NEW DELHI: At a time when the country is witnessing long-drawn protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, a new book on "Hindutva" by a top leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has decried Chinese crackdown on Muslims, called for "complete rejection" of Nehruvian secularism, and has argued that "" is the best way forward for the country.The writer J Nandakumar who is a knownfrom Kerala has also looked at the Cambridge Analytica saga, warning against the dangers of data colonisation, citing Chinese and European Union's privacy laws as effective in protecting domestic interest and local data.Reports have suggested that China has detained up to two million people, mostly Uighur Muslims, since a purported counterterrorism campaign began in Xinjiang in 2017.Calling the Chinese model of dealing with minorities, "ruthless, violent and inhuman," Nandakumar says, in his book, "Communist China adopted the Sinicization project to address the minority issue..Religious, ethnic, cultural minorities are forced to adopt the general lifestyle of the Han Chinese. Those who refuse are imprisoned or killed. This is nothing but savagery and no civilised modern society will accept this barbarism.""We know what Sinicization has done to Tibetan culture..It is alive only because of Indian hospitality," he says, in his book that was launched recently.To deal with minority communities in India, however, Nandakumar has pitched for the compete rejection of Nehruvian secularism as, according to him, it "fosters a false sense of unity, keeps Hindus divided and consolidates Muslims." "The fears of KM Munshi on Nehruvian secularism are valid even today. More secularism in India will end up feeding what is fights, the so-called Hindu fundamentalism ..." he has said.Citing examples from France and Australia where leaders have taken positions against multicultural policies, the RSS leader had re-asserted an old ideal of the Sangh Parivar,of Indian minorities as the way forward."It is Hindutva and Dharmic values of the country that have managed to humanise islam here," Nandakumar says, claiming that multiculturalism of Europe has failed, and created "nations within nations," which has led many countries to recast their immigrant policies.In the past, several leaders of the RSS have essentially called for Indianisation of Christians and Muslims, which also means aligning the communities with the Sangh parivar's stance on no religious conversions, nationalist thinking and a larger Hindu social and cultural ethos.Critics have condemned these attempts calling it a ploy by the RSS to create a homogenous Indian identity, synonymous with the Hindu identity, by undermining the cultural and social symbols of the minority communities.Nandakumar however in his book says that by “bhartiyakaran" the RSS implies "assimilation, not uniformity." Quoting the second chief of the RSS MS Golwalkar, he says, it doesn't mean converting everyone to Hinduism , but believing that, "We have the same ancestors and we must have allegiance to the land."Incidentally, in 2018, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had publicly distanced many of Golwalkar's writings on minorities, from the Sangh citing that those ideas were not eternally valid.Nandakumar in his book has also touched upon the issues related to data sovereignty.In 2018, the IT ministry challenged Cambridge Analytica, a now-closed political consultancy, to clarify its operations the country after it emerged that the company had harvested Facebook users’ data without consent to influence elections."The Cambridge Analytica issue has brought home the imminent danger of personal data manipulation. We have seen personal data of social media users being misused by a private agency. The news that Congress was client of Cambridge Analytica was also shocking to us. Data can be used for political machinations and widen the social fault lines in the society," he says, in his book.During the controversy, both the BJP and the Congress party had accused each other of using Cambridge Analytica’s services, but both have denied any link to it.Calling for steps to migrate control of Indian data back to India, Nandakumar has praised countries such as China and the European Union for taking effective steps in this regard."Unfortunately for India, US tech corporations dominate our internet, triggering fears of data colonisation. China has cut off its internet from the global one, allowing domestic companies to flourish. Its homegrown internet giants are giving US counterparts a run for their money. The European Union has put in place stringent privacy laws. India has been lethargic on this front," the book says.