Ram Swarup
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Ram Swarup (राम स्वरूप) (1920 - December 26, 1998) was an independent Hindu thinker. A prolific author, his works took a critical stance against Christianity, Islam and Communism. His work greatly influenced later Indian writers.
He studied at Delhi University, and participated in the Indian Freedom Movement.[1] Some of his early influences were Aldous Huxley and George Bernard Shaw.[2] He started the Changer's Club in 1944. Its members included L. C. Jain, Raj Krishna, Girilal Jain, and historian Sita Ram Goel.[3] In 1949 he started the Society for the Defence of Freedom in Asia.[4] His early book "Gandhism and Communism" from this time had some incfluence among American policy makers and Congress men.
He also had an interest in European Neopaganism, and corresponded with Prudence Jones (chairperson of Pagan Federation) and the Pagan author Gudrun Kristin Magnusdottir.[5]
[edit] Works
- The Word as Revelation: Names of Gods (1980), (1982, revised 1992)
- Understanding Islam through Hadis (1983 in the USA by Arvind Ghosh, Houston; Indian reprint by Voice of India, 1984); The Hindi translation was banned in 1990, and the English original was banned in 1991 in India.
- Buddhism vis-à-vis Hinduism (1958, revised 1984).
- Christianity, an Imperialist Ideology (1983, with Major T.R. Vedantham and Sita Ram Goel);
- Woman in Islam (1994);
- Hindu Dharma, Isaiat aur Islam (1985, Hindi: "Hindu Dharma, Christianity and Islam");
- Hindu View of Christianity and Islam (1993, contains also as an appendix Swarup's foreword to D. S. Margoliouth's Mohammed and the Rise of Islam (1985, original in 1905) and to William Muir's The Life of Mahomet (1992, original in 1894)
- Cultural Alienation and Some Problems Hinduism Faces (1987)
- Foreword to Anirvan: Inner Yoga (1988, reprint 1995)
- Hindu-Sikh Relationship (1985)
- Foreword to the republication of Sardar Gurbachan Singh Talib, ed.: Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab, 1947 (1991; the original had been published by the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, Amritsar in 1950), and also separately published as Whither Sikhism? (1991)
- Hindu-Buddhist Rejoinder to Pope John-Paul II on Eastern Religions and Yoga(1995)
[edit] References
- ^ Ram Swarup (1920-1998) – Outline of a Biography
- ^ Ram Swarup (1920-1998) – Outline of a Biography
- ^ Ram Swarup (1920-1998) – Outline of a Biography
- ^ Ram Swarup (1920-1998) – Outline of a Biography
- ^ Koenraad Elst. Who is a Hindu, 2001
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