Is the West Unwittingly Helping Modi Realize His Akhand Bharat Hindutva Dream?

[indushek]

Any action by India is linked to Chanakya’s philosophy and Chinese ones are linked to Sun Tzu. Most of the analysis about China start with a quote from Sun Tzu.

Entire world knows what was propagated and professed by these thinkers. Even a child can read their readily available theories and discourses.
Why would India restrict itself to Chanakya and China to Sun Tzu?

Doesn’t make sense.

Such writings exist to provide a basic path, but situations are always fluid. There is no solution or strategy, that can fit all.

 

[nahtanbob]

Any action by India is linked to Chanakya’s philosophy and Chinese ones are linked to Sun Tzu. Most of the analysis about China start with a quote from Sun Tzu.

Entire world knows what was propagated and professed by these thinkers. Even a child can read their readily available theories and discourses.
Why would India restrict itself to Chanakya and China to Sun Tzu?

Doesn’t make sense.

The current Indian foreign minister looks more like Henry Kissenger in action

 

[VkdIndian]

Such writings exist to provide a basic path, but situations are always fluid. There is no solution or strategy, that can fit all.

No one links any Indian action to Sun Tzu and Chinese actions to Chanakya. Why is that?

It is obvious and practical that nations just wouldn’t base their strategies on just one person’s ideas.

I am questioning the logic of bracketing these thinkers to a nation and claiming that a certain nation is just following one of the philosophers who was born in that nation.

 

[PakFactor]

Looks like there is a panic in certain quarters.

Strategic decisions are not made in haste but with decades in mind. US sees in India a counterweight to China on many counts because India is a big country and has independent foreign policy. This is an emerging strategic partnership that has economic considerations as an alternative to putting all eggs in one basket in China. This is absolutely logical bet for a distant power in view of global trends. Not only the US but multiple countries are following suit.

Pakistan had a golden opportunity to develop a long-lasting bilateral relationship with the US but missed the boat by supporting Afghan Taliban. You chose your side, now live with it.

India is creating its national identity and will grow irrespective of usual complaints about it. Akhand Bharat is a step towards this end but things are in motion and fluid. India might come up with a more balanced approach in post-Modi times. This might be an attempt to unite all Indians under a common identity banner much like in China.

It's too late to worry now; whatever the consequences are, the country needs to face it head-on for the foolish games it played internally and externally. This country has allowed the ill-equipped to come to power one too many times, and it's killed the energy and drive of the country; as you've seen, even the Gulf Arabs weren't as receptive to an early response to Pakistan's dire economic needs.

 

[indushek]

No one links any Indian action to Sun Tzu and Chinese actions to Chanakya. Why is that?

It is obvious and practical that nations just wouldn’t base their strategies on just one person’s ideas.

I am questioning the logic of bracketing these thinkers to a nation and claiming that a certain nation is just following one of the philosophers who was born in that nation.

Well both Sun Tzu and Chanakya, are known in respective countries as strategic thinkers. So it isn't entirely wrong, one tries to equate nation's thinking to these people. Its generaliztion basically

However nation states never follow just one set of strategic thinking, and the best example is the first Israeli Prime Minister Golda Mayer. Once the Israeli's won their first war, it was said that she studied Mohammed the Prophet's initial life. Israel was in similar situation as the Muslims, when they weren't in great numbers.

 

[K_Bin_W]

Insha allah one day our dream of Akhand Bharat will be fulfilled .

And I will be shahenshah-e-hindustan Saleem-u-Din-Jehangir and I will start a global search for my anarkali...

 

[El Sidd]

War between India and Pakistan is inevitable.

 

[nahtanbob]

It's too late to worry now; whatever the consequences are, the country needs to face it head-on for the foolish games it played internally and externally. This country has allowed the ill-equipped to come to power one too many times, and it's killed the energy and drive of the country; as you've seen, even the Gulf Arabs weren't as receptive to an early response to Pakistan's dire economic needs.

