shuddhi-karan

Published on 22nd December, 2019, in Mumbai Mirror Once, Hinduism was inclusive, and memorising hymns didn’t turn you into an ‘instant Brahmin’ Christianity and Islam spread through conversion. A Christian missionary comes to the village and speaks of the virtues of monotheism, and the shortcomings of polytheism. An Islamic teacher turns people away from jahiliyyah, the barbaric or false way, towards the correct path of one true god. Here their way is considered better than the older way. There is exclusion, not inclusion. European scholars assumed that Brahmins were Hindu missionaries. And Buddhist monks were Buddhist missionaries. But these religions did not spread by rejecting ..