The real India
I don’t want to antagonize or spew venom against Rajputs for this. But I will say this much: urban zoomers have a very distorted view of “real India”.
Some learning occurred due to June 4, KhAAP etc. but we still have a romanticized picture of at least royal families, learned priests, Śaṅkarācāryas and such.
I don’t want to be disrespectful. But if our traditional institutions were in such good form true to their classical roots—with correct understanding of their principles, of the enemy, of what should be said and not said—as this romantic view asserts, then our history and society would have looked very different.
All this shows is how much work remains for the Hindutva project to do.
And how misguided are some neo-trads who believe that it’s Hindutva or BJP that’s subverting “real traditional India”.
In fact, leftists are right about one thing: Ganga-Jamuna Tehjeeb is real India.
Everything-goes, sarva-dharma whatever is real India.
North Indians using “you look Pakistani” as a compliment while looking down on their own countrymen of different castes and colors is real India.
If it had been any other way, our history would have gone very differently.
Sure, this is only the dehātization of a classical India that once was. But the closest you can get to that classical India —though still very far— is in Hindutva, not in the more “rooted” traditions.
The rooted traditions should one day be revived/strengthened. But for that they must first be better.