Posts Tagged ‘Hinduism’
In Defense Of Doubt Or How Intellectual Walls Have A Terrible Way Of Leaking
Someone threw an egg at historian Wendy Doniger during a lecture in London in November 2003. Seven years later Wendy Doniger threw a book back at them. But more about this scholarly debate in a bit. — Reading Raymond Schwab’s masterpiece The Oriental Renaissance: Europe’s Rediscovery of India and the East 1680 – 1880 one […]
Breathing Life And Death Into Gods And Men
In the world there are invisible ladders, leading step by step to the summit of heaven. There is a different ladder for every group, a different heaven for every path. Each one is ignorant of the other’s condition in this wide kingdom which has no end or beginning. This one is amazed at that one […]
Rajasthan’s Cheeta-Merat And The Battle For Their Souls by Radihika Saraf
Introduction: The Cheeta-Merat (also known as the Kathat) defy all conventional conceptions of ‘Hindus’ and ‘Muslims’, and practice a unique syncretic religion that combines elements of Islam and Hindusim. This little-known community, with an estimated population to be about 400,000, is spread across over 100 villages in the vicinity of Ajmer and Beawar towns in […]