Indigenous Indians: Agastya to Ambedkar 8185990042, 9788185990040

On the origin of Indo-Aryans, ethnic separatism, caste and religion conflicts, and role of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 1892-

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Indigenous Indians: Agastya to Ambedkar
 8185990042, 9788185990040

Table of contents :
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1 An Outsider Looks at the Aryans
1.1 The Ugly Aryans
1.2 Arya
1.3 Fantastic Harappa
1.4 The Aryans impose their law
1.5 Aryan racism
1.6 Aparthied saves the Aryans
1.7 Assimilation of non-Aryans
1.8 The two races
1.9 Pre-Aryan civilisation destroyed
1.10 Sons of the soil versus nomads
1.11 Races and castes
1.12 Dravidian invaders
1.13 The Omkara exposed
1.14 Ethnic basis of religions
1.15 Indra and Shiva
1.16 Non-Vedic concepts in Hinduism
1.17 Caste
1.18 The backward castes
1.19 The forward castes
1.20 Native origins of caste
1.21 Conclusion
2 Aryan Origins
2.1 Aryan-Harappan antagonism
2.2 One and the same
2.3 The Indus script
2.4 Urbeimat on the Saraswati
2.5 Linguistic clues
2.6 The other branches of Indo-Europeons
2.7 Physical anthropology
2.8 The Dravidian invasion
2.9 Archaeology
2.10 Comparative religion
2.11 Literary evidence
2.12 Conclusion
3 Ethnic Separatism
3.1 What's in a name?
3.2 Colonial mission policy
3.3 To the United Nations
3.4 Tribal invaders
3.5 Mixed races
3.6 The tribal - 'Hindu' continuum
3.7 Animism transformed
3.8 Tribal origin of caste
3.9 A definition of Hinduism
3.10 The Hindu nationalist definition
3.11 Islamic separatism
3.12 A Christian Partition
3.13 Adivasistan
3.14 Genuine federalism
3.15 Conclusion
4 Equality, 'Nazis' and Dalits
4.1 Crank racism
4.2 Dalits and Gandhi
4.3 Church support for Dalit Voice
4.4 "Hinduism keeps them backward"
4.5 "Thought for the day" for mission sponsors
4.6 Anti-Brahminism
4.7 Anti-Brahminism: recent instances
4.8 Anti-Brahminism: the facts of the matter
4.9 Brahmin monopoly on education
4.10 Anti-Brahminism and anti-Semitism
4.11 Pagan and Biblical sources of Nazism
4.12 Nazi collaborators
4.13 Caste vs Nazism
4.14 Religions and Equality
4.15 Islam and equality
4.16 Caste and the Hindu defeat
4.17 Conclusion
5 Dr Ambedkar: A True Aryan
5.1 A sincere patriot
5.2 Ambedkar on Islam
5.3 Dr. Ambedkar on caste and race
5.4 Who were the Shudras?
5.5 Origin of untouchability
5.6 Identification of Hinduism and caste
5.7 Ambedkar on Hinduism
5.8 Social programme of Buddhism
5.9 Conversion to Buddhism
5.10 Buddhist communalism
5.11 Comparision of Hinduism and Buddhism
5.12 Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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