you and Gandhiji in particular, keep ‘salaming’ saluting the newly, carved
out Moslem Raj as ‘Pakistan’, which avowedly and literally means a Holy
Moslem Land, a Moslem State? Is it not a fact that almost all states and
nations are called after the names of what the League of Nations termed
‘National Majority’ predominating in each? Nor have you yourselves ever
felt any qualm of conscience in recognising Baluchistan, Vaziristan,
Afghanistan, Turkastan or the Turkish State as such, in spite of the presence
of non-Moslem minorities there? How is it then that the very mention of the
name of Hindusthan or the Hindu State alone takes your breath out, as if
you were smitten by a snake bite?
Bloodshed or?
The only reason you have been so emphatically reiterating to defend
your recognition of Pakistan as an Independent Moslem Raj in spite of all
these objections to it, is to the effect that you were faced with the only
alternative ‘bloodshed or Pakistan’ and so to avoid bloodshed, you were
persuaded to accept Pakistan. Leaving aside, the fact that such a cowardly
reason condemns your action more than defend it, we only ask, do you not
thereby insinuate unwillingly enough that if but the Hindus too face you
with a similar alternative bloodshed or Hindusthan, you will be persuaded
to accept Hindusthan too with equal readiness?
I warn the Hindu electorate categorically for the thousandth time that
unless they remove these pseudo-nationalist leaders from the helm of our
state, the Gandhistic Indianism will allow Moslems inside India to capture
key posts in the army, the police, the state. These Moslems will rise from
within as soon as the Pakistani forces invade India from North, East, West,
South, as they are sure to do in near future, and taken ‘unawares’ as usual,
this Gandhist Government of today will go down in no time and India will
be converted by the Moslem conquest into an Akhand Pakistan.
Warring Ideologies
The choice, therefore, is not between two sets of personalities but between
two ideologies, not Indian Raj or Hindu Raj but Moslem Raj or Hindu Raj,
Akhand Hindusthan or Akhand Pakistan.
The Hindu Sanghatanist ideology alone can, therefore, save our nation and
re-establish an Akhand Hindusthan from Indus to the Seas.
—Mahratta 25-9-47
❑

Before they vivisect India, let us vivisect their
Pakistan first (23rd May, 1947)
“Let Bengal Hindus beware of the scheming platitudes and pro-Muslim
designs of Gandhiji, who started for Bengal straight after his interviews
with Mr. Jinnah, avowing open hostility towards the demand for framing a
Hindu majority province in Bengal. No compromise should dupe us into
abandoning that demand as Moslems are sure to repudiate their part as soon
as we are trapped. Pakistan or no Pakistan, we must have now a Hindu
province in Bengal, Punjab and Sindh in the interest of Akhand Bharat
itself. For, even if the impossible happens and Britain concedes integrity of
India under a strong Central Government, then new Hindu majority
province in Bengal can openly serve as a faithful sentry checkmating any
further treacherous attempt on the part of Moslem majority there. On the
other hand, in case Pakistan is thrust on us by Britain, the creation of these
provinces shall form an unbroken link of Hindu majority provinces from
East Punjab to West Bengal and with the Hindu kingdom of Nepal and
Kashmir in the North and Hindu Assam in the east, would consolidate and
enable Hindus to reannex the revolting Pakistani areas, provided of course
we ‘Hinduise all politics and militarise Hindudom.”
— V. D. Savarkar.

Bengal—A Hindu Majority Province
The following Telegram was sent to Dr. Shyamaprasad Mukherjee by Veer
Savarkar on March 21, 1947:
“I support emphatically your demand for separate Hindu Majority Bengal
province owing loyal allegiance to a consolidated strong and sovereign
central Hindusthani state.
We shall be better equipped to protect Hindu minority in eastern Bengal
than we are at present.”
—V. D. Savarkar

