See their diatribe in link below -aimed at Hindusim while blaming it on RSS.
The Communists who cry for minority rights in India cannot imagine Hindus being ever in a minority anywhere. However, only orthodox Hinduism can be blamed for this which for centuries did not allow Hindus to travel overseas and even excommunicated Mahatma Gandhi.
Most of these communists are themsleves children of such orthodoxy and cannot imagine Hindus getting persecuted or having to defend their religious beliefs and build cohesive networkds in this increasing global movement of Indians (mostly Hindus) .
I can sympathesize with them for charging at windmills -given the demise of communism throughout the world - and remind them to speak for rights of Hindus to build their temple in erstwhile communist USSR -I mean Russia where Krishna temples are being destroyed under govt order pressurised by Russian
Orthodox Chruch - even persecuting other Christian denominations there.
Any comments? --esp by our secularists?
Umesh
"Interestingly this whole enterprise of chauvinism is being proposed in the name of plurality and respect for difference, by giving "space" to those who have assumed for themselves the right to speak for all Hindusin fact all Indiansand who are open admirers of Hitler and the notion of superiority of the Aryan race! Hence their desperation to show it as race and originating in and indigenous to India, representing a mythical golden age!
"We would of course wonder why the RSS linked organisations are so keen on all this fabrication of Indian history and culture in the US, to push their vision on children who have little real contact with India and who would most likely never come to India. These children are
part and parcel of American society rather than of India, even given their rootlessness and restlessness born out a feeling of "difference". They are only capable of a long distance nationalismand the RSS is keen that it should be of the Hindutva variety.
HINDUTVA OVERSEAS CAMPAIGN
The reasons for the Hindutva overseas campaigns and creation of networks of Hindus through all kind of social service organisations in the
US and in Britain can only be understood in the context of their agenda in India, for which an ever flowing stream of financial resources is of crucial significance. The alarming growth of the RSS sponsored organisations in the tribal areas of Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, the North East states and Orissa would simply have not been possible without the steady flow of "funds" from the US and Britain. The volume and role of this huge fund of resources from these countries into the RSS networks has been documented very ably by citizens groups, and one can well see that with the BJP not in power at the centre, the significance of these "charities" from foreign lands can only assume greater importance for the RSS here.
School textbooks that portray India as essentially Hindu, whose greatness has been undermined since the invasions and cruel reigns of Muslim rulers, create both empathy for "Hindu" organisations and causes, and hatred for Muslims, a scheme that ties up very well not merely with the Hindutva agenda in India, but with the Islamophobia currently promoted by the US establishment. And if such school texts could influence the visions of both children of Indian origin and those born of American parents as wella steady stream of charities could well be ensured for a long time.
And the reason we have some members of the Board, not Indians at all, falling over themselves in
pleasing the Hindutva agents in the US shows the strength and legitimacy acquired by these organisations in the US establishments as spokes people/representatives of the Indian community. The identification of Indian studies with religious studies and the Sanskrit language etc has always been promoted by the academic establishment in the US and Britain. Despite the criticisms of the genocide in Gujarat and the Hindu religious fundamentalism by the US establishment, it is the Hindutva agents and organisations that carry legitimacy within it and are celebrated as another manifestation of the pluralism and diversity of American society. The secular, democratic south Asians are largely rendered invisible when it comes to considering questions of history and culture of South Asians. Very much like the right wing Jewish lobby, we have now a well organised Hindu right wing lobby that is in a position to influence the US establishment."
Umesh Sharma
5121 Lackawanna ST
College Park, MD 20740
1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]
Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
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