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Hindutva (literally translated: "Hinduness")[note 2] is a majoritarian[2][3] political ideology and far-right fascist ethnonationalist movement. Basically, a Bharatiya Janata Party
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melding of Hindu Fundamentalism[4] and Hindu Fascism[5] and forms the basis of the Hindu nationalist movement in India as a political form[note 3] of Hindu Swayamsevak
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militant nationalism that aims to eliminate the secular foundation of India's constitutional democracy[7] and turn India into a Hindu State (“Hindu Rashtra”) Sangh
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also referred to as “Rama’s Realm” (“Ram Rajya”).[8][9] Vishwa Hindu Parishad
About RationalWiki In India, an umbrella organization called the Sangh Parivar champions the ideology of Hindutva. The Sangh comprises organizations such as the Rashtriya of America
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Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council), and others.
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3.1 Genocide
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3.2.1 Racism
4 Manipulating public education
4.1 Shiksha Bachao Andolan
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6 Hindutva movement worldwide Laura Ingraham
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In popular writings on the subject, Hindutva has been variously described as “Hinduism on steroids,” as “Hinduism which resists,” or as “an illegitimate SIAN
child of Hinduism.”[18] New Black Panther
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the founder of the Hindutva notion, an admirer of Mussolini's Italian fascism and Hitler's
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“ Surely Hitler knows better than Pandit Nehru [refers to Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India]
does what suits Germany best. The very fact that Germany or Italy has so wonderfully recovered and
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grown so powerful as never before at the touch of Nazi or Fascist magical wand is enough to prove that
those political ‘isms’ were the most congenial tonics their health demanded.[19]

—Savarkar
”
Savarkar also said that Hitler was not a human monster because he was a Nazi. "Nazism proved undeniably the saviour of Germany."[20] Furthermore,
Savarkar criticised the Jews for "failing to absorb into the German national fabric" (i.e., convert their religion) and compared them to Muslims in India
(who should do the same)[21] saying “A Nation is formed by a majority living therein. What did the Jews do in Germany? They being in minority were
Narendra Modi in RSS's driven out from Germany.” “If we Hindus grow stronger, Muslim friends... will have to play the part of German Jews.” Even though he held such views, he
Nazi-inspired uniform. still supported the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel, as it was not only in accordance to his theory of nationalism, but also as a "bulwark against
the Islamic Arabic world."[22]

Hindu nationalist groups in India like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were inspired not by Hindu teachings, but by Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s fascists in Italy.

This explains how Hindutva's slogan of “One Nation! One Culture! One Religion! One Language!"[23][24][25] sounds uncannily similar to the Nazi slogan of “Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein
Fuehrer!”...[26] Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Hindutvan Fundamentalism all came around the same time in the 1920s... Crowds marching under fascist and swastika banners,
black, brown shirts and khaki shorts, saffron flags, black hats and tridents, with clenched fist salutes... and even acknowledging the Aryan, Nordic and Roman gods of racial solidarity, all
seem eerily similar.

The three essentials of Hindutva ideology are common nation (rashtra in Hindi), common race (jati in Hindi) and common culture/civilisation (sanskriti in Hindi). [27] So Hindutva is
similar to ideologies like pan-Islamism and is antithetical to multiculturalism and secularism including instances of atheism. Several academics have described Hindutva as a far right
ideology.[28][15][6][9]

The word “Hindutva” wasn’t even used in Ancient Hindu scriptures such as the four Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Puranas, nor in the Buddhist scriptures or anywhere else. The
various traditions used their philosophical and spiritual practices — such as Vaishnavs, Shakta, Mahayana, Vajrayana, Advaita etc. — to identify themselves. But no one called
themselves Hindus. Even Adi Shankara, credited to have revived "Hinduism", didn't have the word "Hindu" in his vernacular.

This was, until 1923 when it was first mentioned in V.D. Savarkar’s book, Hindutva, which “articulates criteria for Indian identity based on citizenship, common ancestry, common culture
and regard for India as fatherland (pitrbhu) and sacred land (puṇyabhu).” For Savarkar, Christians and Muslims could never be true Indians, despite the presence of both religions in
India for centuries.[note 4] Savarkar in his book Essentials of Hindutva had also quoted "A Hindu marrying a Hindu may lose his caste but not his Hindutva." Athough the subject
regarding intercaste marriages has different viewership across the broad spectrum of Hindutva following sect.

