Perversion of India’s Political Parlance is Sita Ram Goel’s analysis of how political language in India has been hijacked by leftist and Western-derived categories that systematically disable Hindu national consciousness.

Structure

The book has 8 chapters:

  1. Something Seriously Wrong Somewhere — The author’s personal experience with Jayaprakash Narayan’s reluctance to engage with the RSS
  2. Words Which Defy Dictionaries — How terms like “communal,” “reactionary,” “revivalist,” and “fascist” have been weaponised
  3. The Sources of Leftist Language — The Marxist intellectual genealogy of Indian political terminology
  4. The Character of Leftist Language — Loaded terms designed to pre-judge rather than describe
  5. The History of Leftist Language — How this vocabulary was introduced and naturalised in India
  6. The Character of Leftist Language — Further analysis of semantic manipulation
  7. The Place of Mahatma Gandhi — Gandhi’s vocabulary and its co-option by leftist discourse
  8. Towards a Language of Indian Nationalism — A call for reclaiming authentic political language

The JP-RSS Episode

The book opens with a remarkable personal account: Goel, then secretary to Jayaprakash Narayan, persuaded JP to visit an RSS camp in 1959. Despite years of avoiding RSS, JP admitted he had been practising “untouchability” towards them and was visibly impressed by the calibre of RSS workers he met. The episode illustrates how even the most well-intentioned nationalist figures had been conditioned by leftist political parlance to shun Hindu organisations.

Core Argument

Words like “communal,” “reactionary,” “revivalist,” “fundamentalist,” and “fascist” are not neutral descriptors but instruments of political warfare. They are applied selectively to Hindus and Hindu organisations while Muslim and Christian communalism is described in more neutral terms. This linguistic asymmetry ensures that Hindu self-assertion is delegitimised before it can be articulated.

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