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The imagiNATION of an
irredentist
Akhaṇḍa Hindustāna
( )
Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay
Rupa Sanyal
Akhar Bandyopadhyay
ABSTRACT
This paper-letter aims to sarcastically subvert the ideological
standpoint of the Sangh Parivar by revealing the inherent
inconsistencies or uncontradictory contradictions in their efforts
to consolidate a standardized, homogenized and pasteurized
Hindu rashtra of India or Akhand Hindustan. In doing so, it
explores the crisis of the so-called “Indian standard time” and the
problems of the solar and lunar almanacs followed within the
supposed Hindu de-signatum. The authors of this paper-letter
have methodologically taken the guise of Hindutvavadins in
order to launch a non-violent yet militant deconstructive attack
upon the foundations of the Hindutva ideology itself under the
plutocratic regime. In the course of this paper-letter, the authors
have brought under notice the notion of the imagined geography
of Akhand Bharat, a historical apriori.
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“These words include the feeling that this entire land from Attock to
Cuttack, Kutch to Kamrup, and Kashmir to Kanya Kumari is not only
sacred to us but is a part of us. The people who have been born in it
since times immemorial and who still live in it may have all the
differences superficially brought about by place and time, but the
basic unity of their entire life can be seen in every devotee of Akhand
Bharat.” ⤡
-- Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay
To
The Honourable President,
The Republic of India
To
The Honourable Prime Minister,
The Government of India
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To
The Honourable Sarasanghacālaka,
Rāṣṭrīya Svayamsevak Saṅgh (RSS)
Sub: A Prayer for an irredentist Akhaṇḍa Hindustāna (
)
Respected Ācāryā,
We, the undersigned, “Homogenized, standardized and Pasteurized” (as it is
found in packaged holy cow-milk) Hindutvavādins, who are following
Guruji’s forgotten dream of Akhand Bharat
⤡
(Hindu Mahasabha's 19th Annual
Session in Ahmedabad in 1937), have faced two peculiar and unexpected
problems related to the Indian time zone and Hindu Almanacs. We need your
and Sangh Parivar’s kind suggestions to resolve these two problems related to
the Akhaṇḍa Hindustāna (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
Nepal, Tibet and Burma). Not only that, there are many perspectives and
opinions on such issue, which is elaborated in the following video:
Is Akhand Bharat Possible? | Sardar Patel | Dhruv Rathee VIEW HERE ⤡
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When we are writing this letter to you, we are undergoing a tough time as there
are some fake news on the occupation of the Indian Territory by the Chinese
and Pakistani imperialists:
India vs China Border | Explained by Dhruv Rathee VIEW HERE ⤡
More evidence of China building villages in disputed areas along borders with
India, Bhutan VIEW HERE ⤡ (As reported on 18th November, 2021 ©Hindustan
Times)
This cannot be possible when Sri Rama⤡ is with us, protecting our imagined
geography. We think that only urban naxals, members of tukde tukde gang, anti-
nationals etc., are spreading such unwarranted rumours for promoting their
vested political interests.
