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A point-by-point rebuttal to the controversial claim that 'Gonds are non-Hindus, and are oppressed by Hinduism

Debate: Don’t Accuse Critics of Indology of Being Handmaidens of Hindutva In their quest for ideological purity, activists on the Left can sometimes resemble the Far Right, which has little tolerance for differing opinions. Sita's agni pariksha. Credit: Wikimedia Commons The Wire, Raju Rajagopal and Sunita Viswanath from a U.S-based advocacy group called “Hindus For Human Rights”, criticised me for an article I had  published in The Hindu where I had joined issue with the scholarship and teaching style of Audrey Truschke, an associate professor at Rutgers University, New Je...