On Tuesday 10 Mar 2009 12:22:14 am Raja wrote: > I lived in several parts of rural tamil nadu enough to know that the > 'common folk' there don't really rever the concept of the vedas or wherever > else this idea of India is being quoted from
Hindutva tries to push Vedic Hinduism as the core of "Hinduism" Hinduism, (if you accept the word) is a collection of assorted tribes, pagans and animists living in the Indian subcontinent who generally share a tendency to worship nature and lack an ideology that seeks to unite in the name of religion. Vedic Hinduism is a prominent intellectual progeny of this motley group. Pre islamic and pre-Christian tribes all over the world seemed to have similar characteristsics but most of them have been wiped out. shiv
