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Hinduphobia includes physical, emotional, psychological, economic and social abuse. It includes victim shaming, silencing and the overt denial of centuries of atrocities against Hindus that continue today. It includes smashing idols, destroying temples, forced conversion, murder, persecution, bride theft and ethnic cleansing. [...]

Jaanhavi Ganesh, a student at Rutgers University testified at a Congressional Briefing raising the widespread Hinduphobia on the rise, especially at Rutgers University. Hinduphobia is rooted in extreme racism and religious hate which the US already has a long history in but with all the big talk about anti-racism especially indigenous rights, the KKK suit [...]

On 24 February 2024, Lee Anderson had the Conservative parliamentary whip suspended for his refusal to apologise for comments in a GB News discussion on an article by former Home Secretary Suella Braverman where she had stated that “The truth is that the Islamists, the extremists and the antisemites are in charge now”. Anderson alleged [...]

Rajiv Malhotra in this recent news clip once again claims he coined the term Hinduphobia when it’s well known it was already in use in the UK media even far back as the 1860s.  Did he time travel in a DeLorean like in the movie Back To The Future and promoted the term to the [...]

Georgia has passed a resolution condemning ‘Hinduphobia’ – or fear of the Hindu minority community in the US. This makes it the first US state to take an official stand against anti-Hindu bigotry in the region. Calling Hinduism one of the world’s largest and oldest religions with over 1.2 billion followers across 100 countries, the [...]

Hindu Human Rights celebrated the first dictionary entry of the word Hinduphobia in mid 2021. Lexico online dictionary, powered by Oxford University Press, recognises the origins of Hinduphobia are mid-19th Century. This is around six decades before the Lexico origins of Islamophobia in 1920s. So why has it taken this long for the human rights [...]

On both left and right, India and Hindus are castigated for the unequal caste system. The only difference is that sometimes the ‘right’ actually supports it as a means to both racial and class inequality. Here we encounter the first problem. Caste was never based on race. [...]

HHR are excited to announce that the origins of Hinduphobia, which are 1866 have been duly updated at Lexico online dictionary, powered by Oxford. Formerly Oxford English Dictionary used our literature review from 2020 with the date of 1883 and we were delighted to announce that an entry was made at Lexico mid 2021. [...]

Critically Interrogating the Hinduphobia Narrative: Transcript of Lecture at Massey University CARE Institute on 25 August 2021. https://fb.watch/7BZ-d-cMi7/   [Kinakota kataha?Maori] I am professor Mohan Dutta Director of the Center for Culture -Centred Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) and I’m delighted to share with you my thoughts on Hindutva, the ideology of hate that [...]

There is a well-known observation among Hindu Activists Outside the Sangh that most of the usual performative academic experts on Hindutva haven’t probably heard about. Sita Ram Goel, the tallest of figures in that small but important category of Hindu Activists Outside the Sangh, observed, as early as the 1950s, that the typical reaction of [...]