Wendy Doniger’s Hindus

Note: This is a republication of a 2010 essay is authored by Shyam N. Shukla.  Dr. Wendy Doniger has impressive credentials with two doctorates, in Sanskrit and Indian Studies, from Harvard and Oxford universities. More...

Decoding Wendy Doniger’s Hinduism book: Part 3

Read parts 1 and 2. We Hindus In the light of foregoing, it is incumbent upon contemporary Hindus and Hindu scholars to regain the initiative and using indigenous historiography and cognitive categories and to institute More...

Decoding Wendy Doniger’s Hinduism book: 2

Read part 1 here. Bridge of discourse between ‘This Hindu’ and ‘That Hindu’ Hindus need to be wary of the intractable opposition between “This Hindu and “That Hindu” that is falsely posited and perpetrated More...

Decoding Wendy Doniger’s Hinduism book: 1

Editor’s note: This is the first part of a scholarly critique of Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History published in 2009. This book published by Penguin was withdrawn by the publisher More...