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The missionaries in Kerala are shocked to note that their mission in the state is on the verge of collapse. They had converted thousands of Hindus by spending crores of rupees during the INC-led UPA rule at the Centre and LDF/UDF rule in Kerala. Dalits, backward and poor families were the prime targets of Jesuit missions and evangelists who lured the underprivileged Hindus to Christianity with the help of NGOs and other social organisations. But now many Dalit families, troubled by widespread discrimination in Christianity, are returning to the Hindu fold.
These trends are most common in the states of southern India, especially Kerala and Tamil Nadu. This year, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) began holding discussions on religious conversions across the country after its apex body, the Kendriya Margdarshak Mandal, met in Prayagraj on 20 January.
VHP secretary-general Milind Parande had said in 2019, “25,000 Muslims and Christians were reconverted in 2018,” he said, adding that figures for 2019 were yet to be compiled
Earlier in Kerala, 1,335 Dalits, of which 660 were Christians, had officially changed their religion back to Hinduism in 2015.
Most of those who came back to Hinduism were those who had converted in the previous decade under the influence of Christian missionaries. In Kerala, it is necessary to get conversions notified in the gazette to make the exercise legal.
Dalits, feeling cheated by Christianity, returning to Hinduism in Kerala
