A significant announcement of an English national daily recently to the effect that“RSS wing has prescription for fair, tall ‘customized’ babies” [1] is a starling disclosure, comparable to a secret project undertaken by Nazi regime in Germany under Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. This had no parallel with potential to provoke craze in millions of Indian hearts at home and abroad. According to the Hindutwa outfit’s subsidiary Arogya Bharti, its health wing,  a woman could deliver an “uttam santati” — a perfect, “customized child” or ‘uttam santati’ under Garbh Vigyan Sanskar project. If the claims of Arogya Bharti are to be taken at all seriously then Alber Eisenstein, Shakespeare, Rabindra Nath Tagore, Abraham Lincoln, Kalidas, Aristotle and the likes would emerge from their huts of unknown hamlets. The project, shrouded in mystery, holds promises for miracles. And miracles are always scientifically unverifiable; open to  abuses with deception and depravity and deplorable consequences in train.

Arogya Bharti lays total emphasis for success on ‘procedure’.  “If the proper procedure is followed, babies of dark-skinned parents with lesser height can have fair complexion and grow unfold. taller.” [2] This is Garbh Vigyan Sanskar project of the RSS, which, sadly, is not known to stand scientific investigation or experiment. The RSS has jumped into a very sensitive areas of human life. The result, we may apprehend, is likely to be awe-striking and unfortunate.  Arogya Bharati plans to set up Anusandhan Kendra, a facilitation centre, in every state by 2020. An expectant mother will be under obligation, for the desired result, to chant  “chants shlokas and mantras”. [3] With a decade of experiment, Guajarat has proudly marched ahead over other states and claims to have 450 such ‘customized babies.’ In an era of technology and innovation, pre-fabrication of human child, having regard for specification, complexion, height and IQ to suit parents needs and fancies is no more hypothetical. For a nation of 1¼ billion population the project holds boundless potential. We must, however, not be under any delusion that the so-called “chants shlokas and mantras” will occupy the centre-stage in the project. Therefore the so-called shlokas and mantras might turnout as sources of stinking nuisance, immorality and license for deception of credulous masses.  How it will do so only time will unfold.

Nazi German’s experiment with Lebensborn project was a disgraceful historical experiment.  What is Lebensborn?  Hitler’s Germany, like RSS’ designer child, had formulated the Lebensborn project. On December 12,1935 Hitler’s most trusted  Heinrich Himmler (7 October 1900– 23 May 1945),  founded the Lebensborn project, which implied, wellspring of life or fountain of life. Himmler was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), chief of the German police, a military commander and a leading member of the Nazi Party. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, SS is  abbreviation of Schutzstaffel (German: “Protective Echelon”), the black-uniformed elite corps and self-described “political soldiers” of the Nazi Party founded by Adolf Hitler in April 1925 as a small personal bodyguard. The infamous SS grew with the success of the Nazi movement and, gathering immense police,  and military powers, became virtually a state within a state.” SS was plainly a gigantic evil personified.

A registered society, Lebensborn offered to young girls who were deemed “racially pure” the possibility to give birth to a child in secret.”  The child was then given to the SS organization which took charge in the child’s education and adoption. Both mother and father needed to pass a “racial purity” test. Blond hair and blue eyes were preferred, and family lineage had to be traced back at least three generations. Of all the women who applied, only 40 percent passed the racial purity test and were granted admission to the Lebensborn program. The majority of mothers were unmarried, 57.6 percent until 1939, and about 70 percent by 1940. Lebensborn children and their biological parents ever remained unknown to each other. A monstrous tragedy was inflicted upon young women of Germany by the fascist regime!  In the instant case the dwarf, low intelligent, dark complexioned Indian wo/men will fall prey to it.

