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Jan De Zutter criticized Elst for being too close with the Vlaams Belang, as in June 1992, Koenraad Elst gave a speech directed against Islam at the [[Vlaams Blok]] Colloquium where the party proposed its first version of its 70 point anti-immigration policy<ref>{{cite book |first=Jan |last=De Zutter |title=Heidenen voor het blok - Radicaal rechts en het moderne Heidendom" (Heathens in favour of the Blok - the radical Right and modern Heathenism) |language=Dutch |ISBN= 90-5240-582-4 |Publisher |Uitgeverij Houtekiet|location=Antwerpen / Baarn |year=2000 | page= 17 }}</ref> Elst said that he spoke there because it was the only party where the "problem of Islam" was brought up, but that he also explicitly said that he did not agree with the party's solution for that problem, and disapproved of their xenophobia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/dutch/isvb.html |title=Het VB en de islam |language=Dutch }}</ref> He stated that the VB can not be and was never his party because of its xenophobia and ethnocentrism.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/dutch/watisracisme.html |title=Wat is racisme? |language=Dutch }}</ref> Since this event, he has often been accused of being the party's specialist on Islam and its link with the new [[Wicca|Pagan Movement]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}} Though he himself denies any affinity to the party program,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/dutch/isvb.html |title=Het VB en de islam |first= Koenraad |last=Elst |publisher=Nucleus |date=October–November 2001 |language=Dutch }}</ref> he admits to "lukewarm" sympathy for the Flemish cause (of independence).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/dutch/separatisme.html |title=Vlaanderen, Kasjmir, Tsjetsjenië, Kosovo... Het ene separatisme is het andere niet (''Flanders, Kashmir, Chechnya, Kosovo: one separatism does not equal another'') |first= Koenraad |last=Elst |publisher=Secessie |location=Antwerpen |year=2001 }}</ref> Lucas Catherine contrasted Elst's viewpoint with the viewpoint of [[Filip Dewinter]], who according to him could not have been very happy with Elst's opinion that not Muslims, but Islam, is the problem.<ref>{{cite book |author=Lucas Catherine |title=Vuile Arabieren |page=81 |language=Dutch }} quoted at {{cite web |url=http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/dutch/isvb.html |title=Het VB en de islam |first=Koenraad last=Elst }}</ref> |
Jan De Zutter criticized Elst for being too close with the Vlaams Belang, as in June 1992, Koenraad Elst gave a speech directed against Islam at the [[Vlaams Blok]] Colloquium where the party proposed its first version of its 70 point anti-immigration policy<ref>{{cite book |first=Jan |last=De Zutter |title=Heidenen voor het blok - Radicaal rechts en het moderne Heidendom" (Heathens in favour of the Blok - the radical Right and modern Heathenism) |language=Dutch |ISBN= 90-5240-582-4 |Publisher |Uitgeverij Houtekiet|location=Antwerpen / Baarn |year=2000 | page= 17 }}</ref> Elst said that he spoke there because it was the only party where the "problem of Islam" was brought up, but that he also explicitly said that he did not agree with the party's solution for that problem, and disapproved of their xenophobia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/dutch/isvb.html |title=Het VB en de islam |language=Dutch }}</ref> He stated that the VB can not be and was never his party because of its xenophobia and ethnocentrism.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/dutch/watisracisme.html |title=Wat is racisme? |language=Dutch }}</ref> Since this event, he has often been accused of being the party's specialist on Islam and its link with the new [[Wicca|Pagan Movement]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}} Though he himself denies any affinity to the party program,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/dutch/isvb.html |title=Het VB en de islam |first= Koenraad |last=Elst |publisher=Nucleus |date=October–November 2001 |language=Dutch }}</ref> he admits to "lukewarm" sympathy for the Flemish cause (of independence).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/dutch/separatisme.html |title=Vlaanderen, Kasjmir, Tsjetsjenië, Kosovo... Het ene separatisme is het andere niet (''Flanders, Kashmir, Chechnya, Kosovo: one separatism does not equal another'') |first= Koenraad |last=Elst |publisher=Secessie |location=Antwerpen |year=2001 }}</ref> Lucas Catherine contrasted Elst's viewpoint with the viewpoint of [[Filip Dewinter]], who according to him could not have been very happy with Elst's opinion that not Muslims, but Islam, is the problem.<ref>{{cite book |author=Lucas Catherine |title=Vuile Arabieren |page=81 |language=Dutch }} quoted at {{cite web |url=http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/dutch/isvb.html |title=Het VB en de islam |first=Koenraad last=Elst }}</ref> |
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At the end of March 2008, Koenraad Elst ridiculed [[Hugo Claus]]'s decision to undergo [[euthanasia]], claiming that it was influenced by the [[Purple (government)|purple]] agnostic lobby to embarrass the [[Roman Catholic Church]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3126 |title=De Apotheose van Claus }}</ref> |
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==Influences== |
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Koenraad Elst | |
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Koenraad Elst (born 7 August 1959) is a Belgian writer and orientalist. He has authored fifteen English-language books on topics related to Indian politics and communalism.
