Book Review & Summary: The Cultural Landscape Of Hindutva And Other Essays By Saumya Dey- II
The Cultural Landscape of Hindutva & Other Essays: Historical Legitimacy of an Idea by Saumya Dey is available for purchase on Amazon. In the first part, we reviewed the section on ‘Politics and Culture’ More...
Book Review & Summary: The Cultural Landscape Of Hindutva And Other Essays By Saumya Dey- I
The Cultural Landscape of Hindutva & Other Essays: Historical Legitimacy of an Idea by Saumya Dey is available for purchase on Amazon. This collection of twelve brilliant essays by Dr Saumya Dey can have More...
Book Review & Summary: Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India By Swagato Ganguly- II
The first part saw the wonderful book dealing with how Christian and Enlightenment values at the roots of the missionary and Orientalist/Indologist efforts in India converged to a similar theme. Idolatry was the More...
Book Review & Summary: Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India By Swagato Ganguly- I
Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India: Visions of Horror, Allegories of Enlightenment By Swagato Ganguly is available for purchase on Amazon. Swagato Ganguly is a reputed journalist on the editorial More...
Book Summary: Western Foundations of the Caste System- VI
The caste picture of India has serious ramifications for the country internationally. When UK tries to legislate to make ‘caste system’ as a basis for discrimination and thus compensation, it is a time to More...
Book Summary: Western Foundations of the Caste System- V
The Aryans are the most ubiquitous beings existing in all studies related to India. They are widely responsible for many important things in our country; amongst them, driving away the original Dravidian inhabitants More...
Book Summary: Western Foundations of the Caste System- IV
The three major frameworks with which the Europeans crystallised their ideas on the Indian caste system were the Christian issues in the Iberian Peninsula, the Protestant problems with the Jews and Catholics, More...
Book Summary: Western Foundations of the Caste System- III
The academia, media, NGO activists, and society intellectuals popularize the conception of the Shramana and Bhakti movements, which includes Buddhism and Jainism, as revolting against the caste system in times More...
Book Summary: Western Foundations of the Caste System- II
One constantly highlighted narrative on caste in India by the academia, media, NGO activists, human rights organizations, and intellectuals is the atrocity perpetuated against the ‘low-castes’ in Indian society. More...
Book Summary: Western Foundations of the Caste System- I
One of the most important books in recent times is the book, ‘Western Foundations of the Caste System.’ The book consists of eight strong chapters on the ‘caste system’ of India based strongly on the More...