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

Although the need for a uniform civil code is enshrined as a directive principle of state policy in the Constitution, it is taboo to demand it because of this leverage. Politicians fearing backlash anger of Christian and Muslim preachers are also unable to defend the need for continuation of a law to ban religious conversions that occur through inducements and coercion. In the case of Tamil Nadu, in 2004 the US Consul General in Chennai called on the Chief Minister to seek reversal of such a statute[www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35516.htm]. He had been empowered to raise this issue by a 1998 Act of the US Congress on religious freedom. Incidentally, the AIADMK was administered a blistering defeat in the 2004 Parliament elections by a total consolidation of Muslim and Christian votes against the party because it’s government had got passed such a law. After the elections, a humbled Chief Minister Ms. Jayalalithaa, capitulated and got the law annulled. I had put the US administration to test by asking the Ambassador in New Delhi if the US would demonstrate its even-handedness by asking the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister whether she will withdraw all the bogus cases foisted on the Kanchi acharyas on the same principles. The reply I got was that the Acharyas face criminal charges and hence the US will not intervene even if these charges are false.

The continued rise in the share of Muslims and Christians in the total population, is a threat to the Hindu foundation of the Nation. And we have to find ways and means to meet this threat. Kerala is a state where the Hindu population has declined from 69% in 1901: a hundred years later, in 2001, the share has fallen to 56%. Muslims are now 25% and Christians 19%. But the Hindu share in agricultural activities has fallen to 24%, while for Christians the share has risen to 40%. For Muslims it is 33%. In commerce and industry too, the same proportions exist, while as to employment in foreign companies, the Hindu share is just 19%, Muslims 49.5% and Christians 31.5%.


to be continued...