The procedure of religious transformation has incited strong reactions amongst the members of the Sangh Parivar since last century which were made more vigorous appeared to be much more justifiable by attributing the loss a ‘patriotic’ and ‘national’ tint. This event has been instrumental in the operationalization of Hindu majoritarianism especially after 1947. The Sangh Parivar’s grounds of lately begun resentments against Christians are in harmony with the cases of such an equation.
It is a prevalent notion that Hinduism is unparalleled among religious beliefs in being non-proselytizing. Conversion to other religions, thus, is a loss that cannot be compensated. The reason immediately reverberates in the souls of many persons. The common sense, which is assigned here, is that one can become Hindu by birth alone because caste is vital to Hinduism and caste status is hereditary.
Since the late 19th century as the enlargement projected towards marginal groups and tribals were more regimented, ‘reclamation’, Shuddhi (purification), ‘reconversion’ (Parivartan, ‘
turning back’ – the term favored by the VHP now) became more flourishing. All these terms have been coined to revert people to their ‘natural’ state, alleging that all the aimed groups are Hindu in a somewhat Sanskritised style.
If we investigate the operation of the Jana Sangh in the rudimentary stage, with the promotion of highly Sanskrit’s Hindi and low-protection, the conflict against Christian missionaries was upheld as a significant item of its functions. The Jan Sangh organized an
Anti-Foreign Missionary Week, in Madhya Pradesh in November 1954.
Until lately anti-Christian campaign, the VHP, which has been accompanied firstly with Ramjanmabhumi and the fierce attack on Muslims during its establishment in 1964 and in the following decade, its primary concern had been directed chiefly against Christian proselytisation in tribal regions (the North-East), Madhya Pradesh and South Bihar). The Achaar Samhita (code of conduct) taken up by the VHP in 1964 encompassed Parivartan (turning back, i.e., reconversion) among the fundamental Samskaras of the Hinduism.
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