INDIA, January 24, 2015 (by Seema Kamdar, DNA): The brouhaha over “coming back home” sits a bit oddly with a long-accepted practice of conversion by coercion or inducements in India. While the Mughals used force to augment their religious strength, various sects of Christianity have unerringly and silently set up bases in untended territories of the country or sought out neglected sections of society such as tribals and underprivileged categories to pursue their proselytization agenda. This explains the growing number of Christians in the North-east, Odisha and Dang, all developmentally weaker regions neglected by successive governments.
In the true Indian tradition of saam (advice), daam (price), dand (punishment), bheda (exploitation), conversions continue to be a part of India’s complex politico-religious narrative. The difference in the ghar wapsi furor is perhaps the pitch at which it is being sold and the tacky way in which it is being done. Given the measly numbers being reconverted, they should not even be noticed, let alone hog the headlines.
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