Wendy Doniger
American Indologist
American Indologist whose professional career has spanned five decades.
By Wendy Doniger
[Book extract] Many of the English-speaking Hindus came to accept the British evaluation of Hinduism, in a kind of Stockholm syndrome.
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[Book excerpt] She plays the trick on him in order to exert power over him as he had exerted power over her, to put him in danger of being raped just as his absence had put her in danger of being raped.
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[Book Extract] As if speaking back to Kautilya's Arthashastra, Vatsayana ends up establishing a code of accepted sexual violence.
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It takes a certain kind of religion in thrall of politics to turn the Bhagavad Gita, a book about war and peace, into a bible for pacifism.
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