Ram Swarup

Ram Swarup ( Hindi : राम स्‍वरूप , Rām Svarup ; born October 12, 1920 in Sonipat , † December 26, 1998 in Delhi ) was an Indian publicist and one of the most important thought leaders of modern Hinduism.

Life

Ram Swarup's works had a great influence on other authors such as B. Sita Ram Goel from. His book "The Word as Revelation" is a study of polytheism . In his work "Hindu view of Christianity and Islam" Swarup defined Islam and Christianity from the perspective of Hinduism and compared the religions.

His work "Understanding Islam through Hadis" was banned in India in 1990/91 in the original English and in the Hindi version. The work consists mainly of excerpts and quotations from the Islamic hadiths .

Publications

The Word as Revelation: Names of Gods (1980), (1982, revised new edition 1992)
Hindu view of Christianity and Islam
Understanding Islam through Hadis (1983 in the USA with Arvind Ghosh, Houston; reprint in India with Voice of India, 1984);

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Adelheid Herrmann-Pfandt: Hindutva between “decolonization” and nationalism. On Western participation in the development of new Hindu self-confidence in India In: Manfred Hutter (Hrsg.): Religious Studies in the Context of Asian Studies. 99 years of religious studies teaching and research in Bonn. Lit, Münster 2009, pp. 233–248. p. 240

personal data
SURNAME	Swarup, Ram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	स्‍वरूप, राम; Svarup, Rām
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Indian publicist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 12, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sonipat
DATE OF DEATH	December 26, 1998
Place of death	Delhi

[1] Adelheid Herrmann-Pfandt: Hindutva between “decolonization” and nationalism. On Western participation in the development of new Hindu self-confidence in India In: Manfred Hutter (Hrsg.): Religious Studies in the Context of Asian Studies. 99 years of religious studies teaching and research in Bonn. Lit, Münster 2009, pp. 233–248. p. 240