Golwalkar’s Efforts of De-Hindusing the Hindus
The main efforts of Golwalkar’s was to bring the healthy mental transformation in the whole of the country by establishing the basic life-philosophy of universal Hinduism. Before independence, there was only one common enemy— the British. So internal differences in the society did not come to the surface perceptibly. But with the advent of independence, a political current began to flow like a flood– the current of de-Hindusing the Hindus. It was not of conversion to alien faiths alone but one of implanting an insidious inferiority complex among the Hindus, making them ashamed of being Hindus. It meant the deliberate denigration of everything Hindu, and the cultivation of the attitude of aping the West in every single aspect of life. Superficial differences among the Hindus were blown up, and the internal thread of integral Hindutva despised and discarded. This thought current was made up of de-culturisation on the one hand and politically motivated limitless appeasement of the non-Hin...
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