Why Congress lowered the divine Sengol to a mere strolling stick of Nehru: Chola Dynasty, the apotheosis of Congress, Somnath Temple and whitewashing of Ghazni
10 min readThe new parliament developing of India shall be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 28 May. On this occasion, a historic customized shall be revived, when the historic Tamil sceptre, ‘Sengol’, shall be positioned inside the new parliament. A follow forgotten, a bit of the illustrious Hindu historic previous tucked away, shunned, discarded and insulted.
The golden sceptre is studded with jewels and was worth about Rs 15000 on the time of Indian independence. Nandi, the protector and picture of justice, and bull vahana of Lord Shiva, sits proudly on the very best of the sceptre. The Sengol is 5 ft prolonged, which is a masterpiece of Indian paintings with rich workmanship from prime to bottom.
During the inauguration of the model new Parliament developing, the Sengol shall be ceremoniously transported to the House in a grand procession. The occasion is extra prone to be steeped in Tamil customized, paying homage to the standard traditions of the Chola empire.
It was a regular Chola observe for Samayacharyas (religious leaders) to information the coronation of kings and sanctify the swap of power, which can be considered a sort of recognition for the ruler.
When it was decided that the British will hand over power to the Indians, Lord Mountbatten requested Pandit Nehru regarding the cultural picture that should be used as a illustration of the swap of power. However, Nehru was moreover undecided, he sought some time to debate with others. He talked about the matter with C Rajagopalachari. He studied quite a few historic books and educated Jawaharlal Nehru regarding the Sengol.
Following that, the top of the Thiruvaduthurai Mutt Sri La Sri Ambalavana Desika Swamigal despatched the Sengol to Nehru, who accepted it to utilize as a brand of power. The seer had despatched a delegation carrying the sceptre in a selected airplane organized by the federal authorities.
The Sengol, which was handed proper all the way down to Nehru, was product of silver, and gold-plated, this was ordered particularly by the Adheenam. Jeweller Vummidi Bangaru Chetty in Madras hand-crafted this. It was subsequently a replica. However, that it was the Chola customized being adopted makes it a divine Sengol representing The Hindu traditions of the Chola dynasty.
Sengol, the historic sceptre from Tamil Nadu, was obtained by India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru to indicate the swap of power from the British. However, this sceptre was rapidly forgotten and was since saved in a museum in Prayagraj as “Jawahar Lal Nehru’s golden walking stick”. Nobody is conscious of for sure how and why such a historic artefact was saved in a museum as Nehru’s strolling stick, nonetheless now it would get a spot worthy of its significance inside the new Parliament.
The historic hatred harboured by Jawaharlal Nehru and his handpicked diplomats in direction of one thing Hindu
There are, nonetheless, important questions that we should always ask, as this historic picture of Hindu customized and kingship will get its rightful place inside the parliament. Seemingly, from the information on the market, we’ll’t notably say that Congress did this intentionally. Essentially, we cannot say for certain that Congress wanted to insult Hindu traditions and subsequently, relegated this Sengol to a political museum as a result of the strolling stick of a political decide.
However, given that Congress was in power for a few years and it was definitely first handed proper all the way down to Jawaharlal Nehru, one ought to ask regarding the inherent disdain that Congress harbours for Hindu traditions. Jawaharlal Nehru need to be recalled, had utter disregard, if not contempt, for Hindu traditions and values.
After the Nawab of Junagarh had fled to Pakistan on twenty sixth October 1947, the Indian army moved into Junagarh on ninth November 1947. After the famed rebel, Sardar Patel arrived in Junagarh on thirteenth November 1947 to an unlimited reception from the people of the state and had vowed to rebuild the dilapidated Somnath Temple that was attacked 17 situations in its existence, most brutally by Islamic invaders. When Sardar Patel returned to Delhi, the selection to rebuild the Somnath temple was handed in a cabinet meeting and a name was made for the state to dole the payments. A name later overturned due to MK Gandhi’s insistence, that the people be requested to pay for it.
Gandhi died in 1948 and Sardar Patel’s soul departed in 1950. After the demise of Sardar Patel, the obligation of Somnath Temple’s restoration was to be undertaken by then cabinet minister, KM Munshi, who was the Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Trust customary for this purpose.
Jawaharlal Nehru has been famed to tell KM Munshi, in 1951, “I don’t like your trying to restore Somnath. It is Hindu Revivalism.” By Congress’ private admission, Nehru did not attend the Bhumi Pujan of the Somnath Temple on account of he said he was the chief of “secular” India. When the then-President Rajendra Prasad went for the inauguration ceremony, Nehru objected after learning about his plans via a letter. President Prasad wrote once more and said, “I believe in my religion and cannot cut myself away from it.” The said commerce of letters was talked about inside the e-book by Durga Das, “India: From Curzon To Nehru And After”.
A letter written by India’s first ambassador to China, Okay. M. Panikkar, to then PM Nehru displays that Nehru’s hatred for Hinduism was shared by his handpicked diplomats.
Narrating how he opposed the idea of rebuilding temples destroyed by Islamic invaders, Panikkar wrote, “if an unofficial Hindu organisation wanted to restore that temple, no one could have any objection. Even then, where is one to stop? Kutub Minar to be pulled down and the stones which came from temples used for restoring the shrines? Is Aurangzeb’s tomb in Banares to be pulled down and Kashi Viswanath restored to original glory? If we start on this Path, where are we to stop? This is the state of mind that leads straight to RSS and the desire to revive Hindupada padishahi in India. I was rather surprised to see that some members of the Government were associated with it and the suggestion that the President of India should be the chief yajaman of this obscurantist revivalslism, I confess, was a little frightening”.
The Ambassador to China had moreover alleged that the “Somnathists” had been trying to miss the interval of Indian historic previous after the Muslim invasion. “These are the real founders of the India of today and our “Somnathists” sadly have to overlook them. I’m sorry to inflict this on you, nonetheless I really feel it is best to understand how strongly just a few of us actually really feel the least bit this dangerous “revivalism” which seems to have affected even these fastidiously associated to Governments inside the Provinces and even on the Centre”.
The letter by Panikkar and the suggestions by Nehru make clear, comparatively starkly, why India grew to grow to be deracinated and painfully divorced from its roots, moreover explaining, why the sceptre was forgotten, insulted and shunned.
The apotheosis of Congress leaders and the shunning of Bharatiya traditions on the ft of Islamic appeasement and British colonialism
From what Jawaharlal Nehru felt regarding the Somnath Temple and the letter of Pannikar, only a few realities of India’s trendy political historic previous stare us inside the face. When India obtained its independence, Bharat was brutally tortured, killed and buried by those who may need led free India, nonetheless had been caged by their very personal Abrahamic and colonial psychological shackles. The undeniable fact that the British, who nonetheless have a Monarchy devoted to the Church, compelled an historic civilisation like India to undertake a skewed mannequin of secularism, one which was then internalised by white-adjacent masters like Nehru, led to the notion that for India to take care of its people justly, regardless of their collective numerical energy, India ought to bury its proud, Hindu historic previous.
It is for that cause that Nehru was so vehemently in opposition to the rebuilding of the Somnath Mandir. It is for that cause by Pannikar was completely ashamed to even acknowledge those who refused to miss their very personal roots – identical to the then President.
Another motive why Bharat’s proud heritage wanted to be erased is that the internalised obsession that historic atrocities, when spoken about or corrected, would ship an unlimited blow to the misplaced, bloated and alien pleasure that the Muslim neighborhood feels inside the tyrannical Mughal rule. If you take pleasure inside the Hindavi Swaraj that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj established or the glory and valour of Tarabai, you could offend the Muslims who bask inside the glory of Aurangzeb. If you focus on Ram Janmabhoomi, you could offend the converted-by-Mughal Islamists who take pride inside the demolition of idolaters and temples. You rebuild Somnath, you could offend those who deify Mahmood Ghazni.
