Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, is a hit not only in India but globally. His ratings as a global leader is 76%, way beyond President Joe Biden which is 40 %.
Modi is no accidental Hindu. He is a product of the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the largest voluntary organization in the world. He has spent years as a full-time pracharakworking in the Varanasi district of northern India. He has also taken time to travel throughout India and the Indian diaspora including the Caribbean.
The RSS, founded by Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in 1925 in Nagpur, Madhya Pradesh, India, works to organize Hindu society from the grassroots up. It views India as Bharat Mata (Mother India) and strives to unite the nation. The effort to remove Article 370 and integrate the entire Kashmir fully into Bharat has been a major policy of the RSS.
Unlike Modi and the RSS, the Nehrus and the Jagans had littlefaith in Hindu dharma. While they denounced western colonialism in one breath, they foolishly rely on a western paradigm to heal the colonial wounds. Their avatar is Karl Marx, not Sri Ram and their scripture is Das Kapital, not the Ramayana.
Fascism, another monolithic ideology, was Europe’s response to communism. The rise of fascism to halt the rise of communism was another ugly chapter of western society. Driven by racial and cultural superiority, Fascism was a repeat of colonialism, the only difference being the victims were Europeans and Jewish.
Dr Hedgewar and Shyam Mukerjee, the founder of the Jan Sangh, the forerunner of the Bharatiya Janata Party, were steeped in the culture of their land and people. These menunderstood that India was a civilization with a 5,000 – year-oldhistory and not a make over society like those of the Caribbean and Latin America.
Cheddi Jagan and Jawaharlal Nehru’s denial of their Hindu values must never be forgiven. They allowed their western education to suppress their intellect. Instead of seeing any good in Indian culture and values, these individuals fell head over heal for the jacket and tie and the knife and fork. Nehru went on to describe himself as “Hindu by accident.” In the case of Jaganhe fell for a Jewish wife and her communist ideology whilefailing to decipher that global Zionism was on a mission to create a home land for Jews with Hebrew as their national language.
In Trinidad and Tobago, Bhadase Sagan Maraj was the voice of the Hindu community. Rooted in Hindu dharma, Bhadasefounded the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha in 1952 andmobilized the construction of more than 30 primary schools for the education of Hindu children before Dr Eric Williams and the PNM came to power in 1956 and stopped the school building program.
Basdeo Panday’s death and the rites that followed confirmed his identity as a Hindu. While he did not make Indian culture a central plank of his politics, Panday was always supportive of innovation and change and took pride in his Hindu/Indian identity. I recalled that when the Hindu Seva Sangh started the celebration of Indian Arrival Day in the mid-1980s with street processions and cultural programs, Basdeo Panday was always available to deliver the feature addresses. Raymond Pallacdharrysingh and Trevor Sudama, two UNC MPs spearheaded the debate in Parliament for IAD to be declared a national day.
The myth of the cruel Brahmin and an oppressive caste system has poisoned the psyche of the Nehrus and Jagans. Hindu India was painted as anachronistic and a hindrance to growth and development by the missionaries and alien rulers. Those who identified with Sanatan Dharma were despised and labeled as archaic.
In Guyana, Dr. Jung Bahadur Singh became a victim of Jagan, one to be eliminated. In India, the re-opening of the Somnath temple in 1953 after it was invaded, looted and destroyed was denounced by Nehru who went on to ask the President of Indiato turn down an invitation for the opening of the temple.President Rajindra Prasad refused Nehru and went to the Pran Pratishtha, much to Nehru’s anguish.
Hindu dharma is tolerant and there is no cause for Hindu leaders and politicians to be apologetic. Today all races are seeing the value of Hindu dharma. It is now for the natural heirs to embrace Sanathan Dharma with both hands. If not, leaders and politicians would be defaulting to their destruction.