Shrikant G. Talageri –The full question (necessarily shortened in the title) is: Why is the “Hindutvavadi” BJP more effectively, more dangerously and more destructively Anti-Hindu than the openly Anti-Hindu coalition of Leftist, Evangelist and Islamist forces which has been brilliantly and pithily described by Rajiv Malhotra as the coalition of “Breaking India Forces”?
The supporters and apologists of the BJP would put the question rhetorically as follows: Why would the BJP, which depends on Hindu votes, be more Anti- Hindu than the Breaking India Forces, or even be anti-Hindu at all? (i.e. implying that they are not, or could not be, anti-Hindu; let alone more anti-Hindu than others). This is indeed the main question.
To answer the title question first (before moving on to the main question), the first point to be noted is that the BJP is indeed more effectively anti-Hindu than the more openly anti-Hindu forces: whether it is the massive 70000 crores+ minorities- only schemes (and their firm reiteration in the Supreme Court); the recent move to prepare the grounds for extending SC reservations to Muslim and Christian converts from the SC ranks; the utter refusal to grant autonomy (on par with Muslim and Christian religious and other bodies and institutions) to Hindu temples and educational (etc.) institutions and the constant looting of the funds and properties of these Hindu temples and institutions; the continuous and subtle strengthening of the anti-Hindu nature of laws and regulations in every sphere of life (the examples for which are so many and so continuously brought up by critics in the social media that it would require separate research and a separate article); the continuous concern by BJP Parivar leaders (including RSS leaders) for the “welfare” of ( or only of) the “minorities”; the indignation and swift action (e.g.. the Nupur Sharma case) by these leaders when “minority” religious sentiments are “hurt” (as compared to their utter indifference when Hindu sentiments are deliberately attacked); the stonewalling of Hindu historical issues (e.g. the film
“1921: Nadi Se Nadi Tak” and the proud refusal to correct anti-Hindu historical inaccuracies in textbooks); and even the personal attitude of the topmost leaders of the BJP Parivar who cannot be bothered to give even a single (even a) hypocritical tweet expressing concern when sadhus are brutally slaughtered (as in Palghar) or Hindus or Hindu activists are targeted and killed (the list of these is endless, from individuals to entire communities — again it would require a separate article to list these instances), but find time to tweet concern even when an anti-Hindu activist (e.g. Shabana Azmi) gets a minor bruise. Or, of course, there is the massive and destructive gang-rape of India’s forests and natural heritage, in which the BJP Parivar outperforms all predecessors (including the Mughals and the British).
Why “more effectively“? Because when “secularists” or the openly anti-Hindu forces do any of these things, there are effective (or at least effectively vocal) protests born of indignation from Hindu or “Hindutvavadi” people, but when the BJP Parivar does the same things (and on an even greater scale), those same “Hindutvavadi” people either firmly turn a blind eye and a deaf ear, or stridently set out with missionary zeal on a course of whitewashing, defending, supporting or even glorifying these anti-Hindu acts. A case in point is the recent article in Swarajya magazine which tried to convert the anti-Hindu act of trying to open the floodgates of SC conversions from Hinduism to Christianity and Islam into a Hindutvavadi act performed to defend Hinduism from “judicial bullets”.
And when Hindus or Hindu organizations do criticize or protest (or pretend to do so), it is with the proviso that “of course, when it comes to casting our votes, There Is No Alternative to the BJP“, which makes their criticisms or protests an open case of what in Konkani we call “h[1]v m:rlvri ka:rt[1], t[1]v ra:vri kri” (I will pretend to hit you, you pretend to cry). Or rather, in this case: “I will pretend to hit you, but don’t bother to even pretend to cry, just ignore it: there will be no repercussions from my side”!
This of course, brings up a third question (which must be answered before the main question): is the BJP Parivar indeed intrinsically more anti-Hindu than the openly anti-Hindu coalition of Breaking India Forces?. The answer to this third question, put in this form, with the word “intrinsically“, would be “No”: but without that word it is a definite “Yes”. The BJP is not intrinsically more anti- Hindu, but it is much more anti-Hindu in effect because while the Breaking India
Forces are motivated (out of Hatred) by the desire to destroy Hinduism, the BJP Parivar is not motivated by Hatred, but by an equally horrible and powerful motive, Greed: for them Money and Power are the only two things that matter: absolutely nothing else matters (love or hatred for anything, other than love for Money and Power, just do not enter into the picture at all). To understand this fully, please see my article “Leftists and Rightists”:
https://talageri.blogspot.com/2019/10/leftists-and-rightists.html
And the Greed of the BJP is even more powerful, obsessive and all-consuming than the Hatred of the Breaking India Forces. So, again, the main question: Why would the BJP, which depends on Hindu votes, be more Anti-Hindu than the Breaking India Forces, or even be anti- Hindu at all?
