Akhand bharat

Premium History of the Akhand Bharat idea, and in the imagination of the RSS Asked what he meant by his tweet, Joshi told The Indian Express on Thursday: “The concept of Akhand Bharat comes from ancient Indian culture. The new Parliament building depicts various facets of Indian culture, representing every region and all its facets.” On May 28, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi tweeted a picture of a mural in the new Parliament that depicts the ancient Indian landmass without modern-day geographical boundaries, and wrote in Kannada, “The resolve is clear — Akhand Bharat”. Asked what he meant by his tweet, Joshi told The Indian Express on Thursday: “The concept of Akhand Bharat comes from ancient Indian culture. The new Parliament building depicts various facets of Indian culture, representing every region and all its facets.” ಸಂಕಲ್ಪ ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟವಾಗಿದೆ – ಅಖಂಡ ಭಾರತ 🇮🇳 — Pralhad Joshi (@JoshiPralhad) The mural has triggered some concern in Nepal where a few politicians have demanded that the visiting Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahalshould raise the issue with New PTI reported. The Mural in Parliament On Friday, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said: “The mural in question depicts the spread of the Ashokan empire and the idea of responsible and people-oriented governance that he (Ashoka) adopted and propagated.” The artwork occupies one of the 16 niches in the Constitutional Foyer of the new Parliament building. Murals in the other niches are dedi...

Akhand Bharat: Understanding the Cultural Concept of Akhand Bharat that Respects Sovereignty Even in the pre-Independence era, the majority of India never treated anyone discriminatory on the basis of ritual or creed-religion. Parsis, Jews, Christians, Muslims all have a common sense of acceptance in the coexistence culture here RSS Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat recently rightly pointed out that Hinduism holds the key to Akhand Bharat, and truncated India needs to be re-united. To sum up, Akhand Bharat is necessary for the welfare of the world The thinking and concept of ‘Akhand Bharat’ is once again at the centre of the public discourse. On the occasion of the book release Vibhajan Kaaleen Bhaarat Ke Sakshi on November 25, RSS Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat said: “Akhand Bharat is possible not through force, but through Hinduism. There is a need for a glorious Akhand Bharat for the welfare of the world, so there is a need to awaken patriotism… truncated India needs to be re-united, all the parts separated from India, which themselves are now part of India. They do not tell the part, they need it more.” Just two days after this, on November 27, among the enlightened citizens of Gwalior, reiterating the resolve of ‘Akhand Bharat’, Dr Mohan Bhagwat said: “If India has to remain India, it must remain Hindu. And if a Hindu has to remain a Hindu, then India will have to be united.” It is not that the Sarsanghchalak is the first person to give voice to this thinking and conce...

With Bangladesh joining Nepal and Pakistan in protesting the implications of the ‘Akhand Bharat’ mural on the walls of the new Parliament complex, India has sought to play the issue down, saying it was not a political map, but it only depicted the cultural similarities among the countries of the region. Union Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar ‘clarified’ in a press conference, on 8 June, “This is not a political map. We hope that our friendly neighbours understand it. As far as the PoK is concerned, the Indian Parliament has a very clear stand on it.” The spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Arindam Bagchi reiterated that the mural showed only the spread of the Ashokan Empire and the idea of a responsible and people-oriented government he adopted and propagated. According to Bagchi, the mural has nothing to do with politics but only represents cultural similarities and the journey of people during that time. Earlier, Md Shahriar Alam, the State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh, had instructed the Bangladesh Embassy in New Delhi, to seek an explanation from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, on the mural. Alam was quoted in the Dhaka Tribune as saying, “There is no reason to express doubts about it. However, for further clarification, we have asked the mission in Delhi to speak to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs to find out what their official explanation is.” Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Secretary General of the leading opposi...

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said recently that Akhand Bharat would be a reality in the next 20 or 25 years. In his remarks, the RSS chief said nobody could stop India’s march forward. “Those trying to impede the country’s march forward will either move away or be removed from the scene,” he was quoted as saying. Mr. Bhagwat is an important man as the RSS-affiliated BJP has been in power for the last eight years. So what does the RSS chief mean? Guest: Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay is a senior journalist and author, whose latest book is The Demolition and the Verdict: Ayodhya and the Project to Reconfigure India (2021). He has also authored The RSS: Icons of the Indian Right (2019) and Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times (2013). Host: Amit Baruah, Senior Associate Editor, The Hindu Edited by Reenu Cyriac

Further information: During the Akhand Hindustan, a proposition that The Indian activist and Akhand Bharat that "must remain one and indivisible" "from Kashmir to Rameswaram, from Sindh to Assam." He said that "all citizens who owe undivided loyalty and allegiance to the Indian nation and to the Indian state shall be treated with perfect equality and shall share duties and obligations equally in common, irrespective of caste, creed or religion, and the representation also shall either be on the basis of one man one vote or in proportion to the population in case of separate electorates and public services shall go by merit alone." Contemporary usage [ ] The call for creation of the Akhand Bharat or Akhand Hindustan has on occasions been raised by Pre-1947 maps of India, showing the modern states of Pakistan and Bangladesh as part of Akhand Bharat. Akhand Bharat is also ideologically linked with the concept of sangathan (unity) and The first chapter of the While the leadership of the right-wing The Tragic Story of Partition stresses the importance of the concept of Akhand Bharat. Akhand Bharat and sampoorna samaj (united society) can bring "real" freedom to the people of India. In December 2015, following Narendra Modi's diplomatic visit to Lahore, Pakistan, the BJP National Secretary Akhand Bharat will be created." Akhand Bharat would form. Former Indian Supreme Court Judge Hindu nationalist political groups such as Shiv Sena, have sought the reclamation of Pakistan-admini...

A story was reported on June 2 with the headline, ‘ The couple were Palash and Shukla Adhikari, who were accused of being foreigners. They spent an extra month in jail after getting bail because they could not produce local sureties. Another story, somewhat related, was reported the same day with the headline, ‘ Both of these are again in a way related to something else. I am writing a book whose title is The Case for Akhand Bharat, which is an attempt to figure out two things. First, if Indians, especially Hindus of the Bharatiya Janata Party type, really want to unite South Asia, why are they not trying it except in paintings and murals? Second, what would it take to actually bring about an ‘Akhand Bharat’? The answer to the first question is easy. The BJP and Hindus who back it do not want a united South Asia. What they want is an empire with subjects. A party ruling India with no Muslim minister or MP or MLA is not going to be attractive to the woman in Chittagong or enthuse the child in Peshawar. What the BJP wants is land, it does not want the people. Look at Kashmir to understand. Bigotry is boring, but the second question is more interesting. What would it actually take to unite the people of the sub-continent? It cannot be the force of arms, because we do not have the capacity, though we do not admit it. This is a fact. Kashmir looks different in reality than it does on the map. It would actually horrify the average Indian, brainwashed by school maps, if they were...