By Jules Gomes
Hindu supremacist entities posing as charities in the U.S. are pouring millions of dollars into militant Hindu outfits in India that are using the funding to target Christians and establish a homeland for Hindus alone.
A report titled Transnational Funding in Hindu Supremacist Movements, released online by the Polis Project in mid-February, documents the “unprecedented surge of American money” and “the expansive global network of financial flows behind Hindu supremacist movements.”
The 60-page dossier reveals how “staggering” sums of money sent to India under the guise of humanitarian relief is used by the Hindu supremacist movement’s leading organizations — the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), for the persecution and reconversion of Dalits (untouchables) and tribals from Christianity to Hinduism.
The U.S. wing of the Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) coalition, which has close ties both to President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement and to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is made up of America’s wealthiest ethnic group and draws its inspiration from Mussolini’s Fascism and Hitler’s Nazism, especially its doctrine of Aryan supremacy.
Corporate Funding Directed at Persecution
The report traces the hand of Hindu-American corporates in funding the supremacist movements and identifies two family foundations — the Bhutada Family Foundation and the Gupta & Aggarwal Family Foundation — that are also registered as nonprofits.
These organizations and the families running them are among the most influential in American Hindutva circles and also run million-dollar corporations, the report notes. In 2023, India witnessed the highest amount of remittance inflows across the world, at a whopping $125 billion.
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