The answer consists of two parts:
I. The illusion of the BJP’s “dependence” on Hindu votes.
II. The American Factor.
I. The illusion of the BJP’s “dependence” on Hindu votes.
The idea that the BJP is “dependent” on Hindu votes is based on the illusion that Hindus think and vote, which makes it necessary for positive action on the part of the BJP to retain those votes. Actually, Hindus have never bothered to think on such matters, let alone act on the basis of thinking. Once a political idea has been implanted into the Hindu consciousness, large sections of Hindus continue to stick to that idea through thick and thin. In 1947, Hindus decided that the Congress would protect their interests, and they by and large stuck to that idea for decades through the effects of extremely adverse evidence. Now, the idea, that the BJP will not only protect Hindu interests but that it intrinsically represents Hindu interests, has taken control of the general Hindu psyche, and it will take decades for this idea to spend itself out. There is therefore a dominant section of Hindu society today which will stick to the “No Alternative to the BJP” line of thinking through thick and thin: the two main bodies of this dominant section consist firstly of those common Hindus who don’t read or think and simply go about their daily activities in a state of ignorant bliss, and secondly those “thinking” activist Hindus who are completely controlled by the rasa of bhakti!
It is true that an examination of the internet shows an increasing number of thinking Hindus (especially after the Nupur Sharma episode) getting disillusioned with the BJP Parivar and criticizing the BJP dispensation in no uncertain terms. But it must be remembered that these critics include tactical critics (including members of BJP Parivar affiliate organizations, and pro-BJP intellectuals) who tactically criticize the BJP to keep their flock in line, but then swerve back to the TINA line when elections come up. And their tactical criticism sometimes shows up in actual tactics: recently, after the Nupur Sharma episode, many such intellectuals criticized the BJP, and, after an appropriate interval, came up with a new stand expressing regret at having criticized too hastily and expressing a new understanding of the important factors and aspects (which had apparently escaped their attention earlier when they expressed their hasty criticisms) which made the actions of the BJP Parivar in that episode not just excusable but in fact necessary and even based on pragmatic wisdom born out of concern for long-term Indian and Hindu interests!
But yes, in spite of all this, many thinking Hindus are becoming more and more disillusioned with the BJP Parivar’s destructive anti-Hinduism disguised as “Hindutva”. The only question is: how concerned should the BJP be with the prospect of this disillusionment affecting their electoral vote-banks of “Hindus”? There is little reason to be concerned, if we consider the following factors:
1. The first and most important factor, already mentioned, is, of course, the huge majority of BJP’s Hindu voters who belong to the two categories already described: the non-thinking masses and the determined legions of bhakts. The number of Hindus who could get disillusioned enough with the BJP as to turn into NOTA- voters, non-voters or anti-BJP-voters is very small compared to these hard-core masses who will stick to the BJP through (the most adverse conditions of) thick and thin, and therefore the loss of Hindu votes can be dismissed as irrelevant or negligible. And the BJP think-tanks and tacticians believe (correctly) that these minor losses can easily be filled up with other voter-blocks:
a) The new minority voters (however small the groups) benefitted by the BJP’s acts: thus women benefitted (or pleased) by the laws against triple-talaq (good laws in themselves, but nothing to do with Hindu interests either way), students or lay “minority” sections benefitting from the Rs. 70000+ crores minorities-only schemes, Islamic or Christian religious or community leaders feted or rewarded by the BJP, etc. Even if a miniscule minority of these people become BJP-friendly, the reduction of these miniscule numbers from the anti-BJP vote-banks and their inclusion into the BJP vote-banks is still a “something-is-better-than-nothing” proposition.
b) People, or leaders with caste-followings, belonging to Hindu (but not necessarily Hindutva-minded) castes benefitting from special privileges (like new reserved categories) or personal benefits or special space within the BJP dispensation. Again, “something is better than nothing”. The divide-and-rule policy of caste reservations has become the most handy tool of the BJP in its foray into originally non-BJP voter groups, and to hell with the havoc it causes among the Hindu ranks. It started with the strong support for the Mandal Commission, followed by major strategic gains in Rajasthan by including the Jats as OBCs and then strategic planned state-wise “caste-engineering” in every corner of India, and now culminating in the planned induction of SC converts to Islam and Christianity into the list of reserved SC categories. The ultimate goal will be reservations for all minorities, i.e. Muslims and Christians. Mark my words: the ignorant Hindu masses will swallow even that, and the bhakts will find ways and means to defend and even to glorify even that as “true Hindutva”! So, the few Hindu voters who may move away from the BJP can be ignored.
