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The Saffron Tide The Saffron Tide Published in Rainlight by Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd 2014 7/16, Ansari Road, Daryaganj New Delhi 110002 Sales centres: Allahabad Bengaluru Chennai Hyderabad Jaipur Kathmandu Kolkata Mumbai Copyright © Kingshuk Nag 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in a retrieval system, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. eISBN: 9788129134295 First impression 2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The moral right of the author has been asserted. Printed at [PRINTER'S NAME, CITY} This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated, without the publisher's prior consent, in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published. In the memory of my friend, Alok Mukherjee, with whom I spent hours discussing everything under the sun and who, alas, departed early. Contents Introduction: The Battle for Hindu Votes 1 A Party Is Founded 2 RSS Takes Control 3 The Decade of Deen Dayal 4 The Turbulent Seventies 5 Jana Sangh and the Minorities 6 The Metamorphosis 7 The Ayodhya Movement 8 Sputtering to Power 9 Aiming to Be a Great Power 10 The Party in Power 11 The Northern Conquest 12 Western Consolidation 13 Combating the East and the South 14 Hardliners versus Softliners 15 The Wilderness Years 16 Rising from the Ashes Epilogue Acknowledgements Index Introduction The Battle for Hindu Votes n December 1967 at Jana Sangh’s plenary session at Calicut (now Kozhikode), the newly elected president of the party, Deendayal Upadhyaya, thundered: ‘The enlightened mind of the country regards untouchability in social life as a sin. But, curiously, in political life, the practice of untouchability is something that some of the enlightened people feel proud about.’ He added: ‘Sometimes the sheer political arithmetic would prompt others to overlook, for the time being, Jana Sangh’s untouchability and do business with it.’ He gave the example of the Samyukta Vidhayak Dal (SVD) governments that were formed in many states earlier that year after general elections. In some states, the Communist Party of India (CPI) had allied itself with the Jana Sangh to form the government. But why were parties mostly reluctant to partner with the Jana Sangh—a phenomenon that has continued for decades? The answer can be found in the Jana Sangh’s (and later the Bharatiya Janata Party’s or the BJP’s) concept of ‘cultural nationalism’ and Hindutva, which defined its political ideology. This concept was spelt out for the first time in the BJP’s election manifesto ahead of the 1998 elections: ‘The BJP is committed to the concept of one nation, one people and one culture… The unique cultural and social diversity of India is woven into a larger civilizational fabric by thousands of years of common living for common shared values and beliefs and customs. Our nationalist vision is not merely bound by geographical or political identity of “Bharat” but it is referred by our timeless heritage. This cultural heritage that is central to all religions, regions and languages in a civilizational identity constitutes the cultural nationalism of India and which is the core of Hindutva.’ Many found this theory of the BJP abhorrent because it seemed to convey that India was monocultural. There was no scope for diversity, the diversity that promoted unity. What added to the discomfort of many was the aggressive sloganeering by Sangh Parivar outfits in the mid-1980s: ‘Garv se kaho ki hum Hindu hain. (Say with pride that we are Hindus.)’ This war cry had been coined by M.S. Golwalkar, the long-standing sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsavk Sangh (RSS), BJP’s parent body. Critics compared BJP’s vision to that of Jawaharlal Nehru, the prime minister of India for seventeen years after Independence. Nehru had endeavoured to model the Indian Republic on the basis of western democracies with secularism as the cornerstone of his policies. Many said that this was a better model to run a country comprising people of many religions and sub-nationalities. But is it possible to run a country where 85 per cent of the people are Hindus without catering to their interests? Is it possible to win elections in India without polling the Hindu vote? Was Nehru’s Indian Republic really secular or was the Hinduness of the country couched in secular terms? Did the BJP become a victim of criticism because of promoting its cause too blatantly? Was this the same cause that the Congress had been promoting, albeit in a softer fashion? Sample this: India’s first major communal conflagration post-Independence took place in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. Though there are different versions of