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Himmler, mastermind of Lebensborn

To understand the anatomy of Lebensborn it is clarified that Himmler was  the father of  “most secret and terrifying” project.  On Hitler’s behalf, Himmler built extermination camps. As facilitator and overseer of the concentration camps, Himmler presided over killing of some six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Romani people, and other victims, aggregating at eleven to fourteen million civilian people—mostly Polish and Soviet. The secret project, though, simple involved extraordinary genetic engineering that tinkered for  accomplishing demographic miracle. By a law enacted in 1935, the Nazi regime outlawed intermarriages between Jews and other races. For decades, Germany’s birthrate declined unabated. Himmler’s goal was to reverse the decline and increase the Germanic/Nordic population of Germany to 120 million. “Himmler encouraged SS and Wermacht officers to have children with Aryan women. He believed Lebensborn children would grow up to lead a Nazi-Aryan nation.” [4]

Lebensborn programme (1935-45) was implemented under a registered Society titled as  Lebensborn Eingetragener Verein. It offered to young girls who were deemed “racially pure” opportunity to give birth to a child in secret. The child was then given to the SS organization which took charge in the child’s education and adoption. Both mother and father needed to pass a “racial purity” test. Blond hair and blue eyes were preferred, and family lineage had to be traced back at least three generations. Of all the women who applied, only 40 percent passed the racial purity test and were granted admission to the Lebensborn program. The majority of mothers were unmarried, 57.6 percent until 1939, and about 70 percent by 1940. [5]

The first Lebensborn home was inaugurated in 1936 in a tiny village near Munich. Furnishings for the homes, interestingly, were supplied from the best of the loot from the homes of Jews who, to the Nazi regime, were inferior or extremely hateful. There were 10 Lebensborn homes established in Germany, nine in Norway, two in Austria, and one each in Luxembourg,  Belgium, Holland, France,  and Denmark. Himmler himself took a special interest in the homes, choosing not only the mothers, but also attending to the decor and even paying special attention to children born on his birthday, October 7th. The couple were mostly, if not entirely, unknown to each other and never ever knew the whereabouts of their child born in secrecy! Himmler himself had fathered two Lebensborn children. Nobody with right frame of mind is proud of the regime, which had brought unmitigable catastrophe for human civilization.

Did India overlook the initiative for Lebensborn?

In 1994 T N Seshan, chief election commissioner in an address to the American Alumni Association in Bombay spoke of a dream project for “superman.” Cross-fertilization of Indians and Americans, the Chief Election Commissioner emphasized,  would give “birth to the best breeds in world.” [6] Sadly not many took notice of his revolutionary concept.

Garbh Vigyan Sanskar project, with its emphasis on designable babies with fair complexion and high IQ,  is likely to have many notable protagonists and patrons.  Recently India got a peep into  the racism and complexion fixation of an apparatchik from a sensational television programme. An well-educated Member of Parliament told of Al Jazeera that,

“If we [Indians] were racist, why would we have the entire south (India)? Which is you know, completely Tamil, you know Kerala, you know Karnataka and Andhra. Why do we live with them [if we are racist]? We have blacks, black people around us. You are denying your own nation, you are denying your ancestry, and you are denying your culture.” [7]

Unmixed racism though,  the racists do not acknowledge its liability. This was Tarun Vijay whose credentials are impeccable, if not awe-inspiring. Tarun has been the editor of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s weekly, Panchajanya for the last long 20 years. He is the president of the India-Africa Parliamentary Friendship Group.  [8]

Philosopher’s perception of eugenics

The Garbh Vigyan Sanskar project for  “uttam santati” — a perfect, “customized child” places  India on the threshold of an eugenic  revolution. We may here recall with benefit Dr  S. Radhakrishnan who cited an illustration of a soldier who fought for  revolutionary war involving Great Britain and thirteen of its North American colonies leading the USA to victory and ultimate independence. A young soldier Martin Kallakal, who inherited noble blood of excellent ancestry had married a girl who was ‘physically attractive’ but ‘feeble minded’. The result was birth of a ‘feeble minded boy’. The son of Martin married “a woman who was apparently of “the same low stock as himself.” So an  army of 134 feeble-minded descendants—33 immoral, 36 illegitimate, 3 epileptic, 3 criminal and 8 brothel keeper–traced their ancestry to Martin Kallak. Later a repentant Martin married a  Quaker woman of splendid talents and noble ancestry. The union boasted of 496 descendants who included governors, soldiers, founder of great university, doctors, lawyers, judges, landholders, useful citizens and admirable parents prominent in every phase of social life. [9]

