Indian Hindus have lived in 800 years of slavery under the Muslim boot. This was followed by 200 years under the British boot. I am tempted to add 70 years under the boot of the Dynasty.

For Hindus, the last 1000 years have mostly been a struggle for survival in our homeland. Despite being the most victimized community in history, it is a huge credit to Hindu society that we have achieved the social indicators we have versus other communities in India.

Hindus make more money; Hindus are better educated; Hindu society is more open, more tolerant, more accepting, modern in outlook and democratic in thought. A stark contrast to the community that ruled for 800 years and is still the most beloved community of intellectuals and elites. As the Sachar Committee found out:

Yes, 800 years of historical advantage can amount to a BIG ZERO when a community becomes inherently anti-modernity.

It is no small achievement for Hindus that despite 1000 years of persecution, we are still ahead. After independence, Hindus at least got a say in running their country. Almost immediately, a process was begun to address caste injustices in Hindu society. One can argue about whether the emancipation of so called “lower” castes has happened fast enough, but there is no doubt that “lower” castes have made massive strides. This process picked up even more speed as economic reforms swept through Indian society after 1990s. The best proof of this is in Hindu voting patterns : caste based parties are gasping for survival right now.

BUT, there is a huge BUT.

Here is our greatest shame. As per 2011 census:

Gender ratio among Hindus : 913 girls for every 1000 boys

Gender ratio among Muslims : 943 girls for every 1000 boys

This is a crisis. This is a disaster. This is a shame for every Hindu.

I will admit a secret here today. Every time I have criticized Islamic society for being regressive, I have had a secret fear in my mind. That someone will jump up and shame me by comparing the gender ratio numbers for Hindus and Muslims.

Here is a simple calculation. Assuming that there are slightly under 1 billion Hindus, there are around 500 million Hindu males and only around 456 million Hindu females. This is a gap of 44 million Hindu women who should have been alive today and our Hindu society is to blame that they aren’t.

Whether through female foeticide, or female infanticide, or from giving female children less nutrition and care than male children (resulting in weakness, disease and death of young girls), it is our Hindu society that has managed to kill 44 million women.

There is no way to make excuses or to put a positive spin on this. This problem must stop and needs to stop right now!

In fact, the picture is even worse than the Hindu gender ratio of 913 suggests. You see, the census counts Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, etc. separately.

In my definition of “Hindu” which I suspect is also the definition used by most readers of this blog, we include Sikhs and Jains, don’t we? When I say “Hindu” I am talking about all the Indic faiths : as Savarkar would say, those for which the janam bhoomi and punya bhoomi are the same.

In the Jain community, the gender ratio is just 870. Among Sikhs, it is an even more horrifying 786.

We are all proud of Hindu society for its openness and willingness to constantly modernize and embrace change. I will give you one simple example : only 20 years ago, it was a common social expectation for a widow to wear only white.

Today? I think today a Hindu widow deciding to wear white would be viewed as making a very strange choice. You probably didn’t even notice this change in Hindu society. It just happened naturally, without anyone paying any attention. Gender equality moved forward without anyone even noticing, let alone resisting. This is what Hindu society is : forever willing to embrace modernity.

In comparison, Muslim women are being made to embrace the burqa and hijab in greater numbers than ever. And some of these unfortunate women suffer from Stockholm syndrome to the point that they are busy telling the world that burqa and hijab are some kind of “women’s liberation.” LOL! And dumbass liberals around the world are running with it. Just pick up any prominent Western media outlet and read about how Muslim women are being so “brave” in putting on a hijab… ROFL!

But the gender ratio issue remains among Hindus, a huge blot on our society. NOW is the time for change. On Women’s Day, the Prime Minister has chosen to speak at Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan, a district which has rescued itself from being the *worst* in Rajasthan to the *best* in the state in terms of gender ratio. I know there are many political issues floating around, but the gender ratio crisis is by far the greatest shame on Hindu society today.

We Hindus need to get this done. We still have 3 years to go for the 2021 census. In 2021, the Hindu gender ratio in the 0-5 years category should be as close to a perfect 100 as possible.