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Pappu is actually right on this one IMO. This is not his idea anyway. Shesh Rao More has written on it in detail in Marathi.
Post WW1, question of independence was settled. Whom to hand over power to - was the question.
Gandhi’s role is to be acknowledged in this aspect. He made a case (like Jinnah) that secular Hindu dominated India was a contender just like a Muslim-nation case. Islamic nation case is obvious and self evident for Xian British.
Hindus as one nation - Brits never understood
All important leaders post 1920 are in process of trying to prove to Brits that they are “nation”.
Nation as per Abrahamics is a self governable group of people with sense of belonging ness towards each other owing to some common features - language/race/religion/caste/something. Even (electorally) small leaders like Ambedkar, Savarkar et al are in process of creating their case of a "Dalit" nation, or a "hindu" nation etc.
This is exactly the answer to all the fools who parrot the line that Sangh did not participate in freedom struggle as an organization. The scenario had changed. Anyone fighting with British for "freedom" post WW1 were fools who didn't understand the changed circumstances.
It was all abt roping as many "units" as possible to one's camp so that they emerge as prime contenders in the British last will and testament. Among all Hindu leaders, Gandhi was most successful (with collusion, cooption with sections of Brits) in creating a huge block of Hindus (which he inherited from Lokmanya Tilak's lifetime of work along with Non-Abrahamic moneybags of Western coast).
British gave this chunk of land (which we today call modern India) to this block of Hindus which Gandhi was successful in marketing.
The Muslim chunk is by default always ever-ready since last 1400 years. They have all abrahamic political features inherently built in. The biggest achievement of Gandhi, in my opinion, is Poona Pact with Ambedkar. He ingeniously aborted a very bad idea that was forming (Dalit nation) that Ambedkar was pushing. With all his brilliance, this was a very bad idea of Ambedkar - separate electorates for Dalits. Think of a bunch of children waiting for demise of their father & lobbying to be contender as father's successor & to get away with as big a chunk of property as they can manage after division
That is Gandhi in nutshell. Prodigal Eldest in of litter who screwed other contenders. That is Gandhi, Jinnah, Ambedkar et al. While Sangh et al ended up helping Gandhian camp in this endeavor, Sangh diametrically flies against the very core idea of India.
That India is not a property to be divided - that she is a sacred geography to be worshipped and controlled. Hence it is very stupid (and yet politically correct) of Pappu to project India as a "negotiated nation-state".
He is stupid because that is not how Hindus look at India. Politically correct because that is how abrahamics view India and he has given up on Hindus as his voter-base. Pappu is not competing with BJP anymore. Pappu has given up on Hindus. He is very smart in that way. He is competing with Ovaisi and other parties relying on minority and "sekoolar" vote. He is emerging as the true contender for non-Hindu vote. Remember the slogan of anti CAA fellows from last year -
"सबका खून शामिल है इस मिट्टी मे, किसीके बाप का हिन्दुस्थान थोड़े ही है"
This is their clear-cut attempt of staking a "negotiating claim" on "property that is India". This is what Jinnah did 100 years ago. Our misfortune is, instead of some overt PIF like in 1745-1760 or 2014-2030, a negotiator Gandhi was spearheading the transition from our side in the decade of 1930-1946.
1745-1760 was the decade when Hindus best positioned to
A. Push the envelope towards converting Islamic Indian polity into a rich Hindu polity
B. Freeing as many Towns & tīrthakshetras from the grip of Qazi-Mullah network.
Before Ummah activates. 2014-2029 is similar window. Ummah will start activating bigly from 2030s. We came a long way; achieved some tremendous & lasting things between 1745-1760 before the project stalled in 1761. We attempted many more which we could not complete. We need to complete some of those unfinished tasks in this round. If everything goes alright, Pro Hindu Force will be controlling the eastern seashore (except AP - that one unpredictable mercantile black hole) after centuries. Starting in May-2021. Imagine. After Lakshmana Sèna (who was defeated by Bakhtiyar Khilji) it might be first time.
We could not do much on economy front in 1745-1760. We did a lot on temple front (it continued until 1818). This time we have done a lot on economy front. But not much so far on temple front (freeing from Mleccha threat is already done). We lost then because of economy and tech. Giving closure to Ram mandir, opening narrative on Mathura, attempt to solve kāshi using Vishwanath corridor - remain the greatest achievements by us in this window.
Apart from JAM on economy front. Amongst everything else - Jandhan-Aadhaar-Mobile is the biggest achievement.
