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Breaking India: Western Interventions In Dravidian And Dalit Faultlines
India's integrity is being undermined by three global networks that have well-established operating bases inside India: (i) Islamic radicalism linked with Pakistan, (ii) Maoists and Marxist radicals supported by China via intermediaries such as Nepal, and (iii) Dravidian and Dalit identity separatism being fostered by the West in the name of human rights. This book focuses on the third: the role of U.S. and European churches, academics, think-tanks, foundations, government and human rights groups in fostering separation of the identities of Dravidian and Dalit communities from the rest of India. The book is the result of five years of research, and uses information obtained in the West about foreign funding of these Indian-based activities. The research tracked the money trails that start out claiming to be for "education," "human rights," "empowerment training," and "leadership training," but end up in programs designed to produce angry youths who feel disenfranchised from Indian identity. The book reveals how outdated racial theories continue to provide academic frameworks and fuel the rhetoric that can trigger civil wars and genocides in developing countries. The Dravidian movement's 200-year history has such origins. Its latest manifestation is the "Dravidian Christianity" movement that fabricates a political and cultural history to exploit old faultlines. The book explicitly names individuals and institutions, including prominent Western ones and their Indian affiliates. Its goal is to spark an honest debate on the extent to which human rights and other "empowerment" projects are cover-ups for these nefarious activities. For more information, or to view videos about this book, visit www.breakingindia.com
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First published January 1, 2011
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Rajiv Malhotra
23 books453 followersRajiv Malhotra is the founder and president of Infinity Foundation. An Indian-American entrepreneur, philanthropist and community leader, he has devoted himself, for the last ten years, to clarifying the many misperceptions about Indic traditions in America and amongst Indians.
He is an active writer, columnist, and speaker on a variety of topics, including the traditions and cultures of India, the Indian Diaspora, globalization, and East-West relations. Rajiv has been appointed to the Asian-American Commission for the State of New Jersey, where he serves as the Chairman for the Education Committee, which was created to start an Asian Studies program in schools. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Red Cross and has volunteered in local hospice and AIDS counseling.
He is an active writer, columnist, and speaker on a variety of topics, including the traditions and cultures of India, the Indian Diaspora, globalization, and East-West relations. Rajiv has been appointed to the Asian-American Commission for the State of New Jersey, where he serves as the Chairman for the Education Committee, which was created to start an Asian Studies program in schools. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Red Cross and has volunteered in local hospice and AIDS counseling.
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October 9, 2018
Ladies and gentlemen:
This is Rajiv Malhotra speaking. Wake up! Shake a leg! Get ready for battle! They are breaking up your beloved country, India!
How? You ask me how? Well, it's quite simple. Haven't you heard them speaking about the Aryan Invasion time and again, that stupid, discredited theory? Haven't you heard them speak about Dravidians, the non-existent race? Haven't you seen the nefarious attempts to classify the Dravidian languages as a separate family, instead of agreeing like good nationalists that there is no such family, and that all Indian languages have descended from Sanskrit?
What? Oh, you ask me how I can discredit the fact of a Dravidian language family existing, even in the face of overall consensus in the academic world that it does? Simple. Don't you know that this family of languages has been first posited by Robert Caldwell, a Scottish pastor, with the express purpose converting all Tamilians to Christianity? What? You say that Caldwell was a scholar? Hardly matters, my dear friend... it's the intention that counts, not the erudition.
Hello? What? Oh yes, I hear what you say. You say that only the invasion part has been discredited: even now the majority of historians agree upon large scale migration of speakers of Indo-European languages into India. And Aryans are not seen as a separate race but a language group. Oh, pish, tosh, my dear fellow! What evidence do these academicians have? Concurrences between Sanskrit and European languages? Linguistic evidence? Well, I will tell you later how all this has been manipulated.
Don't you know that the whole dravidian movement has been created by Christian evangelists? EVR Naicker, Anna Durai, Karunanidhi... they have all been pawns in the hands of these devilish pastors. Not only here in India, but in Sri Lanka too; in fact, the whole concept of an ancient Tamil culture is a Christian invention.
And you just don't have to take my word for it. I will tell you of dozens of Christian fringe groups that have carried out this manipulation. My book is full of evidence for these. And since most of these pastors come from the West, and have connections with politicians in the governments of their respective countries, it automatically goes without saying that these governments are also complicit.
And it's not only the West. It's the radical Islamist groups from across the world, Communists form China, Maoists plus the leftist intellectuals who are adding fuel to the fire. What? You say that all these groups are opposed to one another? Look closely, dear chap! It's only to fool you! All of them are in cahoots...
How do I know that? Well, don't all of them talk about atrocities against Dalits and minorities in India? Don't they ask for Western intervention? Does that not show that their aims are the same?
What? You are saying that there are actual crimes against Dalits and minorities in India? Yes, maybe, a little... but those are isolated incidents... and many are in retaliation to attacks on Hindus which the international media (also in cahoots with the above groups!) don't report...
So what to do? Well, now you're cooking. Forget all the history you have been taught. Don't read any reports in the international media. Get all your knowledge from nationalists like me - don't listen to historians like Romila Thapar or scholars like Wendy Doniger. Because you see, the nationalists may not have any academic credentials, but their hearts are in the right place!
This is Rajiv Malhotra speaking. Wake up! Shake a leg! Get ready for battle! They are breaking up your beloved country, India!
How? You ask me how? Well, it's quite simple. Haven't you heard them speaking about the Aryan Invasion time and again, that stupid, discredited theory? Haven't you heard them speak about Dravidians, the non-existent race? Haven't you seen the nefarious attempts to classify the Dravidian languages as a separate family, instead of agreeing like good nationalists that there is no such family, and that all Indian languages have descended from Sanskrit?
What? Oh, you ask me how I can discredit the fact of a Dravidian language family existing, even in the face of overall consensus in the academic world that it does? Simple. Don't you know that this family of languages has been first posited by Robert Caldwell, a Scottish pastor, with the express purpose converting all Tamilians to Christianity? What? You say that Caldwell was a scholar? Hardly matters, my dear friend... it's the intention that counts, not the erudition.
Hello? What? Oh yes, I hear what you say. You say that only the invasion part has been discredited: even now the majority of historians agree upon large scale migration of speakers of Indo-European languages into India. And Aryans are not seen as a separate race but a language group. Oh, pish, tosh, my dear fellow! What evidence do these academicians have? Concurrences between Sanskrit and European languages? Linguistic evidence? Well, I will tell you later how all this has been manipulated.
Don't you know that the whole dravidian movement has been created by Christian evangelists? EVR Naicker, Anna Durai, Karunanidhi... they have all been pawns in the hands of these devilish pastors. Not only here in India, but in Sri Lanka too; in fact, the whole concept of an ancient Tamil culture is a Christian invention.
And you just don't have to take my word for it. I will tell you of dozens of Christian fringe groups that have carried out this manipulation. My book is full of evidence for these. And since most of these pastors come from the West, and have connections with politicians in the governments of their respective countries, it automatically goes without saying that these governments are also complicit.
And it's not only the West. It's the radical Islamist groups from across the world, Communists form China, Maoists plus the leftist intellectuals who are adding fuel to the fire. What? You say that all these groups are opposed to one another? Look closely, dear chap! It's only to fool you! All of them are in cahoots...
How do I know that? Well, don't all of them talk about atrocities against Dalits and minorities in India? Don't they ask for Western intervention? Does that not show that their aims are the same?
What? You are saying that there are actual crimes against Dalits and minorities in India? Yes, maybe, a little... but those are isolated incidents... and many are in retaliation to attacks on Hindus which the international media (also in cahoots with the above groups!) don't report...
So what to do? Well, now you're cooking. Forget all the history you have been taught. Don't read any reports in the international media. Get all your knowledge from nationalists like me - don't listen to historians like Romila Thapar or scholars like Wendy Doniger. Because you see, the nationalists may not have any academic credentials, but their hearts are in the right place!
April 4, 2012
Solid and robust work based on sound and irrefutable research. I was already familiar with some themes in the book - viz. the fallacy of Aryan-Dravidian racism, Christian evangelist designs on India, West's double edged strategy of 'Build India' and 'Break India' at the same time etc. etc.. and I found content that enriched my understanding. But it was an ultimate shocker and an eye opener of sorts for many of my friends not conversant with the topics. I recommend this book for anyone concerned with the unity and well being of India as a Nation.
January 5, 2017
One day I was traveling in a cab in Chennai. Suddenly the cab driver started the conversation. We started discussing things mainly politics, suddenly we straddled in to history. He was trying to explain me about Dravidian history and Lemuria Continent where originally Tamil people lived and all that. I politely responded to him after his session, “Sir, this is not history but propaganda”. Only narratives such as these did not help Tamil Nadu achieve its full potential. This is a cooked up history by British (or in particular Christian Missionaries) to keep the people divided forever to perpetuate their rule over us. Then I told him that the Dravidians cannot contradict themselves. They propagate two theories, one they say that they lived in Lemuria and on the other hand they say that they were living in Delhi and were ruling all over India when Sanskrit speaking Central Asian Brahmins or Aryans came and drove them to Tamil Nadu. Both can’t be true. Then he looked slightly confused and eventually abandoned the topic.
At that time, I have not read Mr. Rajiv Malhotra’s book Breaking India. Though I knew very clearly that the Aryan Invasion theory and other such theories were crackpot scholarship of the Missionaries, my thoughts were never reaffirmed until after reading Mr. Malhotra’s book. Like that cab driver with whom I spoke there is a considerable amount of population that lives under the misconception of such manufactured histories of British, or simply Missionaries.
The author skillfully traces the evidence of how center of gravity of global evangelism has moved from Europe to US in the recent decades. And how the Christian missionaries and other anti-National forces have played to the internal fault lines of India to further balkanize and ultimately break India in to pieces.
Though the west boasts about the scientific temperament as a virtue they hold as a society, they conspicuously downplay their justification and practice of slavery for centuries which was duly supported by Christian dogmas. They claimed that all the people they have colonized were the descendants of Ham (a biblical myth) and these people were needed to be enslaved for their own good. It is akin to a butcher saying, that it is in the interest of goat he slaughters it, so that the goat could go to heaven.
Mr. Malhotra exposes the global nexus of Church organizations with politics, intelligence agencies, Maoist terrorists to name a few.
India is being attacked from every side and Indians are not taking a serious note about it. Our common understanding is that our only enemy is Pakistan. It is Jihadis, Communists/Maoists, Christian Missionaries and the other sold out Indian sepoys of these forces and more. The threat is real and formidable. We are surrounded by regimes whose ideologies of death cult are posing a constant threat to India’s existence. But, we don’t take these challenges seriously. It is only because of such disunity from Afghanistan to Myanmar the original territory is now shrunk to its current form. If measures were not taken there might be at least four more independent countries in India, from Kashmir to Northeast to Punjab to Tamil Nadu.
It is not the slavery under Islam India suffered which had devastating impact, but it is due to the organized destruction of all that is Indian has had a lasting impact on Indian mind. The Islam just wanted to stamp Indians out, just like it did with all the other cultures/religions in the wake, but we stood out though with huge losses. But with British (or Christianity) India faced a different problem – Deception, lies and backstabbing. For India, Jihadi is a quantified enemy, but the missionary crook is an invisible enemy. This is a new generation warfare where the enemy can see us but we cannot see them. And his tactics are fool proof.
