Girilal Jain

Girilal Jain

Girilal Jain (1924 – 19 July 1993) , was an Indian journalist. He served as the editor of The Times of India from 1978 till 1988. He was sympathetic to Hindu nationalism and authored books on the subject, the best known of which, The Hindu Phenomenon, was published posthumously.

Personal life

Girilal Jain was born in a rural village 50 miles (80 kilometeres) 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, among whom are the historian Ms. Meenakshi Jain and the columnist Ms. Sandhya Jain.

He died on July 19, 1993 at the age of 69. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DF1F3DF935A15754C0A965958260 Girilal Jain, 69, Editor; Backed Indira Gandhi - New York Times ] ]

His views

Girilal Jain welcomed the movement for the Ram Temple at Ayodhya as part of the process of Hindu self-renewal and self-affirmation. [back page, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4]

He believed that the political-economic order that Jawaharlal Nehru had fashioned was as much in its last throes as its progenitor, the Marxist-Leninist- Stalinist order. He believed that the two major planks of this order, secularism and socialism, have "lost much of their old glitter" while the third, non-alignment, has become redundant. [editors note, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4] Verify source|date=August 2007

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 thecircle. 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. [page vi, editors note, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4]

References

External links

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DF1F3DF935A15754C0A965958260]
* [http://www.bharatvani.org/books/ayodhya/apex1.htm]


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