I have pointed out what occurs to me as fundamentally wrong in the Constitution of the people and the Institutions of the Government of India. I have drawn your attention to the economic condition of the people who are the backbone of the Government and how the Government unnecessarily feeds its huge bulky and inefficient Services at the cost of the ryot. There is the false glitter of an artificial middle class in India, which consists of Government servants and parasites.
What are the remedies then? It is for you to find them out and not end as did the Industrial and Agricultural Commissions.
Let us look at the remedies proposed by more brainy people than myself. The remedy proposed by Gandhi is “khaddar, nonviolent noncooperation and eventually civil disobedience.” He, too, however has seen the scene of Walpurgis night in India. The witches on the heath are against him. In India alone you have mob war on the Sikh made mutton and the Muslim made mutton, on music before the mosque, on the killing of cows! They are the ephemeral vapours of the witches’ cauldron. The impossible condition attached with Gandhi’s remedy is self-sacrifice without an end. All self-sacrifice in political matters is for the gain of political ends. When these advantages are never in sight, self-sacrifice in such matters can never become the religion of the people. Gandhi wishes to make the politics of India some such religion which can only be the impossible religion of a
Sew Christ like men, and of the minds who can never stoop down from those heights.
The Hindu has bowed down to the wind. It is ushering in of civil anarchy in which the one community wins the head and all others lose the tail. In fact the Muslim has floored the Hindu by creating a Kohat and a Lahore for him. Mahatma Gandhi and others all says as India is not homogeneous for there is the Muslim, this is the best compromise under the critical local conditions.
Supposing you were to go and leave the country, there would set in an anarchy, in which all communities will have an equal opportunity to fight to any fate of freedom or eternal slavery. And the Hindu Sanskrit culture and intelligence will be put again to a military test. One Khilji did walk over from Delhi to Cape Comorin with a few armed soldiers unopposed by the Hindu millions. He who occupied the Punjab occupied the whole of India with one pitched battle near Delhi or Agra. This is the history of the Hindu’s defence of his country and himself. The same is the case today. He who governs the Punjab governs the whole of India. In the Nehru Constitution, the Muslim has completely defeated the Hindu. The great anarchy creative of equal opportunities for all and the victory of one community over all others is not to come but this incipient consumption like civil anarchy is welcomed in the Nehru Constitution by all kinds of men! It shows how in their zeal for mere tall talks on national work, they are blind to the practical effects of their proposals on the governed masses. If it is not the collapse of the Hindu, on what principle, by the way, should Sindh be separated from an advanced province like Bombay and made into a backward pure Muslim province? And why should the Sindhi merchants, mostly Sikh and Hindu, who trade all over the world be compelled to agree to it for the sake of the Nehru draft and an academic agreement? If that principle is granted why not the Central Punjab should be made into a Sikh Province? Because the Majha and Malwa Sikhs have so far not created a Kohat and a Multan what else? The Nehru Committee has ignored the Sikh because he is not as many in numbers as the Muslim. But conquerors like Ahmad Shah acknowledged the Sikh as the only entity in the Punjab. Perhaps it was Nadir Shah who remarked from this Nation comes the odour of Sovereignty,
Article extracted from this publication >> August 10, 1990
