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Connexions Library: Religion Focus
Website
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Ryan, Howard
Book
1984
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 moveme...
India's Dalit cattle skinners share stories of abuse
Prabhu, Maya
Article
2016
Al Jazeera
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
Vatsyayana. Translated by Richard Burton
Book
1883
Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares
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
Ramesh, Randeep
Article
2009
The Guardian
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...
A Marxist History of the World part 12: India: the Mauryan Empire
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2010
Counterfire
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
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2010
Counterfire
More than half a millennium separated the fall of India’s 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)....
Persecution of Hindus
Wikipedia article
Article
Wikipedia
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....
Saffron terror
Wikipedia article
Article
Wikipedia
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 cl...
Two-Nation Theory
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The Two-Nation Theory is the ideology that the primary identity of Muslims in the Indian subcontinent is their religion, rather than their language or ethnicity, and therefore Indian Hindus and Muslim...


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