Product DescriptionRearming Hinduism is a handbook for
intellectual resistance.
Through an astute and devastating critique
of Hinduphobia in today's academia, media
and popular culture, Vamsee Juluri shows us
that what the Hinduphobic worldview denies
virulently is not only the truth and elegance
of Hindu thought, but the very integrity and
sanctity of the natural world itself.
By boldly challenging some of the media
age's most popular beliefs about nature,
history, and pre-history along with the usual
Hinduphobic myths about Aryans, invasions,
and blood-sacrifices, Rearming Hinduism links
Hinduphobia and its hubris to a predatory
and self-destructive culture that perhaps only
a renewed Hindu sensibility can effectively
oppose. It is a call to see the present in a way
that elevates our desa and kala to the ideals of
the sanathana dharma once again.
About Author
Vamsee Juluri is a professor of media studies at the
University of San Francisco. He is the author of
The Mythologist: A Novel (Penguin India), Bollywood
Nation: India through its Cinema (Penguin India)
and The Guru Within (Westland, forthcoming).
