Hindu identity
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nos ancêtres les Hindous
X.T.M argues that when Hindu voices retreat from comment threads, the space turns anti-Hindu rather than neutral. The post defends Hindu civilisational continuity, rejects the claim that Hinduism is a…
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Hinduism is not false consciousness , it is “Planet X”
Responding to a Caravan piece claiming upper castes invented a Hindu majority, the author argues Hindu identity is not a recent invention or false consciousness: like an unseen ‘Planet X’,…
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The religion of Hindus before Hinduism
Razib Khan disputes Richard Eaton’s aside that Turk-Indian conflict was not confessional, arguing religious and civilisational identity was robust and that a bundled Hindu identity is older than the 19th…
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Why Hinduism is not inchoate paganism
Razib Khan rejects the view that Hindu identity is merely a reaction to Islam and the British, arguing from cross-cultural cases such as Rome, Iran and Japan that it is…
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2 Hindus and grandmother of Hindus are the face of the Modern Left
Noting two Hindu-heritage candidates in the Democratic presidential field, the author asks what a Hindu is, favours a maximalist definition, and argues that upper castes should not monopolise what Hindu…
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The limits of semantics; Hindus before Hinduism
The author argues that the claim that the British ‘invented’ Hinduism rests on a narrow, philosopher-driven idea of religion, pointing to al-Biruni’s recognisable description of Hindu belief, practice and communal…
