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Janu's avatar

Adi Shankracharya Touched the feet of a Chandal (so called outcast) and you know nothing about Hindu,Hinduism

Kabir das and Das Maluka etc are very much respected by RSS

RSS is anti-caste but they don't want to impose this on society they supported the Shudra(dalit) priest decision in temple

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Salauddin's avatar

Pagal hogya hai wo

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Same's avatar

For the liberals, Hinduism comes first while for the Hindu nationalists, Hindutva comes first. What is your religion?” in 1936, Mahatma Gandhi replied: “My religion is Hinduism which, for me, is Religion of Humanity and includes the best of all the religions known to me” (Radhakrishnan and Muirhead 1936:2).

Here are four scholarly articles.

On Hindu, Hindustān, Hinduism and Hindutva by Arvind Sharma

Source: Numen, Vol. 49, No. 1, (2002), pp. 1-36

Published by: BRILLhttps://sahoo.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/hindu-hinduism-hindutva.pdf

Gandhi’s Hinduism and Savarkar’s Hindutva by Rudolf C Heredia

Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 44, No. 29 (Jul. 18 - 24, 2009), pp. 62-67 (6 pages)

https://www.epw.in/journal/2009/29/special-articles/gandhis-hinduism-and-savarkars-hindutva.html

Ancient Hinduism as a Missionary Religion by Arvind Sharma

https://brill.com/view/journals/nu/39/2/article-p175_2.xml

ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Hinduism and Hindutva by By Arvind Sharma

https://www.asianstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/on-the-difference-between-hinduism-and-hindutva.pdf

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Anonymous's avatar

Very poorly researched. Most glaring is your commentary on Shankaracharya. Clearly you have never bothered to read his compositions like Manisha Panchakam. This essay is nothing but a copy paste of poorly researched articles. A robot trained to summarize articles can write what you have written.

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Anonymous's avatar

No, you idiot. Manisha Panchakam itself is a poorly researched, third rate piece of literature. Shankaracharya never bothered to understand the background of where the vedas came to be from originally, i.e. Afghanisthan. Naturally he had no access to such information (because no internet or libraries with global literature) in Kaladi in Kerala 1200 years ago. Manisha Panchakam itself is semi-literate ignorant work reflecting the ppor know how of the people back then. But Shankaracharya wasn't as much a retarded robot as you, who can't even justify your argument intelligently.

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Vicky M's avatar

Please do article on Vishnu avatars in relation to real history. It will be very popular.

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Jaggy_TheBad's avatar

So well written.

Everyone is a Hindu… so everyone has to follow their version of the religion… their way of organized society… and everyone will be told what their place is!

A weaver’s son cannot study Math…. A shepherd’s som cannot study medicine.

This is partly being pushed in Telangana.

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Padmanabha Reddy's avatar

Well written and cogent argument on role of Bhakthi cult against machinations of Manu inspired oligarchy. Nevertheless, the role of Sufi saints in tempering Islam as well as absorption/assimilation of Mahayana/madhyamika schools of Buddhism by Vedic oligarchy can not be ignored. Sankara was a Buddhist in disguise many think.

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Binu Philip's avatar

Took some time to read... but, a fantastic peace! Lots of time and effort (research)!!

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Janu's avatar

Nonsense I wasted my time

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Anonymous's avatar

Of course you did. But you will gladly stand under the toilet of Modi and Mohan Bhagawat to swallow any saffron colored turd dropping from their buttholes.

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Sachin Shende's avatar

Amazing insightful article. Brilliantly written and researched.

Kudos to author for excellent analysis

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Prakash's avatar

All religion are man made; except Hinduism. Hinduism has no founder, not restricted to one holybook only. Hindu society today and Hinduism as a faith are different. Hindu society himself unaware of what is Hinduism. Mohd. Paigamber didn't opposed existence of God, he called himself as messenger of God. Jejus called himself Son of God. Vishnu (Srikrishna) introduced himself as God to Arjuna.... Who were Mohd and Jejus before establishment of Muslim and Christ?...... eventually you will find that all are one, that one is not man made!! (Santan dharm i.e. eternal truth) that one has no religion... But today that is called as Hinduism.

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Rohan Lawrence Dsouza's avatar

A history lesson for those who prefer to gloss over their roots & morph history to suit the ideology of the shaka education.

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Kuldip Kumar suri's avatar

You had acquired Intellect.. your expertise of history and indian Scriptures notably the Six Darshan Shastra is inspiring... I might be having contrary views but lacks the ability to counter what you are saying.. in nutshell you have written excellent essay for that you had placed yourself in India's intellectual Tribe... Love & Regards. And wish you good luck in your endeavor....

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Shantanu Ray's avatar

Essentially you are of a brilliant mind. A constitutional necessity for a person to become great.

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Murthy B S's avatar

fine read to start the day !! , do remember basava in the 12 th century influenced people & brought in equality like no other in practice, RSS hates him to date as he was born bhramin , in the current scheme of things RSS is appropriating basava followers to follow Sangh . looks like a well-scripted plan from RSS, but this is India , outcomes are never what you wanted,

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Vinod's avatar

Brilliant essay, through research and impressive expertise. Balanced views, yet follows the arc of history no matter how unpalatable. A must-read for history aficionados.

The myopic view of RSS of calling Indians as Hindu is brilliantly toned as the ontological intriguing categorical error(DNA or ancestry). Notion 'who were/are Hindus have been exhilaratingly ramified. Religion is not meant as the deduction of logic.

None of our scriptures annotate the notion of Hindu, it is Vedic.

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