Why is the RSS so strongly opposed to Partition?
I genuinely want to understand the reasoning here, especially from people who support the RSS/Hindu Rashtra idea.
If the objective is a Hindu Rashtra, wouldn’t Partition, at least demographically, have moved in that direction? Before Partition, Muslims constituted a much larger share of the population of undivided India. After Partition, a large Muslim-majority territory became Pakistan, while India became substantially more Hindu-majority.
At the same time, millions of Muslims remained in India, and many Muslims who lived in areas that became Pakistan did not necessarily choose Partition themselves. So if the argument is that Partition was necessary to separate communities that wanted separate political identities, why is the RSS still so fundamentally opposed to it?
I understand the argument that Partition caused enormous violence, displacement and loss of life. That is obviously a serious argument against Partition. But I’m asking something slightly different: if the ultimate goal is a Hindu Rashtra, why would an undivided India be preferable to a Partition that resulted in a much larger Hindu-majority India?
Is the answer that RSS's idea of Hindu Rashtra was never primarily about creating a Hindu-majority territorial state, but about a broader civilizational/national identity that could include Muslims? If so, how does that fit with the RSS's continued emphasis on Akhand Bharat?
I’m genuinely asking because I see what looks like a contradiction, and I’d like to understand how RSS supporters reconcile these two positions rather than simply arguing for or against Partition.