There are contradictory statements and views among people associated with the Hindu nationalist movement regarding the question of irreligion and atheism. Y. Sudershan Rao, who
was appointed the head of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) after the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed government in 2014, tries to explain the
meaning of "Hindu" arguing, "Hindu in ancient times was a name given to people who were living to the east of the Indus river up to Kanyakumari. Hindus were religious,
nonreligious, and irreligious. As a historian, I look at it that way."[29] This argument includes irreligious people as Hindu, if Hindu is defined as an ethnic identity. On the other hand, the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the largest Hindu nationalist organization in India, constructs the idea of an "ideal Hindu family." According to a leader of the organization, "We
also want people to see to it that their households look like proper Hindu homes: a tulsi plant, images of Hindu gods, the gayatri mantra, etc. should ideally be physically there."[30]
This idea of an "ideal Hindu family" obviously excludes atheists and other religions, contradicting the view that irreligion comes within the Hindutva fold.

What it is not [edit]

"Hindutva unites Hindus" [edit]

Hindu Fundamentalism is synonymous with casteism and untouchability, with many Hindutva leaders such as Golwalkar[note 5] justifying it and
demanding the misogynist and casteist Manusmriti (the Ancient Hindu code of law) to replace the democratic Indian constitution.[32][31]

Even though Savarkar, the creator of Hindutva, was against caste, for the purpose of unifying the Hindu community against the Muslims, ever since the
installation of Hindutva parties such as BJP in the Indian states, declining rates of violence against Dalits (lowest caste), including rapes of Dalit women,
have been at an all time high.[33]

"Hindutva unites Indians" [edit]

Hindu Fascist groups have instigated mob violence throughout their history among minorities such as Christians and Muslims etc. who have stayed in
India for several centuries along with Hinduism. Hindutva aims to eliminate the secular and democratic foundations of the country. The leaders of the Similar to how Zionists
ideology were once opposed to both the flag of India (and refuse to use it)[34] and its constitution.[32] RSS have started to hoist the national flag since conflate anti-Zionism with
anti-semitism, Hindutva
2002.[35] advocates allege
If Hindutva was really about uniting Indians and teaching them their own culture, then why does it have to relate it to religion? Why does the term Hindu accusations of Hinduphobia
against any criticism.
have to be enforced on anyone living in the Indian subcontinent? What is the need to rebrand patriotism with the face of religion slapped to it?[36]

"Hindutva stops Westernisation" [edit]

Hindu nationalists spend a good amount of time criticising "Western concepts" like feminism, LGBTQ etc., however the criticism is just virtue signalling; the hate for such concepts does
not come from nationalism, but rather, hatred for anything that contradicts Hindutva's backward ideology. Of course, subsidies and tax breaks and even labour law exceptions are given
wholesale to foreign MNCs that come to India to exploit Indian lower caste workers who work in sweatshops, because they were not the Hindus Hindutva seeked to protect.
[citation needed]

Hindutva in practice [edit]

“ You were made to hate Muslims. Then Christians. Then Dalits. Then Sikhs. Labourers. Writers. Thinkers. Economists. Actors. Awardees. Social Workers. Kashmiris.
Malayalis. NE Indians. Even farmers now. When will you realise You've been made to hate India?
”
—Arif Malik

Hindutva advocates are accused of suppressing freedom of speech and freedom of expression by banning books, films, and other cultural media
which they don't like,[37][38] rejecting the idea of freedom of choice, and instigating mob violence.[13][39] In order to gather such a mob, they claim that
Hindu culture is under attack by Muslims and Christians to label their hateful ideology as “Hinduism’s Survival Guide To Abrahamic Imperialism.”[40]

Genocide [edit]

MS Golwalkar (1903-1973), the second leader of the RSS, praised Nazi Germany’s racial policies and insisted on their use on Indian Muslims as well.[41] At least we don’t
behead… Oh wait, we do!
In 2015, the vice-president of the Hindutva organization All India Hindu Assembly (Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) in Hindi), Sadhvi Deva
Thakur, said that the population growth of Muslims and Christians in India need to be controlled by forcibly sterilizing them.[42][43]

“ The population of Muslims and Christians is growing day by day. To rein in this, Centre will have to impose emergency and Muslims and Christians will have to be
forced to undergo sterilisation so that they can't increase their numbers.
”
—Sadhvi Deva Thakur[42]

BJP and RSS leader Rajeshwar Singh, openly boasting of his government's intent to “ethnically cleanse 200 million Muslims and 28 million Christians,” in 2014, said:[44][45]

“ Wait and watch... Muslims and Christians will be wiped out of India by December 31, 2021... This is our pledge.
”
“ We will cleanse our Hindu society. We will not let the conspiracy of church or mosque succeed in Bharat… The Hindu wave has just begun. In 10 years we will convert
all Christians and Muslims.
”
—Rajeshwar Singh, RSS member[46]

Eugenics [edit]

In 2015, Sadhvi Deva Thakur also urged Hindus to have more children to increase their population.[42] BJP MP (member of parliament) Sakshi Maharaj said that every Hindu woman
must have four children.[48][49]

“ The time has come when a Hindu woman must produce at least four children in order to protect Hindu religion.

