भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

All those Hindus became impure and so they began to be boycotted. In the usual way, all those villages and towns in course of time, were socially ostracized and became Christian villages and towns! 541. Now we shall cite just for fun—but fun that kills—another incident, showing how all the human races at that time were fanatics in the extreme. 541A. The early Syrian Christian migrants to India were also divided into different sects. They vied with one another as to which of them disseminated the Christian doctrine more truly in foreign countries. So the sects other than the one that had Christianized Hindu villages, protested against the latter and out of malice, informed the superior religious authorities in Europe that sect had converted the simple and foolish Hindu to Christianity by abominable lies and deception, and collected contributions, but had never preached any Christian doctrines, as such. Therefore, they pleaded, that the number of the converts should not be taken into account, and that they should be stopped from damaging the prestige of the Christian propagandists. Because of the incessant protests of these other Christian sects, those Hindu converts to Christianity had for a long time no legal status as Christians, although they thought themselves to be such, and their subscriptions to the church were not accepted, nor were they allowed entrance into the church. In the end, the knotty problem seemed to have been solved by way of sumptuous subscriptions. For, after some days, a directive was received from Europe that all the Hindu converts were now to be called Christians and subscriptions from all of them were necessarily to be collected. Later on, all the Christian missionaries, to whatever sect they belonged, declared it to be their religious duty to convert the Hindus not only by hook or by crook or by sly means, but even by force and armed force. Naturally, the elementary ways of conversion like making the Hindus eat or drink with the Christians, were beyond all range of dispute and doubt. 542. Thereafter, the Syrian and other Christians fell out in their own country, and there were fierce battles fought amongst the various Christian sects. Therefore, for two or three centuries, thereafter, the work of the Christian missionaries in India had practically stopped. But one thing must be remembered in this context, that because there was no attempt whatsoever on the part of the Hindus to reconvert the Christianized Hindus (Indian Christians), the latter kept on calling themselves Christians and ceased to have any relation whatsoever with the Hindus.