Every year, the schools and hospitals my church runs in India open their books, and every foreign rupee is accounted for under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. We renew a license the state may refuse at will, and under the amendment before Parliament, we may lose the buildings themselves if it lapses. We file, we disclose, we submit to inspection, and I do not object. Public trust demands public scrutiny.

There is another organization in India. It shapes the government’s education policy, supplies its ministers, and sets the ideological direction of the world’s largest democracy. It is registered nowhere.

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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological parent of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, claims more than 83,000 branches and millions of members. It is not a society, not a trust, not a company. In the eyes of Indian law, it is a “body of individuals,” which is to say that on paper, it very nearly does not exist.

THEY LOST MILLIONS IN GOLD. NOW THEY WANT TO SEIZE FAITH-BASED CHARITIES

Let me be fair, because fairness is the whole of my argument. The Sangh breaks no law. Indian statute does not compel every association to register, and the courts have long accepted “body of........

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