1. Some prime targets of Communism in its battle against Hindu society and culture:
a) The first and foremost target of Communism is Sanatana Dharma enshrined in Hindu literature and made living by a long line of saints, mystics and bhaktas.
a) The first and foremost target of Communism is Sanatana Dharma enshrined in Hindu literature and made living by a long line of saints, mystics and bhaktas.
2. Communism ridiculesall this wealth of unrivalled spiritual splendour as a conglomeration of sterile superstition, obnoxious obscurantism and puerile priescraft;
3. b) Next, Communism makes an aggressive move towards Hindu Dharmashastras which have their source in Sanatana Dharma and which lay down the moral and social principles by which a wholesome social and individual life is sustained.
4. Communism denounces these Dharmashastrasas respositories of primitive prescriptions, Machiavellian morality, caste oppression, untouchability, degradation of women, Brahmin domination, lack of social responsibility, and what not;
5. c) Thirdly, Communism concentrates on Hindu philosophies which expound, compare, contrast, fortify and defend the manifold metaphysical points of view flowing into several streams from the self-same Sanatana Dharma.
6. It condemns all these philosophies as Brahminical conspiracies to suppress the Lokayata, the only scientific philosophy pulsating with a revolutionary principle. Rahul Sankrityayana was a great pedlar of this Communist lore among the Hindi reading public.
7. Some of his works have been translated into other languages also. He was very enterprising indeed. He postulated that the Buddha was preaching Marxism for all practical purposes except for his unmindful lapse into the unproved doctrine of transmigration;
8. d) Fourthly-and here Communism has really invested some herculean endeavours-it ransacks the annals of Hindu history and Hindu heroism.
9. A whole battalion of Communist historians have been busy for years battering the walls of Hindu historiography behind which βHindu communalism and chauvinism is hiding its ugly faceβ.
10. They have ridiculed every hero, every period, every episode, and every precedent in which Hindus can take pride.
11. The Golden Age of the Imperial Guptas in which Hindu achievements attained their acme in the fields of art, literature and science is dismissed as a myth
12. by D.N. Jha whose Ancient India: An Introductory Outline has just been reprinted by the Peopleβs Publishing House, New Delhi.
13. Other Communist historians have portrayed Maharana Pratap, Shivaji and Guru Govind Singh as local rebels against pax moslemanica for petty personal ends. The same historians whitewash blood thirsty Islamic conquerors and despicable despots,...
14. ...and condone their crimes either by balancing them with great good deeds which they did in some other direction or by explaining them away as conforming to the prevailing pattern of empire-building;
15. e) Lastly, the Communist anthropologists and sociologists dive deep into Hindu social institutions, customs, mores and manners and come up with some class interest hiding inside the core in each case.
16. We are told that Hindu society has always been an unhealthy society except perhaps during the Vedic period when, according to Romila Thapar, our Aryan ancestors ate beef.
17. Beef-eating by the ancient Aryans has been such an obsession with Miss Thapar that she returns to the theme again and again, even when discussing the dancing girl found in the ruins of Mohenjo-daro.
18. Hindu Society Under Siege, Page 33
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