(1939), We, or our nationhood defined page: 62, publisher: Nagpur: Bharat publications Quoted in The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics by Christophe Jaffrelot, p. 56.
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The foreign races in Hindusthan must either adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence Hindu religion, must entertain no ideas but those of glorification of the Hindu race and culture [...] or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment - not even citizen's rights.

— M. S. Golwalkar

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The foreign races in Hindusthan must either adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence Hindu religion, must entertain no ideas but those of glorification of the Hindu race and culture [...] or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment - not even citizen's rights." in the context of "(1939), We, or our nationhood defined page: 62, publisher: Nagpur: Bharat publications Quoted in The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics by Christophe Jaffrelot, p. 56." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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M. S. Golwalkar

About M. S. Golwalkar

Madhavrao Sadashivrao Golwalkar (February 19, 1906 – June 5, 1973), popularly known as "Guruji", was the second "Sarsanghchalak" (supreme chief) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.