Independent Jewish State

The following statement was issued to the Press by Veer Savarkarji on 19-
12-1947:
“I am glad to note that the overwhelming majority of the leading nations
in the world should have recognised the claim of the Jewish people to
establish an Independent Jewish state in Palestine and should have
promised armed assistance to get it realised. After centuries of sufferings,
sacrifices and struggle, the Jews will soon recover their national Home in
Palestine, which has undoubtedly been their Fatherland and Holyland. Well
may they, compare this event to that glorious day in their history when
Moses led them out of the Egyptian bondage and wilderness and the
promised land flowing with milk and honey came well within sight.
Judging from the Indian Press in general, our public seems to be
misinformed by a sinister pro-Moslem propaganda regarding this Palestine
issue. It must be emphasized, therefore, that speaking historically, the whole
of Palestine has been, from at least two thousand years before the birth of
the Moslem Prophet, the National Home of the Jewish people. A long line
of their great prophets and kings, of Abraham and Moses, of David and
Soloman, has endeared that country to them as their Fatherland and
Holyland. The Arabian Moslems invaded Palestine only a few decades
before they invaded our Sindh and just as their fanatical fury exterminated
the ancient Egyptians or Persians, they attempted to wipe out with fire and
sword the Jewish people too. But they failed in this unholy ambition. The
Fatherland and the Holyland of the Arabian Moslems lies in Arabia and not
in the Palestine.
In justice, therefore, the whole of Palestine ought to have been restored to
the Jews. But taking into consideration the conflict of self-interests of the
powerful nations in the UNO, their support to the resuscitation of the
Jewish State in a part of Palestine at any rate, wherein they still happen to
be in majority and which includes some of their prominent Holy Places
constitutes an event of historical justice and importance.
It is consequently to be regretted that the delegation that represented our
Hindusthani Government in the UNO should have voted against the
creation of the Jewish State. The speeches of Shrimati Vijayalaxmi in
particular were justly ridiculed when she declaimed melodramatically that
the Indian Government refused to stab the unity and integrity of the
Palestine State in the back by carving out a separate Jewish State—

forgetting for the while that the very Indian Government had stabbed the
unity and integrity of their own nation only the other day and gloated over it
as an event for public jubilations! Pandit Nehru made his case more
untenable by stating that the creation of the Jewish State was opposed by
his Government to secure the goodwill of the group of the petty Moslem
States in Asia. But what about the loss of the goodwill of the Jews in India
and outside and of the powerful nations which voted in support of the
Jewish State? As a policy, it is as absurd to sacrifice the goodwill of an
army of giants as to secure the unjustifiable goodwill of a handful of
pigmies. Moreover, can Hindudom, at any rate, forget that these petty
Moslem States and even the Chinese-Moslems, who are conspiring to create
a Chinese-Moslem State, are always enemically disposed to Hindusthan as
a State?"

Do not allow Non-Hindus in Hindu Mahasabha
The following telegram was sent to Dr. Shyamaprasad Mukherjee by Veer
Savarkar on 27 July, 1947 after partition:
“In as much as the proposal of throwing open full or associated membership
of Hindu Mahasabha to nationalist non-Hindus has been publicly discussed in
press, I must express my view in time against it. If non-Hindus are admitted as
members in the Hindu Mahasabha, whether on political or economical point, it
is bound to be detrimental to the Hindu solidarity because every political
question is in India, either religious or cultural and every religious and cultural
question is political. Shuddhi, though religious, is political and Pakistan,
though camouflaged as political, is religious. The Hindu Mahasabha is a
mandir for Hindu worship where Hindus alone can go to worship their
nationalist Shiv. Let us not turn that mandir into a masjid or bazar. By such an
error, the Hindus will lose their self by those very steps by which the Congress
degenerated into a chaos. We may join any nationalist association on a separate
platform, where we Hindus as an undivided entity join hands in special matters
like the election campaigns, so far as it is not detrimental to Hindu interests,
with our non-Hindu nationalists. But the Hindus must have an organisation of
their own, where they can think, plan, consolidate and act as Hindus without
check, from any non-Hindu, who enters by right. Otherwise, one day, a
Moslem may come to preside over the Hindu Mahasabha too. As long as there
are purely Muslim, Christian and Parsee bodies in India, so long at least, the
Hindus must have an exclusive organisation of their own. On this spirit, the
Hindu Mahasabha was found and rose to be the center of Hindu solidarity and
power. Let us not undo this monumental work for the vicious temptation of a
few seats of offices. Let us leave to the next generation, true ambition of
rendering the Hindu Mahasabha itself, the National Parliament of
Hindusthan.” — V. D. Savarkar

Oppose the united front of the Christian, the
Congress and the Muslim League
The following statement had been issued to the press by Swatantrya Veer
V. D. Savarkar on 6-7-1959:
“I exhort the Hindu Sanghatanists in Kerala to render all possible support
to the Communist Government led by Shri E. M. S. Nambudripad in their
struggle, which they are bravely carrying against the united front of
Christian, the Congress and the Muslim League, all of whom are sworn
enemies of Hindu cause.
“The Hindu Sanghatanists cannot forget the religious and political
persecution to which the Congress Government led by the Christians had
subjected them and from which they got liberated by the advent of the
present Communist Government alone.
“Even when and if elections come, specially on the issue of the Education
Bill, the Hindu Sanghatanists should vote, in their own interest, for the
Communist candidate as long as there is no Hindusabhaite candidate, just as
the Hindu Sanghatanists are doing in Maharashtra on the issue of United
Maharashtra.
“I also exhort the Communist Government never to resign under the
pressure even of the central government to intervene and to take over the
administration or never to compromise especially on the leading issue of
Education Bill.”
— V. D. Savarkar
❑

