Harvesting our souls: Missionaries, their design, their claims

by Arun Shourie

Hard cover, with a loose plastic coated, unclipped dust jacket, both in very good condition. General shelf and handling, including light discolouration and minor wear to jacket edges. Light tanning and foxing to pageblock head. Within, pages are tightly bound, content unmarked. CN

Genres: India

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Indian economist, journalist, author and politician.

He has worked as an economist with the World Bank, a consultant to the Planning Commission of India, editor of the Indian Express and The Times of India and a Minister of Communications and Information Technology in the Vajpayee Ministry (1998–2004). He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982 and the Padma Bhushan in 1990.

Popularly perceived as one of the main Hindu nationalist intellectuals during the 90s and early 2000s.

Reviews

[Dr.J.G. · Rating 4 out of 5]

While the facade is that of innocuous and benevolent faith, in fact there is much deliberate planning and extensive funding efforts to increase numbers and little effort to keep any promises made to converts either explicitly or implicitly, even in matters of the basic creed of equality. Church is very aware of the caste equations and discourages a low caste face with separation of high caste converts from the low in the church, and when protests grow then the storm is waylaid into demanding special reservations for converted low castes from the Government of India. This is but one facet of the various devious policies and practices of the missionaries in India.

There is more, often either deliberately not taken into account politically by the so called secular politicians or denied falsely, to the effect that missionaries are deliberately breaking laws in India. If missionaries travel to India is not allowed for purposes of mass conversions they travel pretending to be tourists and if mass conversions and lies for the purpose are illegal they do "forest camps" where the activity can take place in seclusion away from the eyes of law or people. There are lies about attacks on the missionary activity and maligning of any protest against their activities as communal, while their attacking Indian culture is taken as normal activity.

The activities and policies and subversive nature thereof is there to see in plain sight, even publicised in pamphlets and other literature in various countries where funding drives go on. The self styled secular politicians of India deny it of course since their political aims are served by such denial of attcks on India and Indian culture.

[Deepak Pawar · Rating 5 out of 5]

The one that opened my eyes to the workings of an organized dogmatic religion.

Arun Shourie uses the source itself to point out contradictions and fabrications that are at the core of proselytizing activities.

Find my take on similar issues here:
https://dgvpawar.blogspot.com/2014/12...
https://dgvpawar.blogspot.com/2015/01...
https://dgvpawar.blogspot.com/2018/11...
https://dgvpawar.blogspot.com/2015/09...

[Sathish Kumar]

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