He is a freelance journalist. He was an editor of Teksten, Kommentaren en Studies, a Nouvelle Droite publication from 1992 to 1995, and wrote articles in the weekly Trends (a Belgian business magazine), Knack, The Brussels Journal, Middle East Forum and some Flemish separatist magazines and newspapers such as Nucleus, 't Pallieterke, Secessie.
Biography
Elst was born to a Flemish Catholic family. Some of his family were Christian missionaries.[1] He graduated in Indology, Sinology and Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven.[citation needed] He received a Ph.D. from the same university in 1999. The main portion of his Ph.D. dissertation on Hindu revivalism and Hindu reform movements eventually became his book Decolonizing the Hindu Mind. Other parts of his Ph.D. thesis were published in Who is a Hindu and The Saffron Swastika. He studied at the Banaras Hindu University in India. Several of his books on communalism and Indian politics are published by the Voice of India publishing house.[2]
In his twenties, he was active in the New Age Movement.[3] In the 1990s he became interested in the European Neopagan movement.
During a stay at the Banaras Hindu University between 1988 and 1992, he interviewed many Indian leaders and writers.[4] He wrote his first book about the Ayodhya conflict. While establishing himself as a columnist for a number of Belgian and Indian papers, he frequently went to India to study various aspects of its ethno-religio-political configuration and interview Hindu and other leaders and thinkers.
In 1989, Elst met Sita Ram Goel after reading Goel's book History of Hindu Christian Encounters. Elst sent Goel a manuscript of his first book Ram Janmabhoomi Vs. Babri Masjid: A Case Study in Hindu Muslim Conflict. Goel was impressed with Elst's script: "I could not stop after I started reading it. I took it to Ram Swarup the same evening. He read it during the night and rang me up next morning. Koenraad Elst's book, he said, should be published immediately."[5] In August 1990, L. K. Advani released Koenraad Elst's book about the Ayodhya conflict at a public function presided over by Girilal Jain.[5][6]
His research on the ideological development of Hindu revivalism earned him a Ph.D. at Leuven in 1998. He has also written about multiculturalism, language policy issues, ancient Chinese history and philosophy, comparative religion, and the Aryan invasion debate. Elst became a well-known author on Indian politics during the 1990s in parallel with the BJP's rise to prominence on the national stage. He has mostly been an independent scholar without affiliation.[7]
Elst says that his language has "softened and become more focused on viewpoints rather than groups of people such as, "the" Muslims or the Marxist historians." [8] He writes that he has reoriented his scholarly interests towards more fundamental philosophical studies and questions of ancient history, rather than questions in the centre of contemporary political struggles.[9] He worked parttime as an investigator for the Belgian senator Jurgen Ceder until spring 2013.