Every chapter in this book – Breaking India can be worked out or researched as a PhD dissertation, such is the scope for further work on each chapter. For eg: - How the Europeans have invented the Race theory and how they have used it to colonize a vast majority of global population warrants a more thorough study on its own.
The whole book centered around the following themes in my opinion.
1. Inventing the myth of a separate Dravidian identity.
The foundation of Christianity is built on lies and deception on which the west thriving. Of all the
greatest lies which were churned out as scholarship, the Aryan-Dravidian dichotomy had a lasting impact. That originally Tamil People were ruling the whole of India, then came the wily Brahmins (i.e., Aryans) from Central Asia who drove the Tamils to the current territory of Tamil Nadu. Well, if one is not swayed by the allurements for converting in to Christianity he would laugh his brains out because of this scholarship. This theory is for Tamil Nadu only. For example, different stories are cooked up for different states to confuse Hindus, to prepare them for conversion in to Christianity.
2. Using Dalit issue as a front for conversion purposes.
The greatest irony of all is to say that Christian Missionaries are working Dalit cause. History is replete with incidents of the butchery Christianity (or simply the church) committed since its inception as recent as assisting Hitler in the genocide of Jews. Dalit issue is a legitimate concern and it should be resolved with in the broader Hindu framework and it does not require the intervention of foreign ideologies be it, Communism, Christianity or Islam.
3. Missionaries building an anti-India narrative and showing solidarity to the centrifugal forces in India.
The role of Missionaries in the Maoist belt and violence in North East is indeed disturbing. The fact that political leadership in India could not muster courage to deal with these forces head on, all for the sake of vote bank politics is worrying. If such an attitude continues then India as we know will not be there anymore.
4. Crackpot scholarship by Christian missionaries and organizations that justifies the past injustices and a rationale for armed violence, so as to balkanize India.
All publications of Church have derogatory references about Hindus and Hinduism. Only few instances as mentioned in the book are taken up by Hindus, others are just ignored. St. Thomas story is a great hoax of all. There is no evidence of his existence at all what so ever. It is only rhetoric.
5. A global network of organizations in the name of Dalit rights who create and control the anti-India agenda.
What should worry us as Indians is the sheer capacity of these organizations to mobilize funds for their destabilizing activities in India. Thanks to Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA rules & act), there is a chance at least to monitor movement of these funds. Every year there are thousands of crores received by these missionary organizations as contributions for conversion and other disruptive activities.
6. Communists/Maoists, Jihadis, Christian missionaries – all find a common cause in the destruction of India.
Elsewhere (http://dsathyana.blogspot.com/2013/12...) I have written about the nexus of Jihadis and communists in india, though they are enemies outside territory of India. This applies to Christian missionaries. So, Maoists, Jihadis and Christian Missionaries (or simply church) are enemies of each other, but when it comes to India all join hands for the destruction of India. Such is the threat we are facing. The first step in thwarting a threat is to recognize that there is one. So, far there is no evidence to suggest that we as a continuing civilization have recognized the threat yet, and it is about time we just did that.
7. Individuals who pass off as public intellectuals are just agents of church
The Author meticulously documents about the activities of the individuals who are the known agents of Church, but subtly suppress their identities at times. And flaunt their association when it suits them. From John Dayal to Mangalwani, the list is lengthier.
From the King Sivaji to Guru Gobind Singh and other unknown number of patriots have made enormous sacrifices to keep this country from the savages of foreign land. We shall too do our own part in sustaining this civilization.
At that time, I have not read Mr. Rajiv Malhotra’s book Breaking India. Though I knew very clearly that the Aryan Invasion theory and other such theories were crackpot scholarship of the Missionaries, my thoughts were never reaffirmed until after reading Mr. Malhotra’s book. Like that cab driver with whom I spoke there is a considerable amount of population that lives under the misconception of such manufactured histories of British, or simply Missionaries.
The author skillfully traces the evidence of how center of gravity of global evangelism has moved from Europe to US in the recent decades. And how the Christian missionaries and other anti-National forces have played to the internal fault lines of India to further balkanize and ultimately break India in to pieces.
Though the west boasts about the scientific temperament as a virtue they hold as a society, they conspicuously downplay their justification and practice of slavery for centuries which was duly supported by Christian dogmas. They claimed that all the people they have colonized were the descendants of Ham (a biblical myth) and these people were needed to be enslaved for their own good. It is akin to a butcher saying, that it is in the interest of goat he slaughters it, so that the goat could go to heaven.
Mr. Malhotra exposes the global nexus of Church organizations with politics, intelligence agencies, Maoist terrorists to name a few.
India is being attacked from every side and Indians are not taking a serious note about it. Our common understanding is that our only enemy is Pakistan. It is Jihadis, Communists/Maoists, Christian Missionaries and the other sold out Indian sepoys of these forces and more. The threat is real and formidable. We are surrounded by regimes whose ideologies of death cult are posing a constant threat to India’s existence. But, we don’t take these challenges seriously. It is only because of such disunity from Afghanistan to Myanmar the original territory is now shrunk to its current form. If measures were not taken there might be at least four more independent countries in India, from Kashmir to Northeast to Punjab to Tamil Nadu.
It is not the slavery under Islam India suffered which had devastating impact, but it is due to the organized destruction of all that is Indian has had a lasting impact on Indian mind. The Islam just wanted to stamp Indians out, just like it did with all the other cultures/religions in the wake, but we stood out though with huge losses. But with British (or Christianity) India faced a different problem – Deception, lies and backstabbing. For India, Jihadi is a quantified enemy, but the missionary crook is an invisible enemy. This is a new generation warfare where the enemy can see us but we cannot see them. And his tactics are fool proof.
Every chapter in this book – Breaking India can be worked out or researched as a PhD dissertation, such is the scope for further work on each chapter. For eg: - How the Europeans have invented the Race theory and how they have used it to colonize a vast majority of global population warrants a more thorough study on its own.
The whole book centered around the following themes in my opinion.
1. Inventing the myth of a separate Dravidian identity.
The foundation of Christianity is built on lies and deception on which the west thriving. Of all the
greatest lies which were churned out as scholarship, the Aryan-Dravidian dichotomy had a lasting impact. That originally Tamil People were ruling the whole of India, then came the wily Brahmins (i.e., Aryans) from Central Asia who drove the Tamils to the current territory of Tamil Nadu. Well, if one is not swayed by the allurements for converting in to Christianity he would laugh his brains out because of this scholarship. This theory is for Tamil Nadu only. For example, different stories are cooked up for different states to confuse Hindus, to prepare them for conversion in to Christianity.
2. Using Dalit issue as a front for conversion purposes.
The greatest irony of all is to say that Christian Missionaries are working Dalit cause. History is replete with incidents of the butchery Christianity (or simply the church) committed since its inception as recent as assisting Hitler in the genocide of Jews. Dalit issue is a legitimate concern and it should be resolved with in the broader Hindu framework and it does not require the intervention of foreign ideologies be it, Communism, Christianity or Islam.
3. Missionaries building an anti-India narrative and showing solidarity to the centrifugal forces in India.
The role of Missionaries in the Maoist belt and violence in North East is indeed disturbing. The fact that political leadership in India could not muster courage to deal with these forces head on, all for the sake of vote bank politics is worrying. If such an attitude continues then India as we know will not be there anymore.
4. Crackpot scholarship by Christian missionaries and organizations that justifies the past injustices and a rationale for armed violence, so as to balkanize India.
All publications of Church have derogatory references about Hindus and Hinduism. Only few instances as mentioned in the book are taken up by Hindus, others are just ignored. St. Thomas story is a great hoax of all. There is no evidence of his existence at all what so ever. It is only rhetoric.
5. A global network of organizations in the name of Dalit rights who create and control the anti-India agenda.
What should worry us as Indians is the sheer capacity of these organizations to mobilize funds for their destabilizing activities in India. Thanks to Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA rules & act), there is a chance at least to monitor movement of these funds. Every year there are thousands of crores received by these missionary organizations as contributions for conversion and other disruptive activities.
6. Communists/Maoists, Jihadis, Christian missionaries – all find a common cause in the destruction of India.
Elsewhere (http://dsathyana.blogspot.com/2013/12...) I have written about the nexus of Jihadis and communists in india, though they are enemies outside territory of India. This applies to Christian missionaries. So, Maoists, Jihadis and Christian Missionaries (or simply church) are enemies of each other, but when it comes to India all join hands for the destruction of India. Such is the threat we are facing. The first step in thwarting a threat is to recognize that there is one. So, far there is no evidence to suggest that we as a continuing civilization have recognized the threat yet, and it is about time we just did that.
7. Individuals who pass off as public intellectuals are just agents of church
The Author meticulously documents about the activities of the individuals who are the known agents of Church, but subtly suppress their identities at times. And flaunt their association when it suits them. From John Dayal to Mangalwani, the list is lengthier.
From the King Sivaji to Guru Gobind Singh and other unknown number of patriots have made enormous sacrifices to keep this country from the savages of foreign land. We shall too do our own part in sustaining this civilization.
July 30, 2017
Tread with Caution and Curiosity:
Highly opinionated self-indulgent rant. Cherry-picking of anecdotal stories to spin a crackpot narrative. At one end, the authors brand academia in Yale, Harvard and Berkeley as 'secessionist' and at other extreme, goes to the level of linking fiction Mahabharata with real Cheras citing some war. I only wish the authors have some self-respect to refrain from using all innovations which came from the West - the West which they are so fond of accusing time and again in this utterly nonsense book. Rest In Peace Epistemology!
Highly opinionated self-indulgent rant. Cherry-picking of anecdotal stories to spin a crackpot narrative. At one end, the authors brand academia in Yale, Harvard and Berkeley as 'secessionist' and at other extreme, goes to the level of linking fiction Mahabharata with real Cheras citing some war. I only wish the authors have some self-respect to refrain from using all innovations which came from the West - the West which they are so fond of accusing time and again in this utterly nonsense book. Rest In Peace Epistemology!
October 28, 2012
If any Indian believes that because Indian civilization somehow managed to survive for a few thousands of years, it will continue do so is in complete denial. Rajiv Malhotra's book, is well researched and lays down the threats to Indian civilization emanating from the global nexus of aggressive Christian evangelization/proselytization, Islamic extremism and Maoist left wing militancy.
March 14, 2012
Very beautifully researched and presented. This book will break many of the secular myths that we have. This book also illustrates history with a new point of view. A must read for every patriotic Indian.
December 14, 2015
Hinduism is the oldest religion of the world. Its origins are unknown. It is often termed as the “way of life” and the precursor of all the world’s religions.
Because of very nature of Hinduism and Hindus in general this religion has been under attack. Like Jews, Hindus also hold the sad distinction of having suffered the most firstly under the Muslim rule (since the earliest Muslim invasions in Sindh in 8th century AD till the end of Mughal empire) and later on under the hands of Christian missionaries and their associates.
Millions of Hindus were slaughtered by the Muslim invaders/rulers and thousands of temples were destroyed. Many Hindus were given the option of either sword or conversion to Islam with many Hindus preferring the former.
This book (recommended by a good friend and well-wisher) is the result of painstaking effort taken by its authors to narrate the efforts of Christians to destabilize India by using its in built fault lines of caste and region divide.
