Koenraad Elst

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Dharma's Angkor exurb

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Dharma's Angkor exurb Having the honour of prefacing the new edition of Prof. Kshitij Patukale's masterpiece *Angkorvat Vishnudh...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Koenraad Elst's books reviewed by Navaratna Rajaram

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This book review by the late NS Rajaram of my books Asterisk in Bhâropîyasthân and Return of the Swastika must be from 2007 or 2008. More pr...
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Saturday, September 16, 2023

Open letter to the editors of The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited

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(SENT FROM KÖLN ON 12 SEPTEMBER 2023, PUBLISHED IN PRAGYATA, DELHI, ON 13 SEPTEMBER 2023) Open letter to the editors of The Indo-European ...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

A Reply to Rainer Stuhrmann's Die Zehnkönigsschlacht am Ravifluss

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(This abstract was sent in, spring 2023, to the call for papers for the annual conference of the International Association for Comparative...
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Thursday, June 1, 2023

The Vedas as Influential Literary Achievement

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(Summerhill [bulletin of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies], summer 2023, paper version of a lecture I have given at the IIAS in aut...
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Koenraad Elst
Koenraad Elst (°Leuven 1959) distinguished himself early on as eager to learn and to dissent. After a few hippie years he studied at the KU Leuven, obtaining MA degrees in Sinology, Indology and Philosophy. After a research stay at Benares Hindu University he did original fieldwork for a doctorate on Hindu nationalism, which he obtained magna cum laude in 1998. As an independent researcher he earned laurels and ostracism with his findings on hot items like Islam, multiculturalism and the secular state, the roots of Indo-European, the Ayodhya temple/mosque dispute and Mahatma Gandhi's legacy. He also published on the interface of religion and politics, correlative cosmologies, the dark side of Buddhism, the reinvention of Hinduism, technical points of Indian and Chinese philosophies, various language policy issues, Maoism, the renewed relevance of Confucius in conservatism, the increasing Asian stamp on integrating world civilization, direct democracy, the defence of threatened freedoms, and the Belgian question. Regarding religion, he combines human sympathy with substantive skepticism.
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