Opinions
Hinduism and Indian politics
Template:Hindu politics Elst is one of the few western writers (along with François Gautier) to defend the Hindu nationalism movements,[10] though he makes some secondary criticisms about particular points. Of these, about Hindutva specifically, he says, "there is no intellectual life in this Hindutva movement".[11] He also says that Hindutva advocates have not developed a "wellfounded coherent vision on a range of topics which any social thinker and any political party will have to address one day", and that there is as yet very little original or comprehensive work being done in the Hindutva movement.[11] According to Elst, "Hindutva is a fairly crude ideology, borrowing heavily from European nationalisms with their emphasis on homogeneity. Under the conditions of British colonialism, it was inevitable that some such form of Hindu nationalism would arise, but I believe better alternatives have seen the light, more attuned to the genius of Hindu civilization."[12] Sometimes, Elst is critical of Hindutva for not going far enough in its criticism of Islam.[13] He has also criticized fringe Hindutva writers for claiming that the Taj Mahal is a Hindu temple, or for claiming that the Vedas contain all the secrets of modern science.[11]
Elst views the RSS as an interesting nationalist movement, while addressing some secondary critics, in which Elst criticizes the RSS for not going far enough in the nationalist realm.[13] Elst has criticized anti-Hinduism and anti-Hindu biases in the media and academia. Elst writes "when Hindus complain of factual problems such as missionary subversion or Muslim terrorism, it is always convenient to portray this spontaneous and truthful perception as an artefact of "RSS propaganda".[14]
Elst's book Ram Janmabhoomi vs. Babri Masjid, a Case Study in Hindu-Muslim conflict (1990) was the first book published by a non-Indian on the Ayodhya debate.[11] His opinion is that "until 1989, there was a complete consensus in all sources (Hindu, Muslim and European) which spoke out on the matter, viz. that the Babri Masjid had been built in forcible replacement of a Hindu temple."[15] He claimed that politically motivated academics have, through their grip on the media, manufactured doubts concerning this coherent and well-attested tradition.[11] Elst alleges that the anti-Temple group in the Ayodhya conflict have committed serious breaches of academic deontology and says that the "overruling of historical evidence with a high-handed use of academic and media power" in the Ayodhya controversy was the immediate reason to involve himself in the debate.[16]
Elst's book Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam makes the case that the Islamic history in India is being whitewashed. He claims that there is a larger effort to rewrite India's history and to whitewash Islam. He says that the goal and methods of this alleged history rewriting is similar to the denial of the Nazi holocaust, and that in India jihad negationists are in control of the academic establishment and of the press.[17]
Elst's book The Saffron Swastika proposes an examination of the rhetoric of "Hindu fascism". He argues that "objective outsiders are not struck by any traces of fascism in the Hindutva movements, let alone in the general thought current of anti-imperialist Hindu awakening. While one should always be vigilant for traces of totalitarianism in any ideology or movement, the obsession with fascism in the anti-Hindu rhetoric of the secularists is not the product of an analysis of the data, but of their own political compulsions."[11]
In an article, he writes that the current tendency to accuse Hindu movements of "fascism" is nothing but a "replay of an old colonial tactic."[18]
On the topic of the "Indigenous Aryans" polemic within Hindu nationalism, Elst writes
"One thing which keeps on astonishing me in the present debate is the complete lack of doubt in both camps. Personally, I don’t think that either theory, of Aryan invasion and of Aryan indigenousness, can claim to have been "proven" by prevalent standards of proof; even though one of the contenders is getting closer. Indeed, while I have enjoyed pointing out the flaws in the AIT statements of the politicized Indian academic establishment and its American amplifiers, I cannot rule out the possibility that the theory which they are defending may still have its merits."[19]
The Hindu nationalist N.S. Rajaram criticized Elst's book Asterisk in Bharopiyasthan because of Elst's alleged agenda of "rescuing Indo-European linguistics from oblivion".[20] Elst's views on the Aryan Invasion Theory were also criticized by, for example, Hans Hock,[21] Edwin Bryant[22] George Cardona[23] and by Michael Witzel.[21]
Islam
Some of his books or articles contain harsh criticisms of Islam as a whole (among others "Wahi: the Supernatural Basis of Islam", "From Ayodhya to Nazareth", an article written in the form of an open letter to the Pope and Indian church Bishop Alan de Lastic, whom Elst calls "Your Eminences", and in which he invites them to ask Muslims for repentance towards Christians, or "Ayodhya And After", a book in which he delves into the realm of establishing a purported link between Ayodhya and the conflict between Palestinians and Israel -section 2.2 Jerusalem and Ayodhya-, not an isolated attempt in some far-right European movements; similarly, section 13.2 of that book is called Islam and Nazism). More precisely, Elst argues often that "not Muslims but Islam is the problem". [24] [25] His views on Islam are markedly in line with the neoconservative think-tank "Middle East Forum", to which he has contributed.[26]
