Table of Contents
Foreword by R. Vaidyanathan
xv
Foreword by Peter Boghossian
xix
Introduction
xxiii
Background
xxiii
Four Big Stories
xxvi
Story 1: The Americanization of Marxism
xxviii
Story 2: The Indianization of Critical Race Theory
xxxiv
Story 3: Harvard University Churns Out Atrocity Literature
xli
Story 4: Breaking India by the New Elites
xliii
Motives for Funding
xlv
Key Takeaways
xlvii
PART 1: DEBATING INDIAN CULTURE’S LEGITIMACY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1
1.DISMANTLING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
3
Overview
3
European Origins of the Old Left
4
Marxism
4
Marxist Critical Theory
7
Postmodernism
11
Critical Race Theory
15
Intersectionality
15
Queer Theory
23
The Church of Wokeism
28
Liberal Arts Becomes Dogmatic
28
Popular Wokeism
30
Troubling Attributes
34
Rejection of Science, Rationality, and Meritocracy
34
Equity and Equality
36
Cancel Culture and Suppression of Dissent
38
Activism and the Toolbox
41
Attacking Individualism
43
Attacking Barack Obama’s Color-blindness
46
Educational Battleground
51
Dismantling the Old Without Knowing How to Build the New
52
The Corporatization of Woke
53
2. THE AMERICANIZATION OF CASTE
58
Overview
58
Critical Race Theory’s Passage to India
59
Caste Considered the Architecture of Global Racism
63
Hindu Dharma Dismissed as a Frozen and Abusive System
72
Ignoring Other Caste Systems
76
Dismantling Hindu Dharma Is Considered Necessary
79
3. INDIAN AMERICANS EQUATED WITH WHITE RACISTS
82
Overview
82
Compiling US Databases of Indian American Caste Abuses
83
Litigations on Caste in the United States of America
88
The US Technology Industry
89
American Colleges and Universities
93
American Local Governments
95
Issues and Challenges
99
Globalizing the Dalit Empowerment Movement
100
A Silver Lining
103
4. ATTACKING MERITOCRACY AT THE INDIAN INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGY
104
Overview
104
The Origin of Western Meritocracy
106
History of Separating Artisans and Engineers in India
107
Merit Considered a Form of Cultural Capital
111
Entrance Exams Conceal Caste Privileges
115
Merit as Male Dominated Capitalism Institutional Kinship Among IITians and Brand
117
Development Considered Casteist
117
Attack on Silicon Valley
120
Breaking Ranks with Afro-Dalits
124
The Politics of Jawaharlal Nehru v/s Narendra Modi
125
Concerns with Subramanian’s Thesis
127
5. THE RISE OF THE AFRO-DALITS
132
Overview
132
Questioning Yengde’s Core Historical Assumptions
135
Opportunistic Use of Ambedkar and Buddhism
138
Dalits as Perennial Victims
143
Brahmin Patriarchy
151
Caste Globalization and the Fourth World
156
Catfight to Represent the Victims
163
Aggression Redefined
163
6. A RESPONSE: HISTORY OF INDIAN SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
164
Introduction
164
Seven Historical Phases
171
What the Ancient Texts State
178
The Vedic Era
178
The Upanishads
180
The Bhagavad Gita
180
The Mahabharata
181
The Dharmashastras
182
Is Hinduism Fixated on Caste?
