Girilal Jain Quotes

Girilal Jain , was an Indian journalist. He served as the editor of The Times of India from 1978 till 1988. He was sympathetic to Hindu nationalism and authored books on the subject, the best known of which, The Hindu Phenomenon, was published posthumously. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan in 1989. Wikipedia

✵ 1924 – 19. July 1993

Girilal Jain: 18 quotes 1 like

Famous Girilal Jain Quotes

“Hindu tolerance, it seems, is another name for Hindu cowardice.”

Girilal Jain

Source: quoted in Goel, S.R. Hindu Temples – What Happened to Them, Volume I (1990) Preface, 2nd edition, p. xvii

“But, he was a bhakt not of Ram in his totality, that is of Ram the warrior also, but of Ram as Purushottam Purusha, that is, of Ram who set the ideal for ethical life.”

Girilal Jain

Page 152, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4.
On Peoples, On Mahatma Gandhi

“In reality, however, Buddhisms and Jainism have been no more than movements within the larger body of Hinduism, not significantly different from Lingayats, Saktas or Bhaktas of more recent times.”

Girilal Jain

page 24-25, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4.
On Hinduism, On relation of Hinduism with Jainism and Buddhism

“Many Hindu intellectuals are just not able to comprehend the fact that there is no human aspiration or experience which lies outside the range of Hinduism; it provides for even demon-Gods. In contrast, all religions are in the nature of sects, though they cannot be so defined because of their insistence on their separateness and, indeed, hostility to Hinduism”

Girilal Jain

Source: Page 5, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4.

“A number of Indians have tried to define secularism as sarva dharma samabhava (equal respect for all religions). I cannot say whether they have been naive or clever in doing so. But the fact remains that secularism cannot admit of such an interpretation. In fact, orthodox Muslims are quite justified in regarding it as irreligious. Moreover, dharma cannot be defined as religion which is a Semitic concept and applies only to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Hinduism is not a religion in that sense; nor are Jainism and Buddhism, or for that matter, Taoism and Confucianism.”

Girilal Jain

Girilal Jain, "Limits of the Hindu Rashtra", in : Elst, Koenraad: Ayodhya and after, Appendix I

“I could find no explanation worthy of the Mahatma for his decision to accept leadership of the khilafat movement. The decision, it seemed to me, revealed the great man's proverbial Achilles' heel.”

Girilal Jain

page 52, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4.
On Peoples, On Mahatma Gandhi

Girilal Jain Quotes

“In view of deliberate attempts in recent decades to project Buddhism and Jainism as separate religions, distinct from Hinduism, it would be in order to deal with them in passing. the attempts have clearly been motivated by the design to separate their followers from the parent body called Hinduism just as Sikhs have been to an extent. Though not to the same extent as in the case of Sikhs, the attempts have succeeded in as much as neo-Buddhists and at least some Jains have come to regard themselves as non-Hindus.”

Girilal Jain

On Hinduism, On relation of Hinduism with Jainism and Buddhism

Religion , Motivation , Parent

“It is sheer dishonesty or naivete to suggest, as is being widely suggested these days, that Hinduism can admit of theocracy. That is a Muslim privilege which no one else can appropriate.”

Girilal Jain

Page 105, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4.
On Hindutva

“Unlike Islamic fundamentalists, the BJP does not claim to possess a blueprint. It shall have to struggle to evolve an Indian approach to modern problems.”

Girilal Jain

Page 105, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4.
On Hindutva

Problem

“It speaks for the spirit animating the rulers of independent India that even the roads named after Curzon and Hastings in New Delhi have been renamed.”

Girilal Jain

page 38, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4.
On Peoples, On narrowmindedness of rulers of Independent India

Animals

“As far as I know, Nehru never defined secularism in its proper European and historical context.”

Girilal Jain

Girilal Jain, "This is Hindu India", in : Elst, Koenraad: Ayodhya and after, Appendix I

“Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the greatest benefactor of hindus in modern times, if he was not a hindu in disguise.”

Girilal Jain

page 56, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4.
On Peoples, On Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Time

“Western thinkers had merged liberalism and Marxism to produce the theory of democratic socialism and in the process emasculated both.”

Girilal Jain

Page 152, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4.
On Marxism

“Such is the grip of the misrepresentation of Hindutva in anti-Muslim terms that (even) its proponents, including some leaders of the Bhartiya Janata Party, themselves, speak of it defensively.”

Girilal Jain

Page 106, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4.
On Hindutva

“The BJP is not a communal party; it cannot be, for the simple reason that Hindus have never been, and are not, a community in the accepted sense of the term. They represent an ancient civilization not known either to draw a boundary between the faithful and the faithless, the blessed and the damned, or to engage in heresy hunting and its counterpart, persecution of other faiths. Hindus are, in western terms, pagans.”

Girilal Jain

Page 149, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4.
On Hindutva

Faith , Communication , Sense , Drawing

“As a group, the secularists, especially the Leftists, have not summoned the courage to insist that in order to ensure the survival of the secular India state, Muslims should accept one common civil code, and that Article 370 of the Constitution, which concedes special rights to Jammu and Kashmir mainly because it is a Muslim-majority state, should be scrapped... Even so I find it extraordinary that those who call themselves modernizers and secularists-the two terms are interchangeable-should shirk the logic of their philosophy of life.”

Girilal Jain

Girilal Jain, App. 1, Limits of the Hindu Rashtra, in : Elst, Koenraad: Ayodhya and after, Appendix I

Courage , Life

“He dared you with Olympian majesty and … tossed out his formulations with a merciless disregard for sentiment…”

Girilal Jain

M.J. Akbar, This tongue had bones, 1993. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p.218

“Hindus accept no divisions between the believer and unbeliever. Every path leads to Him (God or Reality); there can be as many paths to Him as the number of human. Indeed, the prophetic tradition is alien to Hinduism. Narrowness of the spirit, peculiar to Semitic faiths, has been alien to India.”

Girilal Jain

Source: The Hindu Phenomenon - By Girilal Jain p 5 -135 - South Asia Books - 1998 ISBN 8174760105

God , Faith , Reality

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