He bitterly questioned the anathema that the Congress, and in particular Nehru, had with any reference to the ‘Hindu-ness’ of India or it being called Hindustan too, but willingly accepted, recognized and saluted a Pakistan that was explicitly theocratic even as many non-Muslim minorities tried to live within that country. Was it not the League of Nations prescription that all states and nations were to be called after the predominant majority community that lived there, he asked. ‘How is it then,’ questioned Savarkar, ‘that the very mention of the name Hindustan or the Hindu State alone takes
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