The problematic encounter between Westernizing modernity and Hindu civilization is—more than that of Christian missionary activity (continuing unabated in foreign-funded proselytizing), (institutional legacies of) colonial rule and administrative measures, increasing integration into a globalizing capitalist economy (with upper-caste Hindus having ended up the wealthiest immigrant community in the United States), hegemony of new disciplines (history, archaeology, linguistics, psychoanalysis, etc.) now being studied by Indians themselves, Hindu mobilization to defend their traditional values (with the global diaspora beginning to take a leading role)—primarily the challenge of translating between two diametrically opposed taxonomies of knowledge, conflicting ways of organizing the world around us. Given that the Indian state—through its electoral setup, education curriculum, economic policies, etc.—is the single largest determinant of the future of its religious constituencies, the overt and sometimes aggressive politicization of this 'civilizational' agenda in the form of 'Hindutva' was perhaps even more inevitable than is Christian fundamentalism in the United States today.
Some of these dialogues—often multilogues—have been compiled, edited and reformatted into digests that are enumerated as hyperlinks within the last (Dialogues) item under participant's name below. Contributors should feel free to modify their views in the light of the evolving discussions.
[Alfred Collins' Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 298 times since 14 March 2009]
Check out Al's BrainDance (finding light in dark places) web- and Nâham (Purushârtha: Indian self-psychology) blog-sites [external]
Culture in the Rig Veda: Creation, Poetry, and Thinking (June 2010) [viewed 55x since 10 June 2010]
Abhinava's esthetics and politics as seen through his philosophical theology (June 2009) [viewed 49x since 24 June 2009]
Salaam Slumdog! Personal & Cultural Trauma & Restitution in the Mumbai Slums (May 2009) [viewed 146x since 17 May 2009]
Dharmamegha Samadhi and the Two Sides of Kaivalya: Toward a Yogic Theory of Culture (April 2009) [viewed 172x since 14 March 2009]
[Alvaro Enterria's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 146 times since 10 March 2007]
[Antoine Soucé Pitchaya's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 139 times since 10 March 2007]
A world of rapid experience ...traveler, poet, author (español)
Articles in English (artículos en español) [external]
Some of Antonio's books online (español) [external]
Complete list of Antonio's books (Barnes and Noble, Amazon) [external]
The Fool - Secret of the Forest (from Moksha Smith: Agni's Warrior-Sage)
Dialogues: Trinity
[Ashok Chowgule's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 913 times since 10 March 2007]
Shri Klaus Klostermaier on the Ethos and the Future of Hinduism [external]
A frustrating dialogue (with David Ludden) [external]
Hindutva and the Religious Minorities [external]
Arun Shourie and the Missionaries in India [external]
Illegal Migrants in India [external]
Aryan Invasion Theory vis-à-vis Social Issues in India Today (1994) [viewed 187x since 10 March 2007]
Dialogues: Hinduism a Religion? Politics of iconophilia
[Bharat Gupt's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 831 times since 10 March 2007]
Visit Bharat's homepage on theater theory and cultural analysis (note) - biodata [external]
India: a Cultural Decline or Revival? - covers [106x], preface [224x] (2008)
An introduction to Indian music [viewed 215x since 14 April 2007]
CD reviews: Jori [117x], Rabab [1154x],
Philosophy of Indian Music and Value Oriented Education (February 2003) [viewed 1454x since 10 March 2007]
Philosophy of Indian Dramatic Arts and Value Oriented Education (April 2002) [viewed 790x since 10 March 2007]
Indo-European Beliefs in Classical Greek and Indian Drama (note) [viewed 0x since 10 March 2007]
Dialogues: rehabilitating the Greeks; Politics of iconophilia
[Carl Vadivelle Belle's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 169 times since 10 March 2007]
British ideologies of Empire and modern Tamil identity (2003-04) [viewed 311x since 10 March 2007]
Review of Elizabeth Fuller Collins, Pierced by Murugan’s Lance [viewed 0x since 10 March 2007]
Thai Pusam in Malaysia - (First International Conference on Skanda-Murukan) - abstract
[Carlos Aramayo's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 212 times since 10 March 2007]
[Chitra Raman's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 29 times since 10 March 2007]
The Price of Looking Away - on the Tsunami (India Abroad, January 2005)
Review of Maggi Lidchi-Grassi, The Great Golden Age of the Mahâbhârata (note)
