India: How Some Hindu Nationalists Are Rewriting Caste History in The Name of Decolonisation

Protests by students in New Delhi after the suicide of Dalit student Rohith Vemula. Rajta Gupta/EPA

All this is deeply antithetical to current global attempts to rethink and overturn social inequality and communal conflict.

Resilient Hinduism Has Endured Upheavals

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the road show on March 4, 2017 in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Hindustan Times/Press Association. All rights reserved.

It was not always like this. Hinduism neutralised competing elements by absorbing them. This faith tradition was strong enough to let internal theological differences and dissent be aired.

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