—Sakshi Maharaj, BJP MP

”
After this remark, another BJP politician suggested that Hindu women should have five children.[50]
 “
I want to tell my Hindu mothers and sisters that if they don’t have five children, there will be no equilibrium in India in future. Don’t
misunderstand me. To protect Hinduism and Sanatan Dharma, it is necessary for all Hindus to give birth to five children.
”
Mohan Bhagat, the current head of the RSS,[51] when addressing the “declining Hindu population,” stated:[52]

“ Which law says that the population of Hindus’ should not rise? What is stopping them when population of others’ is rising. The issue is
not related to the system. It is because the social environment is like this.

—Mohan Bhagat
”
Racism [edit]

“ Ayurveda has all the details about how we can get the desired physical and mental qualities of babies. IQ is developed during the sixth
month of pregnancy. If the mother undergoes specific procedures, like what to eat, listen and read, the desired IQ can be achieved.
When you can’t come up
with anything and have to
resort to copying literal Nazi
Thus, we can get a desired, customised baby.
”
—Karishma Mohandas Narwani, national convener of the project.[53]
propaganda.[47] Note the
Akhand Bharat and Swastika
imagery in the background.

“ To keep up the purity of the nation and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of Semitic races – the Jews.
National pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for races and cultures,
having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindustan to learn and profit by.
”
—Madhav Golwalkar, the second chief of the RSS[54]

In May 2017, RSS’s health wing[55] Arogya Bharati announced their grand plan titled "Garbh Vigyan Sanskar" (lit. Science & Culture of the Womb) to make India great again, using Nazi
eugenics and their concept of race. The plan includes giving prescription to those babies of the "intended parents" (ie. Hinduism fundamentalist parents, rich, backing the project) and
brainwashing "purifying" (shuddhikaran) for 3 months. These "ubermenschen" über-babies (uttam santati) are purported to be smarter, taller, and fairer. If you are having WW2 and
Nazism flashbacks already, don't worry, because RSS says that the origin of this science lay in the Mahabharata (a Hindu scripture), which is where the Germans stole it from.
Varshney says the project was inspired by the advice a senior RSS officer received many years ago in Nazi Germany.

“ He was told that it was due to a woman called ‘Mother of Germany’. When he met her and asked about this resurrection, she told him, ‘you have come from India, have
you not heard of Abhimanyu (the son of Arjuna in the epic Mahabharata)?’ She told him that the new generation in Germany was born through Garbh Sanskar and that
is why the country is so developed
”
—Ashok Kumar Varshney, RSS pracharak for over 30 years and national organising secretary of Arogya Bharati[56]

The project is conducted in two parts; before and after pregnancy. Jani, a veteran RSS swayamsevak, states: “The first part involves nadi shuddhi (purification of energy channels) and
deh shuddhi (purification of body) for 90 days. During this period, we purify the male’s sperm and the female’s egg. The new egg and sperm thus developed will not have genetic
defects,” After the baby is delivered, a proper diet of milk and ghee is administered. Furthermore, “If the mother chants shlokas and mantras, it helps in the mental growth of the baby…
if she leads such a life, there will be no labour pain and the baby will gain up to 300g more weight.”[56]

Manipulating public education [edit]

Hindu nationalists have heavily invested in rewriting Indian history to advance their political agenda.[57][11][58][59] These efforts had first begun in 1999 when BJP governed India
between 1999 and 2004. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi government, this usually takes the form of deleting chapters inconvenient to their narrative,[60][61] and adding their own
pseudohistory mixing Hinduism myths and facts.[12]

The main rhetoric followed by the ruling body of Hindutva advocacy, RSS, is to help people rediscover the greatness of ancient India and re-imagine a golden age before it was
"contaminated" by "foreign" invasions (ie. all other religions except of course Hinduism). It is common for RSS slaves unpaid workers and supporters to describe ancient India as a
"golden bird" where they invented every fucking thing in the universe but the "foreigners" stole it from them. That is why they need to recreate this prehistoric perfect age where the
Hindus did everything right – where there were no Muslims or Christians or Sikhs or Parsis at the time who coexisted peacefully – and everything we ever invented was from the ancient
"science" of Ayurveda.

