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  1. Connexions Library: Religion Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
  2. Critique of Nonviolent Politics
    From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
  3. Gandhi's Truth
    On the origins of militant nonviolence

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
  4. India's Dalit cattle skinners share stories of abuse
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    From hospital wards to skinning fields, India's Dalit cattle skinners share stories of abuse and fears for their future.
  5. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
    Translated from the Sanskrit. In Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1883
    An ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Va-tsya-yana.
  6. Knicker protest targets Hindu militants
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The socially conservative Hindu Sri Ram Sena (Lord Ram's Army) a group of vigilantes has attacked women in pubs and unwed couples, in an effort to protect what they call "Indian Culture". Indian women fought back by sending 40,000 pairs of pink underwear to their offices.
  7. A Marxist History of the World part 12: India: the Mauryan Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner looks at the growth of the Mauryan Empire which at its zenith encompassed almost the whole of what is today India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
  8. A Marxist History of the World part 24: Hindus, Buddhists, and the Gupta Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    More than half a millennium separated the fall of India’s Mauryan Empire in the late 3rd century BCE (before the common era) from the rise of the Gupta Empire in the early 4th century CE (common era). Economic and social change during the interval altered the foundations of imperialism.
  9. Persecution of Hindus
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Hindus have experienced religious persecution in the form of forceful conversions, documented massacres, demolition and desecrations of temples, as well as the destruction of universities and schools. In modern times, Hindus in the Muslim-majority regions of Kashmir, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and other countries have suffered persecution.
  10. Rahul Pandita's New India: A Hindutva India On the Ashes Of Democratic Secular India
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Shamsul Islam responds to the rise of the Hindutva in India and challenges their anti-Muslim propaganda.
  11. Saffron terror
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Saffron terror is a neologism used to describe acts of violence motivated by Hindu nationalism. The acts are allegedly perpetrated by members, or alleged members, of Hindu nationalist organizations close to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Abhinav Bharat.
  12. Why white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alike
    White supremacy and Hindu nationalism have common roots going back to the 19th-century idea of the 'Aryan race'.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Many members of the so-called "alt-right" - a loosely knit coalition of populists, white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis - turned to India to find historic and current justifications for their racist, xenophobic and divisive views.

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  1. Asian Civilisations Museum
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