The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-49

C. The deliberate assault on the most sacred institution of Hindu personal law: the wedding ritual solemnized by Brahmin priest If the father and Party patriarch, M.Karunanidhi, towards the fag end of his lifetime attempted “salami-slicing” the Sri Vaishnava cultural identity by subtly glorifying Ramanujacharya with the chief aim of appropriating the great 11th centuryContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-49″

The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-25

Derived as they were from his Indological studies premised on Christian evangelism, the monumental mischief that Bishop Caldwell’s ideas did to divide and fragment Tamil society has been most comprehensively explained in a chapter in the well-researched book “BREAKING INDIA”: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines” ((2011: Manjul Publishing House) co-authored by Rajiv MalhotraContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-25″