Rajiv Malhotra
- January 8, 2024
- Writer
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Rajiv Malhotra Biography
| Name | Rajiv Malhotra |
| Birthday | Sep 15 |
| Birth Year | 1950 |
| Place Of Birth | New Delhi |
| Home Town | Delhi |
| Birth Country | India |
| Birth Sign | Virgo |
Rajiv Malhotra is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on September 15, 1950 in New Delhi, Delhi, India. The Anglican Church’s scholar-evangelist Bishop Robert Caldwell (1814-1891) pioneered the concept of the “Dravidian” identity. He argued in his Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Race that the south Indian mind was structurally distinct from the Sanskrit mind. Linguistic speculations became a race theory. He called the Dravidians “ignorant” and “dense,” and accused the Brahmins, the cunning Aryan agents, of keeping them in chains through the imposition Sanskrit’s religion and Sanskrit.
The institute was founded by Malhotra in 1995. It was followed in 2000 by the Educational Council of Indic Traditions. The foundation is run without full- time workers, and Malhotra is not involved. The foundation was established to combat misrepresentations of ancient Indian religions, and to document India’s contributions to world civilization. The advisory board consisted of a small number of people who were not academics and most of them belonged to the industry.
In early 2000s Malhotra started writing articles criticising Wendy Doniger and related scholars, claiming that she applied Freudian psycho-analysis to aspects of Indian culture. His 2002 blog titled Wendy’s Child Syndrome was considered as the starting point of a “rift between some Western Hinduism scholars […] and some conservative Hindus in India, the United States, and elsewhere”. Martha Nussbaum has called it a “war” by “the Hindu right” against American scholars.
In his 2003 blog Does South Asian Studies Undermine India? at Rediff India Abroad: India as it happens, Malhotra criticises what he views as uncritical funding of South Asian Studies by Indian-American donors. According to Malhotra:
Malhotra studied physics in Delhi at St. Stephen’s College and computer science at Syracuse University. He then became an entrepreneur in information technology and the media industries. At 44 years old, he took an early retirement to start the Infinity Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1995. He is also the chair of the Board of Governors of the Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He also advises many organisations.
Rajiv Malhotra Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Writer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Rajiv Malhotra is one of the richest Writer from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rajiv Malhotra 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
William James with his The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), Aldous Huxley and his The Perennial Philosophy (455) and Ken Wilber’s works, which he says were influenced by Vivekananda. Malhotra asks why Vivekananda’s influence is not acknowledged and credited in Western thought.
Rajiv Malhotra, an Indian-American author, was born 15 September 1950. He worked in the telecom and computer industries and took early retirement in
- The Infinity Foundation focuses on Indic Studies and funds projects like the Columbia University project to translate the Tibetan Buddhist Tengyur.
Several of Malhotra’s essays from the early 2000s were re-published by Voice of India in 2016 in Academic Hinduphobia: A Critique of Wendy Doniger’s Erotic School of Indology. According to Malhotra, the essays have been republished in the wake of the withdrawal of Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History from the Indian market, due to a lawsuit “alleging that it was biased and insulting to Hindus.” The withdrawal led to extensive media attention, and renewed sales in India. According to Malhotra “the drama has diverted attention away from the substantive errors in her scholarship to be really about being an issue of censorship by radical Hindus,” hence the republication of his critique of Wendy Doniger and scholars related to her.
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In May 2015, St. Olaf College Hindu-American scholar Anantanand Rambachan, who studied three years with Swami Dayananda, published an extensive response to Malhotra’s criticisms in Indra’s Net charging that Malhotra’s “descriptions of my scholarship belong appropriately to the realm of fiction and are disconnected from reality.” According to Rambachan, Malhotra’s understanding and representation of classical Advaita is incorrect, attributing doctrines to Shankara and Swami Dayananda which are rejected by them. Malhotra’s epistemological foundations have also been critically questioned by Anantanand Rambachan. He does not, according to Rambachan, situate his discussion in relation to classical epistemologies or clarify his differences with these.
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I am going to actually remove many of the references to your work simply because you have borrowed from Indian sources and called them your own original ideas […] Right now, it is western Indologists like you who get to define ‘critical editions’ of our texts and become the primary source and adhikari. This must end and I have been fighting this for 25 years […] we ought to examine where you got your materials from, and to what extent you failed to acknowledge Indian sources, both written and oral, with the same weight with which you expect me to do so.