The education wing of the RSS, Vidya Bharti Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan, is the largest private network of schools in India, running more than 24 thousand schools across India
with more than 3.4 million students and 15 thousand teachers. Most of these are even affiliated to the Central Board of School Education, the central national board for schools in
India.[62] Through the BJP party currently in power, this extremist right-wing organisation has taken the control over many of the country’s policies. Now, it has started using public
education as a political tool for brainwashing.

Shiksha Bachao Andolan [edit]

Hindutva writer Dinanath Batra, former general secretary of Vidya Bharati, founded an organization euphemistically named Shiksha Bachao Andolan [63] (Save Education
Movement),[note 6] believes religious education should be an integral part of school curriculum.[64]

“ What we need in India is value-based education, education that will build character. We can’t do that without religion,[note 7] so religious studies[note 8] must become a
part of school curriculum.
”
—Dinanath Batra[64]

Batra has written some school textbooks which are taught in the Indian state of Gujarat and Uttarakhand, where the Hindu nationalist BJP forms government.[12] On 30th June, 2014,
his books were made part of the school curriculum by the Gujrat government in more than 42000 Primary and Secondary government schools in Gujarat.[65] If one explores these in
depth, what is written in his books are bound to give laughs as well as shock to any educated sane person. An example of blatant racism and horrible misinformation is given
below:[66][67]

“ Once Dr Radhakrishnan [first vice-president of India] went for a dinner. There was a Briton at the event who said, "We are very dear to God." Radhakrishnan laughed
and told the gathering, "Friends, one day God felt like making rotis [Flat bread made from wholemeal flour and consumed in the Indian subcontinent] When he was
cooking the rotis, the first one was cooked less and the English were born. The second one stayed longer on the fire and the Negroes were born. Alert after His first
two mistakes, when God went on to cook the third roti, it came out just right and as a result Indians were born."
”
—schoolbook written by Dinanath Batra[66][67]

The above passage endorses classification of people based on skin color. It claims that Indian people are "just right" while people with lighter or darker skin color are the result of
something going wrong.

Another blatant example of racism from his book is where people with darker skin color are depicted as violent criminals:

“ The aircraft was flying thousands of feet high in the sky. A very strongly built negro reached the rear door and tried to open it. The air-hostesses tried to stop him but the
strongly built negro pushed the soft-bodied hostesses to the floor and shouted, 'Nobody dare move a step ahead'. An Indian grabbed the negro and he could not
escape. The pilot and the Indian together thrashed the negro and tied him up with a rope. Like a tied buffalo, he frantically tried to escape but could not. The plane
landed safely in Chicago. The negro was a serious criminal in the Chicago records and this brave Indian was an employee of Air India.
”
—schoolbook written by Dinanath Batra[66]

This does not even come close to the pseudoscientific insanity that gets passed as education in Dinanath’s books. Especially entertaining examples include:[65]
 Television was not invented by John Logie Baird in 1926 but rather by Indian rishis; Sanjay, using his “Divya Shakti” (holy power) could provide live telecast of the Mahabharata to
the blind Dhritarashtra.
The map of India includes Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Burma, because that is Akhand Bharat.

Other schoolbooks [edit]

Aside from Batra's books, the RSS also publishes other schoolbooks.

“ Q: Which are the countries along our present-day border that were once part of our country? A: Brahmadesh (Myanmar) and Bangladesh to the east, Pakistan and
Afghanistan to the west, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan to the north, and Sri Lanka to the south.
”
—Bodhmala 4, page 5

This is a page from Bodhmala 4, a textbook on cultural knowledge for class 4 students from Vidya Bharti.

The teachers’ guidebook of the same series also states:

“ Earlier, Hindu culture prevailed all over Jambudweep... what we call Asia today was the ancient Jambudweep. The whole of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan,
Israel, Russia, Mongolia, China, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan and Afghanistan were part of it. […] In the
aftermath of the war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas , it shrunk into Āryāvarta, which included Afghanistan and Pakistan, but attacks, religious conversions
and wars in between left us with only Hindustan... according to scientific enquiries, Himalaya and its surroundings, having Kailasa at its centre, is the oldest specimen of
land on earth. Trivishtapa (Tibet) is the highest part of land on earth. Arguably, it is here that the human race emerged in the aftermath of the catastrophic flood.
”
—Bodhmala, Teacher’s Guidebook

These are some of the many “facts” expounded in the Bodhmala series – textbooks for Class 4-12 students and three guidebooks for teachers – published by the same Haryana-based
Vidya Bharti Sanskriti Shiksha Sansthan.

Vidya Bharti publishes three books for teachers: Praveshika, Madhyama and Uttama.

