In a letter to Rajaji, Sardar Patel used the language of a street thug or goon

by Guest Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:07 pm

To Rajaji, Patel wrote on August 21, 1946, about Bengal. “There is a complete breakdown of safety and order but there is nobody responsible to check the thing. However, this will be a good lesson for the League, because I hear that the proportion of Muslims who have suffered death is much larger” (ibid, page 49). A very comforting and civilised reaction to bloodshed.

http://www.frontline.in/cover-story/patels-communalisma-documented-record/article5389270.ece

by Guest Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:10 pm

None of these men, Patel included, came close to a Congress leader who was a devout and scholarly Hindu, steeped in the Shrimad Bhagwad Gita and the Upanishads —Chakravarti Rajagopalachari. They dislike Nehru not because he was an agnostic but because he was secular. They deliberately ignore Rajaji for the same reason. This devout Hindu was staunchly secular.

The Sangh Parivar faults Gandhi for, in effect, making Nehru Prime Minister. Why does it not censure Patel for plotting in 1949-50 to ensure that India’s first Indian Governor-General did not become India’s first President as well? Patel fought hard to oust Rajaji from the Governor-General’s house and install instead his soulmate, Rajendra Prasad, who had helped him plug the communal line in the Cabinet from 1947 to 1950. Patel described Rajaji to his son Narasimhan as “half a Muslim”. Nehru and Rajaji “held similar views on the Hindu-Muslim question” (Rajmohan Gandhi; Patel:A Life; Navajivan Publishing House, 1990; page 504).

http://www.frontline.in/cover-story/patels-communalisma-documented-record/article5389270.ece

In a letter to Rajaji, Sardar Patel used the language of a street thug or goon

In a letter to Rajaji, Sardar Patel used the language of a street thug or goon

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