“History of Hindu-Christian Encounters” by Sita Ram Goel – Second Encounter in Tamil Nadu (Part 11)
While a heated dialogue between Hindu Dharma and Christianity was going on in the North, another dialogue was taking shape in South Bharat…
Abrahamic Religions
“History of Hindu-Christian Encounters” by Sita Ram Goel – Encounter with Maharshi Dayananda (Part 10)
Compared to the intervals between the encounters narrated so far, the next encounter between Hindu Dharma and Christianity took a much longer time in coming…
Do Some Bharatiyas Purposely Misunderstand Secularism?
Do you remember the frenzied appeals to the Bharatiya electorate before the elections in May 2014 to vote “secular”? They came from all quarters – from Bollywood, from “intellectuals”, and…
“History of Hindu-Christian Encounters” by Sita Ram Goel – Encounter with Sariskrit Pandits (Part 9)
Yet another dialogue between Hindu Dharma and Christianity was held from 1839 to 1845. It is particularly interesting because it took place through the medium of Sanskrit…
“History of Hindu-Christian Encounters” by Sita Ram Goel – Encounter in Maharashtra (Part 8)
Another dialogue between Hindu Dharma and Christianity was held soon after the one in Calcutta. This time the venue was Bombay…
“History of Hindu-Christian Encounters” by Sita Ram Goel – Encounter with Raja Ram Mohun Roy (Part 7)
The next significant dialogue between Hindu Dharma and Christianity commenced more than a hundred years later, in 1820…
“History of Hindu-Christian Encounters” by Sita Ram Goel – Encounter at Pondicherry (Part 6)
Encounter at Pondicherry- The following account of what the Christians did to Hindus in Pondicherry has been taken from the diary maintained by Anand Ranga Pillai…
“History of Hindu-Christian Encounters” by Sita Ram Goel – Encounter in Tamil Nadu (Part 5)
Encounter in Tamil Nadu- Ziegenbalg who was the most aggressive evangelist of this period1 came from the Lutheran seminary at Halle in Germany…
“History of Hindu-Christian Encounters” by Sita Ram Goel – From Monologue to Dialogue (Part 4)
From Monologue to Dialogue- There is no known evidence of a dialogue between Hindu Dharma and Christianity before the end of the seventeenth century…
“History of Hindu-Christian Encounters” by Sita Ram Goel – Pirates in Priest’s Clothing (Part 3)
Pirates in Priest’s Clothing- The next encounter between Hindu Dharma and Christianity commenced with the coming of Christian missionaries to Malabar…