It starts with state of Tamil Nadu where revered men of Tamil literature like Thirukkural were suitably concocted as disciples of St. Thomas with Brahmins being billed as evil doers.
Caste system was indicated as having been imposed on Tamils by cunning Brahmins who were termed as evil Aryans with Dravidians as Christians. The Christians have been formulating carefully laid down strategy for conversion of Hindus by fabricating non-Indian ethnic identity for Tamils. Corrupting history and religion and by demeaning Sanskrit and even by de-Hinduising and christianinsing Hindu dance forms like Bharatnatyam. The evangelists attempt to prove that Christianity is the oldest religion, all Hindu Vedas as having originated from Christianity.
Dravidian conflict with the anti Hindi, anti Brahmin stance of political parties like DMK is the direct result of this carefully orchestrated falsehood of forging a separate identity for Tamils by projecting them as hypothetical historic victims in their relationship to the rest of India. The underlying intention is to de alienate Tamils with rest of India with lot of convoluted, baseless assumptions and outdated information.
The book rightly states that various authors eulogizing Christianity regularly quote and unquote one another to substantiate their preposterous claims. Bare lies end up being transformed into gospel truth if continuously repeated and force fed into the psyche of the masses and this is exactly what has happened over the years.
All of above has been possible due to the nexus between Vatican, pope and universities and their united demonic agenda to divide, destabilize and weaken India and at the same time demonizing and distorting its culture so as to ease the religious conversion process.
Several NGOs help Christians. The book states that western powers use selected scholars from India to do their dirty work and use a mix of academic and activists to give testimonies against India. They help in portraying India as anti-progressive country, frozen in time and poverty stricken with west as self-appointed doctor.
Around 800 NGOs were blacklisted by Home Ministry. Legal action has not been taken because of foreign funding (US sponsored) as any action would lead to outcry and would be termed as religious persecution as many NGOs are Christian/Muslims. Ironically, as the authors conclude, that the destabilizing forces gain strength by using the very democracy that they seek to destroy.
Sadly many in Indian media are hand in glove with their western masters. They are emotionally bonded and financially dependent on them. This book mentions names of Indians working against the interest of India by demeaning their own country.
The book also states that ancient Sangam literature reveals that land of Tamils since its earlier conception has been predominantly vedic in its spirituality. It indicates concept of united India from Himalayas to Kanyakumari. A Danish missionary (quoted in the book) had said that Hindus lead a quiet, honest and virtuous life outdoing our superficial pretenders of false Christianity.
Sadly, India’s political parties are willing to sacrifice national security concerns before vote bank politics. The book quotes several instances where action could have been taken against the culprits (bomb blast plotters, hate campaigners etc.) had the political will been stronger.
The book is really an eye opener and a wakeup call for all Indians. Kudos to the authors. It’s also surprising that this book has not been widely read and thrashed by our pseudo secularist politicians, media and self-appointed liberals. The poison being used to destabilize India has spread wide and can’t be nipped in the bud. What can be done is that all the tentacles of this hydra should be cut one by one by deceit, cunning and perseverance. “Shathe Shathyam Samachrate” means fight cunningness with cunningness. It requires a concerted effort behind the scenes, behind media glare with a dedicated team drawn from all the agencies required to stem the rot.
Hindutva calls for cultural unity of India. Arise O Hindus. You are born in a holy land, the land of Maryada Purshottam Shri.Raja Ramchandra, the land of sages, the land of learned, pious people, the land of Vedas, Upanishads and Bhagwad Geeta the land which has produced warriors like Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Guru Gobind Singh who took up arms to defend your religion. Millions have died to protect your identity. Let Hinduism not be defeated by the nefarious designs of western powers.
I conclude this review by quoting this Shloka from Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta - “Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitah” meaning “Protect your religion and your religion will protect you”. This my friends, is the underlying message of this book. Take it to heart and stand firm to defend Hinduism.
Because of very nature of Hinduism and Hindus in general this religion has been under attack. Like Jews, Hindus also hold the sad distinction of having suffered the most firstly under the Muslim rule (since the earliest Muslim invasions in Sindh in 8th century AD till the end of Mughal empire) and later on under the hands of Christian missionaries and their associates.
Millions of Hindus were slaughtered by the Muslim invaders/rulers and thousands of temples were destroyed. Many Hindus were given the option of either sword or conversion to Islam with many Hindus preferring the former.
This book (recommended by a good friend and well-wisher) is the result of painstaking effort taken by its authors to narrate the efforts of Christians to destabilize India by using its in built fault lines of caste and region divide.
It starts with state of Tamil Nadu where revered men of Tamil literature like Thirukkural were suitably concocted as disciples of St. Thomas with Brahmins being billed as evil doers.
Caste system was indicated as having been imposed on Tamils by cunning Brahmins who were termed as evil Aryans with Dravidians as Christians. The Christians have been formulating carefully laid down strategy for conversion of Hindus by fabricating non-Indian ethnic identity for Tamils. Corrupting history and religion and by demeaning Sanskrit and even by de-Hinduising and christianinsing Hindu dance forms like Bharatnatyam. The evangelists attempt to prove that Christianity is the oldest religion, all Hindu Vedas as having originated from Christianity.
Dravidian conflict with the anti Hindi, anti Brahmin stance of political parties like DMK is the direct result of this carefully orchestrated falsehood of forging a separate identity for Tamils by projecting them as hypothetical historic victims in their relationship to the rest of India. The underlying intention is to de alienate Tamils with rest of India with lot of convoluted, baseless assumptions and outdated information.
The book rightly states that various authors eulogizing Christianity regularly quote and unquote one another to substantiate their preposterous claims. Bare lies end up being transformed into gospel truth if continuously repeated and force fed into the psyche of the masses and this is exactly what has happened over the years.
All of above has been possible due to the nexus between Vatican, pope and universities and their united demonic agenda to divide, destabilize and weaken India and at the same time demonizing and distorting its culture so as to ease the religious conversion process.
Several NGOs help Christians. The book states that western powers use selected scholars from India to do their dirty work and use a mix of academic and activists to give testimonies against India. They help in portraying India as anti-progressive country, frozen in time and poverty stricken with west as self-appointed doctor.
Around 800 NGOs were blacklisted by Home Ministry. Legal action has not been taken because of foreign funding (US sponsored) as any action would lead to outcry and would be termed as religious persecution as many NGOs are Christian/Muslims. Ironically, as the authors conclude, that the destabilizing forces gain strength by using the very democracy that they seek to destroy.
Sadly many in Indian media are hand in glove with their western masters. They are emotionally bonded and financially dependent on them. This book mentions names of Indians working against the interest of India by demeaning their own country.
The book also states that ancient Sangam literature reveals that land of Tamils since its earlier conception has been predominantly vedic in its spirituality. It indicates concept of united India from Himalayas to Kanyakumari. A Danish missionary (quoted in the book) had said that Hindus lead a quiet, honest and virtuous life outdoing our superficial pretenders of false Christianity.
Sadly, India’s political parties are willing to sacrifice national security concerns before vote bank politics. The book quotes several instances where action could have been taken against the culprits (bomb blast plotters, hate campaigners etc.) had the political will been stronger.
The book is really an eye opener and a wakeup call for all Indians. Kudos to the authors. It’s also surprising that this book has not been widely read and thrashed by our pseudo secularist politicians, media and self-appointed liberals. The poison being used to destabilize India has spread wide and can’t be nipped in the bud. What can be done is that all the tentacles of this hydra should be cut one by one by deceit, cunning and perseverance. “Shathe Shathyam Samachrate” means fight cunningness with cunningness. It requires a concerted effort behind the scenes, behind media glare with a dedicated team drawn from all the agencies required to stem the rot.
Hindutva calls for cultural unity of India. Arise O Hindus. You are born in a holy land, the land of Maryada Purshottam Shri.Raja Ramchandra, the land of sages, the land of learned, pious people, the land of Vedas, Upanishads and Bhagwad Geeta the land which has produced warriors like Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Guru Gobind Singh who took up arms to defend your religion. Millions have died to protect your identity. Let Hinduism not be defeated by the nefarious designs of western powers.
I conclude this review by quoting this Shloka from Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta - “Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitah” meaning “Protect your religion and your religion will protect you”. This my friends, is the underlying message of this book. Take it to heart and stand firm to defend Hinduism.
July 27, 2015
Malhotra's 'Breaking India' is alarmist with its anxieties directed at an unworthy enemy. The author wants Hindus to see Christianity as a threat and claims that the Christian West has been trying to subsume Hinduism for generations. The issue is one sees little proof of this provocative claim on the ground. Strangely, Malhotra spares just one chapter in this tome on the growth of militant Islam which obviously poses a much more potent threat to India's unity. Stinks of an agenda..
September 18, 2020
As the title says, this book is study on the subversive forces that are trying to undermine Indian sovereignty and civilizational unity. It is obvious that a lot of research went into this. The authors present a lot of data, figures and even flow charts to present their case. I admit I skimmed over such detailed parts where they highlight many individuals , institutions and the massive global networks that are part of this "Breaking India forces". But in my opinion the authors have built an impressive and convincing case of how western academicians, think-tanks, political and religious groups, and of course the "human rights activists" are going to great lengths to promote divisive identity politics, social division, and conflict in India. By exploiting both real and manufactured fault-lines in our society.
They divide these subversive forces into three categories: Maoists/Marxists, Jihadis that are a part of global Islamism, and the christian evangelists aligned with the west. These forces have many ideological differences but they frequently align with each other in working against Indian civilization. This book mainly focuses on the Christian evangelists and their aggressive role in fostering and promoting the Dravidian and and Dalit separatist politics. They trace it back to its historical origin when the race obsessed British started using the two Sanskrit terms "Arya" and "Dravida" in racial terms and invented the "Aryan invasion theory" to create a rift and further their colonial interests. The same colonial identity framework is still being used in the same racist terms by more or less the same western groups and their allies in India to undermine India's integrity.
A solidly researched work with appendices and a massive bibliography at the end.
They divide these subversive forces into three categories: Maoists/Marxists, Jihadis that are a part of global Islamism, and the christian evangelists aligned with the west. These forces have many ideological differences but they frequently align with each other in working against Indian civilization. This book mainly focuses on the Christian evangelists and their aggressive role in fostering and promoting the Dravidian and and Dalit separatist politics. They trace it back to its historical origin when the race obsessed British started using the two Sanskrit terms "Arya" and "Dravida" in racial terms and invented the "Aryan invasion theory" to create a rift and further their colonial interests. The same colonial identity framework is still being used in the same racist terms by more or less the same western groups and their allies in India to undermine India's integrity.
A solidly researched work with appendices and a massive bibliography at the end.
January 22, 2014
Very factual and eye opening book, and not just rhetoric. It gives a precise analysis of facts and figures, the research behind the facts presented is amazing and authentic making us think deeply about our future as a nation "India"! I made sure to cross check all references with zeal and realised the research done by the author is exceptional. An eye opener educating us what's the real things that is happening in our nation in the name of different social adjectives. Brilliant book and a must read to know the hidden answers to various nationalist movements, right or left.
