| Temples & Legends Of Somanatha |
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| Temples & Legends Of India |
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fact that when so helping, I have been a lawyer or a public man or a Minister is only an
accident. You know well that my historical novels have brought the ancient history of
Gujarat vividly before modern India, and my novel Jaya Somanatha has had a great appeal in
the country. I can assure you that the 'Collective Sub-conscious' of India today is happier with the scheme of reconstruction of Somanatha sponsored by the Government of India than with many other things that we have done and are doing. "Yesterday you referred to 'Hindu Revivalism'. I know your views on the subject; I have always done justice to them; I hope you will equally do justice to mine. Many have been the customs which I have defied in personal life from my boyhood. I have laboured in my humble way through literary and social work to shape or reintegrate some aspects of Hinduism in the conviction that that alone will make India an advanced and vigorous nation under modern conditions. "With regard to Jam Saheb's letter, a pinch of soil, a few drops of water and twigs from all over the world are ceremonial requirements for the installation. |
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