186
Hinduism’s Open Architecture
186
Caste is Not Sufficient to Be a Hindu
186
Caste Is Not Necessary to Be a Hindu
189
Challenges to Birth-based Hierarchy in Actual Practice
190
Shudras and Vanavasis
191
Shudras as Emperors, Kings, and Soldiers
191
Economic Power and Social Status
194
Untouchability Between Shudras
195
Indigenous Education Before the British
196
Dalit Hindu Pride
199
Vanavasis
202
The Bhakti Movement
204
British Social Engineering
207
The British Admit That No Rigid Caste Existed
207
Risley Imposes ‘Caste = Racial Hierarchy’
210
Making ‘Untouchability’ Official
211
Indian Nationalists Accept the British Categories
212
B.R. Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement
217
Ambedkar and Caste
218
Ambedkar and Islamophobia
225
Ambedkar and Buddhism
233
Ambedkar and Communism
237
The Pros and Cons of Jati/Caste
242
Checks and Balances Against Totalitarianism
242
Division of Labor and Transmission of Expertise
243
Inter-dependency of Jatis: The Jajmani System
244
Decentralized Lobbying
245
Ecological Role
246
Economic Security
246
Jatis and Introvertedness: The Problem
247
The Collapse of the Caste System
248
PART 2: HARVARD VISHWA GURU AND INDIAN BILLIONAIRESINDIAN BILLIONAIRES
251
7. THIRTY YEARS OF ENCOUNTERS WITH HARVARD UNIVERSITY
253
Harvard University’s Role in Digesting Indian Meditation Systems
257
Herb Benson
260
Daniel Goleman
264
Jon Kabat-Zinn
268
Digesting Indian Thought Into Western Philosophy and Psychology
271
Alfred North Whitehead
271
Swami Vivekananda and William James
273
Digesting Indian Spirituality Into Western Literature
274
Ralph Waldo Emerson
275
Walt Whitman
275
Henry David Thoreau
277
T.S. Eliot
278
Atrocity Literature Developed by Harvard University
279
Atrocity Literature in the Name of Public Health
280
Weaponizing the Vanavasis
281
The Khalistanis and Kashmir Separatists
283
Mapping Hindi on to Urdu
283
Indian Funding of Harvard University in the Early Years
285
Infinity Foundation Visiting Professorships
285
Rejection by Dhirubhai Ambani
286
Anand Mahindra Jumps In
287
Rajat Gupta
288
Lessons Learned
289
8. CHINA’S TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICA
291
Overview
291
China Enters Harvard University
292
Chinese Funding
300
China Funds Wokeism in America
302
Harvard Kennedy School’s China Program
303
Harvard’s China-friendly Scholars
310
Anti-India and Pro-China Pivot
312
Harvard and the Chinese Military
315
Harvard and COVID-19
316
The China-Brookings Institution Connection
319
9. THE IMPORTANCE OF INVESTIGATING HARVARD UNIVERSITY
322
Overview
322
Harvard University’s Academic-Industrial Complex
323
Indians Build a Vishwa Guru Monster
325
Harvard as Good-Cop
329
10. DATABASES, TAXONOMIES, AND ARCHIVES
334
Overview
334
Taxonomies: Indian and Western
335
Colonization: The Clash of Taxonomies
339
Kumbh Mela
346
The Partition Project
353
Medical Databases
354
Art and Aesthetics
358
Other Databases
359
Loss of Intellectual Property and National Security
359
11. ANAND MAHINDRA AND POSTMODERNISM
361
Overview
361
Homi K. Bhabha, the Pied Piper of Harvard
364
Bhabha’s Postmodernism
366
Indian Franchise
372
Hinduphobia
373
12. LAKSHMI MITTAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
378
Overview
378
Harvard University Sets up its ‘Embassy in India’
379
Political Interventions
380
Caste Impact in America
385
Women’s Empowerment
386
Digging Deeper
289
Major Themes
289
Social Entrepreneurship
389
Economics and Development
390
Healthcare
391
Arts and Culture
392
Other Diverse Projects
393
In Contrast with Pakistan’s Pride
395
13. THE PIRAMALS: HARVARD UNIVERSITY’S GATEWAY TO INDIA
397
Overview
397
China’s Infiltration of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
398
Caste as Lens in Public Health
401
Chan-Piramal Collaboration on India
405
Concerns
410
14. HARVARD UNIVERSITY’S CONTROL OF THE MEDIA ECOSYSTEM IN INDIA
414
Overview
414
The Nieman-Pulitzer Center Alliance
415
Indian Organizations Supported by the Nieman Institute and the Pulitzer Center
419
Case Study: People’s Archive of Rural India and the Chinese Communist Party
420
PARI as a Breaking India Force in Education
423
Case Study: Assault on Hindus in America
426
Pulitzer Center Funding on India
428
The Nieman-Pulitzer Media Network in India
431
Media Houses Supported
431
Nieman Reports
431
Nieman Grantees, Awards and Fellowships
432
Reinterpreting Indian Classics
435
15.HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL: GEOPOLITICS
437
Overview
437
Harvard Sepoys Testifying Against India
438
Misinformation Warfare
448
Meddling with Indian Democracy
456
Women and Public Policy Program
462
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
465
The Center for International Development
469
Publications
470
Brainwashing India’s Elites
471
The Double Standards of Harvard University
475
16. HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
477
Overview
477
Social Justice Through Business Lens
477
Harvard and Cancel Culture
483
Exporting American Principles
483
China’s Business Leadership
484
PART 3: IS INDIA FOR SALE?
