Decolonizing the Hindu Mind - Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism is a book by Koenraad Elst.
Elst states in the book that it is "based on the main part of my doctoral dissertation, accepted by Katholicke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in 1998. For reasons of space, several peripheral chapters have been left out here and will be published separately." Another part of his Ph.D. thesis was published in "Who is a Hindu" and in "The Saffron Swastika."
India went through two colonizations in the past centuries: one by Islam and one by Europe. Hindu revivalists see it as problematic that these colonizations also brought with them worldviews that are hostile to the Hindu way of life. Elst focuses on the analysis of the Hindu revivalist movements in this book. This work has 1674 footnotes and a bibliography of 29 pages.
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