Nouvelle Droite and Vlaams Belang
Elst actively contributes to nationalist New Right Flemish publications, and has shown sympathy to the Nouvelle Droite movement since the early 1990s. He has sometimes criticised that movement in relation to particular topics. He said that the collaborationist aspects of the careers of two Belgian writers were covered up in Nouvelle Droite articles, and that he suspected that "its critique of egalitarianism in the name of 'differentialism' could at heart simply be a plea against equality in favour of inequality, Old-Right style".[27]
However, his endorsement with the Nouvelle Droite is still active:
Wisely or unwisely, I have not taken my scepticism to be a reason for any active hostility to the Nouvelle Droite people, some of whom I count as friends... Time permitting, I accept invitations from that side, so that I spoke at their conference in Antwerp in 2000, if only as a stand-in for an announced speaker who had cancelled at the last minute for health reasons (Pim Fortuyn, no less, the Dutch liberal sociology professor who criticized Islam, subsequently went into politics, and ended up murdered by a leftist).[28]
Jan De Zutter criticized Elst for being too close with the Vlaams Belang, as in June 1992, Koenraad Elst gave a speech directed against Islam at the Vlaams Blok Colloquium where the party proposed its first version of its 70 point anti-immigration policy[29] Elst said that he spoke there because it was the only party where the "problem of Islam" was brought up, but that he also explicitly said that he did not agree with the party's solution for that problem, and disapproved of their xenophobia.[30] He stated that the VB can not be and was never his party because of its xenophobia and ethnocentrism.[31] Since this event, he has often been accused of being the party's specialist on Islam and its link with the new Pagan Movement.[citation needed] Though he himself denies any affinity to the party program,[32] he admits to "lukewarm" sympathy for the Flemish cause (of independence).[33] Lucas Catherine contrasted Elst's viewpoint with the viewpoint of Filip Dewinter, who according to him could not have been very happy with Elst's opinion that not Muslims, but Islam, is the problem.[34]
Influences
Elst has published in English and Dutch. He contributed for example to the conservative magazine Nucleus.[35][36] He is also a contributor to the conservative internet magazine The Brussels Journal, the Flemish satirical weekly 't Pallieterke and other Belgian and Dutch publications. He has also written for mainstream Indian magazines like Outlook India. He wrote a postscript to a book written by Daniel Pipes (The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West). He has also published critiques of Islamism in the West.[37] According to Sanjay Subrahmanyam, he has connections to the far-right Vlaams Blok.[38] though Dr. Subrahmanyam did not provide any supporting evidence.
He has described himself as "a secular humanist with an active interest in religions, particularly Taoism and Hinduism, and keeping a close watch on the variegated Pagan revival in Europe."[39]
In his books, articles, and interviews, he describes some of his personal motivations and interests in Indian nationalism and communalism[40][41][42]
Criticism
Manini Chatterjee, in a review in the Calcutta Telegraph, called Elst's book Ramjanmabhoomi vs. Babri Masjid a "very bad book".[43] She also said that it was marred by miserably tentative terminology, like "maybe" and "possibly".[13] Paul Teunissen's review of the same book criticizes Elst for the unfavourable portrayal of Syed Shahabuddin.[43]
Thomas Blom Hansen described Elst as a "Belgian Catholic of a radical anti-Muslim persuasion who tries to make himself useful as a 'fellow traveller' of the Hindu nationalist movement".[44] Ashis Nandy criticized the alleged dishonesty and moral vacuity of Elst.[45]
Sarvepalli Gopal in the book Anatomy of a Confrontation calls Elst "a Catholic practitioner of polemics" who "fights the Crusades all over again on Indian soil". He also says that it is difficult to take an author, who "speaks of the centuries when there were Muslim rulers in India as a bloodsoaked catastrophe", seriously.[13]
Ayub Khan says that Koenraad Elst is the most prominent advocate of Sangh Parivar in the West. He further says: "Such is his importance in Hindutva circles that L.K. Advani quoted him at length while deposing before the Liberhans Commission investigation the demolition of Babri Masjid." In a reply to Ayub Khan, Elst says that he has been critical of the Sangh Parivar in his writings.[46]
Christian Bouchet criticized Elst's book The Saffron Swastika for having placed far too much trust in Savitri Devi's autobiography, and for claiming that Savitri Devi was bisexual.[47]
Works
Books
- Dr. Ambedkar - A True Aryan. 1993.
- Asterisk in Bharopiyasthan. Voice of India.
- Ayodhya, The Finale - Science versus Secularism the Excavations Debate (2003) ISBN 81-85990-77-8
- Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple. 2002. ISBN 81-85990-75-1.
- "[[Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society]]". 1991.
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- Decolonizing the Hindu Mind - Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism. Delhi: Rupa. 2001. ISBN 81-7167-519-0.
- The Demographic Siege. 1997. ISBN 81-85990-50-6.
- "Indigenous Indians: Agastya to Ambedkar". Voice of India. 1993.
- Gandhi and Godse - A review and a critique. ISBN 81-85990-71-9.(transl: Pourquoi j’ai tué Gandhi, examen critique de la défense de Nathuram Godse par Koenraad Elst, Les Belles Lettres)
- Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam. 1992. ISBN 81-85990-01-8.
- Psychology of Prophetism - A Secular Look at the Bible. 1993. ISBN 81-85990-00-X.
- Ram Janmabhoomi vs. Babri Masjid. A Case Study in Hindu-Muslim Conflict. Voice of India, Delhi 1990. (a large part of this book is included in Vinay Chandra Mishra and Parmanand Singh, eds.: Ram Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid, Historical Documents, Legal Opinions & Judgments, Bar Council of India Trust, Delhi 1991.)
- Return of the Swastika, Koenraad Elst, Voice of India
- The Saffron Swastika - The Notion of Hindu Fascism. (2001) ISBN 81-85990-69-7
- Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate Aditya Prakashan (1999) ISBN 81-86471-77-4
- [[Who is a Hindu?]]. 2001. ISBN 81-85990-74-3.
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Book chapters
- Linguistic Aspects of the Aryan Non-Invasion Theory, In Edwin Bryant and Laurie L. Patton (editors) (2005). Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and Inference in Indian History. Routledge/Curzon. ISBN 0-7007-1463-4.
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has generic name (help) - Transaction Publishers, paperback (2003). 1990. ISBN 0-7658-0996-6.
- Gujarat After Godhra : Real Violence, Selective Outrage/edited by Ramesh N. Rao and Koenraad Elst. New Delhi, Har-Anand Pub., 2003, 248 p., ISBN 81-241-0917-6.
- The Ayodhya demolition: an evaluation", in Dasgupta, S., et al.: The Ayodhya Reference, q.v., p. 123-154.
- The Ayodhya debate in Pollet, G., ed.: Indian Epic Values. Râmâyana and Its Impact. Leuven: Peeters. 1995, q.v., p. 21-42.
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- India's Only Communalist: In Commemoration of Sita Ram Goel (edited by Koenraad Elst, 2005) ISBN 81-85990-78-6
- "The Rushdie Rules". Middle East Quarterly. June 1998.
- Foreword to: The Prolonged Partition and Its Pogroms Testimonies on Violence against Hindus in East Bengal (1946–1964) by A. J. Kamra.
- "Banning Hindu Revaluation". Observer of Business and Politics. 1-12-1993.
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See also
- Andrew Bostom
- Michel Danino
- Swapan Dasgupta
- Oriana Fallaci
- David Frawley
- Girilal Jain
- G Anil Kumar
- N. S. Rajaram
- Arun Shourie
- The Satanic Verses
- Srđa Trifković
- Ibn Warraq
Notes
- ^ "The Problem of Christian Missionaries".
- ^ Michael Witzel, 'Rama's Realm: Indocentric rewriting of early South Asian archaeology and history' in: Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public Routledge (2006), ISBN 0-415-30593-4, p. 205.
- ^ "New Age Fascism: Review of an Exercise in Marxist Defamation".
- ^ Elst, Koenraad. Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam.
- ^ a b Sitam Ram Goel, How I became a Hindu. ch.9
- ^ Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society (1991) Footnote 64
- ^ "So, Mr. Ghosh may be the Director of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, but as an independent scholar I am not impressed by such titles and positions." Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society (1991)
- ^ Koenraad Elst. Who is a Hindu? Chapter Four
- ^ Ayodhya, The Finale - Science versus Secularism the Excavations Debate. 2003. ISBN 81-85990-77-8.
