“Stop searching for the West in ancient Bharat”, TheDossier, 13 Sep 2026.
“Among the many methods adopted to save Hindus from Hinduism – i.e., polytheistic idolatry that would lead to hellfire – is Roberto de Nobili’s (1577-1656) adopting the outward appearance of a Brahmin, complete with shorn head and shikha, sacred thread and even vegetarian diet, and presenting himself as a Roman Brahmin.
‘Becoming a Hindu to save the Hindus’ has precedent in Christianity; St Paul previously became like a Jew to the Jews, to “win” the Jews (1 Corinthians 9:20), in a method known as “Pauline Dissimulation.”
Could there be a subtler variation of the Pauline Dissimulation?
We get a glimpse of it in the keynote address that Senior Advocate NL Rajah delivered at Chinmayananda Hall for the release of Dr MR Venkatesh’s book, “Discovery and Bharat: Christian Constitution in a Hindu Nation”; he observed that many ideas “originated in India, travelled around the world, and then came back to India.” The event was video-recorded and can be viewed here.
He began with the well-known example of the Hindu/Arabic numerals and the Fibonacci series before diving into more legally and constitutionally pertinent examples and topics.
For instance, while the structure of the government outlined in our Constitution borrows considerably from the (British-authored) Government of India Act 1935, Rajah said that in his view, the soul of the Constitution is better captured in the Fundamental Rights and the Directive Principles of State Policy.
Second, fundamental rights in our Constitution, Rajah pointed out, draw considerably from the USA’s Bill of Rights. He argued that the Bill of Rights themselves delink the American State from religion. The Bill of Rights formed part of the First Amendment, ratified in 1791, while the Constitution itself was ratified in 1788. To this, he added that the Treaty of Tripoli (signed Nov 1796) declares that ‘the government of the USA is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion’……..”
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