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        Jawaharlal Nehru was a multidimensional bungler and wangler. In dealing with Pakistan on the Kashmir issue he bungled. In dealing with China on the Tibetan and other border issues he bungled. In dealing with economic issues he bungled. Many do not know that he only laid the corner stone for communalism in India. Articles 29 and 30 of the Indian Constitution had their genesis in Nehru's communalism. The Constituent Assembly was elected in January 1946. On 13 December of the same year, Jawaharlal Nehru, as head of the interim government, moved, what was called, an Objective Resolution, whose primary political aim was to appease Jinnah's Muslim League in the hope that it would not press for partition. In this context it should not be forgotten that no final decision had yet been taken on the grant of independence to India till 20 February 20, 1947.

        What is extraordinarily indefensible and unpardonable is that the Objective Resolution and the resulting Articles of the proposed Constitution continued to be debated, as if nothing had happened on August 15, 1947. To quote the words of Jawaharlal Nehru from a speech which he delivered in the Constituent Assembly on November 8, 1948: 'Nearly two years ago, we met in this hall and on that solemn occasion it was my high privilege to move a resolution which has come to be known as the OBJECTIVE RESOLUTION. It tried to embody the spirit that lay behind the Indian people at the time. It is difficult to maintain the spirit of a nation or a people at a high level all the time. Nevertheless, I hope that it is in that spirit that we have to approach the framing of this Constitution - Always using that Resolution as the yard measure with which to test every clause and phrase of this Constitution' (Constituent Assembly Debates, Volume-VII, Lok Sabha 1999).

        Articles 29 and 30 conferred princely privileges on the Minorities (in effect it meant only Muslims at that time) and they were described in the Resolution as safeguards provided for Minorities. The fact that those two cardinal Articles were conceived to protect communalism was never explicitly mentioned or debated or discussed. In the process, unconscionable discrimination was introduced in the educational system. A school is either run by the Government or aided by the State. In either case, the Government has the final say in the policies of a school. If, however a school happens to be run by members of a minority religion or group, the government does not interfere in its running. In short only Muslims or Christians can expect to run a school without any interference from the Government - regardless of whether they choose to get government aid or not. On the other hand, a school run by Hindus either accepts Government aid and faces blatant interference, or abstains from getting any aid and yet faces marginal Government interference. Thus in the name of protection of Minorities, a constitutionally approved system of treacherous discrimination against the Hindus as a whole has been crystallised and institutionalised with no hope of any redemption or relief in perpetuity till the Constitution gets suitably amended by a genuinely secular Government committed to the cause of Hindu-Muslim unity. India's the only country in the world where people belonging to a majority religion have been reduced to the level of landless serfs. This death blow to the Hindus was given in a calculated manner by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in 1949.

        Nehru turned a blind eye to the fact that the Muslim League had demanded an exchange of population as an integral part of the country's vivisection. All the Muslims of Hindustan were to immigrate to Pakistan. And all non-Muslims from Pakistan were to come over to Hindustan. All the top leaders of the Muslim League like Jinnah, Feroze Khan Noon, Nawab of Mamdot, Pir Ilahi Bux, Mohammed Ismail, I.Chundrigar, Shaukat Hayat Khan and Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan demanded an exchange of population. While Jinnah knew how to get rid of Hindus from Pakistan, Nehru only succeeded in making the Minority Muslims the favoured children of the Indian State by treating the majority Hindus as impotent refugees from an alien land.

        In the Constituent Assembly on 8 November, 1948, Z H Lari, a Muslim League Member from Uttar Pradesh who had got himself elected on a pro-partition ticket. He passionately spoke in favour of reservation and special rights for Muslims in India. He said: 'We never said that Muslims in these parts are going to migrate to Pakistan. We are the children of the soil and as such we claim the rights of citizens of India.' A Congress member called Vishwambhar Dayal Tripathi shot back: 'Why did your leaders create Pakistan? What have they done to the Hindus there? Prof K T Shah another member tried to insist that no expenditure on any private institution should be defrayed from the public purse. Dr B R Ambedkar was equally categorical that no such burden should be cast upon the State. He clarified that religious instruction must be distinguished from research or study. He said: 'So far as the Islam religion is concerned, it means that you believe in one God, that you believe that Pagamber the Prophet is the last Prophet and so on. In other words, what we call 'Dogma'. A 'Dogma' is quite different from study.'

