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WHY HINDU RASHTRA ? |
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What does "Hindu" Connote ?Replying to the felicitation at the Indian Association Lahore, on February 3, 1884, Sir Syed Ahmed the founder of Aligarh University said, "We normally associate the word Nation with Hindus and Mussalmans. In my opinion, the concept of nation is not to be linked with one's religious beliefs because all of us, whether Hindus or Mussalmans, have grown in this soil, enjoy common points of sustenance and prosperity and share common rights. This verily, is the basis for both these our sections in Hindustan to come together under the common name Hindu Nation... The term Hindu should not be identified with the Hindu community. All sections--whether they be Mussalman or Christian -- are Hindu." (Hamari Ekta Delhi April 15,1979)A Frenchman asked an Indian, "What is your religion?" The reply was, "Hindu." The Frenchman countered: "That is your nationality; but what is your religion?" In fact, neither Arabs, nor Frenchmen nor the people of any other country have any doubt that "Hindu" connotes the nationality of this land. Arnold Toynbee in his monumental work A Study of History uses invariably the word Hindu to denote the race, the society and the civilisation born and grown here over the past millennia and extending right up to the present day.
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