Hindu Sangathan (English)

Editor’s Preface

Hindu Sangathan or Unity among Hindus. Why do we need it? After all we are living in the world’s largest democracy and a secular country that India is. We can get the answer to this question only if we critically and chronologically examine our history of last 1200 years. The Islamic invasion of our country started in the 8th century with the conquest of Dewal city of Sindh, now in Pakistan , by Muhammad bin Qasim.

The entire city was plundered, ruined and the peace loving Hindus were either killed or forcibly converted to Islam only to be sold later as slaves in the market of West Asia. Raja Dahir and his family sacrificed their lives to save our religion and the motherland. The Islamic brutality continued unabated over the years as Muhammad Ghazni, Gori, Timur etc. kept invading and torturing us. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus were killed. An equal number were converted forcibly.

The end result was complete change in demography and ethnicity of this country for good. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh were carved out of our country and became Islamic states. This change came about after centuries of continued persecution and torture of millions of Hindus The rights of majority Hindus were denied initially under Islamic rule and later by British. The answer to why did the most learned race on the planet fail to effectively counter this brutality and surrendered to the Islamic barbarism and fanaticism is not hard to seek.

The answer is absence of Hindu Sangathan.’ Situation is not too rosy in the post 1947 India either, as the same malaise we failed to nip in the bud is resurfacing again and again across the board. A common Hindu is neither aware of the problem nor of the remedy. He acts like a pigeon who closes his eyes thinking that since he cannot see, the cat also cannot see him. What happens thereafter is a foregone conclusion.

What is happening in Kashmir, Kerala, Bengal, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and North-Eastern States is enough to put Hindus to utter shame. In a Hindu majority country, when Kashmiri Pundits were killed and driven out from their own homeland we all failed to stop this.

The same story is being repeated in many districts of Bengal, Assam and Kerala where the Hindus are forced to abandon their religious rights only to appease non-Hindus. Needless to say, Hindus are driven out by non-Hindus where ever the latter outnumbers the former. This situation grimly dictates the need to have ‘Hindu Sangathan’ as the only lasting remedy. We need to develop the sense of oneness among Hindus at national level. Only then we will be able to safeguard our culture, religion and the country.

Swami Shraddhanda, the author of this book, had explained illustratively the need for Hindu unity way back in 1926.In the same year, he was killed by a fanatic who hated his pioneer contribution to Hindu Sangthan and Shuddhi movement. If the Hindus would have followed his advice at that time there would have been no partition of India in 1947. Sadly, we failed. Our ignorance and apathy failed us totally.

Coming full circle after lapse of almost a century we are confronted with the similar problems once again This time we can not afford to remain complacent.. His thoughts are more relevant now than before. Now or never! We need to wake up, unite ourselves and act proactively or else the coming generations will never forgive us for our blunders. The biggest hurdle in the campaign of Hindu ‘Sangathan’ is the caste system which I consider to be our biggest enemy. Let us take a pledge now to totally wipe out this evil as the only remedy for our survival. This should be the core of ‘Hindu Sangathan.’

Dr. Vivek Arya