“Why is it so? Where have we, deeply orthodox, ritualistic, endogamous even 30 years ago, faltered so badly.”
Maladaption to modernity under pressure
Communities in the vicinity of politico-economic capitals (madras, bangalore, calcutta) at the advent of modernity were infected by (proto-)wokeness at a greater rate.
Particular cases:
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Several chennai vaDakalai shrI-vaiShNava-s went rogue - (higher concentration/ dominance in pallava-nADu)
- N Ram of Hindu
- Kamal Hasan
- TTK group of Prestige pressure cooker fame and also N Murali etc., which patronized MMA (Madras Music academy), which eventually conferred sangIta-kalAnidhi title on the rabid activist singer Thodur Madabussi Krishna (of the same family).
Active English intellectual subversion
- See rivals/academia/charges page for examples of systematic disparagement of Hindu origins of many scientific / mathematical ideas, and their conspicuous absence in education, leading to stunted formation of a confident hindu version of modernity.