According to our ancient logical tradition, we must present the pūrvapakṣa of
the urban naxals before establishing our counter-proof or uttarapakṣa by
refuting (khanḍana) the former. The urban naxals question the ethos of
our Akhaṇḍa Bhārata as follows:
If incorrect depictions of India’s borders are a crime, will RSS be prosecuted for
‘Akhand Bharat’? VIEW HERE ⤡ (As reported on 6th May, 2016 ©Scroll)
There can be no conceivable fragmentation of the undisputed fact of
our Akhaṇḍa Bhārata, which was quite a prevalent reality⤡ in
the sanātana golden age before the invasion of the Muslims and proselytizing
Christians. From the days of yore, our own imagination is reflected in the
following facts, which are quite contrary to the Nehruvian projection of
the Bhāratamāta (Bharat Ek Khoj | Episode-1 | Bharat Mata Ki Jai VIEW
HERE ⤡):
1. Fragmented Body of the Holy Mother: Bhārata is a body—a female
body—Satī’s (The holy mother goddess, Lord Śīva’s spouse) body-parts are
scattered all over greater India—these female organs are worshipped in
different (almost 51, though numbers differ in different purāṇas as well as
in some marginal printed documents as found in side of different satī-
piṭhas) Indian tīrthas (pilgrimages). Thus, we have found Bhārata as an
imagined integration of corporeal-state. If the different distributions of
different scattered body-parts are to be put into the map, that
cartographical as well as symbolical account of iso-corporeal (cf. isopleth,
isoline, isogram or isorithm) gives us an integrated picture of imagined
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boundary. We would not venture to attest empirically the archival values of
the so-called “real” documents (as it was investigated by some empirical
historians in the case of Rāmajanmabhūmi), but we will try to unfold the
discourses of purāṇas as well as the marginal documents. The presence or
absence of the Satī’s body-part in the certain part of the territory is not our
concern. We wish to address this imagiNATION of isocorporeal as the Sc
hrodinger’s cat problem in Archaeology—
it is there and it is not there… we do not know actually. We do not ha
ve any witness for the existence of a certain body-
part of the mother in a certain piṭha. We do not have “right” to dig the satī-
piṭhas to find out the fossils of mother’s body parts or iso-corporeal. It may
be there—it may not be there—just like the brahman, the non-definition of
which refutes the law of excluded middle,
cf.
(“That moves and That moves not; That is far and the same is near; That
is within all this and That also is outside all this.” It is just like the dual character
of the jyoti or light. This mantra from the Īśopaniṣad outdates the Doppler
Effect in Quantum theory). However, the body-part is there—
“out” there in the imagination of the human subject. If nation-
state is a secular imagined entity, it is also a non-
secular imagined entity. In both these two
cases, do we have any right to dig or excavate the minds of the citizens
of the nation state or the psyche of the bhaktas (devotees)? That would
be another case of deployment of anatomo-bio politics.
2. The celebration of Melā: Certain Southeast Asian aquatic regions are
selected in connection with certain configurations in the celestial sphere
(though, one must remember, the placement of constellation does not
follow contemporary astronomical account) to celebrate ritualistic fairs.
Pilgrims from different parts of the South-East Asia gather (in which
“language” do they communicate?) in the particular region and they are
forming certain type of symbolic solidarity. What is noticeable here is the
association among geographical region, aquatic region and celestial sphere.
The gathering of different mārgis (< marga or road) or panthis (<pantha or
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road, both means followers of certain mārga or panthā), again makes us
remember the connected pathways in the South-east Asia.
3. Four maṭhas (shrines) of Saṁkarācārya: It was told that the Ādi
Saṁkarācārya (8th C.) established four maṭhas in four different parts of
India: (1) the Uttarāmnāya maṭha, or northern maṭha at Joshimath; (2)
the Pūrvāmnāya maṭha or eastern maṭha, the Govardhana maṭha, at Puri;
(3) the Dakshināmnāya maṭha, or the Sringeri Sharada Peetham, the
southern maṭha, at Shringeri; (4) the Paśchimāmnāya maṭha, or
the Dwaraka Pitha, the western maṭha, at Dwarka. The cartographical
account of such planned distribution of maṭhas also provides us a concept
of imagined boundary, though that is not a mimicry of European nation
statist model.
For detailed discussion, cf. The Pre-Colonial Imagined Boundaries VIEW
HERE ⤡
This is our legacy of pre-colonial imagiNATION, which was totally ignored by
the Sahibs and their brown collaborators. Even we have found the distinct
concept of the Bhārata in Kālidāsa’s famous sloka:
Furthermore, we also have the proliferation of āhlāda (as our suṣumnā [spinal
cord?] nadī or the mānadanḍa has got sāmarasya) at the moment of hearing
this sloka as a song sung by Sri Pankaj Kumar Mallik et al⤡.
