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in the above is the proposition that while India did not cease to be
India either under Muslim or British rule despite all the trials and
tribulations, she was not fully Mother India. And she was not fully
Mother India not because she was called upon to digest external
inputs, which is her nature to assimilate, but because she was not
free to throw out what she could not possibly digest in the normal
and natural course. This lack of freedom to reject what cannot be
assimilated is the essence of foreign conquest and rule.The meaning
of Ayodhya is that India has regained,to a larger extent than
hitherto, the capacity to behave and act as a normal living
organism. She has taken another big step towards self-affirmation
All truth, as Lenin said,is partisan.
So is mine. I do not pretend to be above the battle, or, to rephrase
Pandit Nehru, I am not neutral against myself. But partisan truth is
not demagogy and patently false propaganda, which is what advocates
of composite culture have engaged in. Two points need to be
noted in this regard.
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