Why wouldn't Pakistan work with USA on a neutral Afghanistan and corridor into Central Asia ? It is almost like Musharraf and generals were obsessed with India rather than Pakistan

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

What the West wants is simple: let India fight with China, or we will cry....

Indians are unskilled, ill equipped and poorly trained.

Indian jokers are no match to China.

After the colossal Galwan failure, West has dropped India like a hot potato.

US realized that they made a wrong bet on India.

US replaced Quad with AUKUS after seeing the miserable performance of India at Galwan.

 

[ProudThamizhan]

India has no intent of fighting China and their whole goal is to bully smaller neighbours economically or militarily. Unfortunately for them Pakistan is too big to bully and too powerful to defeat. West's goal is to use China as their bogey for arm sales to India and these weapons will eventually be redirected at Pakistan.

No need to be scared. Pakistan is too small a fry. You only feel bullied because you are small in terms of gravitas might and capabilities. Modi is not going to waste his time on you.

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

Akhand Bharat will happen but under a different name called Ghazwa-e-Hind
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[surmabhopali]

There was never an Empire in history called Akhand Bharat. Bharatis celebrate dividing India [Hindustan] by the Mahabharat war and also talk about Uniting India, labeling it Akhand Bharat.

Mahabharat war on Wikipedia has impossibilities such as historical date of 3000 BCE and number of infantry of 1 billion on one side. Bharatis were Indo-Scythian people, yet they claim an impossible history in India going back 5000 years. Indo-Scythians began arriving in ancient India around 500 BCE, not earlier than 700 BCE. Scythians in Central Asia didn't even exist as a distinct group until about 900 BCE.

Bharat originally was younger brother of Kshatriya Deva, Ram. Bharatis must have chosen this name placing themselves in an endearing position to Ram for the sake of politics.

Do you believe in jannat ? Where good muslims go ?

 

[Mirzali Khan]

Is the West Unwittingly Helping Modi Realize His Akhand Bharat Hindutva Dream?

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently opened a new parliament building in New Delhi. Prominently displayed in this new building is a provocative map of "Akhand Bharat" (Greater India) that includes neighboring nations of Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as part of India. After the inauguration, Modi's parliamentary affairs minister Pralhad Joshi tweeted a picture of the mural and wrote: “The resolve is clear – Akhand Bharat.” Akhand Bharat is part of the Fascist Hindutva ideology of Modi's party. In the last two months since this chauvinistic display, the tight embrace and arming of Modi by the West is raising fears of destabilizing South Asia. Pakistani officials have recently talked about a revision of the country's "full-spectrum" nuclear doctrine with the addition of "zero-range" nuclear weapons as a deterrent against western-armed Hindutva-fueled aggression.

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Akhand Bharat Mural in Indian Parliament. Source: Pralhad Joshi

Akhand Bharat:

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Modi's ideological leader chief Mohan Bhagwat, the head of the right-wing Hindu organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), said ‘Akhand Bharat’ was the undisputed truth and a divided Bharat was a nightmare.

Now the Akhand Bharat mural and its justification by an Indian minister have drawn condemnation from Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. “The gratuitous assertion of ‘Akhand Bharat’ is a manifestation of a revisionist and expansionist mindset that seeks to subjugate the identity and culture of not only India’s neighboring countries but also its own religious minorities,” said Pakistani foreign office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch.

Western Arms Deals:

Large arms deals have been recently announced during Prime Minister Modi's recent visits to Washington and Paris. New weapons acquisitions range from modern fighter jets to submarines. India is already the world's largest arms importer. India's defense budget ($81 billion) is the fourth largest in the world, according to Stockholm-based think tank SIPRI. Coming soon after the unveiling of the Akhand Bharat mural, these new modern lethal weapons' purchases by New Delhi are seen as a serious threat by India's neighbors.

