TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jal Murzban
TI  - Why we are not Hindus
SN  - 9789350023754
U1  - 305.56880954 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Delhi.
PB  - Aakar Books
KW  - Hinduism and politics; Hinduism and politics; India Hinduism and state
N1  - index
N2  - In this book Jal claims that "Hinduism" itself is not something indigenous to India, but a colonial import created by the Western Orientalists and the Indian Brahmanical elites, that the Indian nationalists unwittingly used in their political repertoire, post-1857. According to him, the recent attempts to make secular and democratic India into a mythical and phantasmagorical "Hindu Rashtra" is a sign of economic and cultural subjugation, as well as a sign of rising fascism and the complete destruction of the very idea of India. Indian fascism, so Jal claims, has grown from the terrible seed of caste divided society combined with neo-liberal policies that the Indian elites have been pursuing for the last two decades. Caste, according to him, has to be understood as
ER  -