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<FONT face="Times New Roman">The
Basic Unity</FONT><BR><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times New Roman">THERE
is one unity which cannot be denied to India, because Nature has
given it and man cannot withdraw or annul it. It is the geographical,
the physical unity. It is so clearly and indelibly marked that it has
always been looked upon as a definite unit by all outside its
boundaries; one may call in question the cultural unity, if one
chooses, one may be sceptic about the spiritual unity, but the unity
of the body leaps to the eyes, even as the clear contour of a living
organism. As we know, however, an individual human frame may contain
many personalities, many Jekylls and Hydes may lodge in the same
physical tenement, even so, the physical unity that is India may
harbour many and diverse independent elements. Admitting even that,
the problem does not end there, it is only the beginning. The problem
that is set in such a case is, as has been pointed out by the
psychologists, the problem of the integration of personality.</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">A
firm physical unity presupposes, at least posits the possibility of
an integral unity. Otherwise the body itself would tend to break up
and disintegrate. Such physical cataclysms are not unknown in Nature.
However, a geographical unity cannot remain exclusively limited to
itself; it brings about other unities by the very pressure, by the
capillary action, as it were, of the boundary. The first unity that
is called into being is the economic. A <I>Zollverein </I>(Customs
Union) has almost always been the starting-point of a national union.
Next or along with it comes the political unity. India's political
and economic unity has been the great work of the British rule,
however that rule might be distasteful to us. It is an illustration
of Nature's method of compulsion and violence, when man's voluntary
effort fails. India possesses a resounding roll of great</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times New Roman">names who
endeavoured to give her this solid political and economic unity;
Bharata, Yudhishthira, Asoka, Chandra&shy;gupta, Akbar, Shivaji have
all contributed to the evergrowing unification of Indian polity. But
still what they realised was not a stable and permanent thing, it was
yet fluent and uncertain; it was only the hammerblow, the plastering,
as one would say today, from an outside agency that welded, soldered
and fixed that unity.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times New Roman">Fissures
of late have opened again and they seem to be increasing in depth and
width and in number. What appeared to be a unified structure, of one
piece, whole and entire, now threatens to crash and fall to pieces.
We are asked to deny the unity. The political unity, it is said, is
an impossibility, the geographical unity an illusion.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times New Roman">In
such a predicament the vision of a prophet counts more than the
arguments of a political huckster. That an Indian consciousness is
there and has grown and taken more and more concrete shape through
the ages is a fact to which history bears testimony and honest
commonsense pays homage.</FONT><BR>
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