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Rajiv Malhotra on the Breaking India Brigade PSEUDO-DALIT POLITICS URBAN NAXALISM LUTYENS MAFIA THE GREAT LIE 26 THE SIEGE WITHIN 31 THE ‘ENTITLEMENT’ CLUB 36 MARCH 2018 125 VOL 62 ISSUE 02 “India is the world’s largest territory which is up for grabs by predatory forces.” RAJIV MALHOTRA ON THE BREAKING INDIA BRIGADE HOW TO SAVE OUR PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS COVER STORY RAJIV MALHOTRA, author and Hindu my lived experience in the US for over 45 project started in India, which is where intellectual, is the man who developed years. There were some major events in it is different. It was a project started in the “Breaking India” theory in his this journey. I found some African-Amer- the US, to check who supported NGOs, eponymous 2011 book. Malhotra has icans coming back from India and talking who supported what agenda in their written prolifically in opposition to the about an Afro-Dalit thing that they were home country, were they linked to the academic study of Indian history and part of; I came across Marxists, many CIA, how they were linked to academic society, especially Hinduism, as it is of them Indians, many of them aligned people and think tanks, and the links to conducted by scholars and university with Maoist forces in India; I came across churches. I found all of those to be the faculty of the West, which, he maintains, Christian missionaries sending huge case. After looking at various so-called undermines the interests of India “by sums of money to India saying it was friends of India in the US, in Britain, in encouraging the paradigms that oppose about social work. People in India were the European Union, and tracking the its unity and integrity”. In an interview tracking isolated data points concerning flow of money to India, tracking how they with R Jagannathan, he speaks about either Islam, or Marxism or Christian- train leaders, how they export ideology, the dangers that Indian and Hindu ity, but nobody was tracking end-to-end. how they have conferences both in India nationhood face today. Excerpts: They were not connecting all of this to and abroad to train their sepoys in India, foreign forces. I invested many years after tracking all that, I realised that Can you give us a brief history of how chasing the forces behind this. Then I there is a huge story that has never been you developed the “Breaking India” hired a Tamil speaker in India to trans- told before. theory? late many of the works being funded by (Sometime in 2000) I was invited to The Breaking India thesis is not some- these people, and eventually he (Aravin- give a lecture in Delhi on where is India thing I came up with overnight. It is not dan Neelakandan) became my co-author in “the clash of civilisations” (a term a question of coining a term; it is actually (in the book Breaking India). It was not a spelt out by American political scientist 20 MARCH 2018 VOLUME 62 ISSUE 02 COVER STORY “India is the world’s largest territory which is up for grabs by predatory forces.” RAJIV MALHOTRA, author and Hindu my lived experience in the US for over 45 project started in India, which is where Samuel Huntington). This is when I laid Breaking India forces are centrifugal but locally, they have often been aligned, intellectual, is the man who developed years. There were some major events in it is different. It was a project started in out the case that in the “clash of civilisa- forces, making things go apart. Centrip- because they share a fight against a com- the “Breaking India” theory in his this journey. I found some African-Amer- the US, to check who supported NGOs, tions”, Breaking India forces were not etal forces would be those that bring mon enemy. So, imagine two predators eponymous 2011 book. Malhotra has icans coming back from India and talking who supported what agenda in their based in India, they were global, but with people together. Centripetal (in India’s that are fighting each other, but they written prolifically in opposition to the about an Afro-Dalit thing that they were home country, were they linked to the a footprint in India. I showed that the context) would be a good, grand narra- are trying to kill an elephant since this academic study of Indian history and part of; I came across Marxists, many CIA, how they were linked to academic clash between Islam, Christianity and tive of India, a good economy bringing will give food for both. So, till they have society, especially Hinduism, as it is of them Indians, many of them aligned people and think tanks, and the links to left-wing Marxist ideologies was a global people together, a good sense of collective killed the elephant, finished him off, they conducted by scholars and university with Maoist forces in India; I came across churches. I found all of those to be the one, and India was in their crosshairs, identity of who we are, a good sense of are collaborating. Only after they have faculty of the West, which, he maintains, Christian missionaries sending huge case. After looking at various so-called but the Indian people didn’t know it. who our enemies (outside) are, which finished it off will they fight each other. undermines the interests of India “by sums of money to India saying it was friends of India in the US, in Britain, in That is where I started the whole thing of are China, Pakistan, and so on. Forces encouraging the paradigms that oppose about social work. People in India were the European Union, and tracking the Breaking India — activities that were in that bind us, like common problems of Is there anything common between its unity and integrity”. In an interview tracking isolated data points concerning flow of money to India, tracking how they the global arena, and connecting activi- economy, hunger, etc, are also centrip- one kind of Breaking India force and with R Jagannathan, he speaks about either Islam, or Marxism or Christian- train leaders, how they export ideology, ties that seemed local but were part of etal. So, centrifugal forces are Break- another? the dangers that Indian and Hindu ity, but nobody was tracking end-to-end. how they have conferences both in India the globe. That was the big breakthrough ing India forces. These forces are not Many Breaking India forces look com- nationhood face today. Excerpts: They were not connecting all of this to and abroad to train their sepoys in India, — bridging the global and the local and localised, they are globalised. So, there pletely independent of each other. But foreign forces. I invested many years after tracking all that, I realised that bringing the three global forces and their are global Breaking India forces and a person could have many diseases that Can you give us a brief history of how chasing the forces behind this. Then I there is a huge story that has never been activities in India where Hindu dharma, local footprints, which exist in the form may be independent of one another, but you developed the “Breaking India” hired a Tamil speaker in India to trans- told before. Indian civilisation and the Indian nation- of sepoys and NGOs and so on. They are they have the collective effect of killing theory? late many of the works being funded by (Sometime in 2000) I was invited to state was the common enemy. connected ideologically in terms of fund- the person. If there are Islamist Breaking The Breaking India thesis is not some- these people, and eventually he (Aravin- give a lecture in Delhi on where is India ing the local and the global. The interest- India forces, Christian Breaking India thing I came up with overnight. It is not dan Neelakandan) became my co-author in “the clash of civilisations” (a term How do you define a “Breaking India ing thing is that, globally, there may be forces and Marxist Breaking India forces, a question of coining a term; it is actually (in the book Breaking India). It was not a spelt out by American political scientist force”? a war between Christianity and Islam, they may all be independent of each oth- 20 MARCH 2018 VOLUME 62 ISSUE 02 MARCH 2018 21 COVER STORY “The problem with a lot of Hindus is that they are optimising their micro interests in a way that compromises macro interests of India.” er, but they have a tendency to discover each other and make practical alliances. These may not be strategic alliances, for, strategically they may even be rivals, but they may make tactical alignments for tactical projects locally. We (in India) should exploit the con- flicts between Christianity and Islam and Maoism in their global nexuses, because globally they are fighting each other and we are not even aware of that. Our people are not taking advantage of their fault lines. That is something we could do. an ethnic interest. They are optimising global footprint, and they are fighting. “Globally, there may be a war between Christianity and Islam, but locally, they Even though in India they seem aligned, (their local interests) in a way that com- What we must do is reverse the gaze, globally they are at war with each other. promises the macro interests of India. and make the radical Muslim, radical have often been aligned, because they share a fight against a common enemy.” They don’t have a wide-angle lens. So, Christian and radical Left understand To reverse the idea, are not violent yes, you do have Breaking India forces that in their headquarters, they are at forces like “gau rakshaks”, who which think they are actually helping war with one another.
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