{"id":41202,"date":"2019-01-28T17:47:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=41202"},"modified":"2019-01-28T17:47:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:17:55","slug":"the-inclusive-nationalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-inclusive-nationalist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inclusive Nationalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/lala-lajpat-rai-hindutva-politics-nationalism-hindu-mahasabha-muslim-league-5557305\/\"><strong>The Inclusive Nationalist<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: The article discusses Lala Lajpat Rai\u2019s views on India\u2019s nature of Indian polity and its country\u2019s secular ethos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lala Lajpat Rai was a national leader who championed \u2018unity in diversity\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Lajpat Rai was an advocate of an assertive Hindu politics, exemplified by his participation in the Punjab Hindu Sabha in 1909 and Hindu Mahasabha in the mid-1920s.<\/li>\n<li>But his vision of Hindu politics was very different from the exclusivist Hindu nationalism.<\/li>\n<li>In 1915, he proclaimed that \u201creligious nationalism\u201d was a \u201cfalse idea\u201d, embodying a \u201cnarrow sectarianism\u201d which could never be \u201ctruly national\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>For him religion was a matter of individual faith which must not interfere with the common civil life of the country.<\/li>\n<li>He pronounced that Indians, whether Hindu, Muslim, Christian or Parsi, were a common race. Indian Muslims were descendants of the Aryan race who had merely converted to Islam and they continue to be influenced by their ancestral Aryan-Hindu culture.<\/li>\n<li>He talked of a larger distinctive Indian culture that consists of India\u2019s diverse peoples, emphasising \u201cUnity in Diversity\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>For Lajpat Rai, Akbar was a role model whose memory ought to inspire Hindus and Muslims in building nation\u2019s future by combining not just the best of the two cultures, but also the best of Western culture.<\/li>\n<li>He favoured a heterogenous culture for India as \u2018one religion and one tongue\u2019 would be a revival of the medieval idea of one empire, one people, one church.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even after Lajpat Rai turned to the Hindu Mahasabha for numerous complicated reasons, he never renounced his commitment to India\u2019s religio-cultural diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inclusive Nationalist News: The article discusses Lala Lajpat Rai\u2019s views on India\u2019s nature of Indian polity and its country\u2019s secular ethos. Facts: Lala Lajpat Rai was a national leader who championed \u2018unity in diversity\u2019 Lajpat Rai was an advocate of an assertive Hindu politics, exemplified by his participation in the Punjab Hindu Sabha in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-inclusive-nationalist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Inclusive Nationalist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704653581},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}