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Sep Ank 2016 Vol. 80 Number 6 SEPTEMBER 2016 MAHATMA GANDHI'S SPEECH AT PRAYER MEETING, November 27-28, 1947 Introduction: Qurban Ali Segregation in democracy Kuldip Nayar Greatest Message of Equality Was Given By Prophet Muhammad Rajindar Sachar No discussion on who killed Mahatma Gandhi is complete without addressing idea of a Hindu Rashtra Teesta Setalvad Pitiable Condition of Dalits in the midst of incidents of atrocities Gautam Thaker Enraged Kashmiri Youth Will Not Be Brought Around Easily Mani Shankar Aiyar Is Superstition limited to Hindus? K.S. Chalam Where does humanism stand at a time of crisis? IHEU President Andrew Copson 558 Vol. 80 Number 6, September 2016 Articles and Features: MAHATMA GANDHI’S SPEECH AT 3 PRAYER MEETING, November 27-28, 1947 Introduction: Qurban Ali Segregation in democracy 7 Kuldip Nayar Greatest Message of Equality Was Given By 9 Prophet Muhammad Rajindar Sachar No discussion on who killed Mahatma 11 Gandhi is complete without addressing idea of a Hindu Rashtra Teesta Setalvad A Country of Poor People but Not For 15 Poor People Sukumaran C V BJP’s faultline stands exposed 17 Pavan K Varma Stung by Dalit Backlash, Modi Eats His 19 Own Words on Cow Slaughter Siddharth Varadarajan Pitiable Condition of Dalits in the midst 22 of incidents of atrocities Gautam Thaker Enraged Kashmiri Youth Will Not Be 24 Brought Around Easily Mani Shankar Aiyar Is Superstition limited to Hindus? 27 K.S. Chalam Where does humanism stand at a time 30 of crisis? IHEU President Andrew Copson ‘Khattar Kaka’: SATYANARAYANA PUJA 32 Translated by Kata Chandrahas Human Rights Section: HOLY COW, UNHOLY CARCASS 39 AND DALITS PUDR Statement: 28th July 2016 Drop FIR against Amnesty 41 International India! PUCL Statement: 19th August, 2016 MAHATMA GANDHI’S SPEECH AT PRAYER MEETING (November 27-28, 1947) (INTRODUCTION: It is a well known fact exchanges conclusively nail the lie that the 1949 that on the night of December 22-23, 1949, idols installation of idols was an act of faith on the were put under the central dome of the Babri part of the Hindu masses. mosque, at Ayodhya by some miscreants and In this context here is an important speech an FIR was lodged by the police constables delivered by Mahatma Gandhi in Delhi on 27- posted there at that time. The 1949 violation 28th November 1947, well before the Ayodhya was a result of premeditated collusion between controversy erupts. – Qurban Ali) bigoted sections of the then rulling Congress party and the local Faizabad bureaucracy led by a deputy commissioner whose blatant BROTHERS AND SISTERS, partisanship was proved by his subsequent Yesterday I wanted to mention one point but admission to the Bharatiya Jan Sangh. since I had to talk about many other things, it Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru expressed was left out. his distress at the 1949 incident in a series of I have received many telegrams from letters, to Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Kathiawar. I have already told you about what Patel, to Governor-General C. Rajagopalachari, I heard and what subsequently appeared in the to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Govind Ballabh Pakistani newspapers. Those papers are read Pant and to close friend K.G. Mashruwala (The by thousands of people there. May be some ten Babri Masjid, edited by A.G. Noorani). In a thousand or so. I do not know how many people December 26, 1949, telegram to Pant, he must be reading them. But nothing would be presciently described the installation as a achieved if I started thinking whether those “dangerous example” that will have “bad things had really happened. Hence it was good consequences”. To Mashruwala (letter dated that I placed before you what I had read in those March 5, 1950), Nehru confessed that the district newspapers. I do not know if all those things officer in Faizabad “misbehaved”, further that are true. If they are true, they are a matter of while UP CM Pant “condemned the act on great shame for Kathiawar. And if they are not several occasions” he refrained from “taking true, it is a matter of shame for the newspapers. definite action”. In a letter dated April 17, 1950, Thus it is a matter of shame for either side. I to the U.P. Chief Minister, the Prime Minister have also told you what the Sardar has to Nehru poured out his anguish: “… U.P is comment on the matter. He came today also becoming an almost foreign land to me … I find and told me that whatever reports came from that communalism has invaded the minds and there were not worth mentioning. They were hearts of those who were the