02-14-2004, 07:09 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Hauma Hamiddha+Feb 5 2004, 11:43 AM-->QUOTE(Hauma Hamiddha @ Feb 5 2004, 11:43 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--> More Hindu baiting by western "theorists"
HINDUISM IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE � Reform, Hindutva, Gender, and
Sampraday: Antony Copley � Editor; Oxford University Press, 2/11,
Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110001. Rs. 595.
It's been reviewed in 'The HINDU'.
http://www.hindu.com/br/2004/02/03/stories...20300311400.htm
THE BOOK under review, which is a volume of essays, is an examination
of the contemporary status of Hinduism under the shadow of Hindutva.
The essays featured are a valiant attempt to disengage Hinduism from
Hindutva as well as distance Indian identity from a distorted pursuit
of an exclusivist idea of "Hinduness".
This rich and varied collection is circumscribed by two major themes.
The first is to examine the possibility of ever approximating to an
ideal of secular nationalism within the Indian context. This seems to
most authors as a contentious issue, given their idea of Indian
society as predominantly religious. The other theme deals with the
distinction between the public and the private realms and the
question of the rightful place of religion in these spaces.
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This is a careful propoganda material to slowly descredit Indian culture.
The whole idea is that there is no valid reason for the hindu ethos.
HINDUISM IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE � Reform, Hindutva, Gender, and
Sampraday: Antony Copley � Editor; Oxford University Press, 2/11,
Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110001. Rs. 595.
It's been reviewed in 'The HINDU'.
http://www.hindu.com/br/2004/02/03/stories...20300311400.htm
THE BOOK under review, which is a volume of essays, is an examination
of the contemporary status of Hinduism under the shadow of Hindutva.
The essays featured are a valiant attempt to disengage Hinduism from
Hindutva as well as distance Indian identity from a distorted pursuit
of an exclusivist idea of "Hinduness".
This rich and varied collection is circumscribed by two major themes.
The first is to examine the possibility of ever approximating to an
ideal of secular nationalism within the Indian context. This seems to
most authors as a contentious issue, given their idea of Indian
society as predominantly religious. The other theme deals with the
distinction between the public and the private realms and the
question of the rightful place of religion in these spaces.
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This is a careful propoganda material to slowly descredit Indian culture.
The whole idea is that there is no valid reason for the hindu ethos.