Alarming Calls: History, Myth, and the contemporary India

Indus Civilisation was of the non-Nordic non-Aryan pre-Vedic Indians; it was predominantly of the indigenous Dravidian people and of other ethnic peoples of ancient India. This was a Bronze Age civilisation (3300–1300 BCE; mature period 2600–1900 BCE, pre-Harappan cultures starting c.7500 BCE.) This prolonged era of vibrant civilisation was marked by scientific, rational and pro-people characteristics: this has archeological evidences in the form of city planning and civil engineering, water reservoirs, community bath house, fine and accurate measuring tools, grand structures of granary, written scripts or literature which is the basic requirement of any scientific and rational education system etc. Yet that pre-vedic culture never tried to construct any non-utilitarian anti people monuments or tombs like the Pyramids in the west, which is a complete wastage of human efforts in the name of superstitious beliefs of the despotic rulers. Findings and elaborate clues support the fact that this pre-Vedic Civilization had an organized form of government to rule the society. The civilization was literate, and its script, with some 250 to 500 characters, has been partly and tentatively deciphered; the language has been arguably identified as Dravidian.

The Nordic Aryans are supposed to have come into prominence and reared the Vedic culture in India during 1500-1200 BCE and believed to be one of the causes of the decline of the Indus civilizations. The pre-Vedic Indus Civilization did not disappear suddenly and many elements of the pre-Vedic Civilization can be found in later cultures. The Vedas were originally in oral form created by the occupying Aryans, and found its written form (with borrowed scriptures of the pre-Vedic Indian origin) somewhere around 500 BCE. The lip service Nordic-Aryan culture gradually spoiled the rational, natural and egalitarian basis of pre-Vedic ancient Indian civilisation, became the perpetrator to impose an inferior and racist Vedic culture on the much more advanced and liberal pre-vedic ways of life in the sub-continent. Those horse riding fair-skinned Nordics had their swords, bows and arrows and an apparently good sounding but illiterate language (Aryan/ Sanskrit with no scripts) to bully and bulldoze the native Indian peace and prosperity and to impose a gradual but firm hegemony of an inferior and mediocre culture which was destined to imbecile irrationality in the forthcoming ages in the form of casteism, non-egalitarian and non-utilitarian religiosity among other social degeneration. That humbug culture treaded from west and north to the east via south in the sub-continent. They cheated, occupied and corrupt the culture of India. They named the more advanced clan of native people as Asaura (demon), a distinctly racist and abusive remark referring to language and skin colour both (refer to the numerous Deva and Asura fights concluding with Asura killings; Manu Smriti, which had been accused of denigrating the lower castes and untouchables in India; assault of Surpanakha the south Indian woman by the north- Indian brat Laxman etc. in the epic fictional stories such as the Ramayana). As they did not have scripts, they did not have good and scientific education. Their only education was story telling (‘jumla’ and/or myths), and warfare. Gradually they borrowed scripts from the natives, changed their strategy and synthesized with the pre-existing Indian religious-cultural traditions for their own survival, while continuing the Vedic hegemony in the cultural mix. Like the perfect criminals they were never eager to preserve the finger-prints of their inhuman misdeeds and massacres. They have never been shown any respect towards scientific objective neutrality of written/recorded history. With no recorded history the hut-dwellers occupied cities somewhat like the Vandals did in Rome.

They did head-hunting, created divide and rule strategy for this (refer to the Bindhya and Agastya myth, or the Bali and the Bibhishana incidents in the Ramayana). They used story telling instead of stating facts to hide their own longstanding crimes. They fabricated and manufactured past with their stories; with deliberate cunning intention they made the past hazy and mythical, mislead people into a dark and dubiously double standards of Karma. Gradually the victims and the attackers learned to co-exist and created a religion of fusion illusion dualisms pluralism: Hinduism. Shiva (the pre Vedic natural god) and Brahma-Vishnu-Indra (the Vedic-sky gods) eventually stuffed into one strange and absurd culture. But the power of poetry and language implicitly preserved the truths, which was probably designed to soothe people and to hide the truths. Buddha was one of the early rational defenders of humanity against this absurdity. Now we can only refer to mythology, folklores, geography, anthropology and some archeological evidence fused with missing links to unfold the dark and erased history (decline of Indus civilisation 1500 BCE to the time of Buddha 600 BCE or to the extent of 16 Maha Janpadas and Greek invasions) of our country. India rose again under the leadership of the Eastern part of the country: Magadha, which is again of the non-Aryan (Chandragupta Maurya was non-Aryan; Ashoka the great promoted Buddhism and he based his empire in the pro-people egalitarian spirit; during the Gupta’s golden period India’s prime religion was Buddhism not Hinduism. But the fragments of Vedic humbugs again gradually popularized their people dividing casteism stricken religiosity in the sub-continent. They attacked on Buddhist rationalist practical world view. This time they used the non-Nordic or mixed descent (the Yadava clan for example) to promote their vicious intention: Krishna (means Dark, hence non-nordic) was made the avatar of Vishnu (the Aryan Vedic god). Sri Rama, Sri Krishna both are marked as the avatar of Vishnu, the difference in the manufacture is that Rama was more man than a god; Krishna was more god than a man. The Gita episode of the epic-fictional story Mahabharata preached the non-utilitarian and regressive Vedic culture.