September 13, 2025
#Binge Reviewing my previous Reads # Hindutva, Indic
Rajiv Malhotra has built a reputation as someone who sees ideas not as abstractions but as weapons in a battlefield, and *Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines*, co-authored with Aravindan Neelakandan, is perhaps the most openly militant expression of that worldview. If *Sanskrit Non-Translatables* was about protecting words, if *Ten Heads of Ravana* was about skewering scholars, *Breaking India* is about exposing what the authors see as a massive conspiracy against the very integrity of the Indian nation.
Published in 2011, it did not emerge into a vacuum. The debates around Dravidian politics, Dalit assertion, Christian missionary activity, and foreign-funded NGOs had already been swirling, and the book gave them a single, concentrated narrative: India is under siege, not from an external enemy alone but from the way outsiders exploit its internal fractures.
It is a book written with alarm, almost with a fevered pitch, but also with the confidence that comes from believing one has uncovered a grand pattern that everyone else is too blind or too complacent to see.
The thesis is stark. According to Malhotra and Neelakandan, Western actors — from church networks to academic institutions to policy think tanks — have been systematically promoting separatist identities within India.
The Aryan–Dravidian divide, they argue, is not a neutral academic theory but a politically motivated project, seeded by colonial scholarship and now fertilised by contemporary Western interests. Dalit movements are portrayed as similarly infiltrated, encouraged to see themselves as fundamentally outside the Hindu fold.
Christian missionaries, NGOs with foreign funding, and even global human rights discourse are cast as players in a coordinated effort to “break India.” The book reads like an investigation, but also like an indictment. Each chapter points to networks, funding channels, ideological agendas. Each assertion is framed as another piece of a puzzle whose overall shape is darkly sinister.
To many readers on the Hindu Right, the book was revelatory. It gave language and coherence to suspicions that had long simmered. It provided citations, networks, anecdotes, and analyses that seemed to confirm what had been felt but not articulated: that India’s caste politics and regional movements were not simply organic expressions of social grievances but were being manipulated by outsiders with vested interests.
The book was received almost as a handbook of vigilance, an exposé that turned every missionary school, every international conference on caste, every NGO’s annual report into potential evidence of conspiracy. It gave the sense of a civilizational struggle being waged not only on the streets but in classrooms, grant offices, and publishing houses.
Yet for many critics, *Breaking India* was reductionist to the point of distortion. By portraying Dalit and Dravidian movements as largely puppets of Western manipulation, it dismissed the very real, very painful histories of oppression, exclusion, and resistance that gave rise to these movements. To say that the assertion of Dalit identity is primarily the result of missionary funding is to erase the centuries of structural injustice that Dalits themselves experienced and articulated long before any NGO appeared on the scene.
Similarly, to reduce the Dravidian assertion in Tamil Nadu to an effect of colonial scholarship ignores the lived histories of linguistic pride, anti-Brahmin mobilisation, and complex regional politics. In this sense, the book stands accused of a mirror-image of the very “digestion” it elsewhere condemns: it digests the autonomous voices of Dalits and Dravidians into the framework of its own narrative of conspiracy.
The style of the book is relentless. Malhotra and Neelakandan write with the energy of lawyers prosecuting a case, marshalling evidence, naming institutions, pointing to connections. There is very little space for hesitation, ambiguity, or acknowledgement of counterpoints. This gives the book its power — the reader is swept along in the conviction that the case is airtight — but also its weakness, for any historian knows that social movements are rarely so reducible to external strings being pulled. The alarmist tone, while effective in mobilising readers, also weakens the book’s claim to be an objective analysis. It is not a detached history. It is a battle-cry disguised as research.
But to dismiss it outright is also to miss something important. *Breaking India* tells us less about the mechanics of foreign interventions than about the anxieties of a nation that feels perpetually vulnerable to fragmentation. It is a book that dramatizes the tension between India’s extraordinary diversity and its aspiration to unity.
It reflects the suspicion, deeply rooted in the nationalist psyche, that every assertion of difference — whether caste-based, regional, or linguistic — is a potential Trojan horse for disintegration. In that sense, it is part of a long genealogy of Indian political thought that has feared balkanization, from the trauma of Partition to the separatist movements of the 1980s and beyond. What Malhotra and Neelakandan add is a distinctly twenty-first-century twist: the claim that global networks and discourses, facilitated by NGOs, academia, and even the internet, are the new vehicles of subversion.
There is also something worth noting in the way the book frames its enemies. They are not only missionaries and church networks but also American universities, European think tanks, and global NGOs. This gives the book a conspiratorial breadth that makes the reader feel besieged on all sides. But it also situates India’s cultural and political battles within the context of global geopolitics.
The implicit message is that India is too important a civilizational entity to be left alone. It is constantly being studied, categorized, and, in Malhotra’s view, manipulated. This sense of India as a battleground for global interests resonates with the lived reality of globalization, where cultural debates are no longer confined within national borders.
Comparisons with other books sharpen the picture. If Swapan Dasgupta’s *Awakening Bharat Mata* was about canonizing the Indian Right, and Manu Pillai’s *Gods, Guns and Missionaries* about historicizing the making of Hindu identity, then *Breaking India* is about dramatizing the threats to that identity. Where Dasgupta curates and Pillai contextualizes, Malhotra and Neelakandan warn. Their book is less about building intellectual legitimacy and more about fuelling vigilance. In that sense, it pairs naturally with A.G. Noorani’s *The RSS: A Menace to India*, though they are ideological opposites.
Both are polemics, both exaggerate for effect, both frame their narratives as a struggle between survival and destruction. One sees the Right as the menace, the other sees Western meddling as the menace. In both cases, nuance is the casualty, but rhetorical power is the gain.
Reading *Breaking India* also invites reflection on the politics of victimhood. Malhotra often portrays Hindus as under siege, as passive victims of Western manipulation. Yet this sits uneasily with the lived reality of Hindu dominance in India’s social and political life. Dalits and Dravidians, by contrast, are cast in the book not as agents of their own histories but as pawns in someone else’s game.
There is an irony here: a book written to defend Hindu civilizational agency ends up erasing the agency of the very communities whose politics it seeks to explain. Critics such as Anand Teltumbde have long argued that Hindutva appropriates or suppresses Dalit struggles rather than engaging them on their own terms. In many ways, *Breaking India* exemplifies this dynamic.
At the same time, the book did strike a nerve in exposing the very real phenomenon of foreign funding in Indian social movements. That NGOs and missionaries have been active in caste-based and regional mobilizations is not in doubt. That Western universities produce scholarship that often frames India in terms of oppression and victimhood is also evident. The question is not whether these things happen, but how determinative they are. Malhotra tends to treat them as the primary causes of movements, whereas a more balanced analysis would see them as amplifiers of already existing grievances. Here the book fails to distinguish between catalyst and origin, between fuel and fire.
Yet one cannot deny its influence. *Breaking India* became a rallying cry in circles where suspicion of the West was already high. It provided a vocabulary that has since seeped into political rhetoric: “breaking forces,” “NGO interference,” “Western agendas.” It is not too much to say that the book anticipated much of the discourse that would dominate Indian politics in the following decade, where the foreign-funded NGO became a bogeyman, where the “urban Naxal” trope emerged, and where calls for vigilance against internal sabotage gained political traction. Whether one agrees with it or not, the book helped shape the intellectual climate of the 2010s and beyond.
Reading it now, one is struck by both its prescience and its paranoia. It foresaw the global entanglement of local politics, but it overstated the intentionality of foreign actors. It highlighted real issues of appropriation and intervention, but it reduced complex histories of caste and regional assertion into caricatures of manipulation. It made Indian readers feel embattled and therefore alert, but also suspicious to the point of xenophobia. It is both a useful corrective to complacency and a dangerous invitation to oversimplify.
What lingers after finishing the book is a double unease. On one hand, the unease of realizing that India is indeed vulnerable to external influence, that NGOs and churches and scholars are not neutral, that global narratives do shape domestic politics. On the other hand, the unease of seeing how quickly this awareness can slide into conspiracy thinking, how easily real grievances of marginalized communities can be dismissed as foreign plots, how conveniently the notion of “breaking India” can be deployed to delegitimize dissent. This tension is perhaps the most revealing aspect of the book: it is less about the West than about India’s own inability to resolve the contradictions within itself without resorting to external blame.
In the end, *Breaking India* is not a book of scholarship so much as a book of mobilization. It is written not to persuade a neutral reader but to energize a sympathetic one. It is not about complexity but about clarity, not about nuance but about alarm. It thrives on the conviction that the stakes are existential, that vigilance must be perpetual, that India must always be ready to defend itself not only against invaders at its borders but against ideas and networks that seep in through classrooms and church doors. Its power lies in its ability to make the reader feel surrounded, and its weakness lies in its inability to imagine that sometimes, the enemy is not outside but within, and not as puppet but as agent.
And yet, even with its exaggerations, it has carved a place in India’s intellectual-political landscape. To read it is to step into a world where every word, every movement, every grant, every translation is fraught with civilizational stakes. To dismiss it is too easy. To embrace it uncritically is dangerous. To wrestle with it is perhaps the only way forward, for in that wrestling one confronts not only the book’s paranoia but also India’s own unresolved anxieties about unity, diversity, and the ever-present specter of fragmentation.
Rajiv Malhotra has built a reputation as someone who sees ideas not as abstractions but as weapons in a battlefield, and *Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines*, co-authored with Aravindan Neelakandan, is perhaps the most openly militant expression of that worldview. If *Sanskrit Non-Translatables* was about protecting words, if *Ten Heads of Ravana* was about skewering scholars, *Breaking India* is about exposing what the authors see as a massive conspiracy against the very integrity of the Indian nation.
Published in 2011, it did not emerge into a vacuum. The debates around Dravidian politics, Dalit assertion, Christian missionary activity, and foreign-funded NGOs had already been swirling, and the book gave them a single, concentrated narrative: India is under siege, not from an external enemy alone but from the way outsiders exploit its internal fractures.
It is a book written with alarm, almost with a fevered pitch, but also with the confidence that comes from believing one has uncovered a grand pattern that everyone else is too blind or too complacent to see.
The thesis is stark. According to Malhotra and Neelakandan, Western actors — from church networks to academic institutions to policy think tanks — have been systematically promoting separatist identities within India.
The Aryan–Dravidian divide, they argue, is not a neutral academic theory but a politically motivated project, seeded by colonial scholarship and now fertilised by contemporary Western interests. Dalit movements are portrayed as similarly infiltrated, encouraged to see themselves as fundamentally outside the Hindu fold.
Christian missionaries, NGOs with foreign funding, and even global human rights discourse are cast as players in a coordinated effort to “break India.” The book reads like an investigation, but also like an indictment. Each chapter points to networks, funding channels, ideological agendas. Each assertion is framed as another piece of a puzzle whose overall shape is darkly sinister.
To many readers on the Hindu Right, the book was revelatory. It gave language and coherence to suspicions that had long simmered. It provided citations, networks, anecdotes, and analyses that seemed to confirm what had been felt but not articulated: that India’s caste politics and regional movements were not simply organic expressions of social grievances but were being manipulated by outsiders with vested interests.
The book was received almost as a handbook of vigilance, an exposé that turned every missionary school, every international conference on caste, every NGO’s annual report into potential evidence of conspiracy. It gave the sense of a civilizational struggle being waged not only on the streets but in classrooms, grant offices, and publishing houses.
