भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
पृष्ठ 175, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंAll those Hindus became impure and so they began to be boycotted. In the
usual way, all those villages and towns in course of time, were socially
ostracized and became Christian villages and towns!
541. Now we shall cite just for fun—but fun that kills—another incident,
showing how all the human races at that time were fanatics in the extreme.
541A. The early Syrian Christian migrants to India were also divided into
different sects. They vied with one another as to which of them
disseminated the Christian doctrine more truly in foreign countries. So the
sects other than the one that had Christianized Hindu villages, protested
against the latter and out of malice, informed the superior religious
authorities in Europe that sect had converted the simple and foolish Hindu
to Christianity by abominable lies and deception, and collected
contributions, but had never preached any Christian doctrines, as such.
Therefore, they pleaded, that the number of the converts should not be
taken into account, and that they should be stopped from damaging the
prestige of the Christian propagandists. Because of the incessant protests of
these other Christian sects, those Hindu converts to Christianity had for a
long time no legal status as Christians, although they thought themselves to
be such, and their subscriptions to the church were not accepted, nor were
they allowed entrance into the church. In the end, the knotty problem
seemed to have been solved by way of sumptuous subscriptions. For, after
some days, a directive was received from Europe that all the Hindu converts
were now to be called Christians and subscriptions from all of them were
necessarily to be collected. Later on, all the Christian missionaries, to
whatever sect they belonged, declared it to be their religious duty to convert
the Hindus not only by hook or by crook or by sly means, but even by force
and armed force. Naturally, the elementary ways of conversion like making
the Hindus eat or drink with the Christians, were beyond all range of
dispute and doubt.
542. Thereafter, the Syrian and other Christians fell out in their own
country, and there were fierce battles fought amongst the various Christian
sects. Therefore, for two or three centuries, thereafter, the work of the
Christian missionaries in India had practically stopped. But one thing must
be remembered in this context, that because there was no attempt
whatsoever on the part of the Hindus to reconvert the Christianized Hindus
(Indian Christians), the latter kept on calling themselves Christians and
ceased to have any relation whatsoever with the Hindus.