Collective identities are often formed based on an opposition to "the other". Jews form a collective basis on the othering of gentiles and their Abrahamic brethren do likewise with terminology such as heathen or kafir. Wokeists are a collective mix of several groups who historically defined themselves based on treatment by the other. Feminists blame men, gays blame straights, poor blame rich, blacks blame whites etc. All of them embark upon activities to distinguish/separate themselves from the other.
Nietzsche has already identified this phenomenon as "transvaluation of values" by slave morality practitioners i.e. what is deemed "good" by the other is recast as "evil" by the slave moralist. It is a recurring issue in the west as invading Christians deemed indigenous pagans as evil only to be followed by invading enlightenment liberals to deem Christians as evil and we're already seeing the invading muslim deem the west as evil for being liberal.
All those groups are utopian and globalist in outlook. The Jewish utopia sees the promised messiah arrive ushering in the Kingdom of God on Earth where all dead Jews are resurrected to live in a gentile free world. Christians modified this to Jesus as the promised messiah who will return to establish his rule over the whole Earth and the non-believers will be so impressed they'll instantly convert. Islam just added Muhammad as Jesus's right hand man in the end-times. Leftist movements spoke of the coming communist utopia and a worldwide dictatorship of the proletariat after a world revolution.
Even movements themselves derived from leftist movements preached similar. Nazism was a workers movement, Hitler's early career saw him attend the funeral of Jewish revolutionary communist Kurt Eisner at the time of the short-lived Bavarian Socialist Republic, Nazi propagandist Goebbels frequently wrote against England's evil capitalism and often pointed out that the Nazis were socialists belonging to the left and opposed to the right. The other "great" fascist of the time Mussolini himself started off as a socialist, was bankrolled by the Jewess Margherita Sarfatti with whom he was having an affair and was praised by both Lenin and Trotsky earlier in his career. They form an early basis of the modern neoconservative movement in America where many members were card carrying Trotskyite communists in university and often Jews from families who had fled Russia.
To go along with the upcoming utopian society, all these movements preached the new man for the new age. The Nazis of course said it would be the blue eyed blonde "Aryan", the New Testament literally discusses becoming the new man upon accepting Christ, Jewish Kabbalah insists on a new stage of evolution related to reincarnation for Jews in the Kingdom of God, in Soviet society it was called homo-Sovieticus, the fascists preached the new man concept often and it finds adherents in the LGBTQ crowd with promotions of an androgynous transhuman/human 2.0 cyborg to populate the new age.
Almost always these groups invoke a mythic golden age - Abrahamics proclaim it as the era of the Garden of Eden before the serpent induced the fall of man, feminists invoke the ancient matriarchy, communists preach of a prehistoric classless society, Nazis talk of the era of ancient "Aryan" conquest to spread civilization prior to racial contamination, blacks have the meme "we woz kangz" and so on.
Clearly then, effective collective identities require a golden age, a fall, a period of persecution and a prophesied utopian age to be filled by a new human type. Even the founding of America follows this template; Europe was once wonderful but fell under the dictates of evil monarchs and popes who persecuted their populations, these myriad Europeans left for the new world and, depending on if they were Christians or occultists, they fulfilled the creation of either a New Jerusalem or a New Atlantis. The American motto "E Pluribus Unum" means "out of many, one" as in through a mix of different people (English, Dutch, Irish, Scots, Italians, Germans etc) a new type was created - the American.
Another concept important to collectives is the promise to clean up the world and therefore progress. While this is essentially covered in utopianism as it is a necessary preparatory phase for the utopia to emerge, a few remarks are useful: the Abrahamics insisted on purging the world of non-believers either through conversion or persecution as non-believers were empowering Satan. The communists and Nazis routinely used the term "backward races" who were retarding progress - both viewed Eastern Europeans as racial trash for example. Even in Mao's China the great leap forward was in part to cull off traditionalists. Communists very quickly became colonialists and, much like their Christian forebears, banned many indigenous languages and traditions as part of re-educating the new masses they encountered. The Americans fell upon the concept of manifest destiny which morphed into American exceptionalism which gave them "the right" to "export democracy" and "spread freedom" by bombing and regime changing non-compliant countries the world over. "Exporting democracy" was merely the modern equivalent of the colonialist mantra of "civilizing the savages" which itself was the Abrahamic version of converting the heathens. So now we can add a sense of exceptionalism, progress and a missionary ideal to spread the message in understanding collective identities.