[A major but important diversion from the main discussion is called for here: this Machiavellian and unprincipled behavior of the BJP Parivar can be contrasted with the behavior of Bal Thackeray, the only person after Veer Savarkar to deserve the title “Hindu Hriday Samrat”. Three acts of that leader deserve mention here:
a) When the Ayodhya movement (hijacked for political purposes by the BJP Parivar from the Hindu Mahasabha, and recently disowned by the Sarsanghchalak of the RSS himself) was in full swing, and a section of true Hindu activists demolished the Babri structure, the entire leadership of the BJP Parivar was quaking in its shoes and urinating in its pants in terror at the possible political repercussions (on their fate) of the unplanned and unexpected demolition (which put an end to the unending token pujas and election-time issues which were intended to see them through countless elections), and was bleating that “it must have been Shiv Sainiks who did it”. The Shiv Sena chief, the very next day of the demolition, announced: “if it is my shiv-sainiks who demolished the structure, I am proud of them”. This gave courage to all Hindu activists who were becoming demoralized by the Parivar’s wailing and moaning. I was in Delhi, seeing to the proof-reading of my first book, published a few months later; and the next day, Sita Ram Goel and myself (as I accompanied him on his morning walk) were accosted by a number of his acquaintances who were full of admiration for “that Bal Thackeray from Maharashtra”. [Incidentally, two other stalwarts who also openly supported the demolition were Swami Chinmayananda the founder of the Chinmaya Mission, and the great NRI writer V.S.Naipaul].
b) Even before the demolition, the Islamic mobs had been rioting all over the country, and specifically in Mumbai, on the Ayodhya issue. This was in continuation of the “at-least-one-major-riot-per-year” policy of the Islamicists in Mumbai since (and from even before) 1947 on any “Muslim” issue taking place anywhere in the world. However, when the Shiv Sena Pramukh issued a public statement and gave a call to Hindus to remove their bangles and fight back, there was a major backlash, and the Muslim rioters received a drubbing they have never forgotten. After that, the riot-per-year came to a complete halt, and there has been no major riot in Mumbai in the last 30 years — a situation that the Breaking-India forces find extremely irksome. [Narendra Modi, when CM of Gujarat later, followed Thackeray’s lead in this matter, though less vocally, and Gujarat also has been a more-or-less riot-mukta area since].
c) Most telling of all, when PM V.P.Singh unleashed his Mandal-astra to further divide the Hindu masses, Bal Thackeray was the only important leader to oppose it. Most breath-takingly thrilling was what happened at the Shiv Sena’s annual Vijayadashami rally at Shivaji Park in Mumbai that year. The newspapers were full of predictions that Thackeray would not dare to openly oppose the Mandal Commission since most of his Shiv Sainiks were OBCs, and the important (then) Shiv Sena leader Chhagan Bhujbal (himself an OBC) had openly supported the Commission report. But Thackeray stunned the media at Shivaji Park: he asked all the people who were in the massive rally, who belonged to the “OBC” communities. to raise their hands. A massive number, nearly 80-90 per cent of the crowd, raised their hands. Thackeray explained in detail that such reservations did not benefit anyone, except for a few elites among them, and the only result would be a divided and infighting-ridden Hindu community. He declared: “I am opposing the Mandal Commission. Are you with me in this?”. A huge uproar as the crowd replied: “We are with you!”. And they remained with him, in even greater numbers! Which other political leader would have had the guts to even dream of doing such a thing?]
