There was a time when the CIA did support the Hindu fundamentalists and the Hindu Extremist elements in India. Many people believe that the RSS and similar parties received huge financial aids from the US government covertly, to build up a radical Hindu party that could defeat the Congress led government which refused to come out of the Soviet Influence and become a US stooge!
Richard Nixon hated our Congress Primeminister Indira Gandhi and called her "an Old Hag" because she refused to liaise with him. Nixon knew that as long as India had true democracy it it could not be controlled by taking into confidence just one person. So he hoped to form a Hindu Fundamentalist Government similar to Taliban which would automatically move away from the Soviet block and lean towards the US. It could be so, that they figured out that The Shankaracharyya could become a figure like Mullah Omar. Thank God, it didn't work out! Although I believe that the US had no hand in forming the Taliban.
There was a time when the CIA did support the Hindu fundamentalists and the Hindu Extremist elements in India. Many people believe that the RSS and similar parties received huge financial aids from the US government covertly, to build up a radical Hindu party that could defeat the Congress led government which refused to come out of the Soviet Influence and become a US stooge!
Richard Nixon hated our Congress Primeminister Indira Gandhi and called her "an Old Hag" because she refused to liaise with him. Nixon knew that as long as India had true democracy it it could not be controlled by taking into confidence just one person. So he hoped to form a Hindu Fundamentalist Government similar to Taliban which would automatically move away from the Soviet block and lean towards the US. It could be so, that they figured out that The Shankaracharyya could become a figure like Mullah Omar. Thank God, it didn't work out! Although I believe that the US had no hand in forming the Taliban.