Hindu Mahasabha Correspondence and Political Statements

Sub title : Includes Letters to M.A. Jinnah, Resolutions, and Polemics on Muslim Separatism

Subject: Hindu Mahasabha | All India Hindu Mahasabha Working Committee | V.D. Savarkar | M.A. Jinnah | Muslim League

Date of publication: 1934

Language: English

Page: 9 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28343

Keyword: Hindu Mahasabha -- V.D. Savarkar -- Savarkar Statement -- Chinese Muslims -- Pan-Islamism -- Pakistan -- M.A. Jinnah | Muslim League -- Bombay Provincial Hindu Maha Sabha -- C. Rajagopalachari | Cripps Mission -- World War II -- Indian National Congress -- S. Satyamurthi | United Press of India -- War Effort -- Political Deadlock.

Abstract: This collection comprises documents from the Hindu Mahasabha, a major Hindu nationalist organization. It includes formal letters, such as one forwarding Working Committee resolutions (1934) and another addressing M.A. Jinnah (1938). The core of the collection features a lengthy, polemical statement by V.D. Savarkar warning of a Pan-Islamic conspiracy, linking Indian Muslim demands for Pakistan to Muslim populations in Burma and China, and criticizing the Chinese Muslim Mission's visit to India.

Description: This collection presents the ideological and political worldview of the Hindu Mahasabha during a critical period. It moves from organizational correspondence to aggressive propaganda, exemplified by Savarkar's statement which frames the Pakistan movement as part of a transnational Islamic threat, extending from India to Burma and China. This is complemented by statements from mainstream political figures (Rajagopalachari, Satyamurthi) focused on the immediate constitutional crisis and war effort, offering a contrast between militant Hindu nationalism and the positions of the Indian National Congress. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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