Decolonizing the Hindu Mind
Decolonizing the Hindu Mind - Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism is a book by Koenraad Elst.
Elst states in the book that it is "based on the main part of my doctoral dissertation, accepted by Katholicke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in 1998. For reasons of space, several peripheral chapters have been left out here and will be published separately." Another part of his Ph.D. thesis was published in "Who is a Hindu" and in "The Saffron Swastika."
India went through two colonizations in the past centuries: one by Islam and one by Europe. Hindu revivalists see it as problematic that these colonizations also brought with them worldviews that are hostile to the Hindu way of life. Elst focuses on the analysis of the Hindu revivalist movements in this book. This work has 1674 footnotes and a bibliography of 29 pages.
Professor Edwin Bryant notes: "His PhD dissertation on Hindu nationalism, Decolonizing the Hindu Mind, became a best-seller in India". [1]
Elst replied to one of his critics, Ayub Khan of Communalism Combat, and said in a reply to his review on this book: The book under review, too, contains a lot of critical observations of the Sangh, as Ayub Khan ought to have noticed. In fact, even some of my observations which secularists might consider favourable to the Sangh, are properly meant as criticisms.[2]
References[edit]
- Decolonizing the Hindu Mind - Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism, Rupa & Co., Delhi (2001) ISBN 81-7167-519-0
External links[edit]
- Review of "Decolonizing the Hindu Mind
- Criticism and review of Elst's positions on 'revivalism'in "Decolonizing the Hindu Mind" by A. Khan
- A reply to A. Khan (above) by K. Elst
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