"Strangely, Indians travelling outside the subcontinent do not seem to have left itineraries of where they went or des…"

"Dayananda Sarasvati, seeking to return to the social and religious life of the Vedas, used the Vedic corpus as the bl…"

"The Hindutva version of the theory became a mechanism for excluding some sections of Indian society, specifically Ind…"

"The fundamental sanity in Indian civilization has been due to an absence of Satan."

"Not surprisingly, nationalism was replaced by a form of militant Hinduism, and the communal atmosphere in Indian poli…"

"[In India’s case] what one can foresee, perhaps, for the end of the next century [i.e. the twenty-first], is a series…"

"All history is contemporary history; you can't get away from the politics around you."

"Capitalism is often believed to thrive among Semitic religions such as Christianity and Islam. The argument would the…"

"The parallel can be seen for example in the recent resurgence of the worship of Rama, where the control of this relig…"

"The discovery of Harappan sites on the Indian side of the border between India and Pakistan is viewed as compensating…"