how the riots of February 1961 started, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was very disturbed by the turn of events. What troubled him more was that members of his party did nothing to stop the riots even though the reigning government in the state was that of the Congress. On his first visit to Bhopal after the riots, Nehru addressed Congressmen and asked them why they had hidden in their homes like women in burkhas when the riots broke out. Undoubtedly, Nehru sought to govern India as a secular republic. But, in reality, this secularism was only skin-deep; on paper, the country was administered as a secular republic, but barring a few men like Nehru, others were quite ‘pro-Hindu’ in their thinking. These men—many of whom adorned the top echelons of administration in Delhi and other states—were not communal. At least, they did not feel that they were communal. For them, Hinduism was the Indian way of life and reflected the ethos of the country. So being Hindu was the natural thing. For them, this also did not mean that they were disrespectful of other religions or their adherents. These leaders found nothing wrong with being secular and Hindu at the same time. The Congress party reflected Hindu thinking even before Independence. In fact, the British thought that the Congress was full of seditious Brahmins. Jinnah’s Muslim League gained traction only because it was able to hammer in the point that the Congress reflected the interests of the Hindus alone, though this was not true. But what the party practiced was full of Hindu symbolism —‘Vande Mataram’ was the anthem of the freedom fighters—drawn from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Anandamath, the song is sung in the novel by Hindus rebelling against their Muslim kings. Mahatma Gandhi talked of Ram Rajya and his favourite hymn was the Gujarati bhajan, ‘Vaishnav Jana toh Tene Kahiye’. The Congress party—both before and after Independence—had leaders who reflected their Hindu thinking. A good example is that of Mehr Chand Khanna who, as Nehru’s rehabilitation minister, was in charge of settling refugees from West Pakistan. Hailing from Peshawar, Mehr Chand entered politics at an early age and founded the Hindu Sabha. Later, he joined the Hindu Sikh nationalist party and became the finance minister of the Peshawar state government. After Partition he was arrested and put in jail in his home state. Ultimately he came to India and joined the Nehru government after getting elected to the Lok Sabha from the New Delhi seat. Mehr Chand served the Nehru cabinet later as the housing as well as the law minister. He was not the only one with Hindu credentials in the Nehru cabinet. Ministers like Kanaiyalal Munshi were even more Hindu in their approach. Munshi, the founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan set up in 1938 to promote Indian culture, was a member of the Constituent Assembly and later the food and agriculture minister in the Nehru cabinet. He was a well-known Gujarati writer of historical fiction. After the Gujarat riots of 2002, analysts held the popularity of his novels (that had themes like the continual assaults on the Somnath temple by Mahmud of Ghazni) as one of the contributing factors for the Hinduization of the state. Morarji Desai requires no introduction. He was the prime minister of India and was known as an eminent Gandhian. Before joining the Independence movement, Morarji was an officer of the Bombay Provincial Civil Service and served as the deputy collector of Godhra—the same Godhra that was etched in the collective psyche of the nation after the train burning of 2002—in 1927. It was during this period that communal riots broke out in the town and Morarji was blamed for siding with the Hindus. Desai has himself recounted this incident in his autobiography, The Story of My Life, that was published in 1974. He wrote: ‘I had received a notice from the Commissioner saying that the Collector of Panchmahals (which covered Godhra) had asked for an inquiry about my part in the riots. The burden of the issue framed by the Commissioner was that I was a communalist and that I had supported the Hindus against the Muslims.’ Morarji says that he presented his case to the Commissioner in a personal hearing and through written submissions. ‘In April 1930 I received the government’s decision. I was held guilty of acting in a partisan way on account of personal bias…no action was taken against me for my good record of twelve years but I was degraded by four places in the list of seniority,’ he adds. Subsequently he was transferred to Ahmedabad in a junior position. It is then that he resigned from service and joined the freedom struggle in 1930.
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