Yet for many critics, *Breaking India* was reductionist to the point of distortion. By portraying Dalit and Dravidian movements as largely puppets of Western manipulation, it dismissed the very real, very painful histories of oppression, exclusion, and resistance that gave rise to these movements. To say that the assertion of Dalit identity is primarily the result of missionary funding is to erase the centuries of structural injustice that Dalits themselves experienced and articulated long before any NGO appeared on the scene.
Similarly, to reduce the Dravidian assertion in Tamil Nadu to an effect of colonial scholarship ignores the lived histories of linguistic pride, anti-Brahmin mobilisation, and complex regional politics. In this sense, the book stands accused of a mirror-image of the very “digestion” it elsewhere condemns: it digests the autonomous voices of Dalits and Dravidians into the framework of its own narrative of conspiracy.
The style of the book is relentless. Malhotra and Neelakandan write with the energy of lawyers prosecuting a case, marshalling evidence, naming institutions, pointing to connections. There is very little space for hesitation, ambiguity, or acknowledgement of counterpoints. This gives the book its power — the reader is swept along in the conviction that the case is airtight — but also its weakness, for any historian knows that social movements are rarely so reducible to external strings being pulled. The alarmist tone, while effective in mobilising readers, also weakens the book’s claim to be an objective analysis. It is not a detached history. It is a battle-cry disguised as research.
But to dismiss it outright is also to miss something important. *Breaking India* tells us less about the mechanics of foreign interventions than about the anxieties of a nation that feels perpetually vulnerable to fragmentation. It is a book that dramatizes the tension between India’s extraordinary diversity and its aspiration to unity.
It reflects the suspicion, deeply rooted in the nationalist psyche, that every assertion of difference — whether caste-based, regional, or linguistic — is a potential Trojan horse for disintegration. In that sense, it is part of a long genealogy of Indian political thought that has feared balkanization, from the trauma of Partition to the separatist movements of the 1980s and beyond. What Malhotra and Neelakandan add is a distinctly twenty-first-century twist: the claim that global networks and discourses, facilitated by NGOs, academia, and even the internet, are the new vehicles of subversion.
There is also something worth noting in the way the book frames its enemies. They are not only missionaries and church networks but also American universities, European think tanks, and global NGOs. This gives the book a conspiratorial breadth that makes the reader feel besieged on all sides. But it also situates India’s cultural and political battles within the context of global geopolitics.
The implicit message is that India is too important a civilizational entity to be left alone. It is constantly being studied, categorized, and, in Malhotra’s view, manipulated. This sense of India as a battleground for global interests resonates with the lived reality of globalization, where cultural debates are no longer confined within national borders.
Comparisons with other books sharpen the picture. If Swapan Dasgupta’s *Awakening Bharat Mata* was about canonizing the Indian Right, and Manu Pillai’s *Gods, Guns and Missionaries* about historicizing the making of Hindu identity, then *Breaking India* is about dramatizing the threats to that identity. Where Dasgupta curates and Pillai contextualizes, Malhotra and Neelakandan warn. Their book is less about building intellectual legitimacy and more about fuelling vigilance. In that sense, it pairs naturally with A.G. Noorani’s *The RSS: A Menace to India*, though they are ideological opposites.
Both are polemics, both exaggerate for effect, both frame their narratives as a struggle between survival and destruction. One sees the Right as the menace, the other sees Western meddling as the menace. In both cases, nuance is the casualty, but rhetorical power is the gain.
Reading *Breaking India* also invites reflection on the politics of victimhood. Malhotra often portrays Hindus as under siege, as passive victims of Western manipulation. Yet this sits uneasily with the lived reality of Hindu dominance in India’s social and political life. Dalits and Dravidians, by contrast, are cast in the book not as agents of their own histories but as pawns in someone else’s game.
There is an irony here: a book written to defend Hindu civilizational agency ends up erasing the agency of the very communities whose politics it seeks to explain. Critics such as Anand Teltumbde have long argued that Hindutva appropriates or suppresses Dalit struggles rather than engaging them on their own terms. In many ways, *Breaking India* exemplifies this dynamic.
At the same time, the book did strike a nerve in exposing the very real phenomenon of foreign funding in Indian social movements. That NGOs and missionaries have been active in caste-based and regional mobilizations is not in doubt. That Western universities produce scholarship that often frames India in terms of oppression and victimhood is also evident. The question is not whether these things happen, but how determinative they are. Malhotra tends to treat them as the primary causes of movements, whereas a more balanced analysis would see them as amplifiers of already existing grievances. Here the book fails to distinguish between catalyst and origin, between fuel and fire.
Yet one cannot deny its influence. *Breaking India* became a rallying cry in circles where suspicion of the West was already high. It provided a vocabulary that has since seeped into political rhetoric: “breaking forces,” “NGO interference,” “Western agendas.” It is not too much to say that the book anticipated much of the discourse that would dominate Indian politics in the following decade, where the foreign-funded NGO became a bogeyman, where the “urban Naxal” trope emerged, and where calls for vigilance against internal sabotage gained political traction. Whether one agrees with it or not, the book helped shape the intellectual climate of the 2010s and beyond.
Reading it now, one is struck by both its prescience and its paranoia. It foresaw the global entanglement of local politics, but it overstated the intentionality of foreign actors. It highlighted real issues of appropriation and intervention, but it reduced complex histories of caste and regional assertion into caricatures of manipulation. It made Indian readers feel embattled and therefore alert, but also suspicious to the point of xenophobia. It is both a useful corrective to complacency and a dangerous invitation to oversimplify.
What lingers after finishing the book is a double unease. On one hand, the unease of realizing that India is indeed vulnerable to external influence, that NGOs and churches and scholars are not neutral, that global narratives do shape domestic politics. On the other hand, the unease of seeing how quickly this awareness can slide into conspiracy thinking, how easily real grievances of marginalized communities can be dismissed as foreign plots, how conveniently the notion of “breaking India” can be deployed to delegitimize dissent. This tension is perhaps the most revealing aspect of the book: it is less about the West than about India’s own inability to resolve the contradictions within itself without resorting to external blame.
In the end, *Breaking India* is not a book of scholarship so much as a book of mobilization. It is written not to persuade a neutral reader but to energize a sympathetic one. It is not about complexity but about clarity, not about nuance but about alarm. It thrives on the conviction that the stakes are existential, that vigilance must be perpetual, that India must always be ready to defend itself not only against invaders at its borders but against ideas and networks that seep in through classrooms and church doors. Its power lies in its ability to make the reader feel surrounded, and its weakness lies in its inability to imagine that sometimes, the enemy is not outside but within, and not as puppet but as agent.
And yet, even with its exaggerations, it has carved a place in India’s intellectual-political landscape. To read it is to step into a world where every word, every movement, every grant, every translation is fraught with civilizational stakes. To dismiss it is too easy. To embrace it uncritically is dangerous. To wrestle with it is perhaps the only way forward, for in that wrestling one confronts not only the book’s paranoia but also India’s own unresolved anxieties about unity, diversity, and the ever-present specter of fragmentation.
January 20, 2014
An excellent and well researched book about the external forces at work, with help from insiders, to break India. It is apparent after reading the book that hardly any Indian is aware of what is happening insidiously through this deadly combination of forces. The process started during the period of British colonialism, the first salvo fired by Macaulay to subvert the tradition education system to cut us off from our roots. Rest is history.....and very well covered in the book. Major players being the evangelist organisations and NGOs, which receive direct support from Western governments, including from the US, UK, Europe, etc.
A must read for all Indians!
A must read for all Indians!
September 16, 2020
An eye opening book regarding the kind of academic literature is generated and peddled in India in order to meet certain geopolitical goals. Read this to know India's enemies. This nicely explains the motive of all foreign funded activism in India which may appear benign at the first sight but isn't.
July 4, 2014
Well, this book is massively researched book. With 60 pages of Bibilography alone makes it as a super researched book. Coming to the book, it's shocking to read so many atrocities that India has been through over many centuries. We might be wonderig, ancient civilizations like Roman, Greek or Egypt have disappeared long back, but, India seems to sail through all these attacks regularly.
Author had went on unearthing the brutal atrocities from the days of colonial british era till today. He also exposed the internal "fake" secularism of many evangelical organizations, how they deliberatley promote their religion and carry out the conversions in the name of social human rights concern. He also emphasized majorly on the Dravidian concept compared to that of Aryan concept.
In due course, author had also expressed his deep concern for unity of India in the coming years. Overall, after reading Breaking India, every Indian must feel sad for his country's position.
All deractors will find a channel to malign this book by categorizing it as a right-wing propagated agenda. Whatever they may try, this book is an eye opener. I recommend this book must be included in our academics and teach our younger generation about the atrocitoes by the west on India and Indians. Period.
Author had went on unearthing the brutal atrocities from the days of colonial british era till today. He also exposed the internal "fake" secularism of many evangelical organizations, how they deliberatley promote their religion and carry out the conversions in the name of social human rights concern. He also emphasized majorly on the Dravidian concept compared to that of Aryan concept.
In due course, author had also expressed his deep concern for unity of India in the coming years. Overall, after reading Breaking India, every Indian must feel sad for his country's position.
All deractors will find a channel to malign this book by categorizing it as a right-wing propagated agenda. Whatever they may try, this book is an eye opener. I recommend this book must be included in our academics and teach our younger generation about the atrocitoes by the west on India and Indians. Period.
February 10, 2016
A must read for all Indians who believe in Indian cultural richness and strength in its concept of Unity in Diversity. The author has taken a lot of pains to explain step by step how the early Indologists have been trying to prove that all other religions except Christianity are false and baseless and when it comes to India they also try to prove that Hinduism has come from Aryan invasion, which being a theory, is still being referred as a fact, even after the fact that it was being proved to be a myth by Archaeological studies. This book throws light on all the things which happen in India to degrade its cultural heritage step by step and when retaliated by locals, the Indian government is accused of being brutal on "Minorities" as making India vulnerable for foreign intervention which means that India should be governed again by a foreign government, just as the British did. This books is like an alarm for Indians.
August 16, 2013
Great book based on thorough research.I was already aware of some of the themes discussed in this book. The biggest threats posed to Indian Nation and Integrity are aggressive christian proselytization, Islamic extremism and Maoist left wing militancy. The global nexus between all these elements and how these entities at the opposite ends of the idealogical spectrum work together for a common cause of "Breaking India". A must read for every Indian.
January 10, 2014
This book answered many serious questions regarding current social and political situations in India. An eye opener for all those who are concerned about India. Entire information in this book is based on extensive research with proper references. This book will change your whole world view regarding current political situations in India. Overall I will say that it is a must read book for every Indian and every Indian who read this book must educate everyone in their circle about this book.
July 20, 2017
Must read for all Indians. Should be a compulsory read.
August 6, 2020
This Book is a real eye awakening occurence about the fact on how much effort and endeavour the West pulled out of its sleeves to break the very Indic Land what we now know as the Indian Subcontinent and more particularly the republic of India. I never trusted the Aryan Invasion theory as such but was in trouble in completely eliminate it out of my horizon of thinking. This book gave me those foundational facts and solidity to support out of India theory rather than the Aryan Invasion theory. It also encompasses on how the west had/has been making our mental lives more weaker and screwed the cultural aspects all upto vapourizaton. Absorbing the quality Knowledge along with their credits of this land the west made us fools and clowns. And if it continues to happen, we ,the indics ,will soon be tearing eachother apart because of the Distortions made upon our Religious , philosophical , and social structure by them. It didn't express any future enmity we should keep as of now towards them but Indics need to go back to their roots and forget the imaginary divide of Aryans and the dravidians which is as baseless as the existence of a Multicolored Half Unicorn half Ibex Hybrid.
