Pavan K. Varma’s The Great Hindu Civilization – Achievement
Neglect Bias and the Way Forward must be read in the context of the rapid
degeneration of India from a Constitutional secular democracy to an autocratic
state where the only democratic feature is periodic elections; all other
Constitutional provisions that made India the largest democracy in the world
are being allowed to erode rapidly by the ruling Hindutva establishment.
The advocates of Hindutva, the political ideology of Hindu
nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP), claim with fervour that following Narendra Modi’s electoral victories in
2014 and 2019, the Indian nation has been reawakened from a deep slumber, and
has entered a phase of true Hindu renaissance.
And that it is time now for the Hinduism to reclaim its
rightful place at the top that it has traditionally and legitimately occupied;
to obliterate the influences of the ‘Islamic marauders,’ and the British
colonial rulers. These ‘aliens’ subjugated the Hindu mind and emasculated the
Hindu civilization for a millennium. What drives these bhakts up the wall is
that even in the first five to six decades of an independent India, the
Nehruvian ideology of secularism continued to dominate academic and public
discourse, leading to further marginalization of the Indian civilization’s
Hindu ethos.
For these bhakts, there is no distinction between Hinduism
and Hindutva – they are the same, or at best two sides of the same coin.
Violence is their preferred mode of discourse. The hatred fomented by the
bhakts has driven India to the edge of the precipice, periodically culminating
in violence against the religious and caste minorities. The state is complicit
in these diabolical shenanigans, as it allows the Hindutva forces to slowly but
in a determined manner, take control of all the apparatus of statehood that was
created to ensure democratic rights to the people.
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