I have never read such a seminal book on the work of evangelical organizations operating in India; i have never read such a detailed book full of references and data on the threats to the Union of India. No where one can find the sophisticated designs of evangelical organizations. Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines is a wonderfully written book by Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindam Neelakandan. When one of my friends recommended this book last year i rejected the book as some right wing humbug. This month i got some time at my disposal and i decided to give it to the book and to my surprise this is not a right wing humbug. The stories, data and references are well stocked and this book is not against any religion but against the designs of some foreign organizations backed by generous donors and supported by in-house supporters in dangerous plan to balkanize India. These organizations first create fissures in our society and then deepen those fissures; the case of Aryan (outsiders) vs Dravidians (indigenous), the myth of St. Thomas and Afro-Dalit concepts are some of those fissures.
The Tamil movement has been appropriated to an extent by these evangelical organizations and the rich Sanskrit literature of ancient Tamil Nadu and Vedic/Hindu references in Sangam poetry have been maligned and St. Thomas has been credited for giving Tamil Nadu the devotional movement, Tamil language and religion. The Hamitic myth of Bible is being used to describe the Dravidian and African "civilizations" while North Indians are being labelled as barbaric invaders who destroyed and enslaved Dravidians.
India has never banned any religion in her 2500 years (at least) of written history. If Indians willingly want to convert to any religion then no force on earth can stop it but this willingness should not be coerced by force, fraud or money.
Its a must read book and every Indian should read it irrespective of faith and caste.
2 comments:
great review.. Next in my list.
Please be little miser in giving ratings - learn something from our college teachers :)
This way the people like me who do not as many non fiction books, we can just pick your 9/10 rated books and read :))
nice review.......felt exactly the same when I read it first......for me the best part was the explanation of Germans running after Aryan theory and sanskrit texts....that was largely missed out or rather went unnoticed in any debate on the Aryan Theory.........
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