An alarming imbalance in India’s demography should be addressed
Sandeep Singh
From 1881 to 1941, the share of Indian religions in the population of Indian subcontinent declined by 5.5 percentage points, while the share of Muslims rose by 4.3 and that of Christians by 1.2 percentage points. The share of Indian Religions in the
population of Indian Subcontinent has declined from 73.47 percent in 1951 to 67.22 per cent in 2011. Indian Religions have thus lost more than 12 percentage points off in the population since the beginning of the Census in 1881. Their share of 79.32 per cent in 1881 is reduced to 67.22 per cent in 2011. This is indeed a very large decline for the
mainstream religious group of a
civilization to suffer in its own
geographic region. The share of Muslims in India now is above their share before Partition. In 2001, the share of Muslims in the population of India was already above their share in 1941 and it has
risen to 14.23 percent in 2011. (http://blog.cpsindia.org/2017_01_01_archive.html)
“Hindu population is reducing in India because Hindus never convert people. Minorities in India are
flourishing unlike some countries around”, said Union Minister of state for Home Affairs Kirren Rijiju.
The first paragraph explains the first part of the minister’s statement and to understand and appreciate the second part of the statement one has to travel between the following two statements made by two Indian Prime Ministers over a gap of a decade.
“We will have to devise innovative plans to ensure that minorities,
particularly the Muslim minority, are empowered to share equitably the fruits of development. These must have the first claim on resources,”
Manmohan Singh the then Prime Minister addressing the 52nd meeting of the National Development Council in 2006.
‘If there is electricity on Ramzan, It should also be there on Diwali’.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing election rally on 17 February 2017 in UP.
In 10 years, what Manmohan Singh wanted happened. The Minorities got the first right over the resources of India. It is a different matter that Manmohan Singh and his party have been over thrown by the Hindus of India. But this is not enough.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his few colleagues have been not only raising voice for the oppressed Hindus of India but have been taking occasional small steps towards correcting the same. It was unimaginable before May 2014 that any government in India will speak for Hindus.
At the same time, let everyone be clear that these small steps are not enough to get Hindus their rightful place in India. To enable the
government to take bigger steps, only voting BJP to power to make Narendra Modi, Prime Minister is not sufficient. Hindus will have to occupy the space in different spheres of social life. Hindus to a little extent have been able to expose the ant-Hindu media and claim their space in literature etc. Still it is not even a tiny fraction of what is needed.
Following are the eleven steps (not in any order) which Hindus must take:
1. Take control of their temples and resources and deploy them for the benefits of under- privileged;
2. Must study Sanskrit language and scriptures;
3. Study the correct history of Mughal & British, invasion and atrocities;
4. Assert the Hindu ethos through schools and text books;
5. Venture in cinema and theatre to spread Hindu way of life;
6. Nurture community feeling
irrespective of cast, education or wealth;
7. Inculcate among kids the will to withstand the values, even if there is a violent onslaught;
8. Hindu engineers, doctors, lawyers, journalists, other professionals
and businessmen need to put Hindu way of life first and profit second;
9. Be aware of legal and constitutional provisions and learn to use them for protecting Hindu way of life;
10. Shed away the defensive concept of Ahimsa (non-violence);
11. All Hindus must be open to embrace everyone in the fold.
It is high time that Hindus moved beyond Ayurveda, Yoga & Sewa, else Kaliachak is just round the corner.
(The writer is a founder of swastik.net.in)