        Yet, Islam-embracing Jawaharlal Nehru and his Government ignored the patriotic and selfless exhortations of great national leaders like Dr Ambedkar and went on to enshrine in the Constitution financial burdens in perpetuity which most States are now finding it difficult to bear for the simple reason that the combination of subsidy and freedom of management has led to the planned proliferation of Madrassas throughout the country.

        Dr Manmohan Singh's recent announcement makes it indirectly very clear that they are treating the Hindus of India as 'Zimmis'. Throughout the period of Muslim Rule in India starting with the invasion of Mohammed Bin Qasim in A.D. 712, Hindus were considered as 'Zimmis' or specially protected species. All of them were liable to pay the legendary 'Jizya' or poll tax as the price for this protection. In any case, devoid of any real power or authority, there was not much that any Hindu initiative could achieve. The fear of being punished killed all initiatives. All in all, by any benchmark of human equality, the Zimmi's was a subhuman status. In her landmark book, Islam and Dhimmitude (Associated University Press, New Jersy, USA 2002), Bat Ye'or has suggested that it was better to be a Muslim slave than being a non-Muslim 'Zimmi'. The simple reason she gives is that slaves were known to have risen to the position of Kings. Incidentally, even in India, Qutbuddin Aibak, the First Sultan of Delhi was a slave of Mohammed Gori. The UPA Government is clear in its political commitment of treating more than 800 millions of Hindus in India as impotent 'Zimmis'.

        The concept of 'Zimmi' was first enunciated in a contract signed in AD 720 between Khalifa Omar II and the local Jewish and Christian leaders of Arabia.

        Some of the main terms of the contract were as follows:

        i) We shall not build in our cities or in their vicinity any new monasteries, churches, hermitages, or monk's cells. We shall not restore by night or by day, any of them that have fallen into ruin which are located in the Muslims' quarters.

        ii) We shall not hold public religious ceremonies.

        iii) We shall not prevent any of our kith and kin from embracing Islam if they so desire.

        iv) We shall show deference to the Muslims and shall rise from our seats when they wish to sit down.

        v) We shall not build our homes higher than the homes and castles of Muslims.

        The root of the concept of 'Zimmi', however, dates back to AD 628 when Prophet Mohammed arrived at an agreement or a 'Zimma' with the Jews of Khaybar situated 140 kms away from Mecca. For the first time 'Jizya' was paid by the Jews, in order to save their religion as well as their right to cultivate their land. According to Koranic doctrine, any land, property or life captured as a result of Jihad belongs to the conqueror.

        Throughout the period of Muslim Rule in India, Hindus were treated as 'Zimmis' and often humiliated so much that the trauma has lasted till today. In a book called 'Studies in Medieval Indian History' authored by Dr P Saran and published in 1952, Prof Mohammed Habib in his introduction gives a poetic description on the manner in which 'Jizya' should be paid. To quote Mohammed Habib's ecstatic words: 'The Schools of Al Shafe'l and Malik agree in the view that when the 'zimmi' comes to pay the 'jizya' he should keep standing while the collector is seated, and he must wear the distinctive dress prescribed for the 'zimmis'. During the process of payment, the 'zimmi' is seized by the collar and vigorously shaken and pushed about'. Qazi Mughisuddin of Bayana stated that the Hindu, Khirajguzar, or payer of 'jizya' is he who, should the collector chose to spit into the mouth, opens the same without hesitation so that the official may spit into it.'

        The eyes of the world are upon the Hindus of India in absolute majority in terms of numbers. Are they going to the wise enough and brave enough to unite against the combined forces of Islam, Christianity, Marxism and Nehruvian Secularism attempting to convert the Hindus of India into 'Zimmis' in the sense in which Prof. Mohammed Habib has described them as detailed above?