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Social/Political Commentary

Bharat Akhandan (भारत अखण्डन)

bySanjay Dixit

Sanjay Dixit traces Article 370 and anti-CAA violence through Ambedkar's Partition analysis and eight centuries of Kashmir's contested history.

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Language
Hindi
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PAPERBACK
ISBN
9798885750035
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Social/Political Commentary

Overview

When anti-CAA protests swept Indian cities in late 2019 and early 2020, the violence that followed did not look accidental to Sanjay Dixit. In this closely argued study, he traces those events back to a single contested idea: whether Muslims and non-Muslims can share a political community as equals. He begins with Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's own analysis of Partition and with the Islamic doctrinal position — that Muslims will not accept minority status under non-Muslim rule — that Ambedkar identified as a driving force behind the demand for a separate nation.

Dixit then turns to Article 370 and the deeper history of Kashmir's transformations, starting with the reign of Sultan Sikandar Butshikan, whose campaign of idol-breaking and forced conversions in the fourteenth century marked the beginning of the valley's Islamisation. He argues that the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in 1989–90 was not a singular event but the seventh such expulsion in a recurring pattern. Throughout, he interrogates the political mythologies — around Sufism, around Indian Muslims' voluntary choice of a secular state — that he contends have obscured this history from public discourse.

Readers who want to understand the ideological architecture behind CAA opposition and the Article 370 abrogation will find Dixit's analysis direct and unsparing.

‘भारत अखण्डन: अनुच्छेद 370 और नागरिकता संशोधन अधिनियम पर लिए गए निर्णय’ विभाजन के कारणों पर डॉ बी आर अम्बेडकर के विश्लेषण, तथा 'पृथक राष्ट्र' के इस्लामी मतवादीय सिद्धांत (जो सफल हुआ) - कि मुसलमान किसी गैर-मुसलमान शासन में अल्पसंख्यक की भाँति रहना कदापि स्वीकार नहीं करते - इन बातों का आधार लेते हुए आगे बढ़ती है। एक विद्वत्तापूर्ण विश्लेषण करते हुए श्री दीक्षित सीएए-विरोधी प्रदर्शनों और तदन्तर हुए दंगों की जड़ तक जाते हैं, जिनका प्रारूप वही था जिसे डॉ अम्बेडकर ने "राजनीति की गैंगस्टर पद्धति" की संज्ञा दी थी। यह पुस्तक 'शांतिप्रिय सूफियों', और यह कि मुसलमान भारत में इस कारण रुके क्योंकि उन्होंने 'पंथनिरपेक्ष भारत' की अवधारणा को चुना था, इन राजनैतिक लीपा-पोती से परिपूर्ण मिथकों को ध्वस्त करती है।

अनुच्छेद 370 के लिए श्री दीक्षित कश्मीर के इतिहास को तबसे खँगालते हैं, जब सुल्तान सिकंदर बुतशिकन (मूर्ति-भंजक) के अधीन कश्मीर से पहला बहिष्करण हुआ, और धरती के इस मनोहर स्वर्ग का इस्लामीकरण प्रारम्भ हुआ। 1989-90 का कश्मीरी हिन्दू बहिष्करण वास्तव में सातवाँ था।

यह पुस्तक उस इस्लामी रणनीति के अंतस में झाँकती है, जो निरन्तर जिहाद में विश्वास करती है, समाज को अर्ध-सत्य बता कर उन्हें दिग्भ्रमित करती है, ताकि उसका अंतिम लक्ष्य, जो कि दार-उल-इस्लाम बनाना है, प्राप्त किया जा सके।      

Author

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Sanjay Dixit

Sanjay Dixit is the founder and president of The Jaipur Dialogues , an independent Indian discourse platform and YouTube channel known for long-form discussion of geopolitics, Indian civilisation, and public affairs. He is a retired officer of the Indian Administrative Service (Rajasthan cadre, 1986 batch) and the author of the Krishna duology published by Garuda Prakashan. Through his three-decade administrative career he held senior assignments in the Rajasthan government and at the Centre, working across agriculture, rural development and strategic affairs. After retirement he turned full-time to public commentary and writing. His novels Krishna Gopeshvara and Krishna Yogeshvara retell the life of Krishna in a contemporary literary register and remain among Garuda's best-known fiction titles. Read the full biography Dixit graduated in Marine Engineering and served four years with the Merchant Navy before sitting for the civil services examination and joining the Indian Administrative Service in 1986. As an IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre he held a series of district and state-level postings, with longer engagements in agriculture and rural administration that later informed his writing on Indian agrarian policy. He served as Secretary of the Rajasthan Cricket Association, a tenure that placed him at the centre of the public debates over Board of Control for Cricket in India governance during a particularly contested period in Indian cricket administration. He has continued to comment on the institutional politics of Indian sport in the years since. After retirement Dixit founded The Jaipur Dialogues , which has since grown into a widely-followed platform on YouTube and a series of public events, including an annual flagship conference in Jaipur. The channel hosts conversations with scholars, journalists, diplomats and public intellectuals on Hindu civilisation, foreign policy, internal security and contemporary Indian politics. Alongside the platform he has written extensively on agriculture, strategy, and Indian civilisational themes. The Krishna duology - Krishna Gopeshvara followed by Krishna Yogeshvara - is his principal literary work and is published by Garuda Prakashan. Frequently asked questions Who founded The Jaipur Dialogues? The Jaipur Dialogues was founded by Sanjay Dixit, a retired IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre. He continues to serve as its president and is the public face of the platform. What is The Jaipur Dialogues? The Jaipur Dialogues is an independent Indian discourse platform built around long-form YouTube conversations and public events on Hindu civilisation, geopolitics, internal security and Indian public policy. It also runs an annual flagship conference in Jaipur. Was Sanjay Dixit an IAS officer? Yes. Dixit joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1986 as part of the Rajasthan cadre and served the state and central governments for over three decades before retiring and turning to public commentary and writing full-time. What books has Sanjay Dixit written? His principal literary work is the Krishna duology - Krishna Gopeshvara and Krishna Yogeshvara - published by Garuda Prakashan. He has also written extensively in opinion columns and online essays on Indian agriculture, strategy and civilisational themes. Where can I buy Sanjay Dixit's books? His Krishna novels are available on Garuda Prakashan with free shipping in India.

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