag end of the freedom struggle. close scrutiny of the Leftist

    language shows that it has an affinity with the languages used earlier y )slamic Christian and +ritish imperialism. That should surprise noone. The language of imperialism is the same in all ages ande5erywhere. )ndia has een ale to sa5e herself from total su5ersionso far only ecause the spirit of nationalism has surfaced again andagain. +ut that spirit cannot ser5e for long unless it e5ol5es andspea,s in its own language.

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    C%APTER 1 The Cha)ate) o! Le!tist

    La"(ua(e

    95er since its inauguration in the opening years of this century thelanguage of Leftism has een the loudest in denouncing this or thatimperialism. uite often it has imagined or in5ented an imperialismwhere none e7isted. This e7ercise has helped it to hide the fact that it

    itself is the latest language of imperialism.

    )mperialism down the ages has e5ol5ed and employed a numer oflanguages. The 5eriage has 5aried according to differences of timeand clime. +ut all languages of imperialism ha5e shared certaincharacteristics in common. The language of Leftism passes this testuite creditaly.

    I.PERIALIST C%ARACTERISTICS

    To start with e5ery language of imperialism in5o,es an inscrutaleentity as its source and sanction. This entity re5eals its final andirre5ersile will to an incomparale person. ll pronouncements ofthis person are placed eyond the reach of human reason ore7perience. They ha5e to e accepted on faith. Compared to faithreason and e7perience are found to e faulty faculties. These facultiescan fulfil themsel5es only if they follow and fortify faith.

    Second e5ery language of imperialism di5ides human history intotwo sharply separated periods ; an age of dar,ness which pre5ailed efore the irth of the incomparale person and an age of light which

    followed thereafter. The entire past history of e5ery nation precedingthe age of light is painted lac, so that nothing in which a nation canta,e pride is left unscathed.

    Third e5ery language of imperialism di5ides man,ind into twomutually e7clusi5e camps ;; the elie5ers who accept the dogmas propoundded y the incomparale person and the unelie5ers whodout or re6ect those dogmas. The elie5ers are placed under acategorical imperati5e to ma,e war on the unelie5ere till the latterare either con5erted or ,illed off. The elie5ers do not ha5e to e etter human eings in terms of morality or character. )t is sufficient if they ha5e fer5our and ferocity orn of faith.

    8ourth e5ery language of imperialism ands together all elie5erse5erywhere into a world rotherhood which cuts across all national ounds of geography history and culture. s a corollary e5erynuance of nationalism gets denounced as narrow and out of date. 8orall practical purposes it is an in5itation to e5ery nation to renounce itsindependent identity and ecome a colony where the incomparale person was orn or where his dogmas first acuired the ac,ing ofarmed force. This dead uniformity into which nations are stream;rollered is hailed as uni5ersality.

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    8ifth e5ery language of imperialism propounds that the inscrutaleentity has mandated the whole earth to the incomparale person whoin his turn has eueathed it to the rotherhood. So when the rotherhood or any section of it mounts an aggression it automatically ecomes a war of lieration. The rotherhood is only claiming whatalready elongs to it. Si7th e5ery language of imperialism lays downtwo ine5itailities ;; an ine5itale 5ictory of the elie5ers and anine5itale defeat of the unelie5ers. The elie5ers are told that theinscrutale entity is on their side and no power on earth can stop their

    onward march. The intention is to enthuse the elie5ers so that theyspare no effort and demoralise the unelie5ers so that they surrenderor offer only half;hearted resistance.

    Se5enth e5ery language of imperialism euips the elie5ers with animmeasurale degree of self;righteousness. They are told that theli5es lierties properties and honour of the unelie5ers ha5e already een forefeited y the inscrutale entity. The elie5ers thereforecommit no crime when they ,ill ensla5e plunder and humiliate theunelie5ers. This gi5es a good conscience to the elie5ers while theyindulge in an endless spree of loodshed and 5andalism. )n fact their 

    crimes ecome meritorious deeds.

    Lastly the unelie5ers are accused of all sorts of crimes committed ythem y the 5ery fact of eing what they are. )n fact the whole life;history of e5ery unelie5er ecomes a catalogue of crimes. Theintention is to dear the unelie5ers from any sympathy from anyuarters. t the sme time the crimes committed against them aree7plained away in terms of their own crimes.

