Glowalkar on Muslim Migration Eastern Part of India

 According to Golwalkar, even after the partition and independence of India in 1947, the Muslims and Christians posed real threats to the sovereignty of the country. He held that it had been a tragic lesson of history of many a country in the world that the hostile elements within the country posed a far greater menace to national security than aggressors from outside. Golwalkar first took up the case of the Muslims and identified their aggressive strategy, which in his words, ‘has always been two-fold’. He held that the first one was direct aggression. The Muslims got Pakistan out of India through the partition of the subcontinent. In Golwalkar’s words: “.... an aggressive Muslim state has been carved out of our own motherland. From the day the so-called Pakistan came into being we have been declaring that it is a clear case of continued Muslim aggression.... the creation of Pakistan is the first successful step of the Muslims in this 20th century to realize their twelve hundred yearold dream of complete subjugation of this country”.

Their direct aggression, held Golwalkar, whetted by their first success, turned against Kashmir. The second front of the Muslim aggression, according to Golwalkar, was increase in their numbers in strategic areas of India. He held that the Muslims had been systematically flooding Assam, Tripura and the rest of Bengal. Golwalkar believed that it was not because East Pakistan was in the grip of a famine that people were coming away into Assam and West Bengal. The problem of infiltration of Pakistani Muslims might have intrigued Golwalkar. In his words: “They are entering Assam surreptitiously and the local Muslims are sheltering them. As a result the percentage of Muslims there, which was only 11% in 1950, has now more than doubled. What else is this but a conspiracy to make Assam a Muslim majority province so that it would automatically fall into the lap of Pakistan in course of time?”.

Golwalkar did not spare the ‘so-called nationalist Muslims’. In his opinion the eminent Muslim scholars and leaders were also communal to the core. He held that the Muslims, whether in high positions of the Government or outside, participated openly in rabidly anti-national conferences. Thus Golwalkar rejected the idea of a peaceful coexistence of the two communities, the Muslims and the Hindus. In his opinion: “Let us cry a halt, before it is too late, to this long and suicidal spell of wishful thinking and come on to grips with the cruel realities of the situation, keeping the interests of national security and integrity as the one supreme consideration”.