Founding legends

Great nations have foundational myths, tales of pivotal moments that birthed peoples and empires who changed the course of history.

Kautilya and his oath. Alexander and the knot. Harihara and Bukka Rāya and the hare that slew its predator. Mātariśvan bringing the hidden fire of the gods down to the Bhṛgus.

What is the founding legend of the Indian Republic?

“1947,” you say. “The struggle for independence!”.

What a coincidence it must be, that nearly every important European colony gained independence in the decade circa 1950 (and the colonies in Africa shortly thereafter)! Perhaps the Dandi march also had chapters in Libya, Israel, Malaya and the Philippines — maybe they all co-ordinated on a Google Doc? Such brotherhood we share with all these countries, that we encountered identical histories, were they estranged at the Kumbh?

Or, perhaps like we understand the independence of all of these other countries was caused by changing global economics and not some intentful project of its people, this is also true in the case of our country.

The whole “Indian independence movement” of Nehru and Gandhi is a fiction. A fiction created to bestow legitimacy upon a dynasty of false kings who never earned their mandate. Congress’s struggle was not against the British — it was against the Hindu mahāsabha, the communists, and the muslim league, each trying to prove themselves as the most appropriate successors to the British. And at last, the British, out of their generosity, chose the Congress as the winner of this competition.

The Nehruvian Republic has no legend, no lore, no legs upon which to stand.

No founding legend was written in 1947.

It is being written now. It began with the coronation of Modi---cakravartin samrāṭ, long may he reign—and can end in only one of two ways. One, the expulsion of the Liberal Raj and other enemies from our soil and eternal Ārya sovereignty. Or two, the end of the last Hindu nation. The inevitable nirṇaya.

Between the optimists and the pessimists, one of them will not be disappointed this time.