Voice of India

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Voice of India is a publishing house founded in 1981 by Ram Swarup in Delhi, India.

The publishing house is regarded as a think tank of Hindu revivalism. The influence of the Voice of India publishing house's books is reportedly very present among high-ranking politicians from the Indian People's Party , the Bharatiya Janata Party , which currently runs the government.

According to the company, the publishing house was founded so that the Sangh Parivar had its own Hindu ideology. Criticism of religion , especially criticism of Christianity and Islam, is often present in the books of the Voice of India. The statement that Islam and not Muslims is a problem is often repeated by Voice of India writers. According to Gerard Heuze, the Voice of India authors take inspiration from democratic and European secular texts to justify their criticism of Islam, and they distance themselves from any right-wing radicalism.

Well-known authors published by Voice of India include: a. David Frawley , the indologist Koenraad Elst , the historian Sita Ram Goel , KS Lal and Ram Swarup . David Frawley wrote about 40 books, some of which are also devoted to Hindu identity and Indian history. According to Frawley, the criticism of Islam by the Voice of India authors is comparable to the criticism of religion by Western authors such as Voltaire or Thomas Jefferson .

Publications (selection)

  • Goel, Sita Ram
    • History of Hindu-Christian Encounters (1989)
    • Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them (1991).
    • Catholic Ashrams: Sannyasins or Swindlers? (1995).
    • The Calcutta Quran Petition by Chandmal Chopra and Sita Ram Goel (1986, expanded in 1987 and again in 1999)
    • The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India (1982; second revised edition 1994) ISBN 81-85990-23-9
  • Ram Swarup
    • Understanding Islam through Hadis
    • Hindu View of Christianity and Islam
  • Reprints
    • Vindicated by time: The Niyogi Committee report on Christian missionary activities. Madhya Pradesh (India)., Goel, SR, Niyogi, MB, & Voice of India. (1998).
    • The Goa Inquisition: being a quatercentenary commemoration study of the inquisition in India by Anant Priolkar ; Gabriel Dellon ; Claudius Buchanan
    • Woman, church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of the matriarchate by Matilda Joslyn Gage
    • Malabar and the Portuguese by KM Panikkar
    • Inner Yoga by Anirvan
  • Translations
    • Un regard Hindou sur le Christianisme et l'Islam by Ram Swarup. New Delhi: Voice of India.
    • A Muslim missionary in mediaeval Kashmir : being the English translation of Tohfatu'l-ahbab. Translated by KN Pandit. New Delhi: Voice of India.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Adelheid Herrmann-Pfandt: "Hindutva between 'decolonization' and nationalism: on western participation in the development of new Hindu self-confidence in India", religious studies in the context of Asian studies: 99 years of religious studies teaching and research in Bonn, ed. Manfred Hutter, Berlin: Lit Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, 2009 (Religions in the plural world: Religious studies studies. 8.), 233–248.
  2. Michael Bergunder (2004). "Contested Past: Anti-Brahmanical and Hindu nationalist reconstructions of Indian prehistory" (PDF). Historiographia Linguistica 31 (1): 59-104.
  3. The BJP politician LK Advani published Voice of India books in a public capacity. Sita Ram Goel, How I became a Hindu. Chapter 9.
  4. a b M. REZA PIRBHAI (2008). DEMONS IN HINDUTVA: WRITING A THEOLOGY FOR HINDU NATIONALISM. Modern Intellectual History, 5, pp 29.
  5. Heuze, Gerard (1993). Où va l'inde modern ?. Harmattan. pp. 91ff, 114ff, 123ff. ISBN 2738417558 .
  6. ^ David Frawley: How I became a Hindu: My discovery of Vedic Dharma.

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