To return to the main subject:
2. As I have already pointed out numerous times in my articles (and more often on private forums), the BJP Parivar has a never-ending supply of election-time “Hindu” issues which are calculated to bring in the Hindu votes — even those “sulking” ones. Apart from the standard three-pronged fare of “Hindu”
“achievements” of BJP governments (massive and expensive statues, massive and expensive temples, and major place-name-changes — all of them, of course, loaded with financial kick-backs) during normal years, election time brings in more emotional issues: mainly riots, terrorist acts and border issues. Sometimes, with a gentle nudge from the ruling party: the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act, 2000) was one such issue intended to capture Delhi for the BJP. It was a lame issue, where not only different sections of Hindus, but even Christians, in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, were to have their citizenship process “expedited”, but only if they had already been staying in India since 2014 (i.e. since six years!). This could have been done quietly, but it was done with fanfare, and the inevitable Muslim “agitation” against the Act was deliberately kept alive till the elections. That particular ploy, for various reasons, failed to work in this specific instance. But as a rule, such ploys definitely works wonders in Lok Sabha elections!
[Again, a necessary diversion: was the BJP ever really serious about the CAA or about anything to do with protecting persecuted Hindus anywhere? The way in which the BJP Parivar left large numbers of gullible Hindus of Bengal (and not mere Hindus, but actual BJP activists) down after the recent Vidhan Sabha elections in Bengal is not an isolated incident. Numerous Hindu communities and Hindu individuals all over India have experienced the total indifference of the Parivar to their fate, once they lose their utility to the Parivar.
The Kashmiri Pandits have been experiencing it for decades (notwithstanding the propaganda-use to which the Parivar put the film “The Kashmir Files” which recorded their tragic fate: a film “1921: Nadi Se Nadi Tak” recording the similar fate of Kerala Hindus 100 years ago, has less propaganda value for the BJP and seems to have been suppressed or stonewalled), and recent news reports reveal that even Hindu refugees from Pakistan in 1947 have yet to get their colonies recognized as “authorized” colonies entitling them to basic amenities like electricity!) As the BJP leader Uma Bharati had frankly admitted in an interview, Hindu issues (like Ayodhya) are “cards” which can be used in an election but have to be thrown away afterwards: “you cannot play the same card twice”, she wisely pointed out!].
3. In continuation of the above, the BJP has little fear of losing its Hindu vote banks because of its anti-Hindu acts (however much more anti-Hindu their acts may be than similar acts of their Secularism-spouting rivals). This is thanks to the constant clamor of the Breaking India coalition (which works hand-in-hand with the BJP Parivar) that the BJP represents “Hindu Communalism” and that the “minorities” are in danger under BJP rule. If it is difficult for Hindu voters to doubt that the BJP can be considered anything but a Hindu party even in the face of the BJP’s back-stabbing, simply because the BJP and its bhakts and activists constantly claim that it is a Hindu Party, the only truly Hindu party, and one for which there is No Alternative — then how much more powerfully persuasive would the same claim (that the BJP is a Hindu party) be when its sworn “enemies” also keep making this claim in the form of a continuous barrage of vociferous accusations!
It is often quipped that the Gandhi family (specifically Sonia Gandhi and more specifically Rahul Gandhi) is the biggest political asset for the BJP: it effectively puts off voters (even those disillusioned with the BJP) from treating the Congress
as a serious alternative, and at the same time keeps the opposition divided. But that is only as a political party: in the ideological space, it is the clamorous coalition of Breaking India Forces (the Islamists, Evangelists, and the Leftist intellectuals, academics and media armies) which keeps alive and kicking the image of the BJP Parivar as a “Hindu” party doing things for Hindus and working against non- Hindus, not only within India but even in the international sphere. The Breaking India Forces are the biggest allies of the BJP Parivar, and the greatest assets for the “Hindu” image of the BJP Parivar, and give it the biggest leeway in backstabbing Hindus without fear of adverse reactions from the ranks of Hindu voters.
4. A question arises: however small the number of disillusioned Hindus who see through the shenanigans of the BJP Parivar may be, in comparison with the ignorant Hindu masses and the active bhakts, surely they can gather together and form an alternative more openly and genuinely Hindu party which would serve as a brake to the BJP’s constant backstabbing? To begin with, this is difficult in the face of the overpowering weight of the ignorant Hindus and the bhakts, who would immediately brand this as an anti-Hindu ploy to divide the Hindu vote. The TINA dogma has already been too deeply entrenched within the Hindu psyche for an alternate Hindu party to be effective.
