David Frawley
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David Frawley is an American spiritual teacher, advocate of yoga, vedic astrology, ayurveda,[1] and writer of many New age books.[2] He is an apologist of the Hindutva movement.[2] His writings are example of marriage between the far right Hindutva ideology and New Ageism.[2]
Frawley runs an online project he calls American Institute of Vedic Studies, focusing on "Ayurveda, Yoga-Vedanta, Vedic astrology and their interconnections." He also advocates the pseudohistorical Indigenous Aryans theory.[3]
In 2014, after the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed government in India, it appointed Y. Sudershan Rao, a history professor associated with a RSS-affiliated organization, as the head of the Indian Council of Historical Research[wp] (ICHR), leading to concern about politicization of academia.[4] In 2015, the ICHR invited Frawley to deliver a lecture on "Textual Evidence in Vedas — Cultural and Historical Implication".[1][5] The decision to invite him was criticised by archeologist and Cambridge University professor Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti[wp].[1] The BJP goverment also awarded him Padma Bhushan[wp], one of India's highest civilian award.[6]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 ICHR historian Dilip K Chakrabarti raises objection on David Frawley's invitation Economic Times
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Les Back and John Solomos (2000), Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader, p.591, ISBN 9780415156714. "It is important to note the marriage between far-right-wing Hindutva ideology and western New Ageism in the works of writers like David Frawley (1994, 1995a, 1995b) who is both a key apologist for the Hindutva movement and the author of various New Age books on Vedic astrology, oracles and yoga."
- ↑ David Frawley, The Myth of the Aryan Invasion of India
- ↑ Ancient India had aeroplanes, nuclear weapons, says chief of India's premier history body India Today
- ↑ ICHR Foundation Day Lecture by David Frawley
- ↑ http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/american-vedic-scholar-to-be-star-of-ichr-event/article1-1327166.aspx
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