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- Connexions Library: Religion Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Indias 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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