Paradoxically, all these collectives thrive on promoting a period of being persecuted and exploited themselves and memory of these mostly mythical persecutions serve as a key component to reinforcing the collective. Judaism memorialises it in its religious holiday of Purim alongside countless recollections of what other peoples did to them such as the Romans, Assyrians, Egyptians, Babylonians, Germans etc. Christians were fed to lions and attacked for merely trying to save people. Blacks never stop talking of slavery. Feminists are victims of male oppression. Communists victimised by capitalists and on and on it goes. This is not a paradox when one understands psychology.
The narcissist (and the west is currently undergoing an epidemic of narcissism) is fully able to make exceptionalism and victimhood co-exist. The narcissist is victimised due to their perceived superior and exceptional nature. The narcissist also suffers from a severe entitlement mentality. Entitled welfare lefties are often mentioned but we forget that the Abrahamics showcase this too by insisting they spread the word in exchange for your land and obedience. All the aforementioned movements then are essentially collective narcissistic movements. A common theme in narcissism is the desire to transcend human limitations hence the need for the new man no longer at the mercy of being merely human. Thus these movements become very anti-human especially if you do not belong to their group. They try to impose guilt on "the other" for merely existing. The Abrahamic concept of being born in sin finds its secular equivalent in white guilt or in placating the average citizen of being an environmental burden contributing to climate change or overpopulation.
I say all that to say this. There are two "options" one can take to create "Hindu collective identity". The obvious one is just appropriating the above, and I stress, immature narcissistic tactics. Satya Yuga can just become the golden age torn down by evil mlecchas who have persecuted Hindus ever since through invasions and colonialism. The appearance of Kalki avatar will usher in a new golden age of plenty and the next spiritual and biological evolution of mankind once Kalki destroys the mlecchas. ISKCON type tactics can be used to obtain new followers. Concentrating primarily on persecution seems the most effective tactic for creating and maintaining the collective. It is a form of trauma bonding reinforced by competing in the oppression olympics.
The second and infinitely more preferable method is to first and foremost show the trajectory the west is on. It also serves as a warning for utilising option 1 as that will also be the trajectory for anyone else who uses those methods. It is readily observable how ruinous the west has been through its Judeo-Christian and partial Greco-Roman heritage. It is depressed, becoming more infertile and narcissistic, divorcing itself from nature and their own families. It survives on debt and exploitation of the rest of the world. It has poisoned the air and oceans and insists, in totalitarian fashion, that the rest of the world follows its example which is nothing more than an anti-human ideology. The budgets blown on western military expenditures could've fed the world many times over and created innumerable great social programs. These crazy amounts spent yet have embarrassments such as Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and now Ukraine to show for it. They spend needless billions on pointless movies to give the useless children of their elites something to do which is to effectively propagandise to the rest of the world through fiction and entertainment.
Next is to instill a sense of pride in the accomplishments of our ancestors and moderns despite the attempts by this ideological utopian virus to destroy us. We don't need to play victim, we were not treated any differently to natives the world over. What we do have exclusive claim to though is being the only culture on this planet that survived Abrahamism, leftism and internal traitors with our culture intact. That counts for something. Not only did we survive but we are in the process of beginning to thrive. We already have the traits they claim to imbue, we are multicultural within a Dharmic framework representing many peoples, languages and religions. The Abrahamic system crushes and homogenises, the Dharmic doesn't. We have not fully succumbed to the mistakes ancient cultures made by utilising this tolerance to accept the Abrahamic virus as just another religion(s). This tolerance does still play on the Indian mind and needs addressing, it remains naive to the intentions of those forces but, funnily enough, the west has already thoroughly critiqued all of these things before but not laid it all together side by side to see the overall picture. It has instead used these critiques to give itself a face-lift and perpetuate its decay inducing system under other names.
We have shown a remarkable pursuit of knowledge throughout our history and made many indispensable contributions to science and philosophy. We continue to do so and always will because we are truth seekers at heart and not propagandists. Truth is an eternal endeavour and what we need to learn is that there are forces adamant on homogenising this world under a system antithetical to life itself. Our land is a microcosm of the world and its history. The ways of life that people practice range from the most modern to the most ancient. This diversity is where we gain different perspectives to aid in problem solving and ultimately our ability to survive.
We can then become a real beacon of inspiration for other cultures who still retain some memory of their ways prior to their colonisation by Abrahamism/leftism. The world is undergoing massive changes right now, changes difficult to envision a few years ago. An opportunity is emerging to veer the world away from the trajectory of zombifying itself. Dystopia seemed inevitable but the defeats globalization has taken recently are opening up pathways not seen for a very long time.
It won't be an overnight phenomenon and will require hard work but our people have survived worse.