Transcending Culture: Indian and Western Ideas of Feminism (July 10, 2004)
Antonia Maury - [written before 2004] - (note)
Dialogues: Hindu Eros, ethics
[Dileep Karanth's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 534 times since 31 March 2007]
Foreword to Danger! Educated Gypsy: Selected Essays by Ian Hancock (01 November 2010)
Khalil Jaouiche, India's Contribution to Arab mathematics (Nov. 1997) - source of English translation, original French paper
Hindu-Buddhist Conflict in the Chachnama: Fact or Fiction? (2008)
Amir Khusrau's Contributions to Indian Music: a preliminary survey (2008) [viewed 1443x since 10 March 2007]
Caste in Medieval India: The Beginnings of a Reexamination (2003-2004) [viewed 581x since 10 March 2007]
The Unity of India (2003-2004) [viewed 5752x since 10 March 2007]
Andre Malraux on India and Bangladesh (Sulekha - Aug 2005) [external]
The Castes of India - published in Spanish in the Sarasvati journal
Wisdom of the Great Forest - Prologue by Òscar Pujol
Correspondence (aesthetics, religion, politics) - note
Reaction to the World Trade Center attacks [2001] - English
Good Taste, Bad Taste, Christian Taste [October 2000] - English; read the Prologue
Dialogues: Trinity, unicorn, Babette's Feast, historicity of Christ,
[Gautam Sen's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 169 times since 10 March 2007]
Academic researchers versus Hindu civilization [June 2004]
Writing Indian history [Jan -Feb 2002; A Tribute to Hinduism]
Post-reform China and the international economy (2001; first press)
Indian power and the threat to the world (Sep 2000; rediff.com)
Is globalisation cheating the world's poor? (2000; first press - PDF)
The trouble with Third World leftists (12 March 1997, The Indian Express)
Triumph of the outsider (10 February 1997, The Indian Express)
Dinesh Chandra Sen on Tantric practices (Temples of Birbhum) - note
[Ian Whicher's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 135 times since 10 March 2007]
Review of visit of 20 Indian writers to Paris (French) - 2002
Thus went the children of Zarathustra (French) (review - 2003)
Identity, multiculturalism, and laicism
[Jakob De Roover's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 206 times since 10 March 2007]
Secularism, Colonialism and the Indian Intellectuals (note) [viewed x since 14 March 2007]
The Vacuity of Secularism: On the Indian Debate and Its Western Origins (Sep 2002)
Dialogues: Hinduism a Religion? does it exist?
[Jayant R. Kalawar's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 298 times since 10 March 2007]
[Jeffery Long's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 110 times since 27 October 2009]
Visit Jeff's faculty page at Elizabethtown College [external]
Check out Jeff's Wikipedia profile (posted by a third party) [external]
"Who am I to write a book about Hindu Identity? Confessions of an Irish American Hindu" [external]
Jainism: An Introduction (published 07 July 2009, at Amazon.com) [external]
"Truth, diversity, and the incomplete project of modern Hinduism" (Oct 2007) [external]
A Vision for Hinduism: Beyond Hindu Nationalism (published Jan 2007, at Amazon.com) [external]
Press reports: OneSabbath; AScribe (22 Jan 07); Ewtonian (19 Sep 08); Newswise (22 Jan 07); BNet (03 Apr 07) [external]
[Karine Ladrech's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 126 times since 10 March 2007]
[Koenraad's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 26 times since 01 June 2009]
Visit Koenraad's home page at Bharatvani
Asterisk in Bhâropîyasthân (chapters 0 - 7) - November 2006
0. Asterisk in Bhâropîyasthân - Foreword) - November 2006 [viewed 64x since 01 June 2009]
1. The official pro-invasionist argument at last - 1999 [viewed 64x since 01 June 2009]
2. The Rg-Veda in Afghanistan? - 1999 [viewed 52x since 01 June 2009]
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4. Savarkar, Hinduness and the Aryan Homeland - June 2003 [viewed 37x since 01 June 2009]
5. - June 2003 [viewed 37x since 01 June 2009]
5. The Harappan script controversy - late 1999 [viewed 60x since 01 June 2009]
6. Petty Professorial Politicking in The Indo-Aryan Controversy - October 2005 [viewed 46x since 01 June 2009]
7. Astronomical Chronology of Vedic Literature : Some New Arguments - March 2006 [viewed 56x since 01 June 2009]
The official Makarand Paranjape website (notes)
Biographical profile / Interview with M. Giridhar
Essays | Poems | Academic Papers (notes)
Evam - Forum on Indian Representations (notes) - volume III contents (coverpage)
Samvad India Foundation - committed to dialogue (notes)
Report on India-China cultural exchange (9th - 16th March 2001)