- ^ See M. R. Pirbhai Demons in Hindutva, writing a theology for Hindu nationalism, Modern Intellectual History (2008), 5 : 27-53 Cambridge University Press doi:10.1017/S1479244307001527, and Dibyesh Anand Anxious Sexualities: Masculinity, Nationalism and Violence doi:10.1111/j.1467-856x.2007.00282.x BJPIR: 2007 Vol 9, 257–269 p.259.
- ^ a b c d e f Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society (1991) Chapter Fifteen Cite error: The named reference "After 1991" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ "Let's Combat Communalism".
- ^ a b c d Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam. 1992. ISBN 81-85990-01-8.
- ^ "Hinduism, Environmentalism and the Nazi Bogey -- A preliminary reply to Ms. Meera Nanda".
- ^ Koenraad Elst. Who is a Hindu? Chapter Nine
- ^ Koenraad Elst. Who is a Hindu? Chapter Eleven
- ^ Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam (1992) ISBN 81-85990-01-8
- ^ "Was Veer Savarkar a Nazi?".
- ^ Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate Aditya Prakashan (1999) ISBN 81-86471-77-4
- ^ N.S. Rajaram, "This asterisk has no fine prints", Review in The Pioneer, 18 March 2007
- ^ a b Edwin Bryant and Laurie L. Patton (editors) (2005). Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and Inference in Indian History.
- ^ The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture By Edwin Bryant. Oxford University Press
- ^ The Indo-Aryan Languages By Dhanesh Jain, George Cardona. Routledge
- ^ "Book Review - Saffron Wave".
- ^ Koenraad, Elst (2001 by Ayub Khan in Communalism Watch, 13 March 2003). Sangh Parivar's Apologist", a review of Decolonizing the Hindu Mind: Ideological development of Hindu Revivalism. Rupa, Delhi.
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- ^ "The religion of the Nazis".
- ^ De Zutter, Jan (2000). Heidenen voor het blok - Radicaal rechts en het moderne Heidendom" (Heathens in favour of the Blok - the radical Right and modern Heathenism) (in Dutch). Antwerpen / Baarn. p. 17. ISBN 90-5240-582-4.
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- ^ "Wat is racisme?" (in Dutch).
- ^ Elst, Koenraad (October–November 2001). "Het VB en de islam" (in Dutch). Nucleus.
- ^ Elst, Koenraad (2001). "Vlaanderen, Kasjmir, Tsjetsjenië, Kosovo... Het ene separatisme is het andere niet (Flanders, Kashmir, Chechnya, Kosovo: one separatism does not equal another)". Antwerpen: Secessie.
- ^ Lucas Catherine. Vuile Arabieren (in Dutch). p. 81. quoted at "Het VB en de islam".
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- ^ "Beeldenstorm in Afghanistan" (in Dutch). bharatvani.org. 9 March 2001.
- ^ Elst, Koenraad (June 1998). "The Rushdie Rules". Middle East Quarterly.
- ^ "Sanjay Subrahmanyam". The Times of India. 22 August 2006.
- ^ "The Problem of Christian Missionaries". bharatvani.org. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
- ^ "Elst interview".
- ^ "Voice of Dharma review".
- ^ "Let's combat communalism".
- ^ a b Koenraad Elst Who is a Hindu? (2001)
- ^ Hansen, Thomas. "The Saffron Wave". p. 262.
- ^ Nandy, A. "Creating a Nationality". p. 5.
- ^ Elst, Koenraad. "Let's Combat Communalism". Khan, Ayub (13 March 2003). Sangh Parivar's Apologist, a review of Decolonizing the Hindu Mind: Ideological development of Hindu Revivalism. Rupa, Delhi: Communalism Watch.
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External links
- Articles and Books by Dr. Elst
- Dr Koenraad Elst's views on Ayodhya Judgement.
- Quotes by Koenraad Elst
- Koenraad Elst at the Brussels Journal
- An Interview With Koenraad Elst
- Interview with India Currents Magazine, Feb. '96
- Pondering Pagans Hinduism Today
- Review of Koenraad Elst's Ayodhya and after
- Criticism and review of Elst's positions on 'revivalism'. "Koenraad Elst--Sangh Parivar's Apologist" by A. Khan (reply by Elst)