"Hinduism was never born; it emerged, evolved, and absorbed." Hinduism is not a book you can open to page one and say, “Here it all began.” It’s a river, vast and deep, carrying whispers of ...

Vasant Bhatt, a 20-year-old political science major at the University of Houston, enrolled in a course called the Lived Hindu Religion expecting "nuanced discussion" and "space for the lived faith ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract With the emergence of right-wing Hindutva forces backed by corporate monopoly capitalists and the media industry, and legitimised by the ...

Shawn Binda, a Canadian Hindu of Trinidadian origin, launched Hindu Lifestyle, his YouTube channel, in 2017, sensing the need to explain Hinduism’s history in Western society, especially to ...

In a landmark speech on September 11, 1893 at the Parliament of World’s Religions in Chicago, a 30-year-old Vivekanda ...

NEW DELHI — Romila Thapar is the preeminent historian of ancient India, an octogenarian feted the world over for her scholarship excavating answers to questions at the heart of the country's past. She ...

Gandhian Hinduism was the ethical source of India’s secular and pluralistic ethos. It affirmed the sanctity of all faiths and ...

CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 1, No. 1, THE PERSISTENCE OF CASTE (February 2020), pp. 17-28 (12 pages) This paper attempts a critical commentary of Ambedkar’s posthumously ...

HOUSTON, TX – At a time when Indian Americans are increasingly sensitive to allegations of Hinduphobia in academia, a controversy has erupted at the University of Houston (UH) over a course titled ...

Figure 1. 'Unicorn' stamp seal and modern impression. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access/Public domain In my previous post, I discussed the Indian subcontinent's first civilization and ...