reconversion

The topic of conversion has become centre stage in India – not because millions have been converted from their Hindu faith to Christianity and Islam in recent years, but because some 50 Muslim families came back to Hindu Dharma. ‘How dare Hindus do what only Christians and Muslims are entitled to?’ seems to be the [...]

On Christmas Day 2014, Delhi-based novelist Chandrahas Choudhury wrote in Bloomberg of a chilling vision of the future: an India that is 100 per cent Hindu. He insists that this is the long-term strategy of the RSS, the national volunteer Hindu organisation from which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sprung. Careful to also condemn the [...]

At an event they referred to as ‘homecoming’, activists of Bajrang Dal and Dharma Jagran Manch held a conversion ceremony of about 200 Muslims into Hinduism. As per reports, RSS regional head Rajeshwar Singh said that these people were formerly ‘Hindus’ who had converted to Islam and hence they were ‘brought back’ to Hinduism [...]

  Amid chanting of religious hymns, late BJP leader Dilip Singh Judeo’s son washed feet of tribal Christians on Sunday to mark their return to Hinduism at a Hindu religious meet organized by Dharam Jagaran, an organization backed by the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS), at Pathalgaon in tribal Jashpur district in Chhattisgarh. Nearly 1,200 [...]