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the ruralites, the Sanatanis and the Samajists --- whether of the Arya or the<br />
Brahmo variety. Boys of both Congress and Mahasabha families, could be seen<br />
playing together and saluting the same Bhagwa Dhwaja. RSS further Hinduized<br />
the Sindhi Hindus. Formerly 90 per cent of students used to opt for Persian; after<br />
RSS came in, 95 per cent began to opt for Sanskrit Many even took up Hindi in<br />
place of Sindhi since, they said, they already knew Sindhi well enough. RSS<br />
politicized and radicalized the Sindhi Hindu youth. J.T. Wadhwani, president of<br />
Bharatiya Sindhu Sabha, and Hashu Advani, founder of Vivekananda Education<br />
Society of Bombay. were inducted into public life by RSS. Manhar Mehta,<br />
president of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, is a product of Sindh RSS. And a gem<br />
like Lal K. Advani is the gift of Sindh RSS to Indian public life. It was not for<br />
nothing that Janardan Thakur wrote of him in 1977 in his All the Janata Men.<br />
“The man who has really helped gain a greater respectability for the Jana Sangh<br />
constituent of the Janata Party without ever projecting himself, is Lal Krishna<br />
Advani, by far the cleanest and straightest leader in Indian politics today. Clean,<br />
sophisti- cated, business-like, mild-looking, but firm when needed, the Minister<br />
for Information & Broadcasting is almost a freak in today’s political world.<br />
Though never in the forefront, he stands bright as a candle of hope in an other<br />
vise dark prospect.”<br />
It was all these movements from the Brahmo Samaj down to RSS that<br />
transformed Sindh from a slimy backwater into a small but significant province.<br />
And it was these movements that provided the steam for the freedom movement.<br />
The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com<br />
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