Snakes in the Ganga: Breaking India 2.0 by Rajiv Malhotra -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Background Four Big Stories

Story 1: The Americanization of Marxism Story 2: The Indianization of Critical Race Theory Story 3: Harvard University Churns Out Atrocity Literature Story 4: Breaking India by the New Elites Motives for Funding

Key Takeaways

Part I. DEBATING INDIAN CULTURE’S LEGITIMACY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1. Dismantling the United States of America

Overview European Origins of the Old Left

Marxism Marxist Critical Theory Postmodernism

Critical Race Theory

Intersectionality Queer Theory

The Church of Wokeism

Liberal Arts Becomes Dogmatic Popular Wokeism

Troubling Attributes

Rejection of Science, Rationality, and Meritocracy Equity and Equality Cancel Culture and Suppression of Dissent Activism and the Toolbox Attacking Individualism Attacking Barack Obama’s Color-blindness Educational Battleground Dismantling the Old Without Knowing How to Build the New

The Corporatization of Woke

2. The Americanization of Caste

Overview Critical Race Theory’s Passage to India Caste Considered the Architecture of Global Racism Hindu Dharma Dismissed as a Frozen and Abusive System Ignoring Other Caste Systems Dismantling Hindu Dharma Is Considered Necessary

3. Indian Americans Equated With White Racists

Overview Compiling US Databases of Indian American Caste Abuses Litigations on Caste in the United States of America

The US Technology Industry American Colleges and Universities American Local Governments

Issues and Challenges Globalizing the Dalit Empowerment Movement A Silver Lining

4. Attacking Meritocracy at the Indian Institutes of Technology

Overview The Origin of Western Meritocracy History of Separating Artisans and Engineers in India Merit Considered a Form of Cultural Capital Entrance Exams Conceal Caste Privileges Merit as Male Dominated Capitalism Institutional Kinship Among IITians and Brand Development Considered Casteist Attack on Silicon Valley Breaking Ranks with Afro-Dalits The Politics of Jawaharlal Nehru v/s Narendra Modi Concerns with Subramanian’s Thesis

5. The Rise of the Afro-Dalits

Overview Questioning Yengde’s Core Historical Assumptions Opportunistic Use of Ambedkar and Buddhism Dalits as Perennial Victims Brahmin Patriarchy Caste Globalization and the Fourth World Catfight to Represent the Victims Aggression Redefined

6. A Response: History of Indian Social Organization

Introduction Seven Historical Phases What the Ancient Texts State

The Vedic Era The Upanishads The Bhagavad Gita The Mahabharata The Dharmashastras

Is Hinduism Fixated on Caste?

Hinduism’s Open Architecture Caste is Not Sufficient to Be a Hindu Caste is Not Necessary to Be a Hindu Challenges to Birth-based Hierarchy in Actual Practice

Shudras and Vanavasis

Shudras as Emperors, Kings, and Soldiers Economic Power and Social Status Untouchability Between Shudras Indigenous Education Before the British Dalit Hindu Pride Vanavasis

The Bhakti Movement British Social Engineering

The British Admit That No Rigid Caste Existed Risley Imposes ‘Caste = Racial Hierarchy’ Making ‘Untouchability’ Official Indian Nationalists Accept the British Categories

B.R. Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement

Ambedkar and Caste Ambedkar and Islamophobia Ambedkar and Buddhism Ambedkar and Communism

The Pros and Cons of Jati/Caste

Checks and Balances Against Totalitarianism Division of Labor and Transmission of Expertise Inter-dependency of Jatis: The Jajmani System Decentralized Lobbying Ecological Role Economic Security Jatis and Introvertedness: The Problem The Collapse of the Caste System

Part II. HARVARD VISHWA GURU AND INDIAN BILLIONAIRES 7. Thirty Years of Encounters with Harvard University

Harvard University’s Role in Digesting Indian Meditation Systems

Herb Benson Daniel Goleman Jon Kabat-Zinn Alfred North Whitehead Swami Vivekananda and William James

Digesting Indian Spirituality Into Western Literature

Ralph Waldo Emerson Walt Whitman Henry David Thoreau T.S. Eliot

Atrocity Literature Developed by Harvard University

Atrocity Literature in the Name of Public Health Weaponizing the Vanavasis The Khalistanis and Kashmir Separatists Mapping Hindi on to Urdu

Indian Funding of Harvard University in the Early Years

Infinity Foundation Visiting Professorships Rejection by Dhirubhai Ambani Anand Mahindra Jumps In Rajat Gupta