But if not effective as an alternative, it could function as a catalyst in forcing the BJP Parivar to perforce mend its ways and become less Hindu-destructive. If all the disillusioned Hindus, including the most eloquent among them, get together and form a Hindu party that would cut into the Hindu votes of the BJP, the BJP would be forced to align with them and to modify its anti-Hindu acts in order to keep the alliance working. But there are two problems: the first one is that historical experience has shown that it works the other way round. When the Sena- BJP government of Maharashtra under Manohar Joshi disbanded the anti-Hindu Shrikrishna Commission appointed by its predecessor government to probe the Mumbai riots of 1992-93, even a stalwart like Bal Thackeray was compelled by the BJP to reinstate the commission!
But even more to the point: such an alternative would only be possible in a democratic country. But India under the BJP is not a democracy: it is a purely Fascist state. Fascism (despite all the propaganda) is not a feature of any kind of
Hindutva or even necessarily of “Rightist” ideology: Fascism is not an ideological term, it is a governmental term. Any government which seeks to establish a purely Authoritarian and Totalitarian rule where all vestiges of opposition are completely and forcibly wiped out is a Fascist one: whether it is the government of Mussolini (who actually used the name Fascist for his Party), Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, or Kim. True, a few more steps require to be taken to make it purely Fascist, like banning all opposition parties and making elections openly a single-party process. That stage has not yet been reached in India, and, when Fascist control can be achieved through less blatant methods, may not even be necessary. But the way in which India is being pushed towards becoming not just Congress-mukta but Opposition-mukta, with the very powerfully effective use of governmental weapons like the CBI, IT Department, Enforcement Directorate and other
government agencies, is a process that the whole of India has been watching in the last few years, not just passively but indifferently. Every state elections sees attacks on major Opposition party leaders in that state; and corrupt opposition leaders (MPs, MLAs, corporators, panchayat members, etc.) are being subjected to ED raids which either lead to their imprisonment or to their joining the BJP and becoming cleansed of all their sins. A change of government has been effectively brought about in various states (Goa, Maharashtra, for example) by the effective use of these government agencies. If there is no opposition party (Secular or Hindu) worth the name left, why bother about winning or losing Hindu votes?
[Another aspect of the increasing power of Fascist governance in the world is the way in which all governments are moving towards the situation depicted by George Orwell in his book “Nineteen Eighty-Four” where every single individual in the state is targeted as an individual and is under permanent and increasing surveillance by the rulers. Fighting crime and terrorism is one of the arguments advanced to do all this, and may even be acceptable to some extent. But news from China shows how far the world has progressed towards that nightmarish scenario. In India, this Orwellization started with “liberalization” in 1993, went on with compulsory Pan-cards and later Adhaar cards for every individual, complete digital tracking of the personal private lives of every individual through IT and the Internet, etc.
And, in the last few years, in India it is unfolding in the form of the increasing shift of responsibilities from the collective to the personal: every individual, rather than the company concerned, has to show dividend income in his personal IT returns and personally pay tax on it; every resident of a cooperative housing society, rather than the society as a whole, has to individually pay property tax. etc. Small things, but the purpose is Fascist: to keep the individual continuously embroiled in official red tape and procedures, and make him vulnerable to governmental witch-hunting, and to leave little scope for the individual to have time to see what is going on around him].
5. As already pointed out, the only ideology that the BJP Parivar has is “Money and Power”: mainly power for amassing money. And during its recent eight years tenure, the BJP has brought in at least two important corrupt or anti-national laws (or amendments to existing laws) which have made it probably the single richest political party in the world (except perhaps for the two major US parties, and the CCP which controls everything in China):
a) The 2016-2017 budget amendment to the FCRA (Foreign Contributions Regulations Act, 2010) allows foreign contributions to Indian Political Parties with retrospective effect from 2010.
b) The Electoral Bonds scheme (notified on 2-1-2018) allows people to contribute anonymously to Indian political parties through Electoral Bonds sold through the government-controlled SBI. This gives the ruling party (but no one else) direct access to knowing who is funding which political party, with predictable consequences. It also enables people to get into the good books of the ruling party by contributing a part of their black money to them.
c) There are also the endless and multi-billion-dollar (yes, rupee valuation would be tame for this), or even trillion dollar, “Development” projects which enable the ruling party, its individual members, and their family members, friends and cronies, to amass unlimited wealth. This is a double whammy, where the massive income is not the only benefit: the mass-propaganda effect of awing and mesmerizing the electoral masses with the magic word “Development” allows the BJP Parivar to eat its mammoth cake and have it too!