The celebrated Indian philosopher has underlined that anuloma and pratiloma marriage practice in Hindu society helped regulate “the tendency to indiscriminate crossing” of men and women.[10]  Nevertheless we have the example of  Bengal King Ballal Sen who instituted kulinism. John Wilson, the first Vice-Chancellor of Bombay University stated in his Indian Caste (1877) that an illegitimate son of Ballal and his Brahman concubine was vested with kulinism, called Pandit Ratni, jewel of scholars. Other Bengali kulins descended from five  Brahmans imported by King Adisur from Kanauj in 10^th century A. D. [11] Ballal, a Baidya by caste, was Sudra. Womesh  Chandra  Bonnerjee belonged to the Pandit Ratni clan. Educated in England, he  was a leading lawyer of Calcutta High Court. As political leader, Bonnerjee was the founder-president of the Indian National Congress in 1885. Multiple illustrations either side  be cited. Hindu scriptures regard issues of mixed birth as sinful.

Till  1939, the secret Lebensborn project did not yield results to cheer Himmler, who, we have noted already, was into fathering bastards. He issued a direct order to all SS and police officers to father as many children as possible to compensate for war casualties triggering off controversy. Many Germans felt the acceptance of unwed mothers encouraged immorality. Eventually Himmler retraced his step but he never condemned illegitimacy outright.

Lebensborn soon started embracing non-German mothers. In 1942, Hitler formulated a policy that encouraged German soldiers to fraternize with native women, with a promise that any children they produced would be provided for. Racially fit women, most often the girlfriends or one-night stands of SS officers, were invited to Lebensborn homes to have their child in privacy and safety. It must be stated that these designer babies, save two, fathered by SS and police officers did not rise to commanding heights in accomplishment. Those two made name in music.

Gau mata: India’s first Ambassador at large – How Gujarati Gaumata became global favourite

The Times of India sometime back alarmed Indian conscience by a story aimed at causing discrimination among gaumata, under  caption ‘Ignore firang breeds; only Indian cows can be Mata’ A hoarding at a vintage location outside the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) office by Bansari Gaushala in Bakrol  appealed to devotees to feed only Indian cows as a matter of ritual. “The Indian Gau Matas’ milk, urine, dung are holy. Recent scientific research has shown how cow urine has gold. Besides this, cow milk has A2 proteins which is safe for health,” the message on the banner read. [12]

Let us now talk about history of the gau mata’s odyssey into global orbit from Gujarat most committed devotees might have forgot.  She is now a celebrity everywhere. Some five decades ago Prof. Dr. Hilton Marshall Briggs, South Dakota State University, USA, wrote that the first Indian cattle  were imported in 1849 by Dr. James Bolton Davis of Fairfield County, South Carolina. Davis was the agricultural advisor to the Sultan of Turkey and  became acquainted with Bos indicus cattle then. Although the descendants of these cattle were spread widely throughout the South America, their complete identity was lost during the Civil War. Two Indian bulls were given to Richard Barrow, a cotton and sugar planter of St. Francisville, LA., in 1854, by the British Crown in recognition of Mr. Barrow’s services of teaching cotton and sugar cane culture to a British representative bound for India to take these arts there. The offspring of these cattle became known as “Barrow Grade” cattle. The success of these two animals led to the importation of two more Indian bulls in 1885 by J.M. Frost and Albert Montgomery of Houston, Texas. By mating these two bulls to the offspring of the Barrow bulls, the first attempt to concentrate the blood of Bos indicus cattle in the United States was undertaken. In 1905 and 1906, the Pierce Ranch of Pierce, Texas, assisted by Thomas M. O’Connor of Victoria, Texas, imported thirty bulls and three females of several Indian types.

