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Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines Kindle Edition
The book reveals how outdated racial theories continue to provide academic frameworks and fuel the rhetoric that can trigger civil wars and genocides in developing countries. The Dravidian movement’s 200-year history has such origins. Its latest manifestation is the “Dravidian Christianity” movement that fabricates a political and cultural history to exploit old faultlines. The book explicitly names individuals and institutions, including prominent Western ones and their Indian affiliates. Its goal is to spark an honest debate on the extent to which human rights and other “empowerment” projects are cover-ups for these nefarious activities.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 12, 2011
- File size3241 KB
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Aravindan Neelakandan has been working for the past decade with an NGO in Tamil Nadu serving marginalized rural communities in sustainable agriculture. He was awarded a junior research fellowship in cultural economics by the India's Ministry of Tourism to research the economic potentials of the neglected ruins in Kanyakumari district, in southern Tamil Nadu. These experiences provided him with in-depth knowledge of the history and sociology of Tamil people. He is also a popular science writer in Tamil and a columnist with UPI-Asia, a leading news portal. He is part of the editorial team of highly popular Tamil web portal tamilhindu.com
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- ASIN : B004WF4K5K
- Publisher : Infinity Foundation (April 12, 2011)
- Publication date : April 12, 2011
- Language : English
- File size : 3241 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 834 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,004,946 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #301 in Globalization (Kindle Store)
- #796 in Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
- #1,268 in Globalization & Politics
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About the author
Rajiv Malhotra was trained initially as a Physicist, and then as a Computer Scientist specializing in AI in the 1970s. After a successful corporate career in the US, he became an entrepreneur and founded and ran several IT companies in 20 countries. Since the early 1990s, as the founder of his non-profit Infinity Foundation (Princeton, USA), he has been researching civilizations and their engagement with technology from a historical, social sciences and mind sciences perspective. He has authored several best-selling books. Infinity Foundation has also published a 14-volume series on the History of Indian Science & Technology. His latest book on AI is titled, “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds”, in which India is the case study to analyze the impact of AI in a variety of domains.
He founded Infinity Foundation in Princeton (USA) for this purpose in 1994 and has been its founder-director since inception. Rajiv has conducted original research in a variety of fields and has influenced many thinkers worldwide. He has disrupted the mainstream thought process among academic and non-academic intellectuals alike by providing fresh provocative positions on Dharma and on India. Some of the focal points of his work are: Interpretation of Dharma for the current times; comparative religion; globalization and India’s contributions to the world. He has authored a large number of articles, published 1,000 video lectures and provided strategic guidance to numerous organizations.
To fully appreciate Rajiv’s work, his books are of immeasurable value. Besides Invading the Sacred, in which he is the main protagonist, he has authored the following game-changing publications:
-Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
-Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Fault lines
-Indra’s Net: Defending Hinduism’s Philosophical Unity
-The Battle for Sanskrit: Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred, Oppressive or Liberating, Dead or Alive?
-Academic Hinduphobia: A Critique of Wendy Doniger’s Erotic School of Indology
-Sanskrit Non-Translatables: The Importance of Sanskritizing English
He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Center for Indic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and is a visiting professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is on the Advisory Board of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla.
Infinity Foundation has given more than 400 grants for research, education and community work. This includes strategic grants to major US universities in support of pioneering programs, including the following: visiting professorships in Indic studies at Harvard University; Yoga and Hindi classes at Rutgers University; research and teaching of non-dualistic philosophies at University of Hawaii; research at Center for Buddhist studies at Columbia University; development of a program in religion and science at University of California; endowment for the Center for Advanced Study of India at University of Pennsylvania; lectures at the Center for Consciousness Studies at University of Arizona.
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Eye opener and thought provoking.
The people who are giving 1 star, one can easily understand that they are not at all aware about Hinduism. They are all bashing about caste system. Well the fact is there is no caste system in Hinduism there were Varnas which is not same as cast system. Poor english has no word for Sanskrit word Varna.
There are 4 Varnas: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras.
and these ARE NOT birth based. There are hundreds of example to name a few, Vishwamitra was called rishi of rishis though he was not born in Brahmin family. Valmiki wrote Ramayana and was not born in Brahmin family. Ravana was born in Brahmin family though he is not remembered as Brahmin.
Everyone can choose either one of 4 Varnas. The man who wants to possess knowledge can not possess money and power and will be considered as highest. Even King has to go to Brahmin to take permission on attacking other kingdom and so on.
Today's Economy model says Power and Money is the highest. Men with power and money are respected all over the world. This is the problem all are going in this direction and there so many poor people. Even people with knowledge and no money considered lower. I can go on and on but I will stop here..
there is no word like Dravid in sanskrit. Sanskrit is the root of all indian native language. If Tamilians still believe they are Dravidian then I am afraid we need 10 more Rajiv Malhotra to uncover the biggest lie of west.
Rajiv,
I just want to say thank you. Thank you from my heart.
The book will help readers understand the causes of rising Hinduphobia in the US and the role of academia, media and corporations in this.
The sheer amount of references from Academic publications and other sources to back the thesis is very commendable.
This book should be must read for all Indians outside and within India and should be given as gift to others.
I removed 1 star because in the kindle version the TOC is incomplete. The TOC ends abruptly at page 132. I would appreciate an update to the book with a revised TOC.
The Native Peoples of the world were at one time very innocent beautiful people,rooted to the Earth.Their religion was Mother {MATA},for thousands of years,what happen ?
When the jews,christains,and muslins came into being,and spread,than we all know what they tried to do,especially to MaaBharat-India.In my lifetime,here in America,sadly iam a daily witness to what has happenned to Native Americans,Blacks,Mexicans.The SADDEST PART IS they use your own to accomplish their objectives,they lie to their own children what they are doing and they have everybody living in fear.
But if you want a job,new car,citizenship,name-fame among your own,just go to work for them and they will accomodate you and make your life easy,how sad,how desperate they are.WAKE UP ALL INDIANS NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE ON THIS EARTH,PROTECT YOUR DIVERSITY,YOUR RELIGION THE ETERNAL RELGION THE RELIGION BEFORE THE VEDAS ! ! !India is your MOTHER.
Love to the authors and all who don't know in MaaBharat
Sincerely
Tony Amano Escalante
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Truly an eye opener on what the Brits have done to bring ruin upon the world and various cultures through colonization and slavery. Will take many leaders like Modiji to clean up their mess. It is only right for world leaders of countries that were once colonies to form an alliance to get out of the mess and build their nations as Modiji is doing! Kudos to Rajiv Malhotra!!