Aryans, Jews, Brahmins : Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity

It's a eye opening book everyone should read it. It tells us how we are manipulated in India by lies, false history, misinformation. It is a kind of Orwellian 1984 but non fiction. However now DNA evidence is there to support Aryan migration.

Love the content in there. It’s a great book to read especially if One is interested in Indology and the aryan connection. The book in its best is 60% a summary of other classical authors on this subject and 40% author’s view. However this is a well researched work.

A Well Researched Book. I wanted to know the roots of Brahmanism and this Book has Truly explored the topic well

An informative analysis of the history (myth?) of the Aryans, and how it was influential in forming the concepts of White Nationalism as well Indian. A bit on the academic side, though - a casual reader might get lost.

Nice book.Just wouldn't purchase anything from PBC Distributors. Had a terrible experience.

Not as the title suggests.Appