VANGUARD OF HINDU RESURGENCE

VHP HAS PLAYED AN INSTRUMENTAL ROLE IN RESTORING PRIDE AMONG HINDUS ABOUT THEIR GLORIOUS HERITAGE AND HAS MADE EFFORTS TO UNIFY HINDUS ACROSS DIFFERENT LINES

- SWAMI VIGYANANAND

At the end of World War II, the world witnessed the rapid emergence of newly independent countries unshackling themselves from the clutches of weakening colonial powers. Bharat was in the fore-front of countries in obtaining Independence to chart its own destiny. Hindus in Bharat as well as those throughout the world saw these changes and opportunities that arose with declining colonial rule.

Bharat finally obtained its Independence on August 15, 1947, although this Independence came after a painful and horrific Partition of Hindus’ historic and spiritual home-land. During the violent cataclysmic event of the Partition of the historic land, the world witnessed one of the largest migrations and mass slaughter of people ever seen in recorded history, with the Hindus bearing the brunt of the killings and forcible displacement—an overwhelmingly majority of the Hindu population was driven out of West and East Pakistan Bangladesh.

It was through this ultimate ordeal under which Hindus finally obtained their Independence after one thousand years of brutal occupation by hostile, genocidal, nonHindu force that Hindus of an independent Bharat and those residing outside Bharat hoped to build their future.