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Well, you have to give it to the Indian population that there was never a significant clamor for a Hindu version of "creationism" to be taught in schools or for the evolution teory to be pulled off. The nuttiest of the Hindu right probably accepts the different stories of creation as fables.
The problems with the nutso Hindu right (and I am not talking about the criminal variety that butchers people and destroys architectural sites) are
a. A collective persecution complex and a complete lack of humor (the world is out to slander us, a Ganesha on a T-shirt is an irreparable harm to our Great Ancient Culture...) - nowhere is this more obvious than on desi blogs and other internet sites
b. An insistence on how every field of knowledge originated in our Great Ancient Culture and the folks who wrote the Vedas know everything that is worth knowing today. There is a whole lot of kooky nonsense that goes by the name "Vedic Mathematics"
c. Xenophobia that guises itself as patriotism - with crazy theories, e.g., Aryan invasion was a myth, the Aryans actually originated in the land that is called India and migrated west.
