The conscious Conservative https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/others/leisure/the-conscious-conservative/articleshow/71989874.cms
Jaithirth ‘Jerry’ Rao The Indian Conservative: A History of Indian Right-Wing Thought (Juggernaut). With the rise of right-wing governments all over the world, tracing the antecedents of Conservatism back to ancient Indian texts from the Yajur and Atharva Vedas, and from the Mahabharata, and argues against it being a Western import.
the role of the Conservatives in politics, culture, society, education and such. academia, in general, has been captured by leftists and post-modernists,
traditional right-wing thought is not the violent Hindu nationalism it has come to be associated with today. “That is radicalism. two strands of Conservative thought in India — one that began with Raja Rammohan Roy, which I call traditional [Edmund] Burkean Conservatism, and the other with Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, which I would call more akin to Hindu nationalism,”
“In India We do have traditions of non-violence, religious tolerance and of people living together. But we also have quite a few occurrences of violence in our history.
liberals are good intentioned people and they want to create a Utopia and improve the world, they’re prescriptive and normative. Conservatives are empiricists. We look at the world as it is, and we don’t like to tell people the way the world should or could be. We want things to change through evolution, not revolution,