“ Foreign historians like Müller, Weber, Ludwig, Housman, Schroeder have spread wrong conceptions about the Vedas, Rama and Krishna and tried to cut off India’s new
generation from the pride of our nation’s antiquity and cultural spread. Unfortunately, several Indian historians too started following them and we ended up considering
the real existence of our vast nation as imagination. But new history proves that today’s independent countries like Trivishtapa (Tibet), Upaganasthan (Afghanistan),
Brahmadesh (Myanmar), Sinhala (Sri Lanka) and Kingpurush (Nepal) had once been part of undivided India.
”
—Uttama page 33

Other interesting factz and tidbits include:[68]

Boomerang is modelled on Krishna’s Sudarshana Chakra.

China is a Sanskrit word, and it has "Aryan culture" (whatever that means).
Colonel James Tod, an East India Company officer, traced the origins of the Chinese back to the son of Pururava mentioned in the Indian puranas.
India is the world’s oldest nation.[note 9] For instance, page 8 of Bodhmala 8 says, "Manushya-matra ki janani adibhumi Bharat." meaning "All human beings originate from India." Of
course, as almost everyone knows, modern Homo sapiens first originated and evolved from Africa.[70]
They're not "Arabian Sea" or "Indian Ocean", they're really the "Sindhu Sea", and "Hindu Ocean"

Writing their own textbooks [edit]

RSS's grip over public education is not limited to the thousands of Vidya Bharati schools. Education ministers in other BJP ruled states, like in the case
of Rajasthan’s education minister Vasudev Devnani, have created their own school textbooks by taking notes from Vidya Bharati.[71] After defeating the
their opposition in Rajasthan, 2013, the BJP appointed a textbook writing committee selecting only members of the RSS.[72] Some of the changes in
Devnani's revised textbooks include...

The math books of every class will contain a chapter on "Vedic mathematics".
Emphasis on "new contexts and concerns at the state and national level," which takes examples of two (failed[73][74]) BJP-led government policies,
namely the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana ("Save The Girl Child, Educate The Girl Child Campaign") and the Swachh Bharat Mission ("Clean
India Mission").[71]
Enforcing the Hindu supremacist worldview by removing minorities from it entirely. In "Ajmeer ki Sair", a story of two boys sightseeing the city of
Ajmeer for class 3 students, was revised to remove the Muslim characters and places with Muslim names to insert the names of past Hindu rulers
The revised Hindi
"who defeated Bharat’s invaders... several times" and Hindu religious places. The name of the book was also changed to "Ajmeer ki Yatra". textbook for class 1 lists
Any mentions of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister and famous freedom fighter, was completely removed from the revised class 8 social words from Hindu lexicon as
examples for the letters of
science books. It does not mention who India’s first Prime Minister was.[75] This is because of Nehru was a Congress party member, who is the main
the alphabet. Also note the
opposition of the BJP. enforcing of caste
The revised Hindi textbook for class 5 has a chapter on Kaamdhenu, detailing the benefits humans can earn if they consider a cow as their stereotypes by using the
image of a Brahmin to
mother.[76] The animal's portrait in the book has a pantheon of Hindu gods tattooed on its body.[77]
represent learning.
Lines between fiction from scriptures and nonfictional history is blurred as history texts contain sections about stories from the Mahabharata and
Ramayana as historical accounts. The revised history textbook for class 6 talks about how the Pandavas spent their days in exile while Rama
ruled over the ancient kingdoms of India.
Attempts to create national pride through nationalist pseudohistory. The revised class 7 history textbook states that Maharana Pratap won the Battle of Haldighati against Akbar;
the exact opposite of what happened.

What makes this revisionism so severe in Rajasthan's case, is that teachers lack any other resources to teach children.[78] For the majority of the Rajasthan students who study in
government schools, these free textbooks are perhaps the only ones most of them will ever be exposed to.

Making the Bhagavad Gita mandatory [edit]

The Bhagavad Gita, a famous Hindu scripture, has been made mandatory for all students studying in government public schools in BJP-ruled states, such as Gujrat,[79] where the
Gita will be taught from 6th class “in such a way that students will develop an interest in it,” says Gujarat's Education Minister Jitu Vaghani, and in classes 9-12 they will be offered a
deeper look into the book. After Gujrat's implementation, BJP-ruled Karnataka also plans to teach the scripture,[80] saying "If not Bhagavad Gita, what else will impart moral values?".[81]
This is the same state that banned hijab to "keep religion out of schools".[82]

Pseudoscholarship [edit]

Pseudoscience [edit]

The Sangh Parivar and Hindutva advocates in general also indulge in a lot of pseudoscientific claims. For example, it is not uncommon to find Hindutva proponents claiming that the
discoveries of modern science are actually re-discoveries of what had been found ages ago by the ancient Hindu saints. Also, they tend to justify things like Ayurveda using
pseudoscientific blabber.

