04-28-2008, 12:34 AM
http://www.bharatvani.org/books/wiah/ch5.htm
Semitization of Hinduism
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For another application of the dominant paradigm, Kancha Ilaiah tries to prove the non-existence of a common �Hindu� identity by recounting that in his own Andhra village, the Backward Karuma (wool-weaver) community felt closer to Muslims and Christians (�we all eat meat�) than to Brahmins and Banias, who treated the three other communities as equally impure.34 <b>Ironically, this argument is typically Hindu: it does not consider belief but observation or non-observation of purity rules as the decisive criterion. </b>
Semitization of Hinduism
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For another application of the dominant paradigm, Kancha Ilaiah tries to prove the non-existence of a common �Hindu� identity by recounting that in his own Andhra village, the Backward Karuma (wool-weaver) community felt closer to Muslims and Christians (�we all eat meat�) than to Brahmins and Banias, who treated the three other communities as equally impure.34 <b>Ironically, this argument is typically Hindu: it does not consider belief but observation or non-observation of purity rules as the decisive criterion. </b>