/Pogled.info/ India – to the surprise of many – today has the fastest growing economy. Based on the 2023 results, the country’s GDP has grown by 8.4%. By 2027, it will become the third largest economy in the world. If this trend continues, India has a chance to overtake the US and even China in the 1930s.
India is a leader in both demographics and IT vector. The Indian diaspora now controls a significant segment of Silicon Valley, and the Prime Minister of Great Britain is, albeit a liberal-globalist, an ethnic Indian, Rishi Sunak.
Interestingly, an influential conservative politician in the American Republican Party, a staunch supporter of Trump, also of Indian origin, Vivek Ramaswamy, is the complete ideological antithesis of Sunak. In any case, the Indians are progressing.
We are dealing with a completely new phenomenon – the birth before our eyes of a new center of the world. India owes these successes largely to the new twist in politics that came with the rise to power of the conservative Bharatiya Janata Party.
In fact, modern India, during decolonization, was founded by a different – leftist and progressive – party, the Indian National Congress. Of course, the highest value for Indians after independence was liberation from the consequences of colonialism, but at the same time, India remained a member of the post-colonial Commonwealth of Nations dominated by Great Britain and firmly adhered to the democracy introduced by the British, in fact, it was even proud of it. , that it is “the largest democracy in the world”.
The Congress was happy with the country getting political independence from its former masters but agreed to imitate the socio-political, economic and cultural paradigm of the West.
The Congress’s monopoly on power in India was first undermined by the victory of an alternative right-wing conservative party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, in the 1996 elections to the lower house of Parliament (Lok Sabha). This party itself was formed out of the ultra-conservative Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh movement in 1980.
In 2014, Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of this party and remains so till today. According to analysts, Modi has every reason to retain his post after the results of the 2024 elections, which began on April 19 and will end on June 1.
The leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Modi’s personal political charisma have fundamentally changed India. By the way, the official name of India under Modi was changed to the Sanskrit style – Bharat. The fact is that Modi is based on a completely different ideology than the Indian National Congress.
Initially, there were two directions in the Indian struggle for independence from the British: one – soft and pacifist, embodied in the figure of Mahatma Gandhi and betting on non-violent resistance, and the second – more militant and uncompromising, represented by such figures as the Indian traditionalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh founder and nationalist Vinayak Savarkar.
The British, leaving the country, calmly entrusted power in India (having previously seized from it a number of territories inhabited by Muslims – Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal) to the Congress, believing that this party would keep India in the zone of Anglo-Saxon influence and will lead it on the path of modernization and westernization (with regional specifics), that is, colonial control will remain in some form.
In contrast, the main opponents of the Congress from the very beginning of the struggle for independence believed that India was not just a country or a former colony, but the territory of a powerful and distinctive civilization.
Today we call it a civilization-state. This idea was first formulated by Kanayalal Munshi and was called ‘Akhand Bharat’, ‘Indivisible India’ or ‘Greater India’.
In 2022, Narendra Modi listed the “decolonization of the Indian mind” as a major goal. And before us appears an India that we did not know at all – a right-wing conservative India, the Vedic state-civilization, Great India, which has taken the path of total sovereignty.
Of course, a casual observer will notice a contradiction here: India is getting closer geopolitically to the United States and Israel, is embroiled in a growing border conflict with China (hence India’s involvement in several regional anti-China blocs, such as QUAD, etc.), relations with the Islamic world deteriorate – both within India and with respect to Pakistan.
If Indian traditionalists are concerned with the “decolonization of the Indian mind” and the struggle against Western material civilization, then what do they have to do with the US?
To resolve this ambiguity, we can look to the rise of modern China. Representatives of the American Council on International Relations (CFR) and especially Henry Kissinger personally already in the late 1970s offered China a bilateral partnership against the USSR, thereby finally breaking the socialist camp.
China under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping took advantage of this and gradually over 40 years transformed itself from an economic client of the US into a powerful independent pole with which the US now entered into competition and indeed a trade war. The escalation of the issue surrounding Taiwan makes it possible to predict that this confrontation will enter a heated phase.
Now the same globalist forces in the West have decided to back India – this time against China. And Modi, considering the Chinese experience, adopted this strategy. But just as China is using globalization for its own ends, not losing but strengthening its sovereignty, Greater India intends to do the same.
First, taking into account the objective realities of international politics, to maximally strengthen its power, increase the welfare of the huge population, the volume of the domestic market, military power, technological potential, and then, at the appropriate time, act as a completely independent and sovereign pole.
Globalists themselves understand this strategy best. Thus, George Soros and his banned in the Russian Federation Open Society Foundation, which openly set as its main goal the fight against tradition, sovereignty and independent cultures and societies, declared war on Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
At the same time, he not only supported the opposition Congress, but also began to actively incite social and ethnic strife in India, in particular, calling on the Dalits (a widespread untouchable caste) to rise up against Modi. This is another version of the “color revolution” that the globalists are leading to.
Russia just needs to understand the fundamental changes taking place in India. This is a completely different country from the one with which we built quite close relations during the Soviet period. Yes, Indians still have a lot of sympathy and nostalgia for Russians. Moreover, this applies not only to the left of the Congress (where, by the way, under the influence of Soros, the voices of Russophobes are becoming louder), but also to the right-wing traditionalists.
And in this case, the key role is played not by inertia, but by a clear understanding that Russia itself is manifested as a civilization state, is the most important force in the construction of a multipolar world, and is also now going through a kind of period of “decolonization of consciousness.”
If India has certain conflicting issues – especially in the border areas – with China, another civilized country and another pole of the multipolar world, there is nothing similar with Russia even in the distant future.
At the same time, we must not under any circumstances get closer to India, despite our close strategic partnership with China. We, on the contrary, are vitally interested in normalizing relations between these two great powers, because if a conflict breaks out between them (and this is what the West insists on), the prospects for a multipolar world will be postponed indefinitely.
Now Russia has defended its traditional values. In this case, we need to better understand all those who stood up to defend their own.
And then the energy partnership, the strategic plans for the North-South transport corridor, the processes of Eurasian integration, cooperation in the field of high technologies (and India is already one of the world leaders in IT) and the financial sector will acquire a new ideological dimension: traditionalists interested in civilizational sovereignty and the halting of the expansion of the Western hegemon, they will understand each other much better than anyone else.
Translation: SM
