After all, missionaries give them many benefits. It usually leads to a split in family and village community, because the converts are told to repudiate their customary Gods, way of worship and rituals. They no longer worship the Kuldevta or participate in Shraaddha. This creates a discord in the family. So they fall out with the village community.
Many converts feel uncomfortable and want to return.
So when Hindu organisations urge them to come back, some of them do come back, the Swami says, adding that reconversion is easy because most of the conversions are recent and not based on any spiritual experience or rational conviction and most importantly, rehabilitation poses no problem. The converts have just to walk back into their own relatives and people. Prospects of getting benefits from some Hindu organisations and quiet persuasion by bodies like Svadhyaya Parivar, inspired by Pandurang Shastri Athavale also play some role. With Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal providing political and physical muscle, the stage is all set for a showdown between the Cross and the Hindu tribal tradition. When reconversions seems to gather momentum, the missionaries become nervous.