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Cycle of loss and recovery comes full circle with new Parliament House
Kapil Kapoor, May 28, 2023
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the new Parliament House, he knows at what crossroads this vandalized, violated civilization stands. He knows that India, if it is not to be doomed forever, has to reclaim and recover what it has lost in the last more than a thousand years.
The inauguration of the New Parliament House on 28 May is a watershed moment for Indian people’s long history of defending their own civilization. When the New Parliament is inaugurated, Sengol, the Sceptre of Righteousness, the Dharma Danda—similar to the one that was transferred from one King to the next in the Chola Dynasty (848-1279 CE) to ensure “just and fair” rule—shall be installed next to the chair of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, establishing thereby the continuity of the Indian civilization.
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the new Parliament House, which is in the shape of a triangular Sri Cakra, it is evident that going by his devotional peregrinations, he knows at what crossroads this vandalized, violated civilization stands. He knows that India, if it is not to be doomed forever, has to reclaim and recover what it has lost in the last more than a thousand years. The signs of the times are difficult to read and one often fails to recognize the moment or the man of destiny. The ocean of Hindu civilization having shrunk to a small pool, something had to give, or someone had to come to redeem it. On 28 May, when the Prime Minister unveils the new House of the People, he is taking off layers of history and restoring to the majority of the people their natural inheritance, their right to rule themselves in their own way. The Hindu polity is as old, if not older than Babylonia, and has always been ruled by the one-word Constitution—Dharma. But incessant invasions broke up this polity and sent a great civilization into hibernation.
Since the defeat of Prithviraj Chauhan in 1192, the rightful majority lost their political power in this country and have not regained it yet, but are bound to regain it. Till 1947, one alien dynasty after another came to power through bloodshed, until the British came. The British were seen as redeemers by a people subdued by centuries of oppression, violence and forced proselytizing, with their heroes demeaned or beheaded, their symbols denigrated, their faith abused and their values rejected as that of the naïve and the weak. The British brought a new mode of governance, reformed society to some extent, but twisted its culture through their own education, built big like their predecessors, mostly in a culturally alien architecture, a combination of Indo-Saracenic and Georgian, and moved into those “palaces” a new “royalty”—the “lat sahib”.
The exit of the British in 1947 was received with enthusiasm even though there was the vivisection of a people and a land that the majority of Indians considered to be as sacred as the mother. They thought that it was the end of the chasm between the “ruled” and the “rulers”, of the “exploiters” and the “exploited”. What happened instead was, the new “tenants”, a new “royalty” came into existence, a royalty that was more hostile to the millennia-old civilizational character and culture of the people. It was bent on retaining power by re-structuring society and culture through an unchanged British education and some motivated legislation. Blinkers were put on to encourage demographic subversion to change the basic character of the civilization by progressively “de-Hinduising” the Hindu lands. A new dynasty had followed the Viceroys who had followed the Mughals who had followed the Sultans.
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