From an article by badri Raina 10June 2006- "Long before Jinnah the founder of Pakistan, stipulated that Hindus and Muslims constituted separate %u2018nations,%u2019and asked for a separate muslim State (1940), it was the Hindutva ideologue, Savarkar, who had expressed this theory first(1923). He laid the hypothesis that only those who were both born in India ( pitra bhumi) and bore allegiance to forms of religion %u2018indigenous%u2019 to India ( punya bhumi) could be considered %u2018Indian.%u2019 Muslims and Christians were thus excluded from %u2018Indianness%u2019, since their chief places of worship lay outside the territory of India. Following upon that, Golwalkar, the then RSS chief (or Sarsangchalak) in a pernicious book, We, Our Nationhood(1939), which unabashedly lauded the Nazis for having elevated %u2018race pride%u2019 to unprecedented heights, warned India%u2019s religious minorities in no uncertain terms that unless they learnt to subjugate themselves wholly and without demur to dominant Hindu culture, and venerated Hindu gods, all their rights, including those of citizenship, would be denied them in the stipulated Hindu Rashtra (Hindu theocratic State).
