He would like to impute his own conformism with the dominant school of thought to a jaundiced perception caused by sour grapes. Note again that I hav… - Koenraad Elst

Nor are you the first Sikh to be sanatanized. Guru Nanak was a Sanatani Hindu. All the Gurus were. Tegh Bahadur & Govind Singh explicitly invoked Hindu Dharma. But then McAuliffe & other Brits came to bribe you & turn you against Sanatana Dharma. So you profitably became McSikhs.

testimony to the same effect is also given by the Portuguese historian Gaspar Correa, who describes how Hindus continued their annual procession to the site of the Kapalishwara temple on Mylapore beach (Madras), even after the temple had been forcibly replaced with a Catholic church, vide Ishwar Sharan: The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple, Voice of India, p.18-19 (1st ed., 1991) or p-93-94 (2nd ed., 1995).

Throughout his text, Mr. Iyer presupposes one of the most common weapons which the enemies of Hinduism use: changing the definition of “Hinduism” to and fro, depending on their own best interest. Thus, the Christian mission lobby swears that “tribals are not Hindus”, except when tribals defend themselves against encroachment by Bengali Muslim settlers or take revenge on the Christians for having murdered Swami Lakshmananda and four of his assistants; then they are suddenly transformed into “Hindus”... It is now a mark of anti-Hindu polemicists that they manipulate the meaning of “Hinduism”, and interpret it more broadly or more narrowly as per their convenience.