Vedic Science is a concept used by Hindutva advocates to denote to the scientific tradition of ancient India.[note 10] Astrologer Gayatri Devi Vasudev writing for The Organiser, a
publication of the Hindutva organization the RSS, claimed that the distinction of science and pseudoscience (or protoscience) is Eurocentric and inapplicable to Vedic Science:
 “
Western scientific thought draws on the traditions of Greek rationalist thinking according to which only what is within the purview of the five senses is taken cognisance
of. Scientific methods follow some kind of closed scientific reasoning which insulates itself against facts that its methods cannot account for. How else can they
[scientists] dare dismiss Jyotisha (astrology) which sees a level of existence beyond the purview of the five senses?
”
—Vasudev 2001[83]

Hindutva advocates even go as far to claim that religion and science is identical in India:

“ The idea of 'contradiction' is an imported one from the West in recent times by the Western-educated, since 'Modern Science' arbitrarily imagines that it only has the
true knowledge and its methods are the only methods to gain knowledge, smacking of Semitic dogmatism in religion.
—Mukhyananda 1997:94[84]
”
Pseudohistory and pseudoarcheology [edit]

Even before the advent of the Bharatiya Janata Party, there was a pseudoscientific historian named PN Oak, who made numerous ridiculous claims. Among them, was the allegation
that the Taj Mahal was a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva,[85][86][87] and that the Patriarch Abraham, was a Brahman (Abraham, Brahman). He also alleged that the Vatican originated
as a Vedic priesthood (Vatican, Vatika), when it has been clearly documented that it was a successor to the Papal States, itself a successor to Western Imperium Romanum. (Just
because a bunch of words are similar, that does NOT imply common origin. Hell, the fact that Japanese fisherman chant 'Yahweh', does NOT mean that they descended from the lost
tribes of Israel).

In 2014, after the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power, it appointed Y. Sudershan Rao, a history professor associated with a RSS-affiliated organization, as the
head of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR).[88] Rao believes that material evidence is not necessary to write the history of India. He said during an interview with the
Outlook magazine,

“ Western schools of thought look at material evidence of history. We can’t produce material evidence for everything. India is a continuing civilisation. To look for evidence
would mean digging right though the hearts of villages and displacing people. We only have to look at the people to figure out the similarities in their lives and the
depiction in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata . For instance, the Ramayana mentions that Rama had travelled to Bhad­ra­chalam (in Andhra Pradesh ). A
look at the people and the fact that his having lived there for a while is in the collective memory of the people cannot be discounted in the search for material evidence.
In continuing civilisations such as ours, the writing of history cannot depend only on archaeological evidence. We have to depend on folklore too.
”
—Y. Sudershan Rao, head of the Indian Council of Historical Researh[89]

However, this statement is fallacious and in good old RationalWiki fashion, we have dissected and responded to it:

Rao's argument Reply

Western schools of thought look at material evidence of history. Historians actually use a method called oral history to record non-material evidence. It
deals with collective memory and individual construction of history, so Rao is straw
manning here. The difference between oral history and Rao's "method" (if you can call it
that) is that the former has a critical approach, whereas Rao simply takes folklore at face
value. Rao also sets up a false East/West dilemma, a technique used by fundamentalists
in Asia to attack the supposed Euro- and Americentric scientism of "Western" academia
and replace it with their preferred brand of pseudoscience.

We can’t produce material evidence for everything. India is a continuing civilisation. See my hands waving! As Christopher Hitchens so pithily put it: "What can be asserted
without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." Rao also forgets to explain what "a
continuing civilisation" is and why it means we should ditch normal criteria for conducting
historical enquiries. Rao seems to be taking a page from the book of paranormal woo
peddlers who make all kinds of excuses for why their branch of woo doesn't work when
subjected to controlled experiments. Try imagining a Dane, making this same argument
and insisting that the tales of Thor and the Jörmungandr has to be taken as fact(oids),
because Denmark is part of "a continuing Norse civilisation". Try again.

To look for evidence would mean digging right though the hearts of villages and Argument from adverse consequences. It's also a red herring or possibly an escape
displacing people. hatch bordering on an emotional appeal ("Oh, the poor farmers!" - as if anyone suggests
that it's necessary to move in with bulldozers and demolition crews and raze the houses
of the poor villagers. Contrast with how we've acquired knowledge of other ancient, but
still inhabited, sites, such as Rome, Jerusalem, Jericho or Istanbul).

