Koenraad Elst
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Dr. Koenraad Elst was born in Leuven, Belgium, on 7 August 1959, into a Flemish Catholic family. He graduated in Philosophy, Chinese Studies and Indo-Iranian Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven. He wrote his first book on the Ayodhya conflict. He also wrote as a columnist for Belgian and Indian papers. His research earned him his Ph.D. in Leuven in 1998. Koenraad Elst has also published about multiculturalism, language policy issues, ancient Chinese history and philosophy, comparative religion, and the Aryan invasion debate. Dr. Elst became a well-known author on Indian politics in the 1990s.
He seems not to have changed his religion, for he said: "I am neither a Hindu nor a nationalist. And I don’t need to belong to those or to any specific ideological categories in order to use my eyes and ears. (...) As I said, I am phasing out my involvement with communalism studies. The subject is really very simple, the problem as well as the solution. It isn’t all that challenging and interesting, it only seemed that way because of the artificial obstacles thrown up by the secularists." [1] And he wrote: "However, I do readily admit to being a “fellow-traveller” of Dharmic civilization in its struggle for survival against the ongoing aggression and subversion by well-organized hostile ideologies." [2]
Works
- Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society
- Negationism in India - Concealing the Record of Islam
- Psychology of Prophetism - A Secular Look at the Bible
- Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate
- Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple
- BJP vis-à-vis Hindu Resurgence
- The Demographic Siege
- Who is a Hindu?
- Ayodhya, The Finale - Science versus Secularism the Excavations Debate
- Gandhi and Godse - A review and a critique
- The Saffron Swastika - The Notion of Hindu Fascism
- Decolonizing the Hindu Mind - Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism
- Dr. Ambedkar - A True Aryan
See also
External links
- Articles and Books by Dr. Elst
- Review of Koenraad Elst's Ayodhya and after
- Review of Koenraad Elst's The Saffron Swastika
