EDITOR OF TIMES OF INDIA ( )

 Girilal Jain was born in 1924 in a rural village 50 miles) from New Delhi.  He received a bachelor's degree from Delhi University.  He died on July 19,1993 in New Delhi. He was 69.

 an influential Indian journalist  an ardent supporter of Indira Gandhi.  joined The Times of India in 1950, served as editor in chief from 1978 to  one of India's most respected columnists  sympathetic to Hindu nationalism.

 During his college life Girilal Jain had taken part in Quit India Movement led by Gandhiji in 1942 and was even jailed for short period of time.  After his release he became a Royist, a follower of MN Roy, a leading Indian socialist.  He joined Vanguard, a Royist newspaper in 1945 which he soon left for a career in teaching and business neither of which he found interesting.  And after this his career in Times of India begun with a sub-editor for Delhi-edition.

 India is facing Crisis of International Identity.  The Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri dispute and the nature of the Indian state.  Interpretation of the definition of secularism.  The important of “ism” in the religious sense.

 Babri-masjid dispute is the least victory for Hindu.  The proper English translation of Hindu Rashtra would be Hindu polity and not Hindu nation.  For the “nirman of hindu rashtra”- we need army support, political support, and public encouragement.

 Use of sociological terms.  Creation of terms in article- (Hinduization)  Deep research and analysis.  Correlation between historical references and present circumstances.  complex writing form.  Reasoning behind facts.  Unable to understand common people.

 Modernization should come or develop from grass-root level for it to be wide spread.  Nehru’s models and Gandhian Ideology failed in making India a of secular nation.  India is a Hindu Rashtra and dominance is the weapon to declare this identity.  Hindu government.

 He pointed out the decreasing importance of Indian Democracy and increasing significance of American Democracy model which is based on consumerism ideology.

Girilal Jain has written 11 books in all on his favorite subject, Hindu Nationalism, of which The Hindu Phenomenon (1993) is the most well-known book. The book is in the form of an essay, where the author discusses every aspect of Hindu self- renewal and self-affirmation.

 The book is divided into six parts where,  The author traces the rise of Hindus from the establishment of the British rule. He believes that a fundamental shift took place in the power balance between Hindus and Muslims as a result of the consolidation of the British Raj and the disarming of the populace which began in 1818 and was completed in This shift, according to him, was not reversed by the pro-Muslim change in the official attitude, starting from the 1870s, and by the policy of divide and rule, though it led to the partition of the country in  The author also contends that the socio-economic-political order that Jawaharlal Nehru fashioned was as much in throes of death as its progenitor, the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist order. The two major planks of this order, secularism and socialism, have lost much of their old glitter while the third, non-alignment, was no longer needed.

 On Mahatma Gandhi  "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." page 52, The Hindu Phenomenon..  "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.”, The Hindu Phenomenon.  On Muhammad Ali Jinnah  "Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the greatest benefactor of Hindus in modern times, if he was not a Hindu in disguise.”

On narrow-mindedness of rulers of Independent India  "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.”, The Hindu Phenomenon. On Hinduism  "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 “, The Hindu Phenomenon.

On relation of Hinduism with Jainism and Buddhism  "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. In reality, however, Buddhism 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.”, The Hindu Phenomenon.

 On Hindutva  "It is sheer dishonesty or naiveté 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.“….. The Hindu Phenomenon.  "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"….Page 106, The Hindu Phenomenon.  "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.“…., The Hindu Phenomenon.

 "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.“ The Hindu Phenomenon.  On Marxism  "Western thinkers had merged liberalism and Marxism to produce the theory of democratic socialism and in the process emasculated both." …., The Hindu Phenomenon.

 Girilal Jain, 69, Editor; Backed Indira Gandhi  Published: Monday, July 26, 1993  It provided information on his early life, personal life and his career in The Times Of India.  The obituary also spoke about his ardent support for Indira Gandhi during the emergency period.

 Here again Girilal Jain’s support for Indira Gandhi was quoted saying, “ He firmly believed that a weak central government was responsible for India’s diminishing international status and saw only and only Indira Gandhi as its preserver”.  An ardent and unashamed supporter of Indira Gandhi went on to the extent of condoning the pogrom against Sikhs in New Delhi after she was assassinated by her bodyguard in  But Jain’s support for Rajeev Gandhi, Indira Gandhi’s successor waned soon after Rajeev Gandhi was allegedly implicated in a defense kickback scandal and his political fortune seemed to be on decline. It was during this time that Jain started supporting Indira Gandhi’s criticizers, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP).