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Preface Continues…
But the possibility that such attempts at dividing India socially may be made again in the future cannot be ruled out. Segmentation, fragmentation, capitulation and finally balkanization have been part of the historical process in many countries to destroy national identity and thereby cause the political division of the nation itself.
For example, the majority-minority question has dogged India for the six decades since 1947. Paradoxically, the Hindus, despite being over 80 per cent, are suffering from a minority complex, because Hindus of today are being confused by others on whether the Republic of India founded in 1947 is a legatee of the ancient Hindu India, or a new nation altogether forged as a byproduct of British rule and a series of foreign invasions earlier. This confusion, as we noted earlier, is at the core of our identity crisis. The confusion will, however, disappear if we decide which of these two we are: (i) An indigenous people of an ancient nation of continuing unbroken civilization, or (ii) an artificial administrative byproduct of foreign invasion and colonialism.
Indian history books written by the British authors under the imperialist’s patronage, and digested by the English-educated intellectuals in India, have sought to foist the second concept. They have made out that India is a fusion of foreign invaders, first the Dravidians, then the Aryans, and then others. The British, they argued, gave us a central government which India never before had. This has become the staple argument of terrorists today. Division of India has become their political goal. All this is, of course, bogus history as Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in his writings on Indian history has clearly shown.
Writing a research paper in 1916 titled “Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis, and Development,” for an Anthropology
Department seminar at the prestigious Columbia University in New York, Dr. Ambedkar stated:2
I venture to say that there is no country that can rival the Indian Peninsula with respect to the unity of its culture.
To be continued…