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by Ravian Bilani
01-Apr-2010
A CHARACTERISTIC of the Bahai administration is dishonesty in dealing with their
census This tric!ery ta!es "lace sometimes in the form of absolute e#aggeration of
numbers and misre"resentation in such a manner so as to falsify actual data
$e do not e#"ect to find dishonesty and misre"resentation in the number of actual
adherents %et this is e#actly what we find in Bahai &aithThis is to convey to the world
that Bahai &aith is very well acce"ted by the masses'
Regarding their numbers( the Bahais have indulged in gross e#aggeration As! Bahais
about their numbers and )*illions) is the usual figure claimed by them The Baha+i
census claims that there are , to -. million adherents of the &aith in the world which is
nothing but a blatant /IE
Bahais 0o"ulation in I12IA
The official Indian Bahai site is actually misleading its visitors They claim to be a ..
million strong community in India alone( which is obviously bogus and false
3ne when loo!s at the Bahai census of India whom Bahai claims have largest number
of Bahais( immediately one will understand that there are three ty"es of Bahai census
All official
45Bahai Census "ro6ected by Bahai Administration through their websites They "ro6ect
about .. million Bahais in India
7Ref8 94: htt"8;;bahaiin; <
.5Bahai Census "ro6ected by Bahai Administration in their newsletters and Annual
Re"ort Here they are of the o"inion that there are hundred thousand Bahais
7Ref8 9.: Annual Re"ort Ridvan 4,= BE .>>-5.>>? <
@5Bahai Census given by Aovernment of India in their official census re"ort
However( the official census of Aovernment of India has something else to offer
3fficial census of The Aovernment of India
A5Census of 4BB4
The official Census of Aovernment of India ta!en in 4BB4 "uts Bahai "o"ulation as
=(=-= 9.(B,, men and .(,>B women:
7Ref8 9@: Indian Census Returns( 4BB4( for the Baha+is of India<
B5Census of .>>4
The official Census of Aovernment of India ta!en in .>>4 "uts Bahai "o"ulation as
44(@.C 9,(4@? men and =(4?, women:
7Ref8 9C: Census of India( .>>4<
Bahais are Duic! to "oint out that the official census is false and full of "re6udice( as
most of the census officers are Hindu and they do not carry out their wor! honestly They
are however slow in their observation that all Bahai census are carried out by
overEealous Bahai officers and that no "erson should Duestion their integrityF
It is not a hidden fact that the census conducted by the Aovernment of India is carried out
very meticulously by sincere and dedicated officers going door to door covering every
household Even if we give a =G advantage it will not e#ceed 4.(>>> &urthermore( in
Duestioning leading Baha+i administrators and other !nowledgeable Baha+is as!ing them
about the Bahai "o"ulation in India they have said somewhere between 4@>>>( to
4C(>>> There was ready ac!nowledgement of the occurrence of what Huan called
)fraudulent) teaching in his "ost
3ut of these 44(@.C Bahais(
45*ost of them are 0ersian
.5Some are those who have signed the card thin!ing that Bahai &aith is a social
organiEation
@5Some of them have signed due to dece"tion
C5In 0une it was re"orted that 0ersian Bahais have gone to the villages and they have
as!ed illiterate villagers to sign the card offering the tem"tation that signees would
receive some scholarshi"
=5In *adhya 0radesh( Bahai s"ea!ers have gathered masses giving some lectures and
the s"ea!er as!ing the Duestion Is there any one amongst you who does not believe in
AodI The audience res"onded J1o The s"ea!er then e#horted them to sign the card
,53ne of the Bahai official who visited India in 4B?C claimed in his s"eech at the Bahai
Centre that he would have easily collected .>> addresses of "eo"le saying they are
Bahais although they gathered there under the name of a *edical Cam"
-5*any false addresses were given to acDuire number of delegates es"ecially in *adhya
0radesh and Kttar 0radesh
$hy should the Bahai authorities wish to "ro6ect an image more than its realityI
45It is in order to "resent an inaccurate "icture to the world 9as well as to individuals
considering conversion: and to ma!e the &aith seem much more successful and
influential than it really is
.5These addresses are recorded as )Bahais) to show to the Aovernment of India as the
number of Bahais to gain minority status by dece"tion and to avail all the facilities and
"rivileges given by Aovernment of India to its minorities
Conclusion
It was fairly a""arent that declaring oneself a Baha+i did not mean that an individual was
being "ut in the "osition of having to Lleave' his own religious tradition 9which in this
case was "rimarily Hindu: The declared Bahai for the most "art continued to "ractice
traditional behavioral idioms *oreover there was little indication that they had
abandoned the Hindu Lworld view'
It originated from Iran the most of the high ran!ing officers are 0ersian with head Duarter
in Israel
They have incor"orations of Assemblies( cluster growth reflection meetings(
administrative sanctions( de"rivation of voting rights( elected arms( a""ointed arms(
elections at local( state and national assemblies( counselors( au#iliary board members etc
to fit reDuirements of an 1A3 and not a divine religion Surely these are far from the
conditions satisfying the reDuirements of ma6or religions of the world
*y own conclusion was that the Baha+i &aith better fits the category of an 1A3 and not
one of the eight ma6or religions of the world as is claimed by the Bahais
*y Iranian friends should not be made to believe that the world is full of fools Rather
they are living in a fools "aradise By sim"le re"etition a lie cannot and will not become
the truth The Bahai "o"ulation in India is not more than 4@(>>> and in the world by any
means they are not more than one hundred thousand &or a religion to "rogress and
"ro"agate( sincere service is reDuired to attract the masses and not 6ust li" services to
attract the "eo"le and then believing that they have abandoned the religion of their
ancestors They cannot increase their numbers by Ruhi Boo!s or by sim"ly "arroting
Anas "resentation
&3R*ER *E*BERS 3&
1ATI31A/ S0IRITKA/ ASSE*B/% 3& I12IA
0osted by 8 Ravi Mumar on tal!religionbahai