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Girilal Jain, doyen of Indian journalists, was the editor of The Times of India from 1978-1988. He was a passionate crusader for the Hindu cause and has authored books on the subject. The Hindu Phenomenon is one of his most famous books.
Personal life
Girilal Jain was born in a rural village 50 miles from New Delhi. He received a bachelor's degree from Delhi University. He married Sudarshan Jain in 1951. they had a son and three daughters, one of whom is Ms Sandhya Jain, the well known columnist.
He died in July 1993 at the age of 69.
His Views
Girilal Jain belonged to that minority of Indian intellectuals who welcomed the movement for the Ram Temple at Ayodhya as part of the process of Hindu self-renewal and self- affirmation.
He believed that the political-economic order that Jawaharlal Nehru had fashioned was as much in it last throes as its progenitor, the Marxist-Leninist- Stalinist order. Two major planks of this order, secularism and socialism, had lost much of their old glitter while the third, non-alignment, had become redundant.
According to him, the concept of nation is alien to Hindu temperament and genius. For, it emphasized the exclusion of those who did not belong to the charmed circle (territorial ,linguistic or ethnic) as much as it emphasized the inclusion of those who fell within the circle. By contrast, the essential spirit of Hinduism was inclusivist, and not exclusivist by definition. Such a spirit must seek to abolish and not build boundaries. That is why, he held, that Hindus could not sustain an anti-Muslim feeling, except temporarily and, that too under provocation.
See also
References
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DF1F3DF935A15754C0A965958260
- back page, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4
- editors note, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4
- page vi, editors note, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4