Sita Ram Goel

Sita Ram Goel (Hindi: सीता राम गोयल, Sita Rām Goyal; * October 16, 1921; † 3 December 2003 New Delhi ) was an Indian author and founder of the non-profit publishing house Voice of India.

Life

Goel was born in a village in the Indian state of Haryana today that part of Punjab and studied History (MA ) at the Delhi University. During his student years he was a social activist. He worked for a Harijan Ashram in his village.

During the riots in Calcutta, 1946 ( "Great Calcutta Killing" ) on 16 August 1946, he escaped, his wife and his son nearly died. These religious riots occurred shortly before the partition of India.

Sita Ram Goel was influenced heavily by Marxism as a student and seriously considered the Communist Party of India join. Later, he met Ram Swarup know, who influenced him greatly.

Goel has published books in English and Hindi. In addition, he also translated the works of George Orwell and Plato into Hindi.

Goel is considered known and important critic of religion in India and often involved critical position to Islam, Marxism and Christianity. This position made ​​him a controversial author who is often ignored or criticized by his opponents. Goel itself also criticized Marxist authors such as Romila Thapar, which he accused of falsifying history.

In 1981 he founded the non-profit publishing house Voice of India.

Works

  • Hindu Society under Siege (1981, revised 1992)
  • The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India ( 1982, second revised edition 1994)
  • How I Became a Hindu (1982, expanded 1993)
  • Defence of Hindu Society (1983, revised 1987)
  • The Emerging National Vision (1983 )
  • History of Heroic Hindu Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders ( 1984, 2001)
  • Perversion of India 's Political parlance (1984 )
  • Saikyularizm, Râshtradroha kâ Dûsrâ Nam (English: " Secularism, another name for treason ", 1985)
  • Papacy, Its Doctrine and History (1986 )
  • Muslim Separatism, Causes and Consequences (1987 )
  • Foreword to Catholic Ashrams, Adapting and Adopting Hindu Dharma (1988, expanded in 1994 with a new subtitle: sannyasins or swindlers? )
  • History of Hindu - Christian Encounters (1989, extended in 1996 )
  • Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them (1990 vol.1, vol.2 1991, expanded 1993)
  • Genesis and Growth of Nehruism (1993 )
  • Jesus Christ: An Artifice for Agrression (1994 )
  • Time for Stock- Taking (1997)
  • Preface to the reprint of Mathilda Joslyn Gage: Woman, Church and State (1997, 1880 ), ( feminist critique of Christianity )
  • Preface to Vindicated by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report (1998 ), a reprint of the official report of the missionary methods of infiltration and Conversion ( 1955)
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