Lessons Learned

8. China’s Trojan Horse in America

Overview China Enters Harvard University Chinese Funding China Funds Wokeism in America Harvard Kennedy School’s China Program Harvard’s China-friendly Scholars Anti-India and Pro-China Pivot Harvard and the Chinese Military Harvard and COVID-19 The China-Brookings Institution Connection

9. The Importance of Investigating Harvard University

Overview Harvard University’s Academic-Industrial Complex Indians Build a Vishwa Guru Monster Harvard as Good-Cop

10. Databases, Taxonomies, and Archives

Overview Taxonomies: Indian and Western Colonization: The Clash of Taxonomies Kumbh Mela The Partition Project Medical Databases Art and Aesthetics Other Databases Loss of Intellectual Property and National Security

11. Anand Mahindra and Postmodernism

Overview Homi K. Bhabha, the Pied Piper of Harvard Bhabha’s Postmodernism Indian Franchise Hinduphobia

12. Lakshmi Mittal and Social Justice

Overview Harvard University Sets up its ‘Embassy in India’ Political Interventions

Caste Impact in America Women’s Empowerment

Digging Deeper Major Themes

Social Entrepreneurship Economics and Development Healthcare Arts and Culture Other Diverse Projects

In Contrast with Pakistan’s Pride

13. The Piramals: Harvard University’s Gateway to India

Overview China’s Infiltration of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Caste as Lens in Public Health Chan-Piramal Collaboration on India Concerns

14. Harvard University’s Control of the Media Ecosystem in India

Overview The Nieman-Pulitzer Center Alliance Indian Organizations Supported by the Nieman Institute and the Pulitzer Center Case Study: People’s Archive of Rural India and the Chinese Communist Party PARI as a Breaking India Force in Education Case Study: Assault on Hindus in America Pulitzer Center Funding on India The Nieman-Pulitzer Media Network in India

Media Houses Supported Nieman Reports Nieman Grantees, Awards and Fellowships

Reinterpreting Indian Classics

15. Harvard Kennedy School: Geopolitics

Overview Harvard Sepoys Testifying Against India Misinformation Warfare Meddling with Indian Democracy Women and Public Policy Program The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy The Center for International Development Publications Brainwashing India’s Elites The Double Standards of Harvard University

16. Harvard Business School

Overview Social Justice Through Business Lens Harvard and Cancel Culture Exporting American Principles China’s Business Leadership

Part III. IS INDIAN FOR SALE? 17. The Ivy League Passage to India 18. The Nexus of Saudis, Americans, and Indian Billionaires

Overview Hypocrisy on Human Rights Saudi Funding of American Institutions Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT Indian Affiliates Research Output Jameel-Poverty Action Lab’s India Outposts: Institute for Financial Management and Research and Krea University Krea and Data Mining

19. Ashoka University: Harvard University’s Junior Partner

Overview Breaking India Ecosystem: Built Brick by Brick Ashoka: An Incubator of Hinduphobia Centre for China Studies Shanghai Meritocracy Workshop Trivedi Centre for Political Data

The People and Institutions Behind the Trivedi Centre Output from the Trivedi Centre for Political Data The French Connection: LIA SPINPER

Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality Centre for Social and Behaviour Change Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy Ashoka University’s Academic Partnerships Western Academia’s Intimidation of Ashoka University Student Indoctrination at Ashoka

20. Azim Premji’s Media and Educational Impact

Overview Azim Premji University The Independent and Public-Spirited Media Foundation Azim Premji Foundation’s Role in the National Education Policy 2020

The NEP DISADVANTAGE – Outflow of Money, Data and Brains

21. Godrej and Queering

Overview Marxist Foundations Queer Movement in America Trans-Queer and India Godrej India Culture Lab Human Resource Policies Importing Intolerance from American Wokeism

22. Omidyar Network: Trojan Horse in India

Overview Background: The American Parent Taxable Companies Replace Traditional Tax-exempt Non-Profits Omidyar Network India The Reincarnation of the Joshua Project Omidyar Grants Via Harvard’s Mittal Institute Omidyar Network India’s Digital Infrastructure and Big Data Economic Influence and Leadership Building Omidyar Backs the IDFC Institute and IDFC Foundation Projects of the IDFC Institute Omidyar-China Nexus Social Impact Policy Research and Influence on Government India’s Sovereignty at Risk

23. Conclusion: The Devatas of Davos and the Digital Caste System

Davos Devatas: Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum The Dismantling Process Digital Identifications as Control Mechanisms for Individuals Indian Businesses Becoming the Missionaries of a New Religion Grooming Future World Leaders The Devatas of Davos

Acknowledgments Bibliography

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