We only have to look at the people to figure out the similarities in their lives and the If this seems familiar, it's because it's a Hindu version of the old biblical literalist nugget of
depiction in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata . "these events were real, hence the entire Bible must be correct!" Extraordinary claims
require extraordinary evidence, Rao. Rao is also begging the question, because he uses
the fact that folklore occasionally matches written epics which were originally oral epics
as evidence that the written version is correct. This is patently absurd because it amounts
to using the correspondence between the depiction of Spider-Man in the movies and in
the comics as "evidence" that Spider-Man must be real and that the movies are
essentially documentaries. It's what we call circular evidence.

For instance, the Ramayana mentions that Rama had travelled to Bhad­ra­chalam (in Here Rao combines the appeal to tradition with an argumentum ad populum. Why would
Andhra Pradesh ). A look at the people and the fact that his having lived there for a the fact that countless people have believed something for a long time mean it's real?
while is in the collective memory of the people cannot be discounted in the search for Loads of people believed in the pantheon of the Greco-Roman or ancient Egyptian
material evidence. religions, but practically no one do so now. Why should we accept Rao's myths?

In continuing civilisations such as ours, the writing of history cannot depend only on And so we return to the hand waving, ad hoc'ing and argument by assertion. Yeah, Rao,
archaeological evidence. We have to depend on folklore too. keep repeating it and it will magically become a good argument and every rationalist will
believe you...

Hindutva advocates propagate the pseudolinguistic Indigenous Aryans theory which asserts that the speakers of Indo-European languages are "indigenous" to the Indian subcontinent.
Revisionism of science and technology [edit]

Y. Sudershan Rao claimed that Indians used to fly aircraft, conduct stem cell research and use cosmic weapons 5000 years ago, and believes that the Indian epics the Mahabharata
and the Ramayana , which were written two millennia ago, are not fiction, but essentially history books.[note 11] He argues humans did not develop the art of fiction writing until a few
centuries ago; hence, the events and things described in these epics must be real.[90]

In the school textbook Tejomay Bharat written by Hindutva writer Dinanath Batra, it is claimed that television was invented in the age of Mahabharata ca. two millennia ago:

“ We know that television was invented by a priest from Scotland called John Logie Baird in 1926. But we want to take you to an even older Doordarshan … Indian
rishis using their yog vidya would attain divya drishti. There is no doubt that the invention of television goes back to this.
”
—Dinanath Batra[91]

Batra's textbook also claimed that the automobile was first invented in ancient India:

“ What we know today as the motorcar existed during the Vedic period. It was called aanashva rath.[note 12] Usually a rath (chariot) is pulled by horses but an anashva
rath means the one that runs without horses or yantra-rath,[note 13] what is today a motorcar. The Rig Veda refers to this.
”
—Dinanath Batra[91]

In the Indian epic Mahabharata, a character Karna is described as having born to an unmarried woman. In 2014, while delivering a lecture in front of a group of doctors and other
professionals, Narendra Modi, BJP politician and the 14th Prime Minister of India, said that Karna's birth outside his mother's womb is the proof of the existence of genetic science in
ancient India:[92]

“ We all read about Karna in the Mahabharata. If we think a little more, we realize that the Mahabharata says Karna was not born from his mother’s womb. This
means that genetic science was present at that time. That is why Karna could be born outside his mother’s womb.
”
—Narendra Modi[92]

Ganesha is a well-known Hindu deity. His body is that of a human and his head is that of an elephant. In 2014, Modi suggested that this could be possible because an ancient Indian
plastic surgeon transplanted elephant's head on the body of a human being.

“ We can feel proud of what our country achieved in medical science at one point of time... We worship Lord Ganesha. There must have been some plastic surgeon at
that time who got an elephant’s head on the body of a human being and began the practice of plastic surgery."
”
—Narendra Modi[92]

If this kind of “we invented everything” narrative seems familiar, it’s probably because it’s literally the entire plot of George Orwell’s 1984...

Hindutva movement worldwide [edit]

The Hindutva movement is not an Indian-only phenomenon. It is present worldwide, in Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and many other countries. A number of
organizations, mostly in the form of non-profits, constitute the movement and a section of the Hindu Indian diaspora in different countries support these organizations. An average
supporter of an Hindutva organization may not adhere to the extremist beliefs of these organizations, but they join or support these organizations out of a perceived sense of alienation
in a country where Hindus constitute a religious minority.

