Book Review | Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines
This is one book every single Indian should read. Although Rajiv Malhotraji himself, now, says that the content is outdated (as the world has moved a lot since 2011), I don’t think so (that the book is obsolete). This book is a very good base to understand what has happened, its genesis, and why it happened. History is always an important lesson on what not to do. In India, kids are raised communists, thanks to our education system and syllabus written by communists, and that reality stays even today. The system teaches us to hate ourselves, romance the colonizers and avoid mentioning anything good about our past, especially if that good has even the slightest hint of Sanatana Dharma in it. But as the information age, especially the internet, progressed, the voices, earlier suppressed by the system, came to the forefront and people, like me, started to have an access to the truth behind the systemic propaganda. Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan are surely one of such voices.
I came across “Breaking India” a few years ago upon a suggestion by a friend and this is definitely a life changing book. While it is an eye-opener at many levels, it explains many behaviors we Hindus see by anti-Hindus but couldn’t understand why such behaviors exist. As I read, while also simultaneously verifying some of the 200+ pages of references, it became clearer to me the amount of effort and academic rigor that went into creation of this book. Researching and tracking activities across multiple fronts and identifying the connections between the, on-the-surface disconnected, Breaking India forces is no small feat.
The book starts with explaining the Aryan invasion/migration/race theory and its origins due to the Christianity crisis in eighteenth century Europe. It explains how the quest for a glorious “made-up” past resulted in a theory that created genocides even as late as the first decade of the 21st century — not to forget WW2. The authors also venture into explaining the North-South fault-lines in India exploited by the evangelicals and creating separate Dravidian identity which can then be used to “harvest souls”. All of this, definitely not possible without an academic cover from the British, and later on American, universities.
In addition, the authors explain the underlying motivation and methodology adopted to create a humongous amount of atrocity literature, which we see even today by the mainstream media in the west and other “independent” news media portals, on India, especially Hindus. There are many organizations, under the garb of NGOs, who work continuously to produce atrocity literature on India and feed to the US government officials and politicians.
And while talking about the evangelical lens, one cannot ignore the “secular” lens (left-wing politics). The authors list out the organizations and the individuals, along with their ways and motivations to provide atrocity material on India and Hindus to the US government that can be used, at will, to place sanctions on India.
Towards the end, the authors examine the trio of civilizational powers (Maoists/Marxists, Christian evangelicals and Islamists) wanting to dominate the world and how they come together against India to balkanize it. And they try to use Dalits and Dravidian Theory as their principal weapon. Be it the Red corridor of India, Maoists-Evangelicals nexus in Nepal or Maoists-ULFA-LTTE-ISI nexus, breaking India forces are everywhere. The authors also talk about the intellectual cover provided to them by “celebrities” (popularly known as Urban Naxals).
Overall, the book has tonnes of mind-blowing information, along with references, and requires one more read to truly appreciate the work that has gone into creating this book. One should also, while reading, keep going to the references and understand them. Of course, given it’s been 10 years since the book has been published, many sources may no longer exist or be altered, given this book has exposed them. But many of them still exist and it is important to understand their motivations in detail.
This book is a good starting point to understand what’s happening and open up the minds. One should DEFINITELY NOT STOP with this and read more recent books of Rajiv Malhotraji or for that matter even others who have written such books.
Buy the book here:
Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines
Other books one can read after this:
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds
Being Different : An Indian Challenge To Western Universalism
Unbreaking India: Decisions On Article 370 & The CAA
