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100 1 _aMalhotra, Rajiv.
245 1 0 _aBreaking India :
_bWestern interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines /
_cRajiv Malhotra, Aravindan Neelakandan.
260 _aNew Delhi :
_bAmaryllis,
_cc2012
300 _axiv, 650 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
365 _bRs. 640
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [560]-620) and index.
505 _aContents 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 Dravidian Racism and Sri Lanka Outdated Geology Mixes with Theosophical Fantasy Lemurian Origins Linkup with Bishop Caldwell Theosophy Buddhism Uses Aryans to Counter Evangelism Clash of Colonial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
650 0 _aChristianity and politics
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650 0 _aProselytizing
_xPolitical aspects
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650 0 _aReligion and politics
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650 0 _aDalits
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650 0 _aCaste
_xIndia.
651 0 _aIndia
_xReligion.
651 0 _aIndia
_xPolitics and government.
700 1 _aNīlakantan̲, Aravintan̲.
710 2 _aInfinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.)
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