American Brahman Breeders Association remarkable role

In 1923-24, 90 bulls of the Guzerat, Gir and Nellore types were imported from Brazil. In 1925, another batch of cattle comprising 120 bulls and 18 females  from Brazil, reached USA. These information was furnished to Prof. Briggs by the American Brahman Breeders’ Association (acronymed ABBA) for his remarkable work Modern Breeds of Livestock. ABBA  was founded in 1924. The first secretary of the Association, J.W. Sartwelle of Houston proposed the word “Brahman” and so it was adopted as the name of the new beef breed. [13] An era of revolution in beef industry began thereby.

Well defined breeds of cattle in India, according to ABBA, number thirty.  Three principal strains or varieties, brought to the United States and used in the development of the Brahman breed, are the Guzerat, the Nellore, and Gir. The Krishna Valley strain too was introduced in USA. American Brahman cattle, the first beef breed developed in the U.S., rank # 1 in hybrid vigor, heat tolerance and efficiency compared to all other beef breeds. With improved growth and performance, Brahman cattle increase profitability and play an important role in crossbreeding programs worldwide. The Brahman cattle are the common thread connecting other American breeds developed in the last (nineteenth) century. American Brahman influence in the beef industry is felt world-wide, and their genetics are sought by cattlemen in every continent. Their development is a success story without parallel. Today’s cattlemen breed Brahmans for all the right reasons. [14]

Benefits of super cow

Why the descendants of cows imported in America receive such full-throated applause globally? Prof. Briggs stated that “The Brahman Cow on average in the United States can produce about 21,000 lbs (9525 kg) of milk in one year, that’s about 2,500 gallons (9463 liter) a year, and for the time of its life on earth, a Brahman Cow can produce about 200,000 glasses of milk. A 1000 pound cow in a year can make about 10 tons of manure..” [15]

These superb economic contributions can rarely be overemphasized. Above all, there is another aspect that is capable of connecting her to the security establishments of any nation. ABBA claims that “Brahman Cows can smell something up to 6 miles (9.65 Kilometer) away, they have superior sense of smell.” [16] Undoubtedly, this is an extraordinary quality of the cow.  Besides the utilities aforementioned, the animal,  if trained properly, I guess,  can be harnessed, with huge benefit, in the service of intelligence and security at a time when the world is under serious threats of extremism from various corners.

The Union Government in the Ministry and Department of Science and Technology, according to a  recent news, a national steering committee has been set up to guide research to assess the many claimed virtues of Panchgavya, a traditional concoction of cow dung, urine, milk, curd and ghee, water and three other ingredients. [17]

Huge possibility will open up before the country if researches vindicate the claims some section in India make. But do we still feign to ignore the gaumata making and breaking records offshore as firang with no recognition at her ancestral holy home?

References –

[1]     The Indian Express, May 7, 2017.

[2]     Ibid.

[3]     Ibid.

[4]     Naarty: The Lebensborn programme (1935-45)   https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-quot-lebensborn-quot-program

[5]     Ibid. Nazi Party: The Lebensborn programme (1935-45)   https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-quot-lebensborn-quot-program

[6]     The Times of India, New Delhi, August 8, 1994.

[7]     Daily O, April 7, 2017

[8]     Ibid.

[9]     S Radhakrishnan, The Hindu View of Life, Fourth Impression, May 1965, p. l 73 quoted by A K Biswas in Shesan’s superman doctrine, Mainstream, vol. XXXIII  no. 34, July 15, 1995,

[10]    Ibid.

[11]     Historians consider Adisur as fictitious. But the long shadow of this fictitious king lingers over Bengalis even now.

[12]    The Times of India, Jul 7, 2016.

[13]    https://www.brahman.org/about/

[14]     https://www.brahman.org/about/  American Brahman

[15]     Ibid.

[16]     Ibid.

[17]     The Telegraph, Calcutta, “…dung validated by science” May 18, 2017.

Author – Dr A K Biswas, A retired IAS officer and former Vice-Chancellor, B R Ambedkar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, Dr  A. K. Biswas  can be reached at biswasatulk[@]gmail.com