However, we have faced a curious problem, when we have found that there is
no single time-zone that applies to the spatio-temporal entirety of the Akhaṇḍa
Bhārata.
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TIME ZONE OF AKHAṆḌA BHĀRATA ⤡ (The Forgotten
Desire):
Akhand Bharat calendar released by RSS campaigners on 17 Nov, 2020 in Jaipur
Though we are following RSS’s almanac as it is regularly released on the
annual Vijayādaśamī (the tenth day of the lunar calendar, the Victory day), we
are surprised to view the following video on different web platforms:
Video: Why does India, a country almost 3000 km wide, have only one
timezone? VIEW HERE ⤡ (As reported on 7th November, 2017©The
Scroll.in, Video Unavailable)
India’s time zone trouble⤡ (Facebook)
Problem of Indian standard time..... ⤡ (Youtube)
The video is self-explanatory: The imagiNATION of India or Akhaṇḍa Hindu
Bhārata⤡ does not follow single time zone. This is the main hindrance to
the Akhaṇḍa Bhārata project. Thus, a Hindu in x-zone (suppose, Delhi) of India,
when performing ekādaśī (11th Lunar Day) following Hindu lunar calendar,
another Hindu in the y-time zone (suppose Kanyakumari) is not at all located in
the space-time of ekādaśī!
However, we, the RSS-dreamer, are emphasizing on the monochronic (M-time)
approach, i.e., we like to focus on one event/state/process at a time contrary to
the supporters of polychronic (P-time), i.e., multitasking within singular time-
frame.
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The observations of celestial spheres made by the ancient ṛṣīs of sanātana
Bhārata were abandoned and vulgarly branded as “adṛksiddha” by a calendar
committee headed by Prof. Meghnad Saha, an outcaste śūdra, and constituted
by Pt. Nehru in 1952 ⤡ ⤡. They came up with the “dṛksiddha” almanac called
the “Rāṣṭriya Pañcaṅga” after Saha went through at least 30+ regional variants
of Hindu almanacs within the Indian Territory. Prof. Saha, a śūdra, abandoned
the authority of the Vedas and ridiculed it by sarcastically saying: “Everything is
in the Vedas!” This is an outright abuse to the age-old tradition of the Hindus.
Hence, we want back the calculations made as per the so-called
"adṛksiddha" almanac, and not the Congress-sponsored śūdra’s Gregorian
almanac.
Furthermore,
i) “The Republic of India uses only one time zone (even though it
spans across two geographical time zones) across the whole nation
and all its territories, called Indian Standard Time (IST), which equates
to UTC+05:30, i.e. five and a half hours ahead of Coordinated Universal
Time (UTC). India presently does not observe daylight saving time (DST
or summer time).” (Source: Wikipedia ⤡)
The universal time zone is fixed by the Westerners. Why should we
follow their dictum as universal (sāmānya) norm? We, the Hindus
should follow our own singular timeline according to our prāṇa (the
time span of one breath; cf. Sūrya Siddhānta, influenced by Greek
Astronomy, as Jayant Vishnu Narlikar thought? Not at all! ⤡).
Moreover, why should we follow daylight saving time (DST), when our
respected Hon. PM woks 18 hours per day for the lokasaṁgraha?
Modiji, the torch-bearer of Mahatma Savarkar,
is Guḍākeśa or nidrājit (beyond suṣupti) Arjuna, the conqueror of
sleep!
ii) In 2014, some Assamese politicians proposed following a
daylight-saving schedule that would be ahead of IST by an hour, but as
of March 2020 it has not been approved by the central government⤡.
