Introduction
The Concept of an Indian Identity and Mindset continues..

I am instead referring to the Hindu consciousness which encompasses the willingness and determination to collectively defend the faith from the erosion that is being induced by the disconnect with our glorious past. What Swami Vivekananda, Bankim Chatterjee, Sri Aurobindo, and Subramaniya Bharati had achieved by raising Hindu consciousness to that end, has now been depleted and dissipated over the last six decades.

If this degeneration and disconnect are not rectified and repaired by a resolve to unite Hindustanis [Hindus and those of other faith who proudly accept that their ancestors are Hindus, and who thus identify with India’s Hindu past], Hindu civilization may go into a tail spin and ultimately fade away as other civilizations have—and for much the same reason.

Of course, this sorry state has come about as a cumulative effect of a thousand years of Islamic invasions, occupation and Imperialist colonization. But we failed to rectify the damage after the Hindus overwhelmingly got de-facto power in 1947. For this transfer of power, we sacrificed one quarter of Akhand Hindustan territory to settle those Muslims who could not bear to live or adjust with the
Hindu majority.

That is, by a failure to usher a renaissance after 1947, India lost her opportunity to cleanse the accumulated dirt and unwanted baggage of the past. The nation missed a chance to demolish the birth-based caste system, as Ambedkar had wanted to do. The battering that the concept of Hindu unity and Indian identity has taken at the hands of Nehruvian secularists since 1947, has led to the present social malaise. Thus, even though Hindus constitute more than 80 per cent of the population in India, they have not been able to understand their roots in, and obligations to, the nation in a pluralistic Hindustani democracy.

Today the sacrilege of Hindu concepts and hoary institutions, is being carried out not with the crude brutality of a Ghazni, or the savagery of Robert Clive, but with the sophistication of the constitutional instruments of law.

to be continued...