[McKim's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 106 times since 07 July 2009]
Check out McKim's University of Chicago faculty page; Curriculum Vitae (20 July 2004) [external]
Video interview of McKim Marriott by Kalman Applbaum & Ingrid Jordt: Part 1, Part 2 (14 June 2008)
India as a Philosophical Problem: McKim Marriott & the Comparative Enterprise - Edwin Gerow (2000) [external]
Alternative Social Sciences (1992) [viewed 13x since 27 June 2010]
The eight colors (varna?) of the Hindu cube (04 January 1992) [viewed 135x since 29 June 2009]
On 'Constructing an Indian ethnosociology' (1991) [viewed 44x since 08 July 2009]
Constructing an Indian Ethnosociology (1990) [viewed 59x since 08 July 2009]
Deconstructing McKim Marriot's ethnosociology: an outcaste's critique - Michael Moffat (1990) [external]
The female family core explored ethnosociologically (1998) [viewed 110x since 01 July 2009]
The feast of love (1966) [viewed 128x since 08 July 2009]
[Mukur Khisha's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 191 times since 10 March 2007]
A Defense of Hindu Revivalism [2001] - English
Time and Again (new book - 2004)
El mono gramático y el sabio alquimista: Octavio Paz y Abhinavagupta
Sanskritvânî web-site - Spanish and multilingual
Más allá de la retórica (Beyond Rhetoric) - Spanish
Wisdom of the Great Forest (with Félix Ilárraz) - Prologueop" href="../MeccaBenares/PathmarajahNagalingam/index.php">Mecca)
[Pathmarajah Nagalingam's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 446 times since 10 March 2007]
Check out (the essays on Hinduism and spirituality at) Pathma's multilingual website
Dialogues: Shivalinga a phallic symbol? Politics of iconophilia
Pedro Soto Adrados / Maria Orduña Anunciación (espagnol)
Fundacion Purusa web-site and Sarasvati journal - Spanish
Contribute articles to the Sarasvati journal for publication in Spanish
Peter Heehs
[Peter Heehs' Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 134 times since 10 March 2007]
Radhakrishna Warrier (friends)
[Radhakrishna Warrier's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 437 times since 10 March 2007]
Dialogues: Afro-Dravidian, etymologizing, shivalinga, caste, iconophilia, topless, ethics, transgressive sacrality, etc.
Rainer von Grafenhorst (Deutsch)
Raja Mylvaganam
The Holdeen Funds - chapter from thesis on the Unitarian-Universalists and India
William Roberts - chapter on the Unitarian-Universalists and India
The Missionary Paradigm - chapter on Unitarian-Universalists and India
Rajiv Malhotra (Friends)
[Rajiv Malhotra's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 572 times since 10 March 2007]
Ravishankar V.
[V. Ravishankar's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 158 times since 10 March 2007]
Politics of Knowledge Production (Feb 2005)
Dialogues (Fear China?)
Sanjay Garg
[Sanjay Garg's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 172 times since 10 March 2007]
Visit the Hindu American Foundation homepage (note)
Visit the RBC Asian Indian radio station in New York (note)
Visit the Hindu Society of Manitoba homepage (note)
Dialogues (Fear China?)
Sankrant Sanu
[Sankrant Sanu's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 135 times since 10 March 2007]
Are Indians corrupt? (Sulekha, 5 March 2004)
Why India is a nation (Sulekha, 9 October 2003)
The English Class System (Sulekha, 22 April 2003)
Need I belong to only one religion? (Sulekha, 14 February 2003)
Are Hinduism studies prejudiced? A look at Microsoft Encarta (Sulekha, 24 Sep. 2002)
Towards an Indian Pluralism (Views Unplugged 2001-2003)
Sitansu Sekhar Chakravarti
[Sitansu Sekhar Chakravarti's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 189 times since 10 March 2007]
Sumi Sivaratnam
Tan Chung
[Tan Chung's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 140 times since 10 March 2007]
Dunhuang Art Through the Eyes of Duan Wenjie (1994)
Tan Yun-shan - A historical Role / life-sketch (1999)
Cultural Interchange between India and China - Tan Yun-Shan (1999)
My Devotion to Tagore (3rd April 1941) / My first visit to Gandhiji - Tan Yun-Shan (1999)
Ahimsa in Sino-Indian Culture - Tan Yun-Shan (10th October 1949)
Introduction to the Sino-Indian Cultural Society - Tan Yun-Shan (1999)
India and China: from brotherhood to partnership (June 2004)
Chinese fangshen and Indian yoga: two idiographic developing models (June 2004)
Valerie J. Roebuck
Excerpts from the Upanishads (2001)
William P. Harman
[William Harman's Hindu Civilization profile has been visited 0 times since 10 March 2007]
Check out Prof. Harman's faculty web page
The Martyr Bomber Becomes a Goddess: Women, Theosis, and Sacrificial Violence in Sri Lanka (2009) [viewed 62x since 14 August 2009]