We have found in the bogus Wikipedia (anyone can insert junks here in the name
of “information”) that there are many varieties of calendars
(lunar/candramāna or solar/sūryamāna or the combination of both, i.e.,
lunisolar) maintained by heterogeneous Hindu groups within the Indian
Territory (e.g., Vikram Samvat, Shalivahana calendar, Meitei calendar,
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Assamese calendar, Bangla calendar, Odia Calendar, Tirhuta Panchang, Tulu
Calendar, Nanakshahi Calendar, Chula Sakarat etc. ⤡). However, we wish to
solely adhere to the unified RSS calendar, following the goal of the Sangh
Parivar, the umbrella institute that has even influenced the esteemed IIT,
though it was criticized by some anti-national Non-Godi Medias:
With IIT Kharagpur Calendar, the Hindutva Right Takes Another Step Away
From Science VIEW HERE ⤡ (As reported on 30th December, 2021 ©The Wire)
IIT Kharagpur 2022 calendar on ancient India is an exercise in propaganda –
not rigorous research VIEW HERE ⤡ (As reported on 31st December, 2021
©Scroll)
The problem is that some urban Naxals have found Islamic influence in the
formulation of our almanac. For example, go through this standpoint:
“হ প হিতে যবন ভ ব?” [Influences of Islam in Hindu Almanac?] VIEW HERE ⤡
Influences of Islam in the Hindu Almanac (?) VIEW HERE ⤡
Suffocated by too much heterogeneity in the south-east Asian Territory, we, the
believers of “One Nation, One Religion, One Language, One Civil Code” formula
as propounded by Mahatma Savarkar⤡, (this report⤡ has shown that our
Modiji is the perfect torchbearer of Savarkar’s dream project) have found a
solution in the Mahābhārata.
For the sake of being in the saddle of the time-horse and to pull it by its
harness (“ātmānam
rathitaṃ viddhi śarīram
rathameva tu. buddhiṃ tu sārathiṃ
viddhi manaḥ pragrahameva ca”/“Know the atman to be the master of the
chariot; the body, chariot; the intellect, the charioteer; and the mind, the
reins. ”; 1.3.3., Kaṭha Upaniṣad), we, the homogeneous Hindus, must take our
recourse to the kālastambhana as found in the Mahābhārata at the time of
killing Jayadratha. Lord Kṛṣṇa created the illusion of sunset by enveloping the
sun with his mighty beautiful wheel-saw, sudarśana cakra, thereby deceiving
and consequently weakening or decapitating the morale of the Kaurava army in
order for them to be defeated by the Pāśupatāstra of the invincible warrior
Arjuna. View the full narrative here: Jayadratha Badha⤡.
So let us perform the kālastambhana yajña to hold the fabric of the space-time
continuum at bay and make it subservient to the creation of an akhand (i.e.,
our khand, the Gujarati equivalent for palatable sweet) Hindustan, following the
dictums of the Hindutva philosophy. We need a relentless religious crusade, a
violent war by ignoring the deplorable pacifist Einstein-Russell manifesto
⤡
and
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by following the example of the Mahābhārata, against the non-believers of
China and Pakistan to seize all their territories under the proposed holistic
formation of our Hindu raṣṭra by bulldozing all the pluralities of the language-
module, dress-code, religious mores, food habits (Gastroanthropology) etc.
We are now undergoing severe pain caused by the atrocities of the non-Hindus.
This pain and suffering will, at the end of the day, shake those mlecchas. The
misery of the great Hindus will act as an Einsteinian Pain Wave (EPW) ⤡ as
discovered by our Hindu scientists (Physicists M M Bajaj, Ibrahim and Vijayraj
Singh)!
We wish to return to our primordial Astrology by abandoning the Astronomy
and Astrophysics of the alien, conspiring Westerners so that we can keep aside
the irrelevant and redundant points of unemployment, debt burden, hyper-
inflation, rising fossil fuel prices, poor ranks in the world happiness index, world
hunger index, world poverty index, world freedom index etc. We are seeking
your kind and humble intervention in this very regard.
Yours Obediently,
Dr. Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay
Mrs. Rupa Bandyopadhyay
Mr. Akhar Bandyopadhyay
(“For the happiness of the many, for the welfare of the many”)