pillars of the highly exaggerated. But the telegram I have Congress in the past. It is a creeping paralysis received from Rajkot is worth noting. It is a and the patient does not even realize it ... It fairly long telegram and I would like to mention seems to me that for some reason or other, or it to you in brief. After all, I know the Muslims perhaps mere political expediency, we have of Kathiawar. I do not know them individually, been far too lenient with this disease …These but I know the Khojas, Meenas, Vaghers and THE RADICAL HUMANIST 3 some Kumbis among the peasants, and Mahers. Swayamsevak Sangh— these organizations After all, I was born there and lived there for have certainly done some mischief—their aim almost 17 years. In fact I lived there for full 17 was to drive out the Muslims at least from years, because I did not go out to study Rajkot. However they could not do so. But now anywhere. My father never sent me anywhere. we have nothing more to worry and there is no I completed my studies there and attended danger to the Muslims. So you also should not college for a few months, and that too at worry. We are watching the situation elsewhere Bhavnagar. Even for the examination I could too and we would send you another telegram.” not go beyond Ahmadabad. That was my I have received a telegram from a Muslim condition. I saw everything that happened there gentleman from the same place. He expresses and, later too, kept contact with the people by his extreme gratitude to the Congressmen and visiting them. So, the sender of that telegram others who tried their best to save the life and says that I am greatly worried on their account, property of the Muslims. But there is yet another and, in turn, my worry has become their worry. telegram from Bombay also sent by a Muslim He says it is true that some Hindus in Kathiawar gentleman. He states that what I had said earlier had lost their balance, but is there any place about Kathiawar was correct but what I have where this has not happened. They resorted to been told later about it is not correct. That lots violence and even harmed some Muslims. They of things have happened there and are still destroyed their houses and even burnt them happening. I do not know whether I should down. believe the telegram from Bombay or the one from the other Muslim gentleman. But I doubt But, he says, the Congressmen did not let the the truth about the telegram from Bombay situation go far. They were under the leadership because it has been sent from Bombay, while of Dhebarbhai. I know him very well. He went the other one has been sent by those who are forward to protect the Muslims and succeeded right in Kathiawar. Moreover, the people of to a great extent. Not all Hindus were involved Kathiawar cannot deceive me. Where would in those acts of loot and arson. Had that been they escape after deceiving me? Hence I feel the case, all Muslim houses in Rajkot would have that the telegram from Bombay gives an been set ablaze, there would have been large- exaggerated version. The actual situation would scale violence and some people would have been be known to me in due course. For the present, killed. But things did not reach that point. The let me at least put all this before you. Congressmen and others took every precaution. Dhebarbhai was abused and manhandled. Even There is also a telegram from Bhavnagar. It though he is a big man and also a lawyer, when is from the Maharaja of Bhavnagar. I know him the mob gets excited all considerations of big too, because I have lived there for three or four and small are forgotten. They harassed him months. So he felt concerned about me and because he was trying to protect the Muslims. wondered why I was so much worried. He has Some people who accompanied Dhebarbhai said in the telegram that I need not worry. He write, that, though some injury was caused, says that they are all vigilant. The Hindus also Dhebarbhai was saved by other people. The are vigilant. They would not let any harm come telegram also mentions help from the Thakore to the Muslims and I should have no doubt at all Saheb and the police. In that case, who are left about it But there is a telegram from Junagadh to be suspected of creating the trouble? They sent by some Muslims. They say that I am being say “the Hindu Mahasabha and the Rashtriya deceived, and I should set up a commission and 4 SEPTEMBER 2016 inquire whether the Muslims are being harassed other Hindus who did it? or not. Similar telegrams have also been sent to Today all the Hindus and Sikhs are to be Jawaharlal, the Sardar and others.
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