March 27, 2016
real eye opener, reminds everyone as how ignorant they are
May 19, 2018
“Breaking India” is the most factual book.
This book is an open challenge to the forces which want to dissect India into million of pieces. This book asked a question to the people of India (especially Youth), when they will learn to stand up and make India’s grad narrative which should include every single Indians within frame work. Breaking India is beautifully divided and paired in very efficiently to show how British colonization, US religious freedom Policy, Indian Left wing with the collaboration of Pan Islam and blunted Christianity looting Indian cultural heritage.
1) This book clearly show that how initial colonizers came to India to find out their own identity as “Aryan” and How one single word “Arya” (which is mentioned only 64 times in 5500 verse of rigved, become more than 3000 times mentioned in Hitler’s”Main kampf”) has been used by European indologist to change their race into Aryans to win against France. This book show how Aryan theory has been fabricated in lab of European evangelist and indologist and how it has been transformed into minds of every Indian. How there division of Labor “Varna” is transformed into a nasty nexus of “cast”.
2) “Breaking India” chapter 4th and 5th will drive you to “Myth of ham” from where European and British evangelicals propagated the claim that all American African and Indians are subjected to slavery because they all are sons of Ham. It will show you William Jones Map of Indian biblical ethnology. This book will show how Lord H.H. Risley (British administrator and indologist) experiment with Nose and wealth created a vast gap into Indian continental regards of Cast.
3) Chapter 6 to 10 will show you that how with help of St. Thomas myth and Portugal’s created Church, new Dravidian identity has been developed by anthropologist and Indian church. It will show the roll of many leader from DMK, AIDMK and others who openly support ethnic cleansing of Sinhalese (While both have been developed by US Church). It will show roll of G.U.Pope, Robert Caldwell, Campbell and D. Deivanayagam who propagate the ethnic theory of cunning Aryan and developed gap between Native Tamil Hindus and Indian mainstream religion. It will show how Kadam Kumari fake continental idea help the identity politics of India.
4) This book will show how the roll of many evangelic, dalit, Dravidian and left organizations playing disintegration with in india in name of ethnic cleanse. How india is moving towards a civil war and govt up to 2010 either avoiding the situation or pretending to be not known.
5) This book will show how US produced atrocity literature to weekend a country and how US used this strategies to make slave or attack into a nation (Iraq & Libya). This book review rolls of many neo-Indian and left Indians who are doll of US policy and how Christianization has been propagated by US in name of USAID, USCRF and GOA.
6) This book also enter deep into nexus of Moist and evangelical church, LEFT and Church nexus, Nexus of Dravidian politics and Pan Islam, roll of funding and money trail which is used for breaking India into Mugalistaan, Dravidstaan and Dalitstan. Its also show roll and interest of china and Pakistan to breaking India and US dilemma towards identity of India.
"This book is not about conspiracy but about facts. This book talks about deep developed fault lines by the west and their enhancement to use this fault lines for making it use of indirect control on Indian politics.
I never find such factual book in my whole life based on the current event and ongoing trial of US and EU for breaking India into many pieces.
This book is based on factual account and real time money trail going through NGO which is work against Indian unity. E.g. Ford foundation, Teesal satelwad's Org and 1000's of NGO which enjoy abroad money in name of social work but covertly do their job for highlighting and producing atrocity literature which divides india in many ways.
I would like to highlight few facts which I learned from this book and which I understand by observation also.
1) Communist based education which infiltrates the young mind and convinces them that India was never a united state before independence and idea of united India is new
This can be clearly seen in the university like JNU, Jadavpur University and Hyderabad university where students openly shout anti-national slogan and talk about plebiscite of Kashmir by influence and convention of the communist professor.
2) The framework of Dravid identity to breaking India as south and North based on color, race, and ethnicity. For that Indologist developed Kadam Kumari, Aryan Invasion theory, St. Thomas Myths, Relation between Shiva Siddhanta and bible, producing anti-Brahman or anti-north Indian sentiments in mind of people of TN, AP, Kerala, Karnataka.
It can be seen clearly when Shankaracharya of shingeri has been stopped and not allowed to worship Shiv temple of TN. Raise of Party like DMK, AIDMK based on ethnicity and Dravidian fault line. Anti Hindu sentiments and Dravidian christen is also part of this plan.
3) Using Dalit's as identify and dismantling their consciousness from their Hindu past, than making them secular and then converting them to Christianity. World Vision and Gospel for Asia kind of Organization is distributing money to ULFA/ALFA/ Maoist of India to doing fight against Indian state at red corridor states like Odessa, AP, WB, Nagaland, Manipur etc. and planning missionaries in India based on their agenda to convert 1 million people per year from India alone.
This can be seen clearly when Jesus idolized as Krishna, Buddha and their Hindu like temple is planted in tribe area. This is clearly seen when a book named "Jesus in India" shows that Jesus was actually a Buddhist monk (Utter lie for making Indians, Buddhist and Dalit's fool). When WV and GOA comes to save Maoist in India. And US stooge like Jhon dayal, Kachan Illaya, Arundhati Roy, Amritya sen, Ramchandra Guha and all JNU or communist intellectuals talk about plebiscite in Kashmir, Nagaland, Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh. When they cry for human rights of Non Hindus but chose to be mum on KP's Issues, Hindus killings in WB and Kerala and Nation like Bangladesh and Pakistan.
This book is an open challenge to the forces which want to dissect India into million of pieces. This book asked a question to the people of India (especially Youth), when they will learn to stand up and make India’s grad narrative which should include every single Indians within frame work. Breaking India is beautifully divided and paired in very efficiently to show how British colonization, US religious freedom Policy, Indian Left wing with the collaboration of Pan Islam and blunted Christianity looting Indian cultural heritage.
1) This book clearly show that how initial colonizers came to India to find out their own identity as “Aryan” and How one single word “Arya” (which is mentioned only 64 times in 5500 verse of rigved, become more than 3000 times mentioned in Hitler’s”Main kampf”) has been used by European indologist to change their race into Aryans to win against France. This book show how Aryan theory has been fabricated in lab of European evangelist and indologist and how it has been transformed into minds of every Indian. How there division of Labor “Varna” is transformed into a nasty nexus of “cast”.
2) “Breaking India” chapter 4th and 5th will drive you to “Myth of ham” from where European and British evangelicals propagated the claim that all American African and Indians are subjected to slavery because they all are sons of Ham. It will show you William Jones Map of Indian biblical ethnology. This book will show how Lord H.H. Risley (British administrator and indologist) experiment with Nose and wealth created a vast gap into Indian continental regards of Cast.
3) Chapter 6 to 10 will show you that how with help of St. Thomas myth and Portugal’s created Church, new Dravidian identity has been developed by anthropologist and Indian church. It will show the roll of many leader from DMK, AIDMK and others who openly support ethnic cleansing of Sinhalese (While both have been developed by US Church). It will show roll of G.U.Pope, Robert Caldwell, Campbell and D. Deivanayagam who propagate the ethnic theory of cunning Aryan and developed gap between Native Tamil Hindus and Indian mainstream religion. It will show how Kadam Kumari fake continental idea help the identity politics of India.
4) This book will show how the roll of many evangelic, dalit, Dravidian and left organizations playing disintegration with in india in name of ethnic cleanse. How india is moving towards a civil war and govt up to 2010 either avoiding the situation or pretending to be not known.
5) This book will show how US produced atrocity literature to weekend a country and how US used this strategies to make slave or attack into a nation (Iraq & Libya). This book review rolls of many neo-Indian and left Indians who are doll of US policy and how Christianization has been propagated by US in name of USAID, USCRF and GOA.
6) This book also enter deep into nexus of Moist and evangelical church, LEFT and Church nexus, Nexus of Dravidian politics and Pan Islam, roll of funding and money trail which is used for breaking India into Mugalistaan, Dravidstaan and Dalitstan. Its also show roll and interest of china and Pakistan to breaking India and US dilemma towards identity of India.
"This book is not about conspiracy but about facts. This book talks about deep developed fault lines by the west and their enhancement to use this fault lines for making it use of indirect control on Indian politics.
I never find such factual book in my whole life based on the current event and ongoing trial of US and EU for breaking India into many pieces.
This book is based on factual account and real time money trail going through NGO which is work against Indian unity. E.g. Ford foundation, Teesal satelwad's Org and 1000's of NGO which enjoy abroad money in name of social work but covertly do their job for highlighting and producing atrocity literature which divides india in many ways.
I would like to highlight few facts which I learned from this book and which I understand by observation also.
1) Communist based education which infiltrates the young mind and convinces them that India was never a united state before independence and idea of united India is new
This can be clearly seen in the university like JNU, Jadavpur University and Hyderabad university where students openly shout anti-national slogan and talk about plebiscite of Kashmir by influence and convention of the communist professor.
2) The framework of Dravid identity to breaking India as south and North based on color, race, and ethnicity. For that Indologist developed Kadam Kumari, Aryan Invasion theory, St. Thomas Myths, Relation between Shiva Siddhanta and bible, producing anti-Brahman or anti-north Indian sentiments in mind of people of TN, AP, Kerala, Karnataka.
It can be seen clearly when Shankaracharya of shingeri has been stopped and not allowed to worship Shiv temple of TN. Raise of Party like DMK, AIDMK based on ethnicity and Dravidian fault line. Anti Hindu sentiments and Dravidian christen is also part of this plan.
3) Using Dalit's as identify and dismantling their consciousness from their Hindu past, than making them secular and then converting them to Christianity. World Vision and Gospel for Asia kind of Organization is distributing money to ULFA/ALFA/ Maoist of India to doing fight against Indian state at red corridor states like Odessa, AP, WB, Nagaland, Manipur etc. and planning missionaries in India based on their agenda to convert 1 million people per year from India alone.
This can be seen clearly when Jesus idolized as Krishna, Buddha and their Hindu like temple is planted in tribe area. This is clearly seen when a book named "Jesus in India" shows that Jesus was actually a Buddhist monk (Utter lie for making Indians, Buddhist and Dalit's fool). When WV and GOA comes to save Maoist in India. And US stooge like Jhon dayal, Kachan Illaya, Arundhati Roy, Amritya sen, Ramchandra Guha and all JNU or communist intellectuals talk about plebiscite in Kashmir, Nagaland, Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh. When they cry for human rights of Non Hindus but chose to be mum on KP's Issues, Hindus killings in WB and Kerala and Nation like Bangladesh and Pakistan.
This Book Must be read by every Indian and Indian need to understand that there is many wolf in skin of rabbits and acting like secular n liberals who just want to break India and its ancient identity (Hindu civilization) for butt licking of their Uncle Sam (US).
February 18, 2021
Cohesive. Informative. Insightful. Novel. I learnt history from this book that I was not aware existed. I highly recommend this book to anyone.