    )n the lines that follow ) will present a panoramic 5iew of thoselanguages of imperialism which ha5e in5aded )ndia at one time or theother. )ncidentally the list is almost e7hausti5e. )ndia has een

     plagued y e5ery principal language of imperialism in5ented yhuman ingenuity so far.

    LANG-AGE OF ISLA.IC

    I.PERIALIS.

    The language of )slamic imperialism was the first language ofimperialism to in5ade )ndia. )ts standard;earers were the ra andthe Tur,ish armies which came in successi5e wa5es from the middle

    of the $th to the middle of the 1(th century. )t had proclaimed that

    1. llah had re5ealed his final and irre5ersile will to prophet&uhammad orn in &ecca in $ .D. and uried in &edina in"32 .DH

    2. !uman history efore the prophethood of &uhammad was 6ahiliya Eera of ignoranceF and the light of truth dawned on earthonly after that dateH

    3. That date di5ided man,ind into momins Eelie5ersF and ,afirs

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    Eunelie5ersF and the momins should ecome mu6ahids EholywarriorsF y ma,ing war on the ,afirsH

    4. ll momins e5erywhere were memers of the millatErotherhoodF which recognised no national frontiers or  peculiarities of national cultureH

    5. llah had mandated the entire earth including Sind and !ind to prophet &uhammad who in his turn had eueathed it to the

    millat which had thus acuired an inalienale right to conuerSind and !ind and cleanse them of ,afir EinfidelismFH

    6. The triumph of the millat was ine5itale in Sind and !ind aselsewhere and the mu6ahids should ma,e all efforts to e7peditethat endH

    7. llah al;#ahman al;#ahim Ethe Compassionate the &ercifulFhad already forefeited the li5es lierties properties and honour of hindu ,afirs and the mi6ahids should ,ill the !indus capturetheir women and children plunder their properties demolishtheir temples desecrate their idols urn their scriptureshumiliate their holy men and e7tirpate e5ery 5estige of theircultureH

    8. !indu were ,afirs wallowing in the sin of shir, EidolatoryF andfully deser5ed the punishment meted out to them y themomins.

    This is not the place to tell the story of )slamic imperialism in )ndia ;;how !indus refused to e impressed y llah and his gierish andhow they waged a long;drawn;out war of resistance till the ararianswere rought to oo,. What is rele5ant in our present conte7t is that

    although !indus o5ercame )slamic imperialism they failed to seethrough the language of that imperialism. !indu masses continued toreact with re5ulsion towards e5erything )slamic. +ut !indu saintsscholars social reformers and scries came to accept )slam as areligion as good as their own Sanatana Dharma. This self;deception isstill wor,ing as a potent poison in whate5er remains of )ndia aftermore than thirteen hundred years of )slamic aggression.

    L*'I'9 08 C!#)ST)* )&%9#)L)S& The ne7t language of imperialism to plague )ndia was that of Christian imperialism. )t firstcame to this country in the company of %ortuguese pirates in theopening years of the 1"th century. Some of these pirates were dressedas priests and friars and introduced themsel5es as missionaries of/esus Christ. )t was this latter trie which trumpeted that

    1. The only True 'od had sent his 0nly Son /esus to atone for thesins of all man,ind y dying on the Cross in /erusalem in 33.D.H

    2. !uman history efore the Crucifi7ion of /esus was an era ofdar,ness and the light of di5inity descended on earth e7actly onthat dateH

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    3. &an,ind ecame di5ided into Christians and heathens after thedeath of /esus and the Christians were under a di5ine oligationto wage a constant crusade against the !eathensH

    4. ll Christians e5erywhere were united in the Catholic Churchthe holy &other of &an,ind which recognised no nationaldi5isions or distinctionsH

    5. The 0nly True 'od had mandated the entire earth including

    )ndia to his 0nly Son who in his turn had eueathed it to theCatholic Church which had thus inherited an inalienale right tolierate )ndia as all other lands from the horrors of!eathenismH

    6. The 5ictory of the Catholic Church o5er )ndia as elsewhere wasine5itale and Christian soldiers and missionaries shouldendea5our to e7pedite that endH

