| Management number | 240563607 | Release Date | 2026/07/16 | List Price | US$6.40 | Model Number | 240563607 | ||
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'Religion is a tool in the hands of the oppressor against the oppressed solely because he frames the commandments and calls them the God's', is an apt description of the Hindu social order. <p> The book rips open the raw nerve of Hinduism-its invidious castes, positioned as a 'God-ordained' institution, commandeered by its freebooter priestly class while clandestinely establishing its religious, social and political hegemony through interpolation of its pristine and effulgent scriptures. </p><p> The author boldly analyses this imbroglio through a microscopic analysis of these and more related issues: </p><p> - How priests controlled the Hindu religious, social, educational and political apparatus? </p><p> - How the dominant priestly class fractured the society into mutually antagonistic subordinated hierarchical segments, and ruled it by reserving all elite jobs for itself? </p><p> - How the fiendish priesthood emasculated shudras by depriving them of the 'shaastra and shastra' (education and arms) and made them permanent 'village servant classes'? </p><p> - How the pretensions of attaining siddhis through 'meditation and penances' established priests as the 'gods on earth' for their assertions of 'purity and effulgence'? </p><p> - How 'karma', 'reincarnation' and '84-lakhs births' theories were devised to justify fatalism and hierarchical gradation of varnas? </p><p> - Can India be rightfully called the 'vishvaguru' and the mother of all civilisations? </p><p> - How Buddhism effeminated Hindus and made them the doormats for the ruthless? </p><p> - Why Hindus had to abandon their own, to adop foreign institutions of governance? </p><p> - Why Hinduism should become a universal and proselytising faith and fight demographic challenges posed by Islam and Christianity?</p>
| Book format | Paperback |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | Religion |
| Publication date | January, 2017 |
| Pages | 366 |
| Subgenre | Hinduism |
| Series title | Demystifying Brahminism And Re-Inventing Hinduism |
| Number in series | 1 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Notion Press |
| Original languages | English |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Binding type | Paperback / softback |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product height | 11.02 in |
| Assembled product weight | 1.87 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Religion |
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