Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966

by Vikram Sampath

To frustrate the vivisection of our Akhand Hindusthan, we must first vivisect their Pakistan. To this end, three immediate steps are imperative. The first, the creation of a Hindu province in West Bengal, the second the expulsion of Moslem trespassers from Assam at any cost, so as to sandwich and smother the Eastern Pakistan between the two Hindu provinces, the third, the creation of a Hindu-Sikh Province in East Punjab and to rejoin the contiguous Hindu districts in Sindh to the Bombay Presidency. Thus about ten large Hindu provinces will get consolidated into a strongly centralized government of Akhand Hindusthan and will enable it all the more effectively to re-annex the revolting Pakistani areas too in near future. But all this or any other jugglery will pale to help Hindudom if we do not emphatically declare and manfully act up to the rule that the Moslem minority in Hindu provinces be given the same treatment as is meted out to the Hindu minority in Moslem provinces. The very fact that Jinnahji, Gandhiji and his Shahid Sahib are perceptibly irritated by these proposals does in itself prove that they are most likely to benefit Hindudom and undermine Moslem designs. Consequently intense agitation and action should be resorted to by us forthwith to effect it all.