religious conversion
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Why India will not lose her soul to missionaries
X.T.M argues that India will not lose its Hindu soul to missionaries, because societies are shaped by elites, not headcount, and India’s elite is not converting. He starts from a…
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Not yet a requiem for the Deities of rural India
Indosaurus argues that folk Hinduism, practised mainly by lower castes and centred on sacrifice and possession, is more exposed than its scriptural form to conversion, Sanskritisation and urbanisation, and fears…
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Open Thread- Love Jihad?
Open thread opening on interfaith marriage and ‘Love Jihad’, with a quoted view that it is conversion when only one partner shares the other’s culture, and a pointer to Dr…
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Conversion out of Hinduism and Caste
The post argues that the popular idea that caste explains medieval conversion to Islam and Christianity does not fit the evidence: regions with the least rigid caste had the most…
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At the Heart of the conflict
Nachiketa argues that debates on India-Pakistan and Hindu-Muslim conflict miss a core issue. Prompted by the alleged TCS Nashik conversion case, he points to reports of forced conversion and sexual…
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Between Arab Conquest and Persian Conversion: The Sasanian Inheritance
X.T.M uses Hugh Kennedy and Ira Lapidus to argue that conquest and conversion were different processes in Iran, rejecting both the viral claim of mass forced conversion and the opposite…
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Pakistan, a young state but an old nation
The founder reflects on moderation and the commentariat, on conversion and missionaries from a Bahá’í viewpoint, and on why he thinks South Asian borders will hold. He argues Pakistan is…
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The River Cannot Go Back
Shares a poem about a river entering the sea, attributed to Kahlil Gibran, and notes Gibran’s admiration for ʻAbdu’l-Bahá and his Muslim ancestry.
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The Lavanya suicide and journalistic priorities
Nachiketa, calling it a rant, criticises a News Minute piece on a girl’s suicide for putting Hindutva’s spread and Christian forgiveness ahead of what actually happened to her, and says…
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On the Hindu contradiction of intents
Razib Khan calls calls for ghar wapsi, the return of non-Hindus to Hinduism, ‘kind of a joke’: he argues Hinduism is too community-oriented to absorb many converts, so reconversion is…
