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As a direct influence of Hindutva ideology, there has been an attempt to rewrite
history. The Hindutva faction has made a major effort to revise India’s
educational policy. According to Daniel, they wanted to give a Hindu colour to
Indian history, moral values and thus to the entire educational system. 84 In the
States where BJP has been ruling, the number of Vidya Bharati schools and other
RSS affiliated schools has been growing, and they present Indian culture as Hindu
culture. There is an impression that Christian schools did not submit themselves to
the Hindutva force by adopting their curriculum, and so the Hindutva advocates
see Christian schools as obstacles to implementing the vested interests of
Hindutva. Pentecostals explained that there are incidents of rejection of
applications for recognition of their schools in Rajasthan. The directors of three
Pentecostal schools have described their difficulty in obtaining recognition for
their schools from the BJP Government and said that they had to knock on every
door to receive this recognition. 85
Minority groups feel that one of the major intentions of Hindutva militancy is to
disband the Minorities Commission. It is likely that Hindu militants see it as a
threat to the implementation of their militant ideology and the violent means to
achieve their ends. Golwalkar’s solution to the minorities’ problem is
assimilation, for he said that the minorities should be ‘wholly subordinated to the
Hindu nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferential
84 For more details see, Daniel, ‘Challenges of the Hindutva,’ 43-46.
85 Sinu (pseudonym), interview by author, Udaipur, Rajasthan, 15 May 2006; Jiju (pseudonym),
interview by author, Udaipur, Rajasthan, 22 May 2006; Mohan (pseudonym), interview by author,
Udaipur, Rajasthan, 26 May 2006.
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