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Driven by guilt rather than a quest to understand the past, the RSS and its pantheon uses history to pit India’s leaders against each other and oversimplify Partition.
Azad spent most of his life propagating and defending an idea of India that was premised on a composite/indivisible nationalism.
‘We will have to campaign for equality and equity. We will have to punish those who oppose the creation of such a world,’ wrote Bhagat Singh.
For Nehru, science was not limited to industry and development, it was for him a romance. While he wanted to salvage whatever was constructive in India’s tradition and culture, he battled against the hegemony of religious dogma and orthodoxy which were obstructing the country’s development.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was not only a frontline nationalist leader but also one of the architects of modern India. He constantly strived as a minister and as an intellectual to synthesize the Islamic, Indian and the Western ideas into a coherent and single pattern for the newly independent nation.
The image of him as a trigger-happy young man was deliberately publicised by the colonial government, which many of us internalised and continue to romanticise.
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