Madhusudan_Das

164 Madhusudan Das:
non-Assamese to quit Assam. The same trend was discernible in
Maharashtra and West Bengal".
One of the historical reasons for the present upsurge of an undefined
and menacing type of exclusive "Stateism" is that the Indian National
Movement from 1885 totally ignored "Provincial Nationalism" altogether,
as it never existed. So a sudden emergence of Provincial Nationalism in
some of the States or Provinces is an upstart growth, and there being no
history or constructive thought behind it, its protagonists are unaware of
its legal content and of its constitutional limitations. Moreover having
opted for a Constitution with all its fundamental rights and seven freedom
(Art. 19), there cannot be a constitutional and legitimate basis for the
growth of exclusive-Stateism under the Indian Constitution. A movement
which is unlawful from its origin cannot thrive except as a vehicle of a
desperate abnormal political psychology, deliberately designed to
overawe Law and Order and to hit somebody else. But under Utkal Gouraba
Madhusudan. "Provincial Nationalism" was from its very inception (1903)
defined, delineated and demarcated and deliberately distinguished from
narrow "provincialism", Madhusudan did not accept Dr. Sachidananda
Sinha's view that Love for one's own province is a sort of subordinate
Nationalism in India. Madhusudan held that Love for our province is
Love for Mother India herself. He defined Oriya-Nationalism in such a
way that along with other complimentary provincial nationalism it would
serve as a bed-rock of Indian Nationalism. In his famous address he
compared Provincial Nationalism with flooded rivers surging forward to
empty themselves in the ocean of Indian Nationalism. Strangely enough
this analogy fits in with our Vedic concepts of harmony between Provincial
cultures and National culture in India. The vedic Text runs as follows:—
Ima yah panca spadiso
Manavi panca Kristayah
Vriste sapam nadiriveha
Sphatim samavahan.
(As the swollen rivers carry their wealth of waters, let all our different
provinces and their human cultures unite their wealth here.)
He declared, "Mother-Utkal is not a separate entity separate from
Mother-India. She is not a co-wife to mother-India nor is she her enemy."
"This conception of Mother-Utkal is a specific manifestation of the
conception of Mother-India "(Cuttack speech). Further he declared that —
There is no conflict of loyalty between our respects for the images
of Mother-Utkal and Mother-India. If any particular spot of one's