Atrocities on Hindus

• Post-1947 Hindu Genocide:
  
  
  • Bangladesh (1971-2023): ~2.8 million Hindus killed; 20+ million displaced.
    
    
  • Pakistan (1947-2023): Hindu population dropped from 23% to 1.6%.
  • The Goa Inquisition (1560-1812), a brutal chapter in colonial history, where thousands of Hindus faced torture, forced conversions, executions, and cultural suppression under Portuguese colonial rule. The Inquisition targeted Hindu religious practices, banned Sanskrit and local languages in religious contexts, and destroyed temples, severely impacting Goa’s indigenous Hindu culture.
    
    
  • Kashmir (1990-2023): Over 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits were ethnically cleansed during insurgency.
    
    
• Modern-Day Atrocities (2020-2023):
  
  
  • Average daily: 3 Hindu temples vandalized; 2 Hindus killed.
    
    
  • In 2023 Bangladesh riots, 152 temples were destroyed in just 72 hours.
    
    
  • In Kerala, over 1,200 Hindu girls disappear annually, linked to forced conversions and trafficking.
    
    
  • Uttar Pradesh witnessed over 10,000 Hindu girls converted forcibly using fake IDs and sextortion, in recent cases reported near Nepal border, Agra, and Bijnor.

Judicial forums—including the Madras High Court, Supreme Court of India, Allahabad High Court, Mumbai High Court, and Bengal High Court—have mostly upheld state control, often out of deference to government claims of administrative necessity. Yet, courts have also expressed concerns about corruption, mismanagement, and disrespect to religious sentiments caused by bureaucratic interference.

State governments across India—including Tamil Nadu (46,296 temples), Karnataka (over 34,000 temples), Kerala (3,058 temples), Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra, and others—administer tens of thousands of temples along with their lands, funds, and donations. 

This has led to widespread mismanagement, corruption, diversion of temple resources to non-religious uses, and loss of traditional community custodianship.