September 7, 2020
When the British replaced the Mughals as the sovereign of India in the eighteenth century, they wanted to have in place a legal system in consonance with the liturgical principles of the subject nation. Many British scholars studied the Hindu religious and secular texts in Sanskrit. They were astonished to find striking similarities in the structure and vocabulary of Sanskrit and European languages. This common origin of languages implored thinkers to postulate a common race called the Aryans who were the ancestors of Europeans. This race was supposed to have invaded and conquered India in the distant past just like what the British had done in recent history. About a century later, Christian missionaries working in South India conjured up another construct called Dravidians in order to establish a dichotomy between the north and south in the anthropological arena so as to correspond to a few differences in linguistics. This racial theory was held as sacrosanct till genetic studies among the people tore it to pieces. However, the Dravidian idea took a life of its own when it gained political centre stage in Tamil Nadu. Dravidian and Dalit identities are exploited to the hilt by western organisations intent on Balkanizing India because the concept and unity of India in the face of diverse societies, languages and customs is so alien to the ideals these troublemakers cherish. This book handles invented histories, identities and racial categories that was formed and nurtured by colonial powers as it gave cultural superiority, economic advantages and political dominance over the controlled civilization. Rajiv Malhotra is a public intellectual on current affairs, world religions and cross-cultural encounters between East and West while Aravindan Neelakandan is working with an NGO in Tamil Nadu serving marginalized rural communities in sustainable agriculture.
Malhotra explains the compulsions which led the colonial bureaucrats to delve into Indian linguistics. European romanticists of eighteenth century needed a historical basis for their views to escape the rigid framework of Judeo-Christian monotheism. Similarity of Sanskrit with Greek and Latin were quickly noted by early Indologists. This so pervaded the colonial mind as to create a notion of Aryans as harbingers of civilization to all humanity. Europe spun a wide and nauseous web of Aryan master race theory that engendered Nazism and the Holocaust. It was Max Muller who first applied the word 'Arya' as the name of a family of languages and of the people who spoke them. Muller did try to propose an amicable divorce between philology and ethnology, but only after his work had found its way into race sciences. However, after the Second World War, European academics and social institutions made a great effort to exorcize the Aryan race theory from European psyche, but they still continue to apply these ideas to India.
Many Indians are thankful to Max Muller for his in-depth study of classical Sanskrit literature. It is beyond dispute that Muller’s studies still illuminate the path of Sanskrit scholars. This book notes a lesser known aspect of Max Muller. He served as a functionary of evangelists and observed thus: "the Veda is the root of their religion and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years”. On another occasion, Muller wrote: “the ancient religion of India is totally doomed and if Christianity does not step in, whose fault will it be?” (p.26)
After creating the Aryan myth, the colonialists created another myth to oppose and hence to balance it. The authors claim that evangelical and colonial interests worked in tandem with ethno-linguistic scholarship to fabricate the Dravidian identity. In that sense, Bishop Robert Caldwell may be thought of as the father of Dravidians. This missionary scholar of the Anglican Church created the ‘Dravidian race’ through his studies. He proposed the existence of Dravidians before the coming of Aryans, but got cheated by Brahmins who were agents of the Aryan. Simple-minded Dravidians were kept in shackles by the Aryans through exploitation of religion who needed to be liberated by Europeans like him. He proposed the complete removal of Sanskrit words from Tamil. Once the Dravidian mind is free of the Aryan superstitions, Christian evangelism would reap the souls of Dravidians, or so he thought. In parallel with the creation of a Dravidian separate identity in South India another similar mischief was going on in Sri Lanka. A new alien identity was off loaded onto Sinhalese shoulders by using Buddhism as the religion, Sinhalese as the language and Aryan as the race. We have seen the gruesome bloodshed this wicked categorisation has caused in that small island. G U Pope, another Christian scholar, claimed that Thirukural was the result of Christian influence of the Alexandrian school. Other missionary scholars attributed Thirukkural to Jain origins, with the conviction of the ethnic inferiority of Tamils as Caldwell surmised that a treatise on ethics with such lofty ideals couldn't have originated from within the indigenous Tamil tradition.
Evangelists and Christian missionaries try to appropriate Tamil culture as their own in a bizarre theological experiment by claiming powerful Christian influence in the development of Tamil culture. To buttress this claim, they proposed the myth of Saint Thomas as the apostle who came to India in 52 CE. There is absolutely no historical evidence for this but the evangelists propagate that the Tamil classics were composed under his influence. To add force to the argument, they also propose that Tamil spirituality later got infiltrated by ulterior Aryan influence. This book includes the profile of several evangelists who carp on Aryan invasion and Dalit suppression. Deivanayagam and his daughter Devakala have put forward another outlandish theory to ascertain the primacy of Tamil culture. It is said that Tamil race originated from the sunken continent of Lemuria - also called Kumari Kandam in Tamil - and that Tamil civilization and language is the true source of all world developments.
The authors point out liberal discourse on Dalits exceeding the limits and stray into seditious ground. Dalits were severely oppressed in all parts of India in the past. This atrocity still continues at some places, but now there are enough safeguards to fight this menace from inside the system. Still, the academic Dalit studies encourage Dalit writing only from a separate and divisive perspective and not as an important contribution to mainstream Indian literature. Double standards are also at play here. While the sense of national identity in the West is getting stronger, in the less developed countries, scholarship is encouraged toward self-deconstruction. Colonial anthropology transformed Indian community units that were distinguished by their occupational roles into racial groups. Caste is erroneously equated to race and such academics invite the international community led by the US and EU to take punitive action against India according to international laws on racism. Evangelists desire to drive a wedge between Dalits and the rest of Indian society with a design to engineer conversions upon the former. Numerous US institutions take the atrocity literature being produced by evangelists-funded entities, repackage it in a professionally compelling style and feed it to the policy makers of the US centres of power.
This book attempts to look at the historical origins of the Dravidian movement, Dalit identity and the role of the West in exploiting them with a view to divide India into pieces. The book’s right wing leaning is undeniable but the authors have made a thorough objective study to bring all contemporary aspects of the interminable flow of foreign funds to India for religious conversions and stoking sectarian dissent by building up strife where none existed before. The book’s very informative Appendix B on ancient Tamil religion in Sangam literature clearly spells out the basis of Tamil religion on Vedic culture. Many examples from Sangam literature are also listed.
Readers who close this book after reading it are reminded of a clear warning that pervades the book’s entirety - that the forces of dissolution co-opts Indian intellectuals at various levels ranging from lowly data gatherers to identity-engineering programs in the murky backwaters of Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), to mid-level scholars in India, all the way to Indian Ivy League professors and award-winning globetrotters. This is the author's mission statement. Each chapter begins with an ideogram that succinctly puts the main points of discussion in the chapter in graphic form, similar to an algorithmic flowchart. It also lists prominent academics and evangelists as well as profiling major foreign and local advocacy groups who strive to Balkanize India.
The book is highly recommended.
Malhotra explains the compulsions which led the colonial bureaucrats to delve into Indian linguistics. European romanticists of eighteenth century needed a historical basis for their views to escape the rigid framework of Judeo-Christian monotheism. Similarity of Sanskrit with Greek and Latin were quickly noted by early Indologists. This so pervaded the colonial mind as to create a notion of Aryans as harbingers of civilization to all humanity. Europe spun a wide and nauseous web of Aryan master race theory that engendered Nazism and the Holocaust. It was Max Muller who first applied the word 'Arya' as the name of a family of languages and of the people who spoke them. Muller did try to propose an amicable divorce between philology and ethnology, but only after his work had found its way into race sciences. However, after the Second World War, European academics and social institutions made a great effort to exorcize the Aryan race theory from European psyche, but they still continue to apply these ideas to India.
Many Indians are thankful to Max Muller for his in-depth study of classical Sanskrit literature. It is beyond dispute that Muller’s studies still illuminate the path of Sanskrit scholars. This book notes a lesser known aspect of Max Muller. He served as a functionary of evangelists and observed thus: "the Veda is the root of their religion and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years”. On another occasion, Muller wrote: “the ancient religion of India is totally doomed and if Christianity does not step in, whose fault will it be?” (p.26)
After creating the Aryan myth, the colonialists created another myth to oppose and hence to balance it. The authors claim that evangelical and colonial interests worked in tandem with ethno-linguistic scholarship to fabricate the Dravidian identity. In that sense, Bishop Robert Caldwell may be thought of as the father of Dravidians. This missionary scholar of the Anglican Church created the ‘Dravidian race’ through his studies. He proposed the existence of Dravidians before the coming of Aryans, but got cheated by Brahmins who were agents of the Aryan. Simple-minded Dravidians were kept in shackles by the Aryans through exploitation of religion who needed to be liberated by Europeans like him. He proposed the complete removal of Sanskrit words from Tamil. Once the Dravidian mind is free of the Aryan superstitions, Christian evangelism would reap the souls of Dravidians, or so he thought. In parallel with the creation of a Dravidian separate identity in South India another similar mischief was going on in Sri Lanka. A new alien identity was off loaded onto Sinhalese shoulders by using Buddhism as the religion, Sinhalese as the language and Aryan as the race. We have seen the gruesome bloodshed this wicked categorisation has caused in that small island. G U Pope, another Christian scholar, claimed that Thirukural was the result of Christian influence of the Alexandrian school. Other missionary scholars attributed Thirukkural to Jain origins, with the conviction of the ethnic inferiority of Tamils as Caldwell surmised that a treatise on ethics with such lofty ideals couldn't have originated from within the indigenous Tamil tradition.
Evangelists and Christian missionaries try to appropriate Tamil culture as their own in a bizarre theological experiment by claiming powerful Christian influence in the development of Tamil culture. To buttress this claim, they proposed the myth of Saint Thomas as the apostle who came to India in 52 CE. There is absolutely no historical evidence for this but the evangelists propagate that the Tamil classics were composed under his influence. To add force to the argument, they also propose that Tamil spirituality later got infiltrated by ulterior Aryan influence. This book includes the profile of several evangelists who carp on Aryan invasion and Dalit suppression. Deivanayagam and his daughter Devakala have put forward another outlandish theory to ascertain the primacy of Tamil culture. It is said that Tamil race originated from the sunken continent of Lemuria - also called Kumari Kandam in Tamil - and that Tamil civilization and language is the true source of all world developments.
The authors point out liberal discourse on Dalits exceeding the limits and stray into seditious ground. Dalits were severely oppressed in all parts of India in the past. This atrocity still continues at some places, but now there are enough safeguards to fight this menace from inside the system. Still, the academic Dalit studies encourage Dalit writing only from a separate and divisive perspective and not as an important contribution to mainstream Indian literature. Double standards are also at play here. While the sense of national identity in the West is getting stronger, in the less developed countries, scholarship is encouraged toward self-deconstruction. Colonial anthropology transformed Indian community units that were distinguished by their occupational roles into racial groups. Caste is erroneously equated to race and such academics invite the international community led by the US and EU to take punitive action against India according to international laws on racism. Evangelists desire to drive a wedge between Dalits and the rest of Indian society with a design to engineer conversions upon the former. Numerous US institutions take the atrocity literature being produced by evangelists-funded entities, repackage it in a professionally compelling style and feed it to the policy makers of the US centres of power.
