Girilal Jain belonged to that minority of Indian
intellectuals who welcomed the movement for the Ram
temple as part of the process of Hindu self-renewal and
self-affirmation...
Since
the contribution of British Orientalists in the second half of the
eighteenth century to the growth of self-awareness and pride in
their past cultural achievements...
The first point that needs to be emphasized in a
meaningful discussion of Hindu nationalism is that it is
something altogether different from other types of nationalisms...
I must say at the outset that I think in terms which are
different from the ones that have dominated the public
discourse in our country for a century and longer.
An unknown Indian has taken on proponents of Aryan invasion/migration theory, demolished their case, and
established that northern India is the original home of
the Indo-European family of languages.
Some Muslim scholars have questioned the validity of the
concept of Islamic state as distinct from Muslim state the first being an
ideological proposition ...
The socio- economic - political order Jawaharlal Nehru fashioned and Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi kept going, with
modifications, is in deep trouble.
Some liberal Hindus and Muslims have been highly critical
of what I have written on the demolition of the Babri
structure and related issues since 6 December 1992.
