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Impending Dangers To India’s Political Survival
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Impending dangers to India’s political survival
Observing Pakistan’s unfolding implosion is prompting a pleasing sensation of Schadenfreude for most Indians. But it is a grave mistake to imagine that the final outcome will not be hazardous for India. Nor is it likely that Pakistan’s leaders, harbouring visceral hatred for Hindu India, will desist from harming it while they themselves self-destruct. Indeed there is a strong likelihood of temptation to aim for an apocalyptic endgame for the region should Pakistan itself truly disintegrate. Pakistani society is already deeply divided horizontally, with several regions increasingly estranged from the Federal State and vertically, with a vast constituency enraged by their own shockingly greedy and profoundly foolhardy elites. And the ubiquitous Americans will come up with another surreal plan for Pakistan, without ceding control over its armed forces and the nuclear assets they and the Chinese conspired to implant there in order to bring India to heel.
Observing Pakistan’s unfolding implosion is prompting a pleasing sensation of Schadenfreude for most Indians. But it is a grave mistake to imagine that the final outcome will not be hazardous for India. Nor is it likely that Pakistan’s leaders, harbouring visceral hatred for Hindu India, will desist from harming it while they themselves self-destruct. Indeed there is a strong likelihood of temptation to aim for an apocalyptic endgame for the region should Pakistan itself truly disintegrate. Pakistani society is already deeply divided horizontally, with several regions increasingly estranged from the Federal State and vertically, with a vast constituency enraged by their own shockingly greedy and profoundly foolhardy elites. And the ubiquitous Americans will come up with another surreal plan for Pakistan, without ceding control over its armed forces and the nuclear assets they and the Chinese conspired to implant there in order to bring India to heel.
It may also safely be predicted, contrary to the fantasies of the Delhi chatterati and elements of the Indian establishment, that the Anglo-American alliance will greet India’s dire discomfiture with satisfaction. They will welcome the disappearance of the second non-white challenger to their historic global supremacy, accentuated by a deep dislike for Indian sanctimony and a history of ill will. They will certainly expect to pick up some of the pieces of a broken-backed India, reconstituted as querulous independent entities seeking sustenance outside the region. The historical record of India provides no comfort that such a situation is unlikely to arise. And the internal political and ideological fissures that endured in the past have now re-established deep roots within it. Hindus love quarrelling among themselves and their susceptibility to brainwashing to ensure they do so has few parallels. The most laughable spectacle is Indian Leftists, unashamedly pursuing mammon in the US while feigning deep thought and espousing the Rights of Muslims, though careful to only belabour democratic India and its hapless Hindus.
India happens to be one of the very few major countries in the world whose dominant media is controlled directly or indirectly by foreigners. The usurpation of control has actually been by Americans, much of it through surrogates of evangelical organisations that are in fact quasi-government agencies. Paradoxically, Leftist Indian political parties supposedly hostile to a US presence in India have been subdued with alacrity by these quasi-state religious agencies, which have been operating effectively in other parts of the world as well. In Latin America, where liberation theology offered succour to the poor, the very same neo-fascist, American evangelical organisations, working in conjunction with the US State Department and intelligence services, ousted them. In India, most English language media outlets, are, in effect, vying with each other to accelerate the fragmentation of India in consonance with Anglo-American goals.
Viceroys to India in the decade before independence, Linlithgow, Wavell and Mountbatten are destined to prove prescient about its innate fractiousness. The alleged oppression of minorities is the political bridgehead that modern evangelical organisations have entrenched in the public consciousness, relentlessly distorting its reality and using it ruthlessly to fuel discontent within India. By deliberately misrepresenting the Godhra communal riots as genocide, though both communities suffered, the media has gleefully incited Islamic terrorist attacks against Hindus and harsh international condemnation of India. As a corollary, the rise of the BJP inspired them to equate mundane nationalist aspirations with the oxymoron of Hindu extremism.
Yet, there is resounding silence on the role of the minority community in providing succour to Islamic terrorism through vote bank politics and concealment from attention. Islamic terror networks are now clearly so widespread and hyperactive inside India that Pakistan must be regarded as engaged in outright warfare rather than anything remotely covert. There can be no doubt that these terror networks are virtually all directed from Islamabad and largely funded by the Saudis and minor Gulf city states. The latter provide the safe venues for planning terrorist acts against India as well as rest and recreation refuge for terrorists. It furthers their paramount interest of ensuring that Islam remains a decisive influence in India and emerges victorious against the burgeoning collaboration between Zionism and Hindus.
The idea that an internally turbulent Pakistan lacks capacity to sponsor covert action is being proven wrong by every discovery of well-established terrorist modules across the length and breadth of India. It must also be recognised that there is no absence of intellectual and technical resources within Islam to further long-term imperialist goals. It is Islam, not European Christians that presided over the largest and most complex imperial systems for nearly a thousand years, until the seventeenth century. Indubitably, it is Hindus, not Muslims, who are confused despite the self-abasing outward appurtenances of Westernisation proudly espoused by the former.
The political, religious, caste and ethnic divisions of India were the obvious fault lines for its enemies to help accentuate. A porous India offers infinite opportunities to intervene and many senior Indian politicians, of all political parties, are incontrovertibly on the payroll of foreign governments, including Pakistan. This is an important reason why the Indian State, regardless of party political affiliation, did not seriously wish to extradite Dawood Ibrahim to face trial in India. Far too many senior Indian politicians and industrialists who have been beneficiaries of his largesse, presumably originating in Pakistan, feared exposure. Yet the real strength of Jihadi organisations operating within India stems from the ability of their co-religionists, donning the garb of peace and moderation, to electorally veto earnest efforts by security agencies to challenge them. Here, the much-vaunted, alleged ethical divergence between the moderation of the masses and the violent propensities of the Jihadis dissolves in solidarity among co-religionists. And the victims of Jihadi violence are largely non-Muslims, who do not elicit the sympathy of the average Muslim evidently reserved for Jihadi co-religionists.
The average Indian is unspeakably complacent because unprecedented material rewards have become available to many of them and superficial Westernisation obviates any sense of responsibility for their mainly unwashed fellow-citizens. The serious dangers germinating and growing for India do not exercise them much though it will come upon them suddenly one day. In reality, the penultimate scenario is the calamity faced by Kashmiri Pandits. They were the victims of ethnic cleansing and the quasi-Islamic state that resulted in its aftermath is merely under nominal Indian control. Local Muslims have successfully wrested virtually everything they sought except their ultimate goal, legal sovereignty. The intermediate situation elsewhere is the freedom enjoyed by Jihadi front organisations that operate in brazen contravention of all legality and enter into formal political alliances with mainstream Indian political parties unhindered. In addition, Jihadi mobs are able to impose unlawful demands on a catamite political class, expelling Taslima Nasrin’s from Kolkata and effectively incarcerating her under the guise of protection.
India is besieged and the decision-making capacity of the political class has been grievously incapacitated. India’s armed forces alone retain significant integrity though retired senior officers warn of worrying signs of encroaching degradation. Yet the weakness of the political class and its dependence on the armed forces for their very physical security has empowered them and allied security agencies. They have found themselves able to resist some of the egregious attempts of politicians to compromise India’s security to please some transient constituency or the other. This is the path the armed forces must continue to traverse though with some caution because they must not overreach themselves and provoke a backlash that will become a constraining setback. A military coup would destroy the fragile political legitimacy that holds India together against all the fissiparous odds. The armed forces also need to overcome an understandable institutional bias and channel appropriate resources to equip internal security forces engaged in the frontline against domestic Jihadi terror. They are both now the only true guardians of India and its future generations.
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