Sita Ram Goel

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Sita Ram Goel ( Hindi : सीता राम गोयल , Sītā Rām Goyal ; born October 16, 1921 , † December 3, 2003 in New Delhi ) was an Indian author and founder of the non-profit publishing house Voice of India .

Life

Goel was in a village in what is now the Indian state of Haryana belonging part of Punjab and studied History (MA) at the Delhi University . During his student years he was a social activist. He worked for a Harijan Ashram in his home village.

During the riots in Calcutta in 1946 ("Great Calcutta Killing") on August 16, 1946, he, his wife and his son narrowly escaped death. This religious unrest happened shortly before the partition of India .

Sita Ram Goel was heavily influenced by Marxism as a student and seriously considered joining the Communist Party of India . He later met Ram Swarup , who influenced him greatly.

Goel has published books in English and Hindi . He also translated works by George Orwell and Plato into Hindi.

Goel is a well-known and important critic of religion in India and often took a critical position on Islam, Marxism and Christianity. This position made him a controversial writer who is often ignored or criticized by his opponents. Goel himself also criticized Marxist authors such as Romila Thapar , whom he accused of falsifying history.

In 1981 he founded the non-profit publishing house Voice of India with Ram Swarup .

Works

  • Hindu Society under Siege (1981, revised 1992)
  • The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India (1982; second revised edition 1994)
  • How I Became a Hindu (1982, expanded 1993)
  • Defense of Hindu Society (1983, revised 1987)
  • The Emerging National Vision (1983)
  • History of Heroic Hindu Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders (1984; 2001)
  • Perversion of India's Political Parlance (1984)
  • Saikyularizm, Râshtradroha kâ Dûsrâ Nâm (English: "Secularism, another name for treason", 1985)
  • Papacy, Its Doctrine and History (1986)
  • The Calcutta Quran Petition by Chandmal Chopra and Sita Ram Goel (1986, expanded in 1987 and again in 1999)
  • Muslim Separatism, Causes and Consequences (1987)
  • Foreword to Catholic Ashrams, Adapting and Adopting Hindu Dharma (1988, expanded in 1994 with a new subtitle: Sannyasins or Swindlers?)
  • History of Hindu-Christian Encounters (1989, expanded 1996)
  • Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them (1990 vol.1; 1991 vol.2, expanded 1993)
  • Genesis and Growth of Nehruism (1993)
  • Jesus Christ: An Artifice for Aggression (1994)
  • Time for Stock-Taking (1997)
  • Preface to the reprint of Mathilda Joslyn Gage: Woman, Church and State (1997, ca.1880), (feminist criticism of Christianity)
  • Preface to Vindicated by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report (1998), a reprint of the Official Report on Missionary Methods of Infiltration and Conversion (1955)

literature

  • India's only communalist: In commemoration of Sita Ram Goel; Edited by Koenraad Elst; Voice of India , New Delhi. (2005)

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personal data
SURNAME Goel, Sita Ram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Punjab , British India
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 2003
Place of death New Delhi