In the United States, Hindu nationalists take the benefit of the liberal secular atmosphere of the pluralist American society[93] and draw on multiculturalist discourse for their presence,
while at the same time they fund cultural and political organizations in India that spread hatred and commit acts of violence against India's religious minorities.[94][95] In Australia, Hindu
nationalist organizations legitimise their activities through the rhetoric of liberal multiculturalism. At the same time, just like the American Hindutva organizations, they promote hatred
against religious minorities in India.[95]

External links [edit]

See the Wikipedia article on Hindutva.

Hindutva: Myths and Reality
Hindu Fascism 101: What is Hindutva?
Hindutva Harassment Field Manual
Hindu nationalists are gaining power in India — and silencing enemies along the way , The Independent
Hindu nationalists flex muscles in Narendra Modi’s India , Financial Times
The Triumph of the Hindu Right Foreign Affairs
Hitler’s Hindus: The Rise and Rise of India’s Nazi-loving Nationalists , Haaretz
How did Hindus become Hindu and why Hindutva is not Hinduism

Propaganda in education:

Delete and control - the Parivar's mantra , article about manipulation of school textbooks
Hindutva’s Dangerous Rewriting of History , full text from journal
The Hindutva View of History: Rewriting Textbooks in India and the United States , full text from the Harvard Library of Scholarly Communication
The Textbook of Chanakya's Pupils. Vidya Bharati and Its Gauravsali Bharat Textbook in Uttarakhand , full text.
The Saffronization of Indian Textbooks

Online propaganda:

Hate factory: Inside Kapil Mishra’s ‘Hindu Ecosystem’ (Long read) How Hindutva groups manipulate social media.
Tek Fog: An App With BJP Footprints for Cyber Troops to Automate Hate, Manipulate Trends (Long read) How the BJP automates this manipulates manipulation through
unsettling means.
#EyeballPolitics Facebook Investigation (4-part investigative series) The BJP's relations with Facebook itself

Pseudo-scholarship:

Peddler of myths , article examining manipulation of History

Postmodernism, Hindu nationalism and `Vedic science'

Worldwide:

The foreign hand , article shows how Hindutva groups collect money in America and then send it back to extremist organizations in India
In god's name , article explaining how the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America grew
The Parivar in America , an article about Hindu nationalist activities in the United States
Trans-atlantic thrust , another article about Hindu nationalist activities in North America
Western Hindutva: Hindu nationalism in the United Kingdom and North America
Hindutva Abroad, The California Textbook Controversy

See also [edit]

 Indian alt-right glossary
National mysticism
Nationalist pseudohistory
Nationalism in history textbooks
Dominionism
Islamism
969 Movement
Christian Identity
Fascism

Notes [edit]

1. ↑ 11 years before Narendra Modi was elected as the prime minister of India. 6. ↑ Shiksha (Hindi) means education, Bachao (Hindi) means save, Andolan (Hindi) means
2. ↑ Sanskrit -tva is a neuter abstract suffix, hence Hindu-ness in English. movement
7. ↑ See the RationalWiki page on Humanism.
”
3. ↑ Hindutva was mainstreamed into Indian politics with Narendra Modi's election as Prime
Minister in 2014.[6] 8. ↑ By using the term "religious studies", he does not refer to the secular academic discipline
4. ↑ Savarkar argued that they religious studies which analyzes religion from a non-religious point of view. He refers to
theology when he uses the term.

“ ...cannot be recognized as Hindus; as since their adoption of the new cult

they had ceased to own Hindu civilisation [Sanskriti] as a whole. They
9. ↑ India was never a nation, only consisting of fractured empires, until Indian liberals formed an
independent India with all of its different cultures.[69] Even if they meant "civilization", there
belong, or feel that they belong to, a cultural unit altogether different from
have been civilizations well outside of India such as in Mesopotamia, China, Mesoamerica,
the Hindu one. Their heroes and their hero-worship, their fairs and their
and South America.
festivals, their ideals and their outlook on-life, have now ceased to be

”
10. ↑ Quite similar to the Hare Krishnas use of the term "Vedic creationism" to give their brand of
common with ours...
creationism some ancient Indian patina.
5. ↑
11. ↑ Similar to how some people read the Bible...

“ The Virat Purusha, the Almighty manifesting himself… Brahmin is the head,
Kshatriya the hands, Vaishya the thighs and Shudra the feet. This means
12. ↑ Aanashva is a name of a kind of rath, rath is a Hindi word which means chariot.
13. ↑ Yantra (यन्त्र) is a Hindi word which means machine, hence yantra-rath (यन्त्र रथ) means a
that the people who have this fourfold arrangement, i.e., the Hindu People, machine chariot.
is [sic] our God. This supreme vision of Godhead is the very core of our
concept of ‘nation’ and has permeated our thinking and given rise to various
unique concepts of our cultural heritage.[31]

References [edit]

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