07-01-2007, 04:14 PM
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Mumbai, June 30: Indian scholars collate evidence to unearth fraud in anti-Hindu writings by western writers in âInvading the Sacredâ.
It is one book which will start a debate challenging the portrayal of India and its culture by the West. Leading scholars and academicians have now put the weight of their experience and research to challenge the Western pictures of India, its religion and problems.
Invading the Sacred (Rupa), which releases in Mumbai today, is a searching analysis on the academic study of religion by the strong 8,000 university professors who view India as a chaotic backward place and the American business schools who look upon India as a land of opportunity.
The book kicks off a new trend in literature â countering ideas and thoughts on Indian culture, especially Hinduism, by academic papers by Indian authors. âThis negativity is caused by a lack of rigorous training in Indian languages and cultural nuances, excessive reliance on psychoanalysis â often by untrained scholars â and breakdown of the peer-review process,â said Krishnan Ramaswamy, one of the editors of the book.
Through many examples, these biases are examined and a careful and evidence-based debunking of the fabrications made (see box). The American scholarsâ constant reference to Indian culture as pathological abusive prompted Diaspora intellectual Rajiv Malhotra, who runs the Infinity Foundation, to coin the term Hinduphobia, to expose this bias. The Foundation has given away millions in the last 10 years to top academic scholars of various disciplines to promote knowledge and rigorous study of India and Indic religions like Hinduism and Buddhism.
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Mumbai, June 30: Indian scholars collate evidence to unearth fraud in anti-Hindu writings by western writers in âInvading the Sacredâ.
It is one book which will start a debate challenging the portrayal of India and its culture by the West. Leading scholars and academicians have now put the weight of their experience and research to challenge the Western pictures of India, its religion and problems.
Invading the Sacred (Rupa), which releases in Mumbai today, is a searching analysis on the academic study of religion by the strong 8,000 university professors who view India as a chaotic backward place and the American business schools who look upon India as a land of opportunity.
The book kicks off a new trend in literature â countering ideas and thoughts on Indian culture, especially Hinduism, by academic papers by Indian authors. âThis negativity is caused by a lack of rigorous training in Indian languages and cultural nuances, excessive reliance on psychoanalysis â often by untrained scholars â and breakdown of the peer-review process,â said Krishnan Ramaswamy, one of the editors of the book.
Through many examples, these biases are examined and a careful and evidence-based debunking of the fabrications made (see box). The American scholarsâ constant reference to Indian culture as pathological abusive prompted Diaspora intellectual Rajiv Malhotra, who runs the Infinity Foundation, to coin the term Hinduphobia, to expose this bias. The Foundation has given away millions in the last 10 years to top academic scholars of various disciplines to promote knowledge and rigorous study of India and Indic religions like Hinduism and Buddhism.
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