    7. The 0nly True 'od in his infinite mercy had forefeited theli5es lierties properties and honour of the 'entoo E!induFheathers and the Catholic Church was authorised to demolishtheir temples to smash their idols to urn their scriptures to persecute their priests to close down their schools andseminaries to prohiit their pulic celerations to seuestertheir mo5ale and immo5ale possessions to separate themfrom their children to con5ert their women into concuines for Christian soldiers and priests to e7ile those sections of their population which pro5ed recalcitrant and to massacre thosewho offered armed resistanceH

    8. The 'entoo heathens had li5ed for long in the sin and shame of  polytheism and pantheism and their crimes deser5ed drastic

     punishment.

    This is not the place to narrate why con5ersions to Christianityremained confined to some small sections of !indu society and howthe ul, of that society repudiated the falsehoods retailed y themisionaries. What is rele5ant in the present conte7t is that in spite ofthe warnings from a succession of !indu sages ; &aharshi Dayananda+an,im Chandra Swami Bi5e,ananda Sri uroindo and &ahatma'andhi ; a section of the 9ndlish;educated !indu elite ecameenamoured of Christianity and recognised it as a religion. Thatmista,e has enaled Christian imperialism to continue ma,ing inroadsonto !indu society.

    LANG-AGE OF *ESTERN

    I.PERIALIS.

    The language of Western imperialism came to )ndia as the language of +ritish imperialism. +ut it was shared in common y the 8rench theDutch the %ortuguese the +elgians the )talians the 'ermans and#ussians who had ensla5ed many nations in sia and frica y force

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    of superior arms. 9ssentially it was the old language of Christianimperialism. +ut it was dressed up in a secular 5eriage. )ts tenetswere as follows.

    1. &arch of human history had pro5ed the cultural superiority of the white man and placed him in the 5anguard of human progressH

    2. !uman history efore the 1"th and 1$th centuries was an age of 

     ararism and an era of enlightenment had commenced sincethenH

    3. &an,ind was di5ided into the ci5ilised people of 9urope on theone hand and the sa5age races of asia and frica on the other.

    4. The white race was a disticnt fraternity designated y history todominate the whole world including )ndiaH

    5. !istory had placed the people of )ndia in charge of the whiteman from +ritain who should ear the urden of his ci5ilisingmission without othering aout the negati5e attitudes of the

    nati5es.

    6. !istory was heading towards an ine5itale triumph of theWestern ci5ilisation and the +ritish should wor, towards thatfulfilment in )ndiaH

    7. !istory had rendered out of date the political system socialorder economic organisation and cultural traditions of )ndiaand the +ritish should smash them e y force or reform themout of recognition without any hesitation.

    8.!indus had li5ed for long in a medley of primiti5e superstitionsand amply deser5ed whate5er suffering the +ritish ci5ilisingmission had imposed upon them.

    This is not the place to tell how the +ritish proceeded with theirci5ilising mission in this country and what ha5oc they wrought incourse of a hundred and fifty years. What is rele5ant in the presentconte7t is that althought the +ritish #a6 has departed the language of+ritish imperialsim has sur5i5ed almost intact in the language of our present;day ruling class which has inherited the +ritish mantle. )ndiato them is a ac,ward or underde5eloped or de5eloping country whichshould loo, to the West for ideological inspiration as well as concrete

    models in all matters of ma6or importance. This has reduced the)ndian elite to rown apes of the West and the )ndian people to a pac,of handicapped children. The ha5oc which the language of +ritishimperialism is still continuing to wor, in all spheres of )ndian life elies description.

    LANG-AGE OF CO..-NIST

    I.PERIALIS.

