Hinduism and Its Culture Wars: How Secularism Lost its Way to Hinduphobia

Vamsee Juluri’s seminal 2012 review essay from The India Site on the writings of Amartya Sen, Pankaj Mishra, Martha Nussbaum, Wendy Doniger exposed for the first time within the scholarly community the serious flaws in the supposedly liberal-secular position being advanced by these writers. Arguing from within the sensibility of devout liberal Hindus who do not believe in exclusive religious nationalism, Juluri argued that these writers had turned their crusade against Hindutva into an egregiously misplaced existential attack on popular Hinduism. Widely read and commented on by lay readers and academics, this important review essay is essential reading for who anyone who cares for both Hinduism and secularism today.