After the Islamic insurgence/revolution (800 CE onwards) in the sub-continent the fragment of Vedic Hindus started blaming everything on this new target, and afterwards the European colonizers trickily used this divide to rule India. Some of the Muslim rulers such as Sher Shah, Akabar contributed immensely to shape a synthesized Indian culture; they positively contributed to set things reformed. Although many ruthless Islamic attackers were also the cause of destruction and this created a new stir in the already confused and declining India. Islam remained steadfastly unchanged and influenced native culture more than the other way around.

The Islamic invasion also attributed in part to the military strength of the Islamic (Slave Dynasty, Mughals) kingdoms as well as duration of their stay in India. Advent of Islamic culture in India also gave rise to a lot of trade with Persia and the Middle East as well as giving rise to a whole new entrepreneurial class of people. The field of Music & Fine Arts is arguably Islam’s greatest contribution to Indian culture. Indo-Islamic music came to be and many new instruments like the sitar were introduced. Islamic influence can also be found in Hindustani music, as also folk music like Qawwali. This Islamic mix complimented the Bhakti movement by giving us Sufi saints who propagated peace & love through devotional songs. Sufi movement attracted lot of Hindus to Dargahs while Hinduism impacted Sufism in adoption of Siddhas and yogic posture. A new language Urdu was also developed due to fusion of Persian and Hindi language. Islamic Architecture blended with Indian architecture to give a whole new

style of Indo-Islamic architecture with domes, arches and engraved columns. The Taj Mahal is a wonderful example. Islam also brought a rich cuisine with it – from sweets like Gulab Jamun & Badhushah to the world-famous Biryani. Islam had a significant impact on Indian culture without which India wouldn't be India.

During the freedom struggle against the British rulers the Vedic fragments (which now can be identified as the RSS- Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) had always remained passive supporter of the colonial rulers and never took part in the freedom struggle. “According to Martha Nussbaum, the RSS regarded itself as a social movement and stayed away from the Indian independence movement. It also rejected Gandhi's willingness to cooperate with the Muslims.

After founding the organisation, K.B. Hedgewar started the tradition of keeping the RSS away from the Indian Independence movement. Any political activity that could be construed as being anti-British was carefully avoided. According to the RSS biographer C. P. Bhishikar, Hedgewar only talked about Hindu organisation avoiding any direct comment on the Government. The "Independence Day" announced by the Indian National Congress for 26 January 1930 was celebrated by the RSS only that year and subsequently avoided. The Tricolor the Indian national movement was shunned. Hedgewar personally participated in the 'Satyagraha' launched by Gandhi in April 1930, but he did not get the RSS involved in the movement. He sent information everywhere that the Sangh would not participate in the Satyagraha. However those wishing to participate individually in it were not prohibited. In 1934, Congress passed a resolution prohibiting its members from joining RSS, Hindu Mahasabha or the Muslim League.

M.S. Golwalkar, who became the leader of the RSS in 1940, continued and further strengthened the isolation from the independence movement. In his view, the RSS had pledged to achieve freedom through "defending religion and culture" and not by fighting the British. Golwalkar even lamented the anti-British nationalism, calling it a "reactionary view" that had disastrous effects upon the entire course of the freedom struggle. It is believed that Golwalkar did not want to give the British any excuse to ban the RSS. He complied with all the strictures imposed by the Government during the Second World War. The Bombay government appreciated the RSS by noting that the Sangh had scrupulously kept itself within the law and refrained from taking part in the disturbances that broke out in August 1942.

M.S. Golwalkar later openly admitted to the fact that the RSS did not participate in the Quit India Movement. However, such a dubious attitude during the independence movement led to the Sangh being viewed with distrust and anger, both by the general Indian public as well as certain members of the organization itself.

The Rashtriya Swaysevak Sangh initially did not recognize the Constitution of India and heavily criticised it in view of the fact that the Indian Constitution made no mention of "Manu's laws" from the controversial ancient Hindu text Manu Smriti, which had been accused of denigrating the lower castes and untouchables in India. When the Constituent Assembly finalized the Constitution of India, the RSS mouthpiece, Organiser (newspaper), complained in an editorial dated 30 November 1949 that,

"But in our constitution, there is no mention of that unique constitutional development in ancient Bharat... To this day his laws as enunciated in the Manusmriti excite the admiration of the world and elicit spontaneous obedience and conformity. But to our constitutional pundits that means nothing"

Now, with the longstanding tradition of forgetting and manufacturing history, the people of India are witnessing the pro-Vedic Hindu notoriety having their awesome time again. Unfortunately, the rioters and enemies of the people are being democratically elected. History repeats itself when it is dubiously forgotten. As we hear the alarming calls, it is high time to awake and to rise to save the unity and prosperity of our beloved country, the unique land of Unity in Diversity.