In all these circumstances, the BJP sees little need to “pamper” or “appease” its Hindu vote banks for coming to power. It is more sensible to realize that the major sections of Hindus are already deeply ensconced in their (Parivar) pockets and not likely to budge from there under any circumstance: the only thing now is to add new sections of voters to their kitty through various methods, and the Muslim and Christian voters are now the target groups.
But the question remains: even if it is not necessary to pay attention or give importance to Hindu issues, what is the need to actively attack Hindu interests and work towards the total destruction of Hinduism?
II. The American Factor.
I have been pointing out right from my college days in the late seventies (after observing the behavior of the ex-Jana Sanghis, even before the actual formation of the BJP by that name in 1980) that the guiding factor in the policies of “Sangh” politicians is that America is to them what the (erstwhile Communist states of) USSR and China were to the Communist Parties of India. I wrote an article (in a notebook in 1978) called “Communalism” where I lambasted the Secularists and Leftists, but noted that the Trojan Horse “Sangh” was equally de-Indianized. In my article “Sita Ram Goel — Memories and Ideas” in the Sita Ram Goel Commemoration Volume, published in 2005 by Voice of India (New Delhi), I put it as follows: “the BJP represents the USA, or at least the International Capitalist class with its base in the USA, more than it represents India. If it was said of the CPI that its leaders ‘open out their umbrellas in Delhi when it rains in Moscow’, it could be said of the BJP that its leaders ‘pull out their snow-shovels in Mumbai when it snows in New York'” (TALAGERI 2005a:338).
In the rapid course of events since then, I had rather lost sight of this American factor, but it was indirectly brought to my notice recently by two very profound tweets by Koenraad Elst: on 6/10/2022, Elst tweeted: “While it is true that China supports the Indian Left, it does not need to issue directives. The Indian Left has its own anti-Hindu agenda. Its Hindu-bashing is not due to the CCP, the NYT or any other foreign power centre, as nationalists imagine”. This of course, was always obvious to me: the Indian Leftists’ hatred for Hinduism is based
on their own inner psychopathic compulsions, not on any “foreign” directives. But, his second tweet on the same day was truly profound and, to me, very enlightening, as it brought to my notice a very fundamental fact about China that I had never thought about: “China has an objective interest in seeing India fall apart, yet it is not attacking Hinduism. The US has an objective interest in seeing India strong, viz. as a counterweight to China (& to global terror which it claims to be fighting), yet it hosts all kinds of Hindu-bashing”.
There is no doubt that China is an enemy of India: it has had a very major war with India, it occupies large chunks of Indian territory, it supports Maoist-Leninist insurgents in India, it arms Pakistan to the hilt and is trying to encircle and isolate India, and it has taken an anti-Indian stand on every major issue — but it has never made Hinduism the target of its attacks! If, tomorrow, China were to conquer and occupy India, it is very possible that it would try to stamp out Hinduism as an effective counter force, as it has done to Lama Buddhism in Tibet or Islam in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region. But Hindu India has never, or never yet, been its target.
On the other hand, although Hindu Americans are a respected group in the USA (or am I wrong in thinking so?), and a huge majority of Americans (as Ihave read in so many articles, e.g. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/americans-turn-to- hindu-beliefs/articleshow/4904634.cms) have become similar to Hindus in a great many spiritual ways, practice Yoga, become vegetarians, believe in multi- culturalism, prefer to be cremated rather than buried, use Hindu terms (like moksha, nirvana, mantra, guru, etc.) in their speech, etc. — yet America and some of its European allies are the most militant in their blatant Hinduphobia and Hindumisia. All anti-Hindu movements are financed by America: let me clarify that alternate terms for what I simply call “America” in this context could be “the American Wokists”, “the American Fundamentalists”, “the American Deep State”, “the International Capitalist Class”, or even simply just “the entrenched Western Establishmentarian Class”.
And American money, in billions and trillions of dollars accompanied by technological and logistic support of all kinds, flows towards anyone who is engaged in attacking and destroying Hinduism. Those are generally the “Breaking
India Forces”, and the organizations and individuals who receive these funds need not necessarily be in positions of political power anywhere. There are countless American financed anti-Hindu individuals who must be attracting American money in huge amounts. American political directives are taken to heart even by parties which are not traditionally considered pro-American. Can we forget how the Congress PM Manmohan Singh was willing to sacrifice his government in August 2007, when the two Communist parties threatened to withdraw support to the coalition government led by him if he signed the Nuclear Deal with the USA? Of course, the compulsions of electoral politics then made him take back his words two months later.
