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Academic Hinduphobia: A Critique of Wendy Doniger's Erotic School of Indology

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
464

Originally published
  
2016

Page count
  
464

Subject
  
Indology

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Publication date
  
2016

ISBN
  
978-93-85485-01-5

Author
  
Rajiv Malhotra

Genre
  
Non-fiction

Country
  
India

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Publisher
  
Voice of India, New Delhi

Similar
  
Rajiv Malhotra books, Other books

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Academic Hinduphobia: A Critique of Wendy Doniger's Erotic School of Indology is a 2016 collection of essays written and published in the early 2000s by Rajiv Malhotra "critiquing Western Indology and discussing a wide range of challenges confronting Hinduism, India and the world," published by Voice of India. The book was inaugurated by Dr. Subramanian Swamy at an event at India International Centre at New Delhi on 10 July 2016.

Contents

Contents

  1. The Academic Cult of Eroticizing Hindus
  2. The Asymmetric Dialog of Civilizations
  3. The Axis of Neocolonialism
  4. RISA Lila - 1: Wendy's Child Syndrome.
  5. RISA Lila - 2: Limp Scholarship and Demonology
  6. Wendy Doniger on the Couch: A Tantric Psychoanalysis (2015)
  7. The Insider/Outsider: Academic Game of Sarah Caldwell
  8. Response to Jeffrey Kripal's Sulekha Article
  9. The Bindi as a Drop of Menstrual Blood
  10. The Interpretation of Gods
  11. The Washington Post and Hinduphobia
  12. Challenging The Washington Post
  13. Hinduism in American Classrooms

According to Malhotra, the essays are a critique of "Wendy Doniger's depictions of Hinduism which most Hindus found vulgar and outright insulting," and have been republished in the wake of the withdrawal of Doniger's The Hindus: An Alternative History from the Indian market, due to a lawsuit "alleging that it was biased and insulting to Hindus." The withdrawal led to extensive media attention, and renewed sales in India. According to Malhotra "the drama has diverted attention away from the substantive errors in her scholarship to be really about being an issue of censorship by radical Hindus," hence the republication of his critique of Wendy Doniger and scholars related to her.

References

Academic Hinduphobia: A Critique of Wendy Doniger's Erotic School of Indology Wikipedia