This book attempts to look at the historical origins of the Dravidian movement, Dalit identity and the role of the West in exploiting them with a view to divide India into pieces. The book’s right wing leaning is undeniable but the authors have made a thorough objective study to bring all contemporary aspects of the interminable flow of foreign funds to India for religious conversions and stoking sectarian dissent by building up strife where none existed before. The book’s very informative Appendix B on ancient Tamil religion in Sangam literature clearly spells out the basis of Tamil religion on Vedic culture. Many examples from Sangam literature are also listed.
Readers who close this book after reading it are reminded of a clear warning that pervades the book’s entirety - that the forces of dissolution co-opts Indian intellectuals at various levels ranging from lowly data gatherers to identity-engineering programs in the murky backwaters of Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), to mid-level scholars in India, all the way to Indian Ivy League professors and award-winning globetrotters. This is the author's mission statement. Each chapter begins with an ideogram that succinctly puts the main points of discussion in the chapter in graphic form, similar to an algorithmic flowchart. It also lists prominent academics and evangelists as well as profiling major foreign and local advocacy groups who strive to Balkanize India.
The book is highly recommended.
March 12, 2014
The book Breaking India by Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan is about the forces that are fragmenting India. While Islamic radicalism and Maoist insurgencies are two forces that are fragmenting India, Breaking India focuses on the North-South divide, as evidenced by its subtitle Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines.
Breaking India begins with a study of the construction of Aryan and Dravidian identities through the years and how this artificial divide was promulgated and led to setting different groups in opposition to each other. The book focuses on the construction of Dravidian identity, rather than on deconstruction of the AIT - perhaps because others have done that, the authors don't say.
The most eye-opening part of Breaking India is about the roles that academia, evangelical Christian organizations, NGOs, "think tanks," and governments play in undermining India's unity. Shared interests lead to unlikely pairings such as left-wing intellectuals with evangelical Christian interests. There are also unlikely alliances between Maoists and evangelical Christian entities in India's "Red Corridor."
I recommend Breaking India to anyone concerned about India's unity, and encourage readers to go beyond the main text to read the appendices and endnotes. Appendix B highlights references to the Vedas in Tamil religious literature and Tamil familiarity with smriti such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata - a testament to the unity in Indian civilization. Appendix C presents the extreme case of what can happen when separate identities are constructed and put in opposition to each other: the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that pitted Hutus and Tutsis against each other. Parallels are drawn with the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka that pitted Tamils and Sinhalese against each other.
Other examples of north/south interactions:
- Chapter 18, Philosophical Feuds in South India and Kashmir: 800 to 1300 CE of The Hindus An Alternative History (Yes! I actually have something good to say about Wendy Doniger's tome) discusses the influences that South Indian Shaivism and Kashmiri Shaivism had on each other.
- South Indians were the first to greet Swami Vivekananda upon his return from America.
- Understanding Hinduism notes that South Indian priests taught North Indian priests how to conduct Vedic ritual after suppression during Muslim rule.
Breaking India has a dedicated website, www.breakingindia.com.
Breaking India begins with a study of the construction of Aryan and Dravidian identities through the years and how this artificial divide was promulgated and led to setting different groups in opposition to each other. The book focuses on the construction of Dravidian identity, rather than on deconstruction of the AIT - perhaps because others have done that, the authors don't say.
The most eye-opening part of Breaking India is about the roles that academia, evangelical Christian organizations, NGOs, "think tanks," and governments play in undermining India's unity. Shared interests lead to unlikely pairings such as left-wing intellectuals with evangelical Christian interests. There are also unlikely alliances between Maoists and evangelical Christian entities in India's "Red Corridor."
I recommend Breaking India to anyone concerned about India's unity, and encourage readers to go beyond the main text to read the appendices and endnotes. Appendix B highlights references to the Vedas in Tamil religious literature and Tamil familiarity with smriti such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata - a testament to the unity in Indian civilization. Appendix C presents the extreme case of what can happen when separate identities are constructed and put in opposition to each other: the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that pitted Hutus and Tutsis against each other. Parallels are drawn with the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka that pitted Tamils and Sinhalese against each other.
Other examples of north/south interactions:
- Chapter 18, Philosophical Feuds in South India and Kashmir: 800 to 1300 CE of The Hindus An Alternative History (Yes! I actually have something good to say about Wendy Doniger's tome) discusses the influences that South Indian Shaivism and Kashmiri Shaivism had on each other.
- South Indians were the first to greet Swami Vivekananda upon his return from America.
- Understanding Hinduism notes that South Indian priests taught North Indian priests how to conduct Vedic ritual after suppression during Muslim rule.
Breaking India has a dedicated website, www.breakingindia.com.
March 4, 2016
Very well researched piece of work. Facts are presented with names of individuals and organizations along with dates where relevant. Instead of making speculative claims, the authors have done their due diligence when making claims or refuting earlier claims such as those of aryan invasion or dravidian racial theories. Conflict of interest of various individuals are exposed. Major biases of certain sections of media are proved.
June 28, 2014
A must read by every Bharatiya. It will open your eyes and you will know the Truth about conspiracies running in and outside this country against India. Exact facts , figures, names of people and organizations are listed and a perfect comparison of games being played by powers to break this country.
March 16, 2016
Has been surprisingly brilliant book.The author has used great references and examples all thru the read.A must read.
February 22, 2018
Outstanding book Every Indian citizen needs to read this
June 27, 2017
A very interesting book that does a good job of identifying all the agents and agencies silently and openly involved in bringing down the fabric of a centralized democracy that is India hinging on a majority religion shaped by other religions and cultures over thousands of years. Going back to the colonial past and throwing light on the work of Christian missionaries in dividing the populace and creating an identity crisis based on race theories, the authors show how the script hasn't changed much to present day India where under the guise of secularism and human rights, the onslaught still continues. It is amazing to see the organized way in which NGOs, Churches and other institutions sitting within India, funded by global entities primarily in the US and Europe, have created chaos to rule the country without direct power in their hands. The fact that the India media and international media houses at large don't run any "stories" on such practices, combined with the powerful hand-twisting of finicky and easy-to-buy Indian politicians, has made India very vulnerable to a serious humanitarian struggle waiting to happen. The authors stop short of calling it as a civil war in the making, although a very similar methodology employed by Churches and Western agencies had caused the bloody Rwandan civil war between the Hutus and the Tsutsis.
The authors focus more on the histories of the Dravidian ideology and the Dalit nexus in this book. It is fascinating to look at how a fictitious and laughable premise around the concept of 'dravidian identity' (even if assumed to be true for those passionate about it!) has been used to create a separate identity that ventured to tear down the country at one point and the political perpetrators of this movement repeatedly joined hands with disruptive Church agents and Islamic fundamentalists for money and power. Tamil Nadu has been pinpointed as the epicenter of this no-barriers grave situation which on looking at the political situation (outside of the book) is easy to relate to and guess the severe impact it has created in this otherwise progressive state. The other situation is the way in which fundamentalist right-wing Christian organizations with massive money-power have taken over the "dalit" cause and have used it effectively to create chaos and a multitude of problems in India. The situation seems grave as there are no solutions offered in the book to tackle them and even more, it requires more than political will and strong leaders to fight this problem over the next several decades. Can India produce such leaders is a very weak proposition at present!
What I liked further about the book is the final analysis of the situation at hand to bring down India - the three very highly powerful global forces that have all chosen India as their target - Islamic fundamentalism sponsored by Saudi Arabia, Iran and other middle-east countries, China and its rising capitalistic aspirations and the Western interventions through the Church and other means. It looks like there is no respite for India from this onslaught that has been going on aggressively over the past several decades since its independence. It certainly made me have a new found respect for the hard work of the politicians and bureaucrat administrators who have still managed to keep India and the religion of Hinduism alive give all the odds against it. Time will tell who will win this one-sided battle at the global stage - the aggressors or the lone underdog!
The authors focus more on the histories of the Dravidian ideology and the Dalit nexus in this book. It is fascinating to look at how a fictitious and laughable premise around the concept of 'dravidian identity' (even if assumed to be true for those passionate about it!) has been used to create a separate identity that ventured to tear down the country at one point and the political perpetrators of this movement repeatedly joined hands with disruptive Church agents and Islamic fundamentalists for money and power. Tamil Nadu has been pinpointed as the epicenter of this no-barriers grave situation which on looking at the political situation (outside of the book) is easy to relate to and guess the severe impact it has created in this otherwise progressive state. The other situation is the way in which fundamentalist right-wing Christian organizations with massive money-power have taken over the "dalit" cause and have used it effectively to create chaos and a multitude of problems in India. The situation seems grave as there are no solutions offered in the book to tackle them and even more, it requires more than political will and strong leaders to fight this problem over the next several decades. Can India produce such leaders is a very weak proposition at present!
What I liked further about the book is the final analysis of the situation at hand to bring down India - the three very highly powerful global forces that have all chosen India as their target - Islamic fundamentalism sponsored by Saudi Arabia, Iran and other middle-east countries, China and its rising capitalistic aspirations and the Western interventions through the Church and other means. It looks like there is no respite for India from this onslaught that has been going on aggressively over the past several decades since its independence. It certainly made me have a new found respect for the hard work of the politicians and bureaucrat administrators who have still managed to keep India and the religion of Hinduism alive give all the odds against it. Time will tell who will win this one-sided battle at the global stage - the aggressors or the lone underdog!
August 25, 2020
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That so many demonstrably unprovable stories can be strung into a book is remarkable. I read the whole thing, and wonder: how is publishing this book any different from the unverified nonsense early missionaries published on the religious practices of “Hindoos” and the mysteries of the Orient?
Are their global religious nexuses attempting to control hearts and minds with religion? Yes, books by American researchers on businesses like Hobby Lobby show how much money goes into proselytisation to this day. But is this limited to religions with leaders outside of India? Taking an anti-global stand against “non-Indian” religions is as flawed as anti-semitism and anti-communism of 1940s Europe and America: it lends itself to conspiracy theories and grandstanding.
In light of current affairs, this book is a good moment in history for Indians to reflect on how utterly unsurprising the social media discourse is. While the book correctly points to the business that activism and social work has always been, it is impossible to not contextualise its myopic vision in the virulent caste-superiority that the authors constantly display in their public lives. It seeps into the adjectives they use, the comparisons they make; and informs their complete unwillingness to critique the failure of the State and existing religio-social life, that continues to force people to resist the idea of India.
That so many demonstrably unprovable stories can be strung into a book is remarkable. I read the whole thing, and wonder: how is publishing this book any different from the unverified nonsense early missionaries published on the religious practices of “Hindoos” and the mysteries of the Orient?
Are their global religious nexuses attempting to control hearts and minds with religion? Yes, books by American researchers on businesses like Hobby Lobby show how much money goes into proselytisation to this day. But is this limited to religions with leaders outside of India? Taking an anti-global stand against “non-Indian” religions is as flawed as anti-semitism and anti-communism of 1940s Europe and America: it lends itself to conspiracy theories and grandstanding.
In light of current affairs, this book is a good moment in history for Indians to reflect on how utterly unsurprising the social media discourse is. While the book correctly points to the business that activism and social work has always been, it is impossible to not contextualise its myopic vision in the virulent caste-superiority that the authors constantly display in their public lives. It seeps into the adjectives they use, the comparisons they make; and informs their complete unwillingness to critique the failure of the State and existing religio-social life, that continues to force people to resist the idea of India.
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