Tag: V. D. Savarkar's Hindudom

In V. D. Savarkar's Hindudom, Muslims and Christians were unwelcome, as were the Jews in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Even though Buddhists and Sikhs were no longer as pure as Hindus, they were still acceptable because their religions originated in Hindustan. Savarkar disliked Muslims and Christians because of their allegiance to Mecca and Rome; they worshiped foreign gods and had no cultural affinity with Hindustan. By B. Z. Khasru The partition of India in 1947 by Britain to create two independent countries wrecked a havoc in human lives and miseries. It...