Articles
National Universities
Dt: 13/7/21
National Universities
Dr T H Chowdary*
With decline of 130 year old Indian National Congress due to its proprieterisation by Nehru-Indira-Sonia family and its transformation into a Front for Christian, Muslim, anti-Hindu , Macaulayan and Marxist, communist interest, regional parties are becoming numerous and stronger by pandering to casteist; Muslim and Christian communal demands. These are disintegrative of the National State of Bharat. Under seemingly innocuous and seductive phrases, like “liberal, secular, tolerant, inclusive, progressive; social justice , federal “ these regional parties, which are almost proprietary and hereditary (like Sonia Congress) are competitively courting and appeasing Islamists, missionary Christians and even PWG -Maoists (calling them as misguided patriots) who are for disintegration of Bharat i.e India, the civilizational state (like China) into the likes of post-Mogul Sultans and Princedoms ( of Rajas, Maharajas, Nawabs). The creation of Muslim majority districts (Malappuram in Kerala, Mewat in Haryana, Malerkotla in Punjab and 80 more Sachar Committee districts in the offing is prelude to the demand for an Association Federation of the Muslim districts, to eventually become a “Mogulistan”, a third Islamic state out of pre-1947 India. This prospective disaster in the making must be preempted. Historically, through out the world it is the dominant intellectual minority that promoted change, forms and nurtures a nation and eventually a Nation-State. Thus were created the nation states of UK in 1707, USA in 1776, Germany in 1871, Italy in 1861 .
2. The present Nation-State of India ( as distinct from cultural Bharat Varsha of Bharateeyas) is the creation of our national movement for freedom from British imperialist rule. The great Sardar Vallabhai Patel integrated the whole of remnant post-partition India into one single nation-state, the Union of India, Dr B R Ambedkar, K M Munshi and such great statesmen wrote a Constitution which gave over-riding powers to the Union government thro’ the Parliament of India to preserve the integrity of the nation state.
3. The regional parties are repeatedly but wrongly ( and mischievously in the result) calling India as federal. In the 395 Articles of our Constitution Not even once is there the word Federation or Federal. The intention of the regional parties their proprietary -heirs is clear -weak union and so regional party’s family rule. That this could happen and was incipient in the 1960s itself was foreseen by the scholar-legal luminary, statesman fearless patriot, Kulapati K M Munshi, the founder of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan . He wrote an illuminating book, Warnings of History. The Bhavan published it. There he wrote of the dominant intellectual minority that should be fostering nationalism/ patriotism and the instruct ability of eh nation state .
4. The purpose of National University(ies) should be to sculpt / from such intellectually equipped leaders of thought and illiterate and speech for infusing nationalism consistent with the wisdom conveyed by :
· Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam ( The whole world is one family)
· Aanoh bhadraaah ritavo yantu viswatah ( Let noble thoughts come from all quarters)
· Ekamsat, viprah bahudhaa vadanti (Truth is one, the learned describe it in many ways)
· Sreyascha preyascha manushya
Metastam samparitya vivinakte dheerah
Sreyohi dheerohabhipreyase
Vrinite preyoh mandoh
Yogakshemaath vrinite
(Both the good and the pleasant approach the mortal, the intelligent man examines and distinguishes them, for the intelligent man prefers the good to the pleasant. The ignorant man choses the pleasant for the sake of his body.)
5. The students must imbibe the ideals, wisdom and practices expounded in our classical literature - Vedas, Upanishads, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagawata, Artha Sastra, mathematics, astronomy and other sciences, …How krinvato viswamaryam” was implemented in Bharat; the ideas that inspired Lokamanya Tilak, Annie Besant, Lajpat Rai, Madan Mohan Malavya, Subhash Chandra Bose, Damodar Vinayak Savarkar…
6. The history of India must be taught from the nation’s point of view and not as written by foreigners low of invaders , plunderers, iconoclasts, foreign-origin, settler rulers and imperialists.
7. The National University(ies) should be for history, philosophy, literature, arts and culture; economics, political theories and practices, comparative religions and comprehensive plans for building a prosperous , powerful intellectual and ethical India to be a Jagadguru once again . History of science and technology in pre-Mogul India, causes of their decline shall be in the course content. These National Universities could be four- East, South , West and North. National Universities are the greatest need in the context of the activities of dis-integrative groups propagating federalism, autonomy and harping on differences in religion, race, culture, caste, language and never mentioning what unites us as Bharateeyas in Bharata Varsha. ( 789 words)
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