Did a recent ruling of the Supreme Court amount to giving legal sanction to ghar wapasi, the Sangh parivar’s initiative to swell the ranks of the majority Hindu populace by urging those who had converted to Christianity or Islam to escape caste stigma to return to Hinduism? Did the assurance (implicit in the court order) that those who reconvert to Hinduism would be able to claim reservation in college seats and government jobs on the basis of their original caste antecedents constitute an inducement to reconvert? Has the Supreme Court’s order inadvertently strengthened the hands of those who are vigorously going about reconverting anyone willing or unwilling? The answer isn’t simple. For the Supreme Court, after all, is the final and highest interpreter of the law of the land.