When America and its western allies are the main unlimited source of funds to any and every section of Indians who want to destroy Hinduism, it is obvious which entity would be the main and most important recipient of unlimited funds and strategic, logistic and intelligence support: an entity which could do the deepest and most permanent damage to Hinduism by maneuvering itself into the role of the Only Alternative for Hindus, coming to power on Hindu issues, making a few showy and expensive gestures (grand temples, grand statues, place-renaming, photo-ops in front of murtis and Hindu sages, etc) and election-time stunts (Hindu issues and border issues), keeping Hindus divided on caste lines, and then actively working to destroy Hinduism from within with the conscious or unconscious support of masses of ignorant or unthinking Hindus and unshakable bhakts. Is it any wonder that the BJP is working so hard to please the anti-Hindu western masters, with some coordinated help from the Breaking India Forces which have the same masters?
I have nothing to add here to all the above. But a few concluding remarks:
1. All this is not something new that I am saying now. The awareness of the Trojan-horse and backstabbing nature of the BJP Parivar was present in my mind right from the Janata Party days in the late seventies. I wrote in a private notebook for my own edification, until my preface to the 2003 reprint of my 1993 book “The Aryan Invasion Theory and Indian Nationalism” (Voice Of India, New Delhi, 2003). After that, I wrote a section detailing these continuous betrayals in the last section “Pseudo-Hindutva” of my article “Sita Ram Goel — Memories and Ideas” in the Sita Ram Goem Commemoration volume “India’s only Communalist” (Voice Of India, New Delhi, 2005).
I have been putting my views on these matters in many of my blog articles, notably:
a) Leftists and Rightists 15/10/2019.
b) The BJP Gives People Choices 7/1/2021.
c) The Andaman Islanders and Indian Civilization 4/2/2021.
d) Raping India’s Forests – The Highest Point of Political “Hindutva” 1/7/2022.
e) The Buddha vis-à-vis Brahmins 7/10/2022.
2. For the record, I am a very staunch Hindutvavadi (and I have absolutely no objections to being described as a Hindu Nationalist, because according to me, a true Nationalist will have respect for the culture and identity of all nations and cultures). But I would not mind being called an SJW either because I (unlike the leftist and wokist vultures who are honored with that title) am also a strong supporter of Social Justice and Environment. And the only -isms that I have no respect for are the different -isms which constitute the Breaking India forces, because they are based on hatred. But, this does not translate into hatred of or aversion to Muslims and Christians: a large percentage of my best friends have been Muslims, Christians and Parsis, right from my school, college, office and outside, and most of them trust me and respect my beliefs even if they don’t like them. And yes, a large percentage of my friends are also RSS people (i.e. BJP Parivar people): of course, I don’t know how many of them would respect my views on the BJP Parivar!
3. I will not bother to respond to personal attacks on this present article, because they are only to be expected, and I think have said everything I have had to say on the subject. Of course genuine, non-hostile and non-repetitive discussion is always welcome.
4. What was the purpose of this whole article? Do I expect to make any change in the situation in any way? Obviously not: most of the hundreds or few thousands who read this article may not approve or “agree” at all, and I am under no illusions of my being a game-changer in political matters at least.
One purpose could be simply to try to detoxify my mind of all the despair and frustration which all this treachery arouses, by expressing it in words.
But another more concrete purpose is to have my views on record. I am a worshipper of Truth, and have a high respect for History and Posterity. When, a hundred years after today, India has become a fully Islamic nation, or has been broken into many Islamic and Christian countries, or become a part of the nightmarish future predicted by George Orwell in his book “Nineteen Eighty- four”, and the stray historian reads the history of present times, and wonders whether anyone had noticed the developments taking place and recorded his/her views on the subject, I want my name to be present on the Roster of Honor in this respect.
APPENDIX dt. 30-10-2022:
Something we should not be surprised at. But what makes it all the more illustrative of what is happening in India under the BJP and its diehard “Hindu” bhakts, is that even I was not aware of this until this tweet yesterday by M. Nageswara Rao IPS (Retd.), one of the most indefatigable fighters for Hinduism, brought it to my notice:
The comments and replies to this tweet will make things clearer:
https://mobile.twitter.com/MNageswarRaoIPS/status/1586368399570964480
I can only say: this is just the tip of the iceberg of the extent to which this anti- Hindu monolith is willing to go to get votes and to please its foreign paymasters.
