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Who are real Indians ?


On 5th January 2010, Supreme Court gave a historical judgment. Except  The Hindu  none in the media even bothered to broadcast or print this judgment.  
Till what was the subject of belief of intelligentsia of our nation, has now been signed off by Legislature that neither a specific Religion nor a specific caste can claim the Republic of India. India belongs to all religions, caste and creed; this is not a matter of discussion any more, it’s a Legal Reality now given by Supreme Court of India.
The ruins of Harrapa and Mohenjedaro are covered with the dust of thousands of years. This very dust witnessed the coming and departure of Civilizations, spreading and extinction of Cultures, creation and destruction of Empires. From the valley of Satluj River to the basin of The Ganges , Humans have done a tremendous experiments of settlements. If the stretched historical timeline is analyzed then it can be easily postulated that this country neither belonged to a specific group in past nor belongs to a specific group in present.  Here people constantly came, established their kin and left their marks. This statement is verified by Supreme Court of India on 5th of this month. On the basis of strong historical evidences, Supreme Court accepted the Adivasi or the aboriginal population of India were the real natives of the Indian subcontinent even long before the arrival of Aryans and Dravids. Those Santhal and Munda Adivasi population whose descendants today are present in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and West Bengal. Also Toda people living in the isolated Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu and the tribal groups in Andaman Islands were the earliest inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent. Based on this fact Bheel, Santhal and Gond can be considered as the earliest inhabitants.  But History has witnessed shameful acts with these people. These were considered as Demons or Asurs. Adivasis communities were mass murdered and today also they aren’t treated well. Among the total population just 8% constitutes the Adivasi population so we can say that 92% are immigrants which includes Aarya, Dravid, Shakh, Hund, Sheikh-Saeyad, Pathan, Christians. So India can’t be claimed by a single religion or culture; this concludes that India is also a country like United States of America whose mass population is ethnical descendants of Europeans and Africans. From past four decades, North America is inhabited mainly by Europeans whereas in India the story of immigration is going on from several thousand years. We can say that not America but India is an original Melting Pot. Feeling the thought of cultural fusion in our courntry, Great Urdu Poet Raghupati Sahay or better known as Firaq Gorkhpuri wrote :

Sar Zamin-e-hind par aqwaam-e-alam ke firaq
Kafile guzarte gae Hindustan banta gaya

Basic point does not lies in the argument that who is the original native; it lies of the fact that a society or a nation is never made of a single religion population or a single civilization, in fact it is always a fusion of societies where heterogeneous societies fuses to become homogeneous at the same time preserving their own identity. The countries, who have tried of inhabiting a single society or a single civilization, have faced the same fate as Pakistan is suffering.  A Nation is created by innumerable societies and innumerable cultures. Problems start when the part of society which start considering themselves as majority and try to claim the country to be their nation, they want the nation to run with their principles. They blindly demand the nation to follow their faiths and superstitions and suffer. This is reality not a political propaganda created by a minority or majority religious group. India belongs to everyone and because it belongs to everyone it has a unique identity. This has to be understood by each and every citizen of our country.

Hindu Newspaper Report : Link 

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