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Golwalkar Mission of Hindu Rashtra

Letter for Savitribai Phule to Jyotirao Phule

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The letter was written in 1856, Savitribai speaks about the core issue: education and its transformative possibilities in a society where learning, had for centuries been the monopoly of the Brahmins; who, in turn, used this exclusive privilege to enclave, demoralize and oppress. Away at her parental home to recuperate from an illness, Savitri describes in the letter a conversation with her brother, who is uncomfortable with the couple’s radicalism. October 1856 The Embodiment of Truth, My Lord Jyotiba, Savitri salutes you! After so many vicissitudes, now it seems my health has been fully restored. My brother worked so hard and nursed me so well through my sickness. His service and devotion shows how loving he really is! I will come to Pune as soon as I get perfectly well. Please do not worry about me. I know my absence causes Fatima so much trouble but I am sure she will understand and won’t grumble.  As we were talking one day, my brother said, “You and your husband have rightly...
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Dalits Participation in the 1857 Revolt: Mythical Narratives

The Dalits of northern India have an emotional link with the 1857 War of Independence for they believe that it was initiated by them. They claim that the Soldier Revolt by the mostly Dalit Indian soldiers in the British Army that took place in Barrackpore in 1857, snowballed into the War of Independence. In the Majhauwa village of Azamgarh district of UP there are four cemented stones shich are called Shahid Baba by the villagers. The Dalits of this village worship these stones with red powder for their future happiness. On enquiring about the history of these stones, the village school master said that four Chamars of this village laid down their lives during the 1857 rebellion. These four men started appearing in the dreams of the villagers and conveying messages saying that if they prayed to these four martyrs they would all prosper. Since then they have been incarnated as gods in the eyes of the villagers and pray them for happiness and prosperity. These are examples which show how...
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Hindutva Ideology of Golwalkar

  Golwalkar preferred the idea of purity of race and culture. He was convinced that intermingling of races was neither desirable nor feasible. The following is what he said in this context: “To keep up the purity of the race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic races like the Jews; Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by”. The quotation cited above makes it clear that Golwalkar was in no mood to incorporate races other than the Hindu race in his framework. He was totally opposed to the idea of a multi-racial composite pattern of nationhood. He held Hindutva to be the quintessence of Indian nationhood.  He also claimed that the Hindus came into this land from nowhere, but are indigenous children of the soil ...
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