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Malhotra, Rajiv.

Breaking India : Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines / Rajiv Malhotra, Aravindan Neelakandan. - New Delhi : Amaryllis, c2012 - xiv, 650 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [560]-620) and index.

Contents
Introduction
1. Superpower or Balkanized War Zone?
2. Overview of European Invention of Races Western Academic Constructions Lead to Violence
3. Inventing the Aryan Race
Overview of Indian Impact on Europe: From Renaissance to Racism Herder's Romanticism Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829) 'Arya' Becomes a Race in Europe Ernest Renan and the Aryan Christ Friedrich Max Müller Adolphe Pictet Rudolph Friedrich Grau Gobineau and Race Science Aryan Theorists and Eugenics Chamberlain: Aryan-Christian Racism Nazis and After
Blaming the Indian Civilization
4. Imperial Evangelism Shapes Indian Ethnology
Biblical Theory of Race and the Myth of Ham William Jones Maps Indians onto Biblical Ethnology One Hundred Years of British Indological Institutions
5. Lord Risley Morphs Jati-Varna into Race
Building on Max Müller's Work
Risley's Race Science
Risley Freezes the Castes
Ambedkar Demolishes Nasal Index Racism
6. Inventing the 'Dravidian' Race
Hodgson Invents 'Tamulian'
Caldwell: Transforming Linguistics into Ethnology A Conspiracy Theory is Born: Cunning Aryan Brahmins Exploited Innocent Dravidians De-Indianizing the Tamil Traditions
7. Dravidian Racism and Sri Lanka
Outdated Geology Mixes with Theosophical Fantasy
Lemurian Origins Linkup with Bishop Caldwell
Theosophy Buddhism Uses Aryans to Counter Evangelism
Clash of Colonial Constructs: Aryan-Buddhist-Sinhalese vs. Dravidian-Saivite-Tamil
Digesting Hinduism into 'Dravidian' Christianity
The Myth of St Thomas
Evangelism and the Dravidian Movement Christianizing Hindu Popular Culture
9. Propagation of 'Dravidian' Christianity
2000: Seminar on 'Dravidian Religion to Eradicate Casteism'
2001: India Declared the Mother of International Racism
2004: 'India is a Dravidian Christian Nation, and Christians Made Sanskrit'
2005: New York Conference on Re-imagining
Hinduism as St Thomas Dravidian Christianity
2006: Dravidian Christianity Becomes an
International Movement2007: Second International Conference on the History of Early Christianity in India2008: First International Conference on theReligion of TamilsChristian-Dravidianism vs Modern ArcheologyAssessing the Robustness of the Thomas MythDravidian Spirituality as Interim Stage for Christianizing10. Dravidian Academic-Activist Network Outside IndiaOxford-Yale Origins of the Dravidian Linguistic CanonAcademic Discourse Drives Indian Politics: AnnaduraiSARVA Project and Identity PoliticsAcademic Support for Tamil Separatist ConferencesThe Berkeley Tamil ChairEurope-based Tamil Studies11. Western Discourse on India's FragmentsDeconstructing India SystematicallyAtrocity Literature as a GenreAtrocity Literature Feeds India's FragmentationIndian Minorities Serving the Global MajoritiesIdentity Faultlines for Western Intervention12. The Afro-Dalit MovementAryan/Dravidian and Hutu/Tutsi ParallelsAmerican History Defines the Afro-Dravidian MovementWestern Government-Church Axis influencesAfro-Dravidian-DalitRamayana interpreted as a Racist Epic13. India: A Neo-Con FrontierCorporate Multinationals to Convert HindusDalit Activism by the American Christian RightRight-wing Think-tanks and Policy CentersSustained and Biased Perceptions
14. India: A Left-wing Frontier
Example of Left-Right Collaboration in Washington US-based Academic Deconstruction of India
Islamic Tint in the Secular Lens
15. The US Government's Direct Involvement
International Religious Freedom Act
US Commission on International Religious Freedom
Pew Trust Repackages and Spreads:
'India is Next Only to Iraq'
US Government Agency for International Development (USAID)
Obama and US Foreign Evangelism
16. British Intervention in Present-day India
Anti-India Axis in the UK
17. Continental European Interventions
Affiliates of Dalit Dissent in India
Network of Academic Dalit Studies
Individual Scholars Propagating Dalit Separatism
18. India's Christian Umma
US-based Expansion of Indian Christianity
Christian Media
Intelligence-gathering Operations
Effects on the Ground
19. India in the Clash of Civilizations
The Cover Map
Maoist Red Corridor Through India
Nagaland Model in Nepal and India's Red Corridor
Islamic Slice of Dravidistan
Tamil Nadu
Kerala
Abdul Nasser Madhani, Godfather of south Indian lihad 401
Tamil Nadu-Kerala Jihad Nexus
Madhani Released and Jihad Outsourced to Kerala
Karnataka
New Developments in 2010
Appendices
Appendix A: A Short History of Racism from the
Nasal Index to the Y-Chromosome
Appendix B: Ancient Tamil Religion in Sangam Literature
Appendix C: Parallel Developments in Africa
Appendix D: Thomas Hoax on Native Americans
Appendix E: Papers Presented at New York
Conference 2005
Appendix F: Case of the Disposable Epigraphist
Appendix G: Monitoring Foreign Funds
Appendix H: Lutheran World Federation Targets India
Endnotes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index of Schematic Diagrams and Figures
Acknowledgments
Index



ISBN: 9788191067378

LCCN: 2011321959

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Christianity and politics--India.
Proselytizing--Political aspects--India.
Religion and politics--India.
Dalits--India.
Caste--India.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--Religion.
India--Politics and government.

Dewey Class. No.: 322.10954 MAL