On Immediate Problems
To
Shri N. C. Chatterji, Bar-at-Law
Dear Mahashaya,
Though I have since long been confined to sick-bed due to age debility
and protracted illness and had consequently been forced to retire from all
public activities, still I feel it my duty to congratulate you publicly on your
thumping electoral success, defeating the rival Congress candidate for the
Lok Sabha.
I strongly hope that now at any rate, our Bengali Hindus and Hindudom in
general, will find an able and indomitable advocate in you to defend the
Hindu cause in the Lok Sabha. Three demands above all and immediately
must be emphasised. First, all Hindus in East Bengal should be allowed to
come over to Western Bengal and at least an equal number of Moslems
from West Bengal should be sent to Eastern Bengal, if necessary, per force.
Second, for every aggressive step taken by Pakistan, whether military or
otherwise must be met by prompt reprisals, military or otherwise by the
Hindusthan Government kind for kind, measure for measure. Third, not an
inch of our land should be surrendered to Pakistan without the consent of
the Hindu Public either on the Eastern frontier or the Western.
Bombay,
Yours Sincerely,
28th December 1947
V. D. Savarkar

Co-operation with Other Parties

It is imperative that in the interest of Hindudom, it is absolutely necessary
that there should be an organisation manned by Hindus only to represent
Hindudom as a whole and to protect the interests political, social, cultural,
economical, etc., of the Hindu people as a whole. It was with this particular
mission that the Hindu Mahasabha was started by such eminent patriots like
Lala Lajapat Rai, Madan Mohan Malviya and others and led by Dr. Moonje,
Bhai Paramanandji and other great champions of the Hindu cause. Ever
since its start, the Hindu Mahasabha has been recognised by other political
organisations and even by the British Government also as the foremost, if
not the only, political representative of Hindudom.
Consequently, any question of a merger or a compromise for a common
front for elections or any other object, which demands first of all the
liquidation of the Hindu Mahasabha as a political body representing
Hindudom and seeks to reduce it to a social and cultural organisation only,
cannot but prove most detrimental to the Hindu cause and should never be
countenanced at all.
Inasmuch as the proposals made recently for such a compromise to one
and all seek to deprive the Hindu Mahasabha of this, its main mission of
representing and defending the political interests of the Hindus and
inasmuch as seek to compel it to merge as a Hindu political body into any
old or new organisations, which are open to non-Hindus as well, the
acceptance of any such proposal cannot but constitute the betrayal of the
two most fundamental bedrocks, on which the Hindu Mahasabha was
founded and has been solidly and devotedly taking its stand, namely its
mission of representing Hindudom alone and being manned by Hindus
alone. Consequently, none of these proposals or any new one of the same
nature should ever be even entertained, much less accepted.
Nevertheless, a common front for elections or for any issues commonly
accepted can be formed with the Hindutwanishtha bodies in particular, and
with any political body in general, if that co-operation with those bodies
does, in no way, affect the existence and freedom of the Hindu Mahasabha
as a Hindu organisation representing Hindudom politically and in all other
spheres of national life.
In short, co-operation and no amalgamation or merger is the formula that
should guide all activities of the Hindu Mahasabha.
□□□

Notes
[←1]
Sakharam Gorhe—he was one of those accused persons in the Nasik revolutionary conspiracy
trial who stated in the High Court to have been subjected to police tortures and morpolurs
starvatonary to wring out confessions from them so as to implicate other persons as well. The
High Court held that the story was an exaggeration and partly a fabrication! History in the long
end may record who was right and spoke the truth. All that can be said now is that Sakharam
did not implicate anyone else, was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment and died while in a jail,
a martyr’s death.

[←2]
This petition expressing the political views of the revolutionaries in general and Mr. V.
D. Sawarkar in particular was written to the Government chiefly with the intention of
pressing no sooner than the passage of the Reforms through the Parliament. For, Mr.
Savarkar had several reasons to believe that the Government was then anxious to
know what effect the bill would have on the revolutionist attitude. He was several
times approached by the authorities there and invited to express his views. He was
convinced that the Reforms were chiefly addressed to the revolutionists.