The Concerted Global Effort to Discredit Hindus and India: Tackling the Challenge

Note: This is a slightly edited version of a chapter I wrote for the book “Found Decades of Hindu Renaissance” published by Vivek Vyaspeeth in April 2023. This is a long essay, but it offers some glimpse of the vast network of individuals, agencies, institutions, and interests at work in “dismantling Hinduism and India”.

Introduction

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” is not an Arab proverb but a Sanskrit one, Cordesman (2014) pointed out, reminding Indian students of the adage credited to Kautilya in Book VI of the Arthashastra (1915): “The king who is situated anywhere immediately on the circumference of the conqueror’s territory is termed the enemy. The king who is likewise situated close to the enemy, but separated from the conqueror only by the enemy, is termed the friend (of the conqueror)”. Unfortunately, at present, for India, it is not just the border states that may be inimical but others — nations across the world, political ideologies and ideologues, faith groups, academics/scholars, the powerful Western media, and the institutions inspired by the so-called “great” religions — who have conspired to plot, strategize, and enact various plans together or in tandem to discredit and destabilize India, if not “break India,” through a variety of strategies, both short term and long term, and trap Hindus in pincer moves from which they cannot escape, or push them into corners from which they cannot emerge.