by  Kalavai Venkat

Whenever the Islamic siege of Europe, including the UK, or the US is brought up, some insular Hindus react by arguing that Britain colonized India and now it’s payback time. Yes, Britain colonized India, looted $ 45 trillion worth of its wealth, and committed a massive genocide of Indians. As the researches of Dylan Sullivan have shown, this resulted in the genocide of 100 million Indians just between 1880 and 1920. Not only that, Europeans imposed the scourge of Christianity on Indians and laid waste to our educational institutions. They exacerbated the Hindu-Muslim and caste divides. They forced Indians into bonded labor, which is a form of slavery. No argument against any of these. Britain is not the only guilty colonizer. Many European countries have been guilty of colonizing Asia, Africa, and South America. Nobody would deny any of these gruesome facts.

However, that’s history. As Chanakya said in the Arthashastra, polity is underlined by pragmatism, not idealism. The UK is not colonizing India today. Besides, in the last 150 years, Europe and the US have led the way in innovation and wealth creation. Unlike in the pre-industrial era, India today doesn’t have any natural wealth. It’s extremely overpopulated. The average IQ of Indians is an abysmal 76 and this reality is only shielded by the achievements of the extremely intelligent clusters with a very high average IQ.

India is not going to benefit from an adversarial relationship with the west. It imports almost all hi-tech from the west even today. Thanks to socialism and caste politics (e.g., reservation), India is not going to emerge as an economic powerhouse in the AI-driven future unless a drastic reset is made and meritocracy and capitalism are embraced. This is why it’s all the more important that Hindus realize the importance of the west for their own survival. What do you wish for your child if he’s intelligent? You want him to go to an IIT and then to the US or UK for higher studies and find a lucrative job there. How can you then rejoice over the Islamic siege of the west? Besides, westerners are welcoming of Indians whereas Muslims are hostile to us. That alone should make our choice easy. Think of the worst case scenario where Muslims occupy significant power in western countries through demographic siege. Do you think the west would be friendly towards India then? Think of what Trudeau did when he had to dance to the tunes of Sikhs in Canada.

It’s just common sense. You don’t experience the sufferings of your ancestors vicariously. That’s history, nothing more. You don’t treat the descendants of colonizers as proxies of their ancestors to vent your frustrations out. That’s stupidity, nothing less. Every epoch has seen great civilizations rise and fall. India had its golden age as did Persia, Greece, and Rome. Today, it’s the west which offers the very best of civilization. Liberty, pursuit of wealth, indulgence in every aspect of life, high quality of living – you name it, it’s all in the west. Countries which have embraced the west have flourished, e.g., Japan, South Korea. At the dawn of independence, South Korea was dirt poor as India was, Today, it’s a very wealthy nation with an extremely high average IQ whereas India scores poorly on both metrics.

The fall of the west would lead to the destruction of India and the rest of the world. The west must thrive for India to thrive – or even survive. Christianity is already either dead or dying in the west. Many aspects of Hinduism such as yoga and dhyana would flourish in the west. Why abandon this natural synergy just because you cannot get over your insular thinking?

Kalavai Venkat