America's Bad Bet:

While the western nations are seeking an alliance with India to counter rising China, the Hindutva leadership of India has no intention of confronting China. In a piece titled “America’s Bad Bet on India”, Indian-American analyst Ashley Tellis noted that the Biden administration had “overlooked India’s democratic erosion and its unhelpful foreign policy choices” in the hopes that the US can “solicit” New Delhi’s “contributions toward coalition defense”.

Earlier this year, India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar confirmed New Delhi's unwillingness to confront China in an interview: “Look they (China) are a bigger economy. What am I going to do? As a smaller economy, I am going to pick up a fight with bigger economy? It is not a question of being a reactionary; it is a question of common sense.”

Modi's India is driven much more by a desire to bring back what the right-wing Hindus see as the "glory days" of India through "Hindu Raj" of the entire South Asia region, including Pakistan. The arms and technology being given to Modi will more likely be used against India's smaller neighbors, not against China.

Pakistan's Likely Response:

General Khalid Kidwai, Advisor to Pakistan’s National Command Authority and pioneer Director General of Pakistan’s Strategic Plans Division, has warned about the ‘toxic mix of poisonous ideology’ posing a serious threat to strategic stability in South Asia. “I have no hesitation in stating that minimum Pakistani counter measures would be put in place if a reckless imbalance is induced in South Asia, it is not a warning, it's a contingency foreseen,” General Kidwai added, according to Pakistani media reports.

In May this year, retired Lt. Gen. Khalid Kidwai provided new details of Pakistan’s nuclear doctrine. He has talked about "zero range" nuclear weapons. Prior to this, the officially acknowledged lowest range in Pakistan’s nuclear inventory was the Nasr, or Hatf-9 ballistic missile, with a range of 60 kilometers (about 37 miles). Most significant was his statement that “vertically the spectrum encapsulates adequate range coverage from 0 meters to 2,750 kilometers [about 1,700 miles] as well as nuclear weapons destructive yields at three tiers—strategic, operational, and tactical.” Talking about "zero range" weapons, analyst Sitara Noor explained it as follows in a recent article that appeared in Foreign Policy magazine:

"Talk of zero-range weapons suggests that Pakistan is either going to develop artillery shells as the United States, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom did during the Cold War—raising questions of whether it is going to be an M28/M29 Davy Crockett-style recoilless rifle system, the smallest weapon in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, developed during the 1950s as a front-line weapon with yields as low as a fraction of a kiloton—or it could be a hint that Pakistan could possibly lay nuclear land mines across the India-Pakistan border to deter Indian advances. Observers, especially in India, are left wondering whether this statement is based on some existing scientific research and design testing and necessary doctrinal thought process. Kidwai’s statement does not provide any such details, and in the spirit of ambiguity that Pakistan seems to have benefited from, there is unlikely to be a follow-up soon to clear the air".


Summary:

The West is making a "bad bet" on Modi's India as a check against rising China. Modi and his fellow right-wing Hindus have no interest in confronting China. They are much more obsessed in realizing their Hindutva dream of Akhand Bharat (Greater India) by attempting to subjugate their smaller neighbors. This obsession could lead to a destabilization of the South Asia region, including an India-Pakistan nuclear war.
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Is the West Unwittingly Helping Modi Realize His Akhand Bharat Hindutva Dream?

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Pakistan Army is helping Modi achieve that

too powerful to defeat.

Bangladesh's existence as well as IOK disproves that

Not unwittingly. Totally intentionally and by design.

Pakistan Army is helping it.

 

[surmabhopali]

What a flawed strategy. You do realise history has seen many large nations and empires fall to smaller ones?

Your advice is noted ,
But
Chanakya was a genius , he single handedly made chandragupt maurya a non kshatriya of low birth a king and father of the mauryan Empire . So his doctrine has more weight for us .

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

Your advice is noted ,
But
Chanakya was a genius , he single handedly made chandragupt maurya a non kshatriya of low birth a king and father of the mauryan Empire . So his doctrine has more weight for us .

Just because Indian jokers worship Chanakya does not make him great.

Contrast that to what Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has acchieved.