A rare treatise written in the thirties by Savitri Devi of Greek origin, the book tells a remarkable narrative on Hindu nationalism told in a most absorbing and logical manner and appeals to the most critical minds. It compels you to think, what Hinduism is.
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An Essential Text of Hindu Nationalism--Or Any Nationalism,
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This review is from: A Warning to the Hindus (Paperback)
Hindu nationalism has to be rated as the single most successful reactionary-nationalist movement of the 20th century. Hinduism was all but extinct in parts of India due to the missionary activities of Muslims and Christians. But Hinduism is the core of Indian civilization. So the passing of Hinduism meant the death of Indian civilzation. This process was aided by the caste system, Hindu syncretism, and the lack of Hindu national consciousness. Hindu nationalism helped halt and then reverse the decline of Hinduism and contributed to the partitioning of India and Pakistan on religious lines--although most Hindu nationalists would have preferred the reconversion of Muslims to Hinduism, or their peaceful integration into a greater India. Savitri Devi's book, originally published in 1939 and translated into 6 Indian languages, contributed mightily to this movement. This is all the more remarkable given that she was neither Hindu nor Indian, but a Frenchwoman of Greek-English parentage whose pan-Ayran philosophy embraced Hinduism, classical Greek culture, and German National Socialism. The most remarkable chapter is number three, on Indian paganism, which offers an interpretation and defense of Hinduism that owes a great deal to Nietzsche's conception of the Dionysian worldview as the abandonment of egocentricity and the affirmation of the cosmic whole in all its contradictory elements: good and evil, light and dark, creation and destruction. She would later encapsulate this duality with the symbols of the lightning and the sun. (Jung symbolizes the same philosophy with the Gnostic deity Abraxas.) Devi argues that Hinduism must change if it is to preserve itself. It must overcome caste divisions with a unifying national consciousness; it must abandon its easy-going pluralism and recognize the mortal danger posed by credal religions like Islam and Christianity; it must give a greater role to women in fostering and preserving national consciousness. This book is not merely of historical interest. Its principles can be applied today by any people struggling to preserve its distinctness in the face of the homogenizing forces of global capitalism and of universalistic religions and ideologies.
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