cut back to the last days of Mughal rule in Delhi: the saltanat was in disarray, crumbling from invasion after invasion. The Marathas are the final nail on the coffin, invading the streets of that capital of 'Hindustan' like a scourge, pillaging and plundering like a vanara sena. This was it: the long Islamist invasion of India starting from 8th century was being rolled back. The Marathas won the war for Hindus. But what they then did is emblematic of the damaged Hindu psyche, down to this present day. They installed a Mughal prince on the throne, a token emperor and withdrew, instead of throwing the legacy out and occypying it themselves.
This is the fact that Hindus have refused to accept: in the war against foreign imperialism over India's flesh, heart and soul, India won. But Hindus somehow think, they have been defeated. This was the the strongest and meanest military machine that humanity has yet produced, the Islamist juggernaut that rolled over into India in waves after waves successively. The Arabs, the Perians, Thr Turks, the Mongols.. That same juggenaut which none of the anicent civilizations it struck could resist, Egypt, Byzantium and Persia all fell to its sword. Yet India took that shock and rolled it back. The sword of the heathen Hindus did that work. By 18th century the vast Maratha confederacy was entrenched in those areas which once constituted the Indo-Islamic empire of Hindustan.
This refusal, this fear in ones' own ability, strength, is emblematic of the Hindu psyche. Why if the Lord Himself is the sarathi of this ratha of Hinduism, will any Kaurava army however powerful can ever defeat it - this faith is totally lacking. Thats why you talk to a Sangh activist and he will sound as if Hinduism is on its detah bed, is teetering on its legs and is about to collapse tomorrow. negativism is our bane. infidelity- in the sense of faithlessness-is our emblematic problem
