INDIA, October 15, 2024 (The Commune): After centuries of surviving persecution under mleccha rule by restricting their faith to the boundaries of their individuals homes and shrines, Hindus are reclaiming their sense of being a sociopolitical community. This collective sense of being, which had existed since the Vedic era, had been rendered dormant first as an adaptation to oppression under foreign rule and then, after 1947, as a matter of the State’s social engineering endeavor of enforced secularization of the Hindu social, economic, political and even religious life. Yet, the rediscovery of the importance of community affairs, i.e. Hindutva, is recrystallising with Hindus being increasingly eager to articulate, advocate, and agitate for Hindu concerns and interests.

The absence of any noticeable collective feeling of Hindutva in our country for many decades following independence owes, in our opinion, to the almost complete deracination of the Hindu mind for over two centuries of colonization by the British, preceded by aggressive destruction of our holy places by the Muslims. The post-1858 period was particularly unfortunate in this regard—Macaulay had done his work efficiently—and Hindus were degraded physically, mentally and morally with a small number allowed to ascend to lowly clerical positions in the Raj to ultimately form the future ruling elite of the brown sahibs. This enfeebled condition of the Hindus continued unfortunately after independence with a secular constitution that placed the 80% majority community at a status lower than the 20% minority communities, and by this we mean largely the 15% Muslim community. What is needed is for Hindus to ultimately control the “commanding heights of the society”, in other words, control over education, media, the legal system and the Overton window [the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time]. A few such initiatives suggested are as follows: 1. Temple Freedom, 2. Sanatana Dharma Samrakshana Board, 3. UCC, 4. Waqf, 5. Citizenship, 6. Reclamation of the Kshetram, and 7. Education.

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