The 'right wing’, the ‘left wing’, the Hindus, the Muslims, the Buddhists, the Aryan-Dravidian deniers, the anti-Brahmins, practically everyone can make use of Ambedkar's writings to bash the opponent. However, at the core of his ideology was a strong antipathy to both Hinduism and the Brahmins.
Category: <span>BOOK REVIEW</span>
‘A History Of The Sikhs’: Just Another Book Mired In Secular-Liberal Bias
Khushwant Singh's 'A History of the Sikhs' suffers from the same drawbacks that the mainstream secular-liberal scholarship does. The book seems to be serving his bias much more than the objective truth.
Book Review: ‘SIVASYA KULAM: Decoding Caste, Untouchability And White Man’s Burden’ By MVNL Sudha Mohan
This book by Sudha Mohan breaks many of the myths surrounding the ‘caste system’. A deep study of the book helps one to realize that the various groups across the country—the ‘forward’ castes, the ‘backward’ castes, the ‘scheduled’ castes, and the scheduled ‘tribes’ are the diverse jatis with all kinds of practices, an array of flowers in the same garden of India as Hindus.
A Tale of Fraught Modernities
Barua's book is an important reflection on the nature of colonial subjecthood, at least in its elite manifestations. We discover that it was by no means completely lacking in agency. The elite colonial subject was not a passive receptacle for the political, or, in this case, the religious and philosophical ideas issuing from the West.
On Secularism, Modernization and Hinduism: Part 2
While a lot of energy is spent on understanding the threats posed by Islam, Christianity, or leftist liberals to the Hindu way of life, we don’t spend as much energy on understanding the threats posed by secularisation and the costs thereof to Hindu religion.
Book review: Essence of the Fifth Veda by Gaurang Damani
Dr Pingali Gopal reviews Essence of the Fifth Veda, a captivating compendium by Gaurang Damani.
On Secularism, Modernization and Hinduism: Part 1
Halley Kalyan introduces an important work by Prof. AK Saran.
Book Review: ‘Perversion of India’s Political Parlance’ by Sita Ram Goel
Sita Ram Goel was an astute observer of the harmful repercussions of linguistic relativity in action.
‘Antaraprabhava’ in Surendra Kumar’s ‘Viśuddha Manusmṛti’: A critical assessment in light of its avowedly revisionist interpretation
Nithin Sridhar shows the inconsistencies in the revisionist Arya Samaji version of Manusmṛti in this critique of Dr Surendra Kumar's Viśuddha Manusmṛti.
Book Review: The Āśrama System: The History and Hermeneutics of a Religious Institution
Sukrit Banerjee's review concisely outlines Patrick Olivelle's findings on the evolution of the Āśrama System.