S. N. Balagangadhara

"Balu is a Kannadiga Brahmin by birth, a former Marxist, and his discourse has a very in-your-face quality. In his latest book, Reconceptualizing India Studies, the attentive reader will see a critique…"

"“Orientalism is reproduced in the name of a critique of Orientalism. It is completely irrelevant whether one uses a Marx, a Weber or a Max Müller to do so. the result is the same: uninteresting trivia…"

"Here, India will be a global player of considerable political and economic impact. As a result, the need to explicate what it means to be an Indian will soon become the task of the entire intelligents…"

"“When Indian intellectuals use existing theories about religion and its history – for example, to analyse ‘Hindu-Muslim’ strife – they reproduce, both directly and indirectly, what the West has been s…"

"“The secular state assumes that the Semitic religions and the Hindu traditions are instances of the same kind"

"“Nehru used Orientalist descriptions of the Indian society of his day and made their facts his own.” “is not accounting for the Indian caste system by using the notion of fossilized coalitions in Indi…"