And it is perhaps the urge to guard the feelings of those who deify Mahmood Ghazni that moreover contributes to the insult of the Sengol. It was the top of the Thiruvaduthurai Mutt Sri La Sri Ambalavana Desika Swamigal who despatched the Sengol to Nehru, who accepted it to utilize as a brand of power. The seer had despatched a delegation carrying the sceptre in a selected airplane organized by the federal authorities. The Sengol is an everlasting Hindu customized of the Chola Dynasty.
Mahmud Ghazni was a updated of the Chola King, Rajendra I and there have been quite a few makes an try made by the likes of Romila Thapar to minimise the Somnath raids of Mahmud Ghazni by blaming the Chola King for not foiling the raids. That thought has been summarily debunked on this text by Swarajya, nonetheless, the reality that any Hindu traditions handed down by the Cholas would diminish Congress’ narrative is obvious and one that may not be ignored.
Since Nehru was in direction of the rebuilding of the Somnath Mandir and his trusted troopers, a few years later, diminished the Chola King and whitewashed the Somnath Raids of Ghazni (by blaming the Chola Kind in its place), even with no direct proof to suggest that the sceptre was insulted and tucked away because of Congress’ utter contempt for Hindu historic previous, it does not take masses to connect the dots.
Any acknowledgement of the proud Hindu historic previous of the Cholas would immediately demolish the lies of Macaulay historians that the Cholas did not notably care about Ghazni demolishing the Somnath Temple on account of that they had been Kings from the South of India and did not basically fight for Temples the least bit.
Consider this – Jawaharlal Nehru knew the historic Hindu legacy that he had been handed down. Yet, he chosen to utilize it as a strolling stick. The Congress and its lackeys then chosen to discard it in some museum insulting Bharatiya Sanskrit and the divine correct that obtained right here with the sceptre by calling it a mere strolling stick of their deity – Nehru. I say they chose to take motion on account of every article that is saved in a museum is researched, documented and described. I uncover it very onerous to contemplate that those who positioned the sceptre there did not know exactly what its historic previous is. But perhaps for them, that Nehru used it as a strolling stick is the identification that mattered. Either method, after it was positioned inside the museum, there have been quite a few historians who visited the museum, many who wrote about Nehru and the articles positioned inside the museum that tells the story of Chacha – how is it that none of them, so far, raised alarms that the sceptre was one which held significance to Hindu custom was not a mere strolling stick utilized by their favourite politician?
While all people appeared away and chosen to insult the sceptre, there have been politicians claiming that Cholas had nothing to do with Hinduism and historians trying to whitewash Ghazni by blaming the Chola King, Rajendra I.
When one erases historic previous, one erases the consciousness of a people. You erase the pleasure they should actually really feel of their identification, determining that they are the kids of good warriors who fought to guard Dharma. You kill their appreciation for his or her roots and their will to guard a civilisation onerous fought and saved intact for generations, battling Islamic invasion and colonialism. You kill their will to fight the outside danger and their braveness to battle neo-colonialism.
When you in the reduction of a divine sceptre to an ornamental strolling stick, you inform the Hindus of this land that the actual individual using the strolling stick is the one one worth remembering, the actual individual from whom your historic previous begins.
One recollects how Congress stood up tall in courtroom to assert that Lord Ram was a mere fictional character and that the Ram Setu need to be demolished. In 2007, the federal authorities in an affidavit to the Supreme Court inside the Sethusamudram mission case had not solely dismissed the existence of any man-made bridge between India and Sri Lanka nonetheless even questioned the existence of the characters of Ramayana.
History means nothing to Congress. Heritage means nothing to Congress. Hindus suggest nothing to Congress. Our civilisational memory and consciousness suggest nothing to Congress. The solely issue which means one factor to Congress is to point out that their leaders had been the apotheosis of our good civilisation and for that, the divine sceptre atop which Nandi baba sits need to be lowered to a strolling stick.