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    The language of Communist imperialism started tric,ling into )ndiasoon after the +olshe5i,s sei=ed power in #ussia in *o5emer 1-1$.Leading Western thin,ers li,e +ertrand #ussell ha5e identifiedCommunism as a Christian heresy. Small wonder that the language ofCommunist imperialism is the same as that of Christian imperialisme7cept for the &ar7ist trappings in which Lenin has disguised it. This ecomes o5ious when we contemplate its following features:

    1. 8orces of %roduction maturing in the wom of human history

     ecame self;conscious in Lenin and enaled him to snap thechain of world capitalism in #ussiaH

    2. !uman history which had so far een a history of classoppression and class struggle now too, a decisi5e turn towardsa classless communist societyH

    3. The whole world including )ndia now ecame a attle ground etween forces of capitalist reaction on the one hand and forcesof proletarian re5olution on the otherH

    4. The proletariat in e5ery country including )ndia ecame part ofan international comraderie which had no use for nationalism inany shape or formH

    5. The Communist )nternational the 5anguard of the world proletariat had inherited the entire earth including )ndia fromthe 8orces of %roduction and it was its inalienale right to promote a proletarian re5olution in e5ery countryH

    6. The 5ictory of the )nternational was ine5itale and its Sectionsin different countries including )ndia should endea5our toe7pedite that endH

    7. The e7isting political social cultural and economic institutionsin )ndia had een rendered outmoded y the 8orces of%roduction and the Communist %arty of )ndia a Section of theCommunist )nternational should smash them so that the last5estiges of feudalism capitalism and colonialism were wipedoutH

    8. The fedual lords and capitalists in )ndia had conspired with+ritish imperialism in order to ,eep the )ndian people ensla5edand they deser5ed to e destroyed together with their political party the )ndian *ational Congress.

    This is not the place to tell how the Communist %arty of )ndia hasfunctioned as a fifth;column of So5iet #ussia for nearly si7ty;se5enyears. What is rele5ant in the present conte7t is that although theCommunist %arty of )ndia has failed to consolidate any sustantial political ase the spread of the language of Communist imperialismhas een phenomenal due to causes which we ha5e descried in a pre5ious chapter. +y now this language has ecome the standardlanguage of Leftism in india whate5er the names y which 5ariousLeftist parties and factions descrie themsel5es.

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    What is still more significant the language of Communist imperialismoperates in close cooperation with the languages of )slamic Christianand Western imperialism and has succeeded for the time eing indri5ing away or putting on the defensi5e the language of )ndiannationalism. This ecomes crystal clear when we e7amine the historyand role of the Leftist language e5er since it in5aded )ndia in the earlytwenties of this century.

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    C%APTER 2 The %isto)y o! Le!tist

    La"(ua(e

    Leftist language first came to )ndia as the language of Communistimperialism. )ts main spo,esman was &.*. #oy. )n his "India inransition"  pulished in 1-22 he laid down practically allfundamental formulations which in due course ecame the stoc,;in;

    trade of )ndias Leftist parties. The language of these formulations isstill the language of Leftism.

    )t will facilitate an understanding of #oys formulations if wesummarise riefly the ac,ground of )ndian nationalism as it hadde5eloped prior to that period. There are certain ,ey words and phrases used y #oy whichg may cause confustion unless they areclarified in ad5ance.

    T*O SC%OOLS OF INDIAN

    NATIONALIS.

    The freedom mo5ement against +ritish imperialism since the #e5oltof 1($ had witnessed a deate etween two schools of thought. 0nthe one hand there were those who regarded +ritish rule in )ndia as adi5ine dispensation and aspired to remould )ndia in the image of 1-thcentury +ritain particularly in the matter of political institutions. Theydominated the )ndian *ational Congress till the Swadeshi &o5ementswept them away. #oy refers to them as ourgeois lierals modernintellectuals radical leaders moderates radical intelligentsia and alsoas denationalised intellectuals ;; a name estowed upon them y theopposite school of thought.

    0n the other hand there were those who regarded the +ritish rule asan e5il imposed upon )ndia y force of arms and who wanted to uilda free )ndia on the asis of 5alues and 5isions enshrined in )ndiasancient culture and spirituality. They came to the fore in the )ndian *ational Congress during the Swadeshi &o5ement and too,command of the freedom mo5ement under &ahatma 'andhi. #oyrefers to them as orthodo7 nationalists rdical nationalists e7tremistsand !indu nationalists. !e ma,es a distinction etween !indunationalism and )ndian nationalism which according to him is a more

    comprehensi5e term.

