The result of this scaling down of the Hindu renaissance is that after more than a century of this movement there is no real Vedic or Vedantic university in India. There is no pervasive Vedic or Vedantic movement throughout the country. While certain Hindu gurus and sects may have a good following, there is not a corresponding support for the greater tradition or sufficient efforts to bring all Hindu groups together.

In the fifty years of independent India an anti-Hindu trend has arisen out of the very universalism that came from the Hindu renaissance. The original Hindu universalism, a universalism of truth, has been replaced by this vague universalism of political and social convenience and appeasement. This vague universalism seems to exclude Hindus and certainly is suspicious of any Hindu revival, which it would regard as communal. By its view Hindus should not have an identity in order not to discourage members of other religions from thinking that they cannot be Indians!