Table of Contents

Introduction
xi
1. Superpower or Balkanized War Zone?
1
2. Overview of European Invention of Races
8
Western Academic Constructions Lead to Violence
8
3. Inventing the Aryan Race
12
Overview of Indian Impact on Europe: From Renaissance to Racism
15
Herder’s Romanticism
18
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829)
19
‘Arya’ Becomes a Race in Europe
22
Ernest Renan and the Aryan Christ
23
Friedrich Max Müller
26
Adolphe Pictet
27
Rudolph Friedrich Grau
28
Gobineau and Race Science
29
Aryan Theorists and Eugenics
31
Chamberlain: Aryan-Christian Racism
32
Nazis and After
34
Blaming the Indian Civilization
35
4. Imperial Evangelism Shapes Indian Ethnology
37
Biblical Theory of Race and the Myth of Ham
39
William Jones Maps Indians onto Biblical Ethnology
42
One Hundred Years of British Indological Institutions
48
5. Lord Risley Morphs Jati-Varna into Race
51
Building on Max Müller’s Work
52
Risley’s Race Science
54
Risley Freezes the Castes
56
Ambedkar Demolishes Nasal Index Racism
60
6. Inventing the ‘Dravidian’ Race
61
Hodgson Invents ‘Tamulian’
63
Caldwell: Transforming Linguistics into Ethnology
64
A Conspiracy Theory is Born: Cunning Aryan Brahmins Exploited Innocent Dravidians
66
De-Indianizing the Tamil Traditions
67
7. Dravidian Racism and Sri Lanka
79
Outdated Geology Mixes with Theosophical Fantasy
81
Lemurian Origins Linkup with Bishop Caldwell
83
Theosophy – Buddhism Uses Aryans to Counter Evangelism
85
Clash of Colonial Constructs: Aryan-Buddhist-Sinhalese vs. Dravidian-Saivite-Tamil
86
8. Digesting Hinduism into ‘Dravidian’ Christianity
88
The Myth of St Thomas
89
Evangelism and the Dravidian Movement
91
Christianizing Hindu Popular Culture
111
9. Propagation of ‘Dravidian’ Christianity
125
2000: Seminar on ‘Dravidian Religion to
127
Eradicate Casteism’
127
2001: India Declared the Mother of
127
International Racism
127
2004: ‘India is a Dravidian Christian Nation, and Christians Made Sanskrit’
129
2005: New York Conference on Re-imagining Hinduism as St Thomas Dravidian Christianity
129
2006: Dravidian Christianity Becomes an International Movement
135
2007: Second International Conference on the History of Early Christianity in India
139
2008: First International Conference on the Religion of Tamils
142
Christian-Dravidianism vs Modern Archeology
148
Assessing the Robustness of the Thomas Myth
149
Dravidian Spirituality as Interim Stage for Christianizing
150
10. Dravidian Academic-Activist Network Outside India
154
Oxford-Yale Origins of the Dravidian Linguistic Canon
157
Academic Discourse Drives Indian Politics: Annadurai
160
SARVA Project and Identity Politics
162
Academic Support for Tamil Separatist Conferences
166
The Berkeley Tamil Chair
167
Europe-based Tamil Studies
170
11. Western Discourse on India’s Fragments
173
Deconstructing India Systematically
177
Atrocity Literature as a Genre
182
Atrocity Literature Feeds India’s Fragmentation
185
Indian Minorities Serving the Global Majorities
189
Identity Faultlines for Western Intervention
193
12. The Afro-Dalit Movement
196
Aryan/Dravidian and Hutu/Tutsi Parallels
197
American History Defines the Afro-Dravidian Movement
200
Western Government-Church Axis influences  Afro-Dravidian-Dalit
207
Ramayana interpreted as a Racist Epic
209
13. India: A Neo-Con Frontier
212
Corporate Multinationals to Convert Hindus
213
Dalit Activism by the American Christian Right
220
Right-wing Think-tanks and Policy Centers
234
Sustained and Biased Perceptions
240
14. India: A Left-wing Frontier
247
Example of Left-Right Collaboration in Washington
249
US-based Academic Deconstruction of India
251
Islamic Tint in the Secular Lens
266
15. The US Government’s Direct Involvement
268
International Religious Freedom Act
268
US Commission on International Religious Freedom
271
Pew Trust Repackages and Spreads: ‘India is Next Only to Iraq’
283
US Government Agency for International Development (USAID)
285
Obama and US Foreign Evangelism
287
16. British Intervention in Present-day India
297
Anti-India Axis in the UK
299
17. Continental European Interventions
307
Affiliates of Dalit Dissent in India
317
Network of Academic Dalit Studies
321
Individual Scholars Propagating Dalit Separatism
327
18. India’s Christian Umma
334
US-based Expansion of Indian Christianity
337
Christian Media
356
Intelligence-gathering Operations
363
Effects on the Ground
370
19. India in the Clash of Civilizations
377
The Cover Map
378
Maoist Red Corridor Through India
380
Nagaland Model in Nepal and India’s Red Corridor
381
Islamic Slice of Dravidistan
394
Tamil Nadu
397
Kerala
400
Abdul Nasser Madhani, Godfather of south Indian Jihad
401
Tamil Nadu–Kerala Jihad Nexus
404
Madhani Released and Jihad Outsourced to Kerala
405
Karnataka
407
New Developments in 2010
411
Appendices
423
Appendix A: A Short History of Racism from the Nasal Index to the Y-Chromosome
425
Appendix B: Ancient Tamil Religion in Sangam Literature
431
Appendix C: Parallel Developments in Africa
438
Appendix D: Thomas Hoax on Native Americans
449
Appendix E: Papers Presented at New York Conference 2005
451
Appendix F: Case of the Disposable Epigraphist
459
Appendix G: Monitoring Foreign Funds
463
Appendix H: Lutheran World Federation Targets India
467
Endnotes
476
Glossary
551
Bibliography
560
Index of Schematic Diagrams and Figures
621
Acknowledgements
625
Index
626