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From: Vijay Rajiva
Date: Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM
Subject: Fw: Breaking India: Some Reflections
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From: Vijay Rajiva
Date: Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM
Subject: Fw: Breaking India: Some Reflections
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'Breaking India : Some Reflections'Dr. Vijaya Rajiva (Haindava Keralam, 17/04/2011)
The book Breaking India(2011) is a landmark event in that it brings together a comprehensive account of the many forces that have in the past undermined and continues to try to undermine the national unity of India, called Bharat. The authors, well known intellectual and scholar in the Indian diaspora Shri Rajiv Malhotra and his co author Shri Arvindan Neelakandhan, have placed together under one roof the doucmentation and analyses gathered over a period of several years. This is the book's strength. The documentation is meticulous and is provided dispassionately and honestly. The facts are allowed to speak for themselves. There are 19 chapters to this voluminous work, along with detailed appendices and an impressive bibliography.Each chapter is written with care and attention. The information contained therein should capture the attention of every Indian who believes in the integrity of the nation and how this had been attacked in the past and may well happen again if timely discussion and action are not taken to prevent that happening. The major thread in the balkanisation of India process started with the emergence of the West's desperate search for identity (in the early 17th and 18th centuries) and for colonising the earth's resources. The search for European identity began with European scholars appropriating India's linguistic identity in the shape of Sanskrit to fulfill their own need for identity. Thus began the Aryanisation theory according to which Aryans invaded India, subjugated its indigenous population and instituted the caste system , whereby the Aryan invaders remained on top of the hierarchy. In due time they mixed with the indigenous people and gradually lost the purity of their race. Whereas, in Europe they retained this purity. Alongside of this, the European Aryans (as they liked to think of themselves) integrated their new found identity with Christian doctrine which harked back to a Semitic identity. In order to eliminate this semitic identity Jesus now became the founder of the new religion, Aryan Christianity.The book shows many leading scholars lending credence to this dubious creation of European identity and both wittingly and unwittingly contributing to the rise of anti semitism and the eventual holocaust in Hitler's Germany.A similar process took place with regard to India.The many icons William Jones(the first translator of Kalidasa), Max Mueller, the Sanskritist, to name only two of those that Indians have habitually looked up to, are shown to have feet of clay . . . . . Their aim was not simply the aims of scholarship.The second thread . . . . .(READ MORE)
The book Breaking India(2011) is a landmark event in that it brings together a comprehensive account of the many forces that have in the past undermined and continues to try to undermine the national unity of India, called Bharat. The authors, well known intellectual and scholar in the Indian diaspora Shri Rajiv Malhotra and his co author Shri Arvindan Neelakandhan, have placed together under one roof the doucmentation and analyses gathered over a period of several years. This is the book's strength. The documentation is meticulous and is provided dispassionately and honestly. The facts are allowed to speak for themselves. There are 19 chapters to this voluminous work, along with detailed appendices and an impressive bibliography.Each chapter is written with care and attention. The information contained therein should capture the attention of every Indian who believes in the integrity of the nation and how this had been attacked in the past and may well happen again if timely discussion and action are not taken to prevent that happening. The major thread in the balkanisation of India process started with the emergence of the West's desperate search for identity (in the early 17th and 18th centuries) and for colonising the earth's resources. The search for European identity began with European scholars appropriating India's linguistic identity in the shape of Sanskrit to fulfill their own need for identity. Thus began the Aryanisation theory according to which Aryans invaded India, subjugated its indigenous population and instituted the caste system , whereby the Aryan invaders remained on top of the hierarchy. In due time they mixed with the indigenous people and gradually lost the purity of their race. Whereas, in Europe they retained this purity. Alongside of this, the European Aryans (as they liked to think of themselves) integrated their new found identity with Christian doctrine which harked back to a Semitic identity. In order to eliminate this semitic identity Jesus now became the founder of the new religion, Aryan Christianity.The book shows many leading scholars lending credence to this dubious creation of European identity and both wittingly and unwittingly contributing to the rise of anti semitism and the eventual holocaust in Hitler's Germany.A similar process took place with regard to India.The many icons William Jones(the first translator of Kalidasa), Max Mueller, the Sanskritist, to name only two of those that Indians have habitually looked up to, are shown to have feet of clay . . . . . Their aim was not simply the aims of scholarship.The second thread . . . . .(READ MORE)
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