Gajendran Ayyathurai

Gajendran Ayyathurai is an anthropologist and historian based in Göttingen, Germany. He has published in Tamil, German and English.

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The Chetiyagiri temple in Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh, where Jawaharlal Nehru organised a re-enshrinement of Buddhist relics in 1952. In ‘Dust on the Thorne’, Douglas Ober unravels the Indian National Congress’s motives in pursuing a resurrection of Buddhism in India. Photo: robertharding / IMAGO

Buddhism’s long fight against brahminism and caste

Gajendran Ayyathurai

25 Oct 2023

Himal Southasian

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