487
17. THE IVY LEAGUE PASSAGE TO INDIA
489
18. THE NEXUS OF SAUDIS, AMERICANS, AND INDIAN BILLIONAIRES
498
Overview
498
Hypocrisy on Human Rights
499
Saudi Funding of American Institutions
500
Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT
501
Indian Affiliates
502
Research Output
506
Jameel-Poverty Action Lab’s India Outposts: Institute for Financial Management and Research and Krea University
508
Krea and Data Mining
511
19. PASHOKA UNIVERSITY: HARVARD UNIVERSITY’S JUNIOR PARTNER
517
Overview
517
Breaking India Ecosystem: Built Brick by Brick
519
Ashoka: An Incubator of Hinduphobia
521
Centre for China Studies
529
Shanghai Meritocracy Workshop
531
Trivedi Centre for Political Data
535
The People and Institutions Behind the Trivedi Centre
536
Output from the Trivedi Centre for Political Data
538
The French Connection: LIA SPINPER
540
Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality
545
Centre for Social and Behaviour Change
550
Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy
552
Ashoka University’s Academic Partnerships
555
Western Academia’s Intimidation of Ashoka University
557
Student Indoctrination at Ashoka
560
20. AZIM PREMJI’S MEDIA AND EDUCATIONAL IMPACT
564
Overview
564
Azim Premji University
565
The Independent and Public-Spirited Media Foundation
567
Azim Premji Foundation’s Role in the National Education Policy 2020
568
The NEP DISADVANTAGE – Outflow of Money, Data and Brains
569
21. GODREJ AND QUEERING
572
Overview
572
Marxist Foundations
572
Queer Movement in America
574
Trans-Queer and India
576
Godrej India Culture Lab
579
Human Resource Policies
580
Importing Intolerance from American Wokeism
582
22. OMIDYAR NETWORK: TROJAN HORSE IN INDIA
584
Overview
584
Background: The American ParentTaxable Companies Replace Traditional Tax-exempt
585
Non-Profits
591
Omidyar Network India
592
The Reincarnation of the Joshua Project
594
Omidyar Grants Via Harvard’s Mittal Institute
596
Omidyar Network India’s Digital Infrastructure and Big Data
597
Economic Influence and Leadership Building
601
Omidyar Backs the IDFC Institute and IDFC Foundation
604
Projects of the IDFC Institute
607
Omidyar-China Nexus
611
Social Impact
612
Policy Research and Influence on Government
616
ndia’s Sovereignty at Risk
619
CONCLUSION: THE DEVATAS OF DAVOS AND THE DIGITAL CASTE SYSTEM
620
Davos Devatas: Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum
627
The Dismantling Process
630
Digital Identifications as Control Mechanism for Individuals
635
Indian Businesses Becoming the Missionaries of a New Religion
637
Grooming Future World Leaders
637
The Devatas of Davos
640
• ENDNOTES
642
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
707
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
709
• INDEX
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