Buddhist petitioners have successfully filed a case at the Indian Supreme Court seeking to overturn the Bodh Gaya Temple Act of 1949. That legislation had enabled a shared Hindu and Buddhist management of Bodh Gaya. Nehru sponsored this consensus arrangement in order to roll back the Saivite Mahant’s, until then, exclusive control over temple administration. [...]
October 28, 2012
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India, News updates
Dr Koenraad Elst explores the truth behind the often made claim that Buddha was a caste reformist [...]
May 28, 2012
Dr Koenraad Elst
Analysis/Insights, Archives
No less a person than Mahatma Gandhi once estimated that nearly a quarter of Hindus had converted to Islam over the past on thousand years. How true is this statement ? [...]
March 28, 2012
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Archives, History