Thread by @savarkarvaadi

IN 1965, SAVARKAR was questioned in an interview..

Q: Some think that you believe in a Hindu Nation because you are a fanatic communalist. What have you to say about it?

A: "Let us get this thing straight. People have a wrong notion of a Hindu Nation & about
communalism

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A Hindu means a person who regards this land of Bharatvarsha from the Indus to
the Seas as his fatherland & holy land—the land of origin of his religion & the cradle of his
faith. Therefore, the followers of Vedism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism and all hill tribes are Hindus

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The Parsees, amongst the other minorities, are by race, religion, language & culture, almost akin to the Hindus. The Christians and Jews could be politically assimilated with
the Hindus. Around this life-centre moves Hindutva—not a religious dogma or creed but the
thoughts

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and activities of the whole being of the Hindu race. The problem of the minority is that
of only one minority-the Muslim minority. A Hindu nation, therefore, is a group of people
bound together by ties of common religion & culture, common history & traditions,

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Common literature, occupying a territory of geographical unity and aspiring to form a political unit.
Therefore, in Hindusthan, the Hindus are a nation.

Those who think I am a fanatic Hindu and a communalist, are suffering from a strange
malady—hallucination.

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I am neither a fanatic Hindu nor a communalist. I cannot make donkeys
think like horses "

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~ Organiser magazine, 1965

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