Hindu Sabha : Unlike the Congress, the League fulfilled its role to the hilt & the pleased British added to its armoury a separate Muslim electorate under the Morley-Minto Reforms of 1909. That was a catalyst for Hindu leaders coming together to create an organisation to protect the rights of the Hindu community members. Arya Samāj leaders Lajpat Rai & others established the Punjab Hindu Sabhā; Madan Mohan Malaviya (q.v.) presided over its first session at Lahore in October 1909. It organised the Punjab Provincial Hindu Conference, which criticised the Indian National Congress for failing to defend Hindu interests, & called for promotion of Hindu-centred politics; & five more annual provincial conferences in Punjab. Over the next few years, several such Hindu Sabhās were established… in United Provinces, Bihar, Bengal, Central Provinces & Berar, & Bombay Presidency. On 8 December 1913, the Punjab Hindu Sabhā passed a resolution to create an All India Hindu Sabhā at its Ambālā session which proposed holding a general conference of Hindu leaders from all over India at the 1915 Kumbha Mela in Haridwar. It formally changed its name to Akhīl Bhāratīya Hindu Mahāsabhā at its sixth session in April 1921. Under Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya the Mahāsabhā campaigned for Hindu political unity, for the education & economic development of Hindus as well as for the conversion of Muslims to Hinduism. In the late 1920s, the Mahāsabhā came under the influence of leaders like B.S. Moonje & V.D. Sāvarkar. In 1925, its former member K.B. Hedgewar left to form the Rāshṭriya Swayamsevak Saṇgha.
... fighting only on two fronts. SRI AUROBINDO: How? NIRODBARAN: He says he has to fight Imperialism, the High Command, the Muslim Ministry, Ad Hoc committees, the Hindu Sabha and the reactionary press! SATYENDRA: About the Hindu Sabha leaders he says, "Where were they when we were in prison? Let them come out from the high courts and fight." SRI AUROBINDO: I don't see why they should. They haven't... haven't, like him, given an ultimatum to the British Government. PURANI: "And where was he when Savarkar and Parmanand were in the Andamans?", the Hindu Sabha will say. ...
... The Hindu Sabha An indication of the immense changes which are coming over our country, is the sudden leaping into being of new movements and organisations which are, by their very existence, evidence of revolutions in public feeling and omens of the future. The dead bones live indeed and the long sleep of the ages is broken. The Moslem League was indicative of much, the Hindu Sabha is indicative... in the world around him,—not yet to the broad ideas modern life demanded. The Hindu Sabha means that the Hindu is awakening to the need of unity and cohesion. Does it mean more? Does it indicate a larger statesmanship, quicker impulse to action, a greater capacity for the unity and cohesion it seeks? Is the Hindu Sabha a novel body, with the power in it to effect a great object never before accomplished... of the Hindu spiritual ideas and discipline and of the Indian race,—or else a political impulse strong enough to unite Hindus together for the preservation and advancement of their community. The Hindu Sabha could not have come into being but for the great national movement which awakened the national spirit, the sense of past greatness, the divination of a mighty future, transforming the whole spirit ...
... provincial Government. SRI AUROBINDO: I see. That would give an occasion for starting civil disobedience. PURANI: Yes. One good thing is that the Khaksars will go—all the other organisations too: Hindu Sabha, Mahavir Dal, etc. NIRODBARAN: Gandhi will issue another threatening statement. But the Government may be taking advance measures to stop any civil disobedience movement. SATYENDRA: That won't ...
... NIRODBARAN (after some time): There have been fifteen election suits in the Calcutta corporation election: three by the Bose party, one by the Hindu Sabha and one or two by the Muslims. In one of the suits the charge by the Bose group was that the Hindu Sabha candidate tried to coerce the voters with fanatical religious threats, divine displeasure, wrath of God, etc. SRI AUROBINDO: God is angry with ...
... the removal of the cause, the effect, as it was bound to do, disappeared. Since then, the Punjab has been profoundly quiet, and the opposition to the Convention Congress and the convocation of the Hindu Sabha, presided over by so inoffensive a personage as Sir Pratul Chandra Chatterji, were the only signs of life it gave. We wonder, is it the first-mentioned activity which has led to the raids, searches ...
... the monument and Bose has taken up that cry. In the Corporation, a European member proposed to withdraw all advertisements from the Star of India because of its attack on Sri Krishna, and the Hindu Sabha supported him. But Bose opposed it. His party, himself and other Muslims voted against it. SRI AUROBINDO (laughing): You mean he is also a Muslim? NIRODBARAN: Going to be! PURANI: The Germans ...
... yogic attitude. He also seems to belong to the Overmind. (Laughter) NIRODBARAN: I went to Dilip today. He asked me if it was true that you had said that the spirit of your Tapasya is behind the Hindu Sabha movement. SRI AUROBINDO: What did you say? NIRODBARAN: I said that I didn't know. It came out in the paper under the name of the secretary, so it may be true. SRI AUROBINDO: Who said that ...
... Talks with Sri Aurobindo 3 APRIL 1940 EVENING NIRODBARAN: B.C. Chatterjee seems to have been defeated by the Bose group. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. The Hindu Sabha has got about fifteen seats. Considering that it is their first attempt, it is not bad. PURANI: The corporation election seems to me more a personal issue. SRI AUROBINDO: How personal? When ...
... reforms, giving one or two seats. PURANI: Since the Hindu Maha Sabha's and the Liberals' defence policy is the same as that of the Congress, it is asked why the Government should take the minorities instead of the Congress majority with them and win the confidence of the masses. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, but the minorities like the Maha Sabha and the Liberals merely advocate their policy and don't... point of coming to a settlement with the Congress! SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, it was a unique opportunity thrown away. With Bose on one side and Gandhi on the other, future unity will be difficult. And if Hindus and Muslims had now made a united demand the Government would have had to submit. NIRODBARAN: C. R. and Azad are for a compromise. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. NIRODBARAN: But I don't think they will ...
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