    F-NDA.ENTAL FOR.-LATIONS OF

    RO+

    M. *. #oy had een sent aroad y +engal re5olutionaries in 1-1 insearch of 'erman arms. The 'ermans did not li5e upto their promiseand #oy wandered away through China and /apan into the IS

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    where he was positi5ely impressed y modern Western culture andci5ilisation. *e7t he went to &e7ico where he came in contact withCommunist thought. That cured him completely of whate5er lo5e wasstill left in him for )ndias ancient culture. 8inally he landed in theSo5iet Inion in 1-2 and ecame a confidant of Lenin. !e functionedas a leading luminary of the Communist )nternational for se5eralyears. #oys ardour for an armed re5olution in )ndia had not cooled.!e tried to ta,e a trainload of #ussia arms to the %athans on )ndiasnorth;west frontier. numer of muha%rin 6oined him with great

    enthusiasm. They had left )ndia during the Jhalifat agitation and wereloo,ing for foreign arms in order to re;estalish a dar;ul;)slam in thiscountry. The plan failed ecause ,ing manullah of fghanistan whohad promised a passage was ought o5er y the +ritish and loc,edthe path of this Communist;cum;)slamic rigade. 95er since the onlyhardware that remained in the hands of #oy was his pen which the pushed with great prowess.

    #oy pronounced as follows on )ndias history culture people and politics:

    1.)ndia had ne5er een a nation efore the +ritish conuest. t thetime of the +ritish conuest that is towards the middle of the1(th century the economic and political e5olution of )ndia wassuch that her people could e called /rather a number ofnationaliities inhabiting a continent than a composite nationalunit./ E'. dhi,ari Eed.F /Documents of the history of the!ommunist 6arty of India/  *ew Delhi 1-$1 p. 3(2 )taticsaddedF.

    2. The #e5olt of 1($ was a reactionary flare;up of decadentfeudalism. "$ocially it was a reactionary movement becauseit wanted to replace +ritish rule by revived feudal

    imperialism, either of the *oghuls or of the *aharattas. "Eiid. p. 3(3F.

    3. )ndian people y themsel5es were incapale of e5ol5ing politicalconsciousness patriotism or nationalism. "he overwhelmingma%ority of the population lived in villages, steeped inignorance and submerged in social stagnation. 6olitics, formsof government national sub%ugation or freedom remainedoutside their concern and beyond their comprehension." Eiid. p. 3(3F.

    4.The Western;oriented )ndian intellectuals alone were pioneers of  progress. "he only section of the people showing any sign oflife was the modern intellectuals educated in )estern methodsand thoughts. hese denationalised intellectuals wereinstrumental in bringing to India for the first time in her longeventful history, political patriotism." Eiid. pp. 3(3;(4 )talicsaddedF.

    5. 95olutionary nationalism led y the Western;orientedintellectuals was a re5olutionary mo5ement. "hecontittutional democracy or the evolutionary nationalismadvocated by liberal bourgeoisie led by the intellectuals spelled 

    doom to the old 

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     social heritage and religious orthodoy. 'nd theserevolutionary forces were crystalli7ing in the !ongress underradical leaders whose programme was not to revive the Indiaof the rishis with its contended handicraft workers saturatedwith ignorance and dosed in the name of religion, but to build anew society on the ruins of the old." Eiid. pp. 3(-;- )talicsaddedF.

    6. the +ritish 'o5ernment was the est go5ernment which )ndia

    had e5er had in her long history. "his struggle of the radicalintelligentsia was not against an effete and anti5uated politicalinstitution but for the democratisation of the eisting government which...was the most advanced that the countryhad till then." Eiid. p. 3(4F.

    7. 0rthodo7 nationalism ad5ocated y the other school ofCongressmen was a reactionary mo5ement. "rthodonationalism, in the social sense, was the resistance of forces ofreaction against the ominous radicalism of the denationalisedintellectuals who led the !ongress. he same forces whose

    military eplosion was the *unity of 89:; could be discovered behind the political theories of the orthodo nationalism ofhalf a century later." Eiid. p. 3- )talics addedF.

    8. !indu nationalism of Swami Be5e,ananda was spiritualimperialism. "'lthough its political philospher and leader were found subse5uently in the persons of 'urobindo ike ilak, Dutt was alsoa prophet of -indu nationalism. -e was also a believer in the

    cultural basis should be built the future Indian nation. -e preached that -induism not Indian nationalism in should beaggressive. -is nationalism was a spiritual imperialism." Eiid. pp. 3-1;3-2F.

    9. The re5olutionaries inspired y Swami Bi5e,ananda and theSwadeshi &o5ement were 5ictims of reaction. "hus anintelligently rebellious element which otherwise would havebeen the vanguard of the eploited class in a social strugglehad to give in to national pre&occupations nd contribute itself toa movement for the immediate overthrow of foreign rule, not for 

     process forward but in order to go back to an imaginary goldenage, the fountain&head of India/s spiritual heritage... In theirreligiousness and wild spiritual imperialism, they embodied thereactionary social forces." Eiid. p. 3-3F.

    10. The *on;Coperation mo5ement led y the &ahatma 'andhi wase7ploitation of the ignorance of the )ndian masses. "heetremists, now called non&cooperators have had better successthan moderates in drawing the masses under the influence ofnationalism...+ut they could not develop the potentiality of themass movement by leading it in aaccordance with its economic

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    urges and social tendencies. heir tactics was to strengthenthe nationalist movement by the 5uestionable method ofehloiting the ignorance of the masses. 'nd the best way ofeploiting the ignorance of the masses was to make a religionof nationalism. his tactics led to the apperance of *ohan Das 3aramchand

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    &odern )ndia pulished from London in 1-2". "

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    Communists dangle the ait of a united front efore them. +ut theyfeel uncomfortale when the Communists re5eal their true characteras ser5itors of the So5iet Inion.

    &eanwhile the Communist %arty of )ndia itself has split into se5eralfactions. The struggle etween Stalin and Trots,y which ended withthe latters defeat had led some small groups to part company with theCommunist %arty. The scars howe5er were too small to show. )t wasthe reach etween the So5iet Inion and #ed China in the si7ties

    which really splintered the Communist %arty into se5eral factions.

    0n the other hand some groups which left the indian *ationalCongress at different times and for different reasons ha5e mo5edcloser to the Communists. The 8orward +loc founded y *eta6iSuhash Chandra +ose was the earliest to do so after years of itterfeud with its future friends. )n later years San6ay 'andhis supremacyin the Congress not only stopped Communist infiltration and ta,e;o5er of the Congress ut also forced some fellow;tra5ellers out of it.Today these eiles sing the same songs as the Communists.

    Ta,en together the Leftists in )ndia constitute a far;flung phalan7which may not e solid within ut which presents a united frontwithout. )t is easy to spot them ecause they adorn themsel5es withlaels li,e communist democratic Leninist &ar7ist radicalre5olutionary and socialist etc. in different permutations andcominations. There is little hope that they can e5er come to powerwithout direct inter5ention y the So5iet Inion. +ut their potential for  pur5eying the poison of Leftist language is considerale. )ndiannationalism which remains their topmost target has to guard againstthem.

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    C%APTER 3 The Role o! Le!tist La"(ua(e

    The language of Communist imperialism continued to lamast theCongress leadership particularly &ahatma 'andhi for the latters"failure to mobili7e the toiling masses towards an immediateoverthrow of the +ritish rule in India." +ut when the Congresslaunched a mass mo5ement in &arch 1-3 the spo,esmen of this

    language ,ept strictly aloof from it. )nstead they pulished a Draft%lam of ction in Decemer 1-3 characterising the Congress as a"class organisation of the capitalists working against the fundamental interests of the toiling masses." nd they tried tosaotage the freedom struggle y splitting the trade union mo5emento5er which they had acuired some hold with the help of financesflowing from the So5iet Inion.

    The song changed suddenly in 1-3. The So5iet Inion was feelingthreatened y the rapid militarisation and rising anti;+olshe5i, tone of  *a=i 'ermany. She was now serioulsy in search of mutual security pacts with +ritain and 8rance. +ut the go5ernments in London and

    %aris had failed to respond to So5iet diplomatic feelers. TheCommunist )nternational ECominternF therefore sent out a call of theCommunist %arties of +ritain and 8rance to stri5e for a "broadnational front of all anti&fascist forces." The purpose was to uild pressures for such %opular 8ront go5ernments in London and %aris aswould e amenale to So5iet approaches.

    The Communist %arty of 8rance was strong. )t had an ally also in astrong socialist %arty at home. So it succeeded on its own in securinga %opular 8ront go5ernment in %aris. +ut the Communist %arty of'reat +ritain was too wea, to e7ert any pressure on a strong

    conser5ati5e go5ernment in London. That tas, was thereforeassigned to the Communist %arty of )ndia. This party was instructed to 6oin the )ndian *ational Congress 5ia the newly formed CongressSocialist %arty and to push the national organisation towards anothermass mo5ement.

    That is how the Congress Socialists ceased to e "petit&bourgeois >eft& reformists" and ecame "the revolutionary >eft&wing of the Indian (ational !ongress." The Congress itself ceased to e a "classorganisation of capitalists" and ecame a "broad national front of all patriotic people." The language of Communist imperialism wasemploying no end of casuistry to pro5e that a "6opular ront

     government in >ondon was the best guarantee for a early dawn of freedom and democracy in India." The Congress Socialists themsel5eswere worshippers of the So5iet Inion as a proletarian paradise. Theyswallowed this language hoo, line and sin,er. The language ofCommunist imperialism was fast getting transformed into thelanguage of Leftism.

    SPLIT IN T%E NATIONAL .OVE.ENT

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    The Congress leadership had in the meanwhile mo5ed in an oppositedirection. )t was toying with idea of trying the e7periment in pro5incial self;go5ernment en5isaged in the 'o5ernment of )ndia ct1-3. The language of Leftism immediately launched a campaignagainst the "#ightist leadership" which was "trying to compromosewith +ritish imperialism in the interests of feudal and capitalistelements and against the interests of the toiling masses."Simultaneously it claimed that the ">eft wing of the !ongress wasworking for a democratisation of the national organisation by

    bringing into its fold the peasantry and the working class so that thisorganisation could play a revolutionary role at home and an anti& fascist role in international affairs." 

    The chief patron of this Leftist language inside the Congressleadership was %andit *ehru. 8ormally he ,ept aloof from thecommunist;Socialist comine. +ut he used it surreptitiously to hurl allsorts of insinuations innuendos and in5ecti5es on Sardar %atel whomhe considered to e his main contempt for the Leftist language. +ut hewas a man of few words and deemed it elow his dignity to descendto the le5el of Leftism. The Leftist campaign therefore succeeded to

    large e7tent in pillorying the Sardar as an "arch reactionary inalliance with the +irlas," and as a "fascist out to suppress alldemocratic, progressive, revolutionary and socialist elements in the!ongress." uite a few other memers of the !igh Command whowere supporters of the Sardar got tarred with the same rush.

    The Congress had thrown up se5eral contending schools of thought inthe course of its de5elopment and it was not unoften thet issues had een deated on its platform with considerale heat. +ut it was nowfor the first time that the Congress stood split y slogans importedfrom aroad and in the interests of a foreign power which had its ownscores to settle in the power politics of 9urope. The issues on which

    the Leftists were generating so much heat had little rele5ance to the)ndian situation.

    8inally the Leftists egged on Suhash Chandra +ose to challenge theleadership of &ahatma 'andhi only to lea5e him in the lurch at thelast moment when wires were pulled from &oscow. section ofsterling patriots had to lea5e the Congress to form the 8orward +loc.)n due course the Leftist pressure inside the Congress ecameministries soon after the Second World War ro,e out. The field wasthus left clear for the &uslim League to spread its tantacles and mountits campaign for %a,istan.

    STANDARDS OF P-BLIC LIFE

    LO*ERED

    The so;called Congress #ight had many people in its ran,s who hadrenouced inherited wealth or self;earned fortunes of lucrati5e professions and who had chosen to lead a life of po5erty in the ser5iceof the motherland. +ut these people acame randed as reactionariesand fascists simply ecause they refused to ser5e as So5iet Inion. 0n

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    the other hand the so;called Congress Left had uite a few people whowere li5ing in lu7ury on incomes deri5ed from landed estates or fromshares held in capitalist companies. +ut they were now struttingaround as democrats progressi5es re5olutionaries and socialistsmerely y mouthing certain slogans and without the least change intheir life style. &ost of them used the opportunity to ma,e the est of oth the worlds.

    This diparagement of personal character was a significant contriution

    made to )ndias politics and pulic life y the language of Leftism. )topened the floodgates for all sorts of uestionale characters to comeforward and occupy the front seats on the pulic stage. The fullhar5est of these seeds sown in the years efore independence wasreaped in the post;independence period when politics and pulic life ecame progressi5ely a safe ha5en for all sorts of scoundrelsmasuerading as ser5ants of the people.

    nd it was not only the dichotomy in personal and pulic life whichgot deepended. The rational in man suffered a still more serious low.Differences of opinion could no more e settled y reference to

    recorded facts or to logic or to the uni5erse of discourse. %eople couldno more agree to differ. ll this was dismissed as mere feudal fussaout ,eeping forms or as ourgeois hypocrisy for hiding 5estedinterests. 0ne who differed with a Leftist was either a fool who didnot ,now his class interest or a ,na5e trying to curry fa5our with thisor that feudal lord or capitalist paymaster. 95eryone e7cept theLeftists had to e someody elses agent.

    The swearology that followed this renunciation of reason was simplystaggering and few people could manage the manners to match it.There was no limit any more to the filthy language which Leftismcould marshal at a moments notice. This language felt fulfilled only

    after it had assassinated the entire character of an opponent and madehim or her loo, li,e the lowest specimen of the human race.

    NATIONALIS. NA.ED AS %IND-

    CO..-NALIS.

    The language of )slamic imperialism as also that of +ritishimperialism had een saying for a long time that Congress nationalismwas nothing ut !indu communalism. The Congress had tried its est

    to dispro5e the ccusation y ma,ing more and more concessions to the&uslim,s. )ts participation in the Jhilafat agitation was a generousgesture to mo5e &uslim hearts. +ut all had gone in 5ain. &uslims hadnot only remained unreconciled ut had ecome increasingly prone tofreuent 5iolence and 5ile 5ituperations. 8anaticism inherent in )slamhad turned them into a fren=ied mo.

    There were many freedom fighters inside as well as outside theCongress fold who were not happy with the pro;&uslim politics ofthe Congress. They held the 5ery correct 5iew that !indu societyconstituted the nation in the ancient !indu homeland. That is why

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    !indus alone had manned the fight for freedom and had made all thesacrifices for the motherland. &uslims on the other hand had either played the +ritish game or stood aloof or come forward only to sharethe concessions which !indu freedom fighters had wrested from the+ritish from time to time. nd this state of things was li,ely to last till&uslims could cure themsel5es of the illusion that they were a race of conuerors and that they could get almost anything y committing5iolence.

    The language of Leftism launched a listering attac, on thesenationalists. They were randed as "-indu communalsits who werebent upon breaking the broad national front against +ritishimperialism by bringing in religious obscurantism and culturalchauvinism borrowed from the primitive -indu past." The "-inducommunalists" were not only "provoking *uslim communalism" utalso "serving feudalism, capitalism and imperialism by raisingnarrow and sectarian issues which had no relevance to the burningnational problems and which sabotaged the struggle of the toilingmasses for a bit of bread and a piece of cloth." The nationalists werethus made suspect in the eyes of the Congress which could ne5er get

    o5er its supine stance 5is;a;5is )slam and the &uslims. The suspicionhas deepened in suseuent years so much so that all nationalistsha5e een ostracised from the Congress fold.

    )n the second round the language of Leftism accused the Congressitself of using far too many !indu symols and songs and ceremoniesto gi5e comfort to the "*uslim minority which was becomingincreasingly conscious of its own religious and cultural identity."+ande &ataram the national song which had een the soul of thefreedom mo5ement for se5eral decades was su6ected to specialcriticism as an "anti&*uslim crusade." nd an apologetic Congresswas sent on a wild;goose chase after "a non&communal mode of

     functioning such as could satisfy the *uslim masses." The search hasnot yet ended.

    .-SLI.S .ARC%ED TO*ARDS

    NATION%OOD

    The language of Communist imperialism had addressed itself to thecommu