: Rewind: The legacy of September 17 #IndiaNEWS #News By Dr Ramesh Chennamaneni A most powerful Marxist quote and a very relevant one for many struggles says: “social conditions determine social consciousness�?.

Rewind: The legacy of September 17 #IndiaNEWS #News
By Dr Ramesh Chennamaneni
A most powerful Marxist quote and a very relevant one for many struggles says: “social conditions determine social consciousness�?. It tells us that if you put a population under conditions of extreme inequality and injustice for sufficient time, then they will eventually rise up. Social consciousness may also stimulate working towards a common goal.
‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, commemorating 75 years of independence, undoubtedly reflects such social consciousness and proudly remembers the sacrifices of thousands of people to achieve the common goal of freedom to India from the British Raj. People’s struggles, including those of democrats, leftists, Communists, workers and peasants, have a prominent place in this saga. All those forces who have combined political independence with economic and social emancipation from the feudal landlords and the state, starting from the Meerut conspiracy case in March 1929 for organising an Indian railway strike convicting 27 leftist trade union leaders to the glorious Telangana Armed Struggle by peasants — they all belong to this facet. It was highly appreciated by the Telangana people that the liberation struggle against the Nizam and the Merger of Hyderabad into the Indian Union, called ‘Liberation Day’ and ‘Integration Day’, found its due place this year with the Central and State governments officially conducting various activities to commemorate it.
Inclusive India
The concept of inclusive India was a product of a continuous battle between three schools of thought and visions that emerged during the course of the independence struggle. The mainstream Congress vision had envisioned that independent India could be a secular democratic Republic. The Communists and Socialist forces, while agreeing with this, went further to say that such a secular democratic structure would be untenable if independent India pursues the path of capitalist development. These forces, thus, envisioned that the political freedom we achieve must be extended to the socio-economic freedom of every Indian — possible only under socialism. This was also their objective during the Telangana Armed Struggle.
Antagonistic to both these is the third school of thought which argued that the character of independent India should be determined by the religious affiliations of its people. This vision had a twin expression — the Muslim League championing an ‘Islamic State’ and the RSS championing its ‘Hindu Rashtra’. The former succeeded with the partition of the country, engineered, aided and abetted by the British, with all its consequences that continue to fester tensions till date.

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