"“The secular state assumes that the Semitic religions and the Hindu traditions are instances of the same kind”"

"“Orientalism is reproduced in the name of a critique of Orientalism. It is completely irrelevant whether one uses a M…"

"[About caste,] “Nehru used Orientalist descriptions of the Indian society of his day and made their facts his own.” […"

"“When Indian intellectuals use existing theories about religion and its history – for example, to analyse ‘Hindu-Musl…"

"Here, India will be a global player of considerable political and economic impact. As a result, the need to explicate…"

"Going deeper into the history of these disciplines (with respect to India) drove home some lessons very deeply: in bo…"

"Most of our so-called social sciences are not ‘sciences’ in any sense of the term: they are merely bad Christian theo…"

"If this is true, it also helps us understand why both ‘conversion’ and the notion of ‘secularism’ jars Indian sensibi…"

"Zydenbos launches personal attacks on me, on Jakob De Roover, and on those coming from the University of Ghent. He tr…"

"Brahminism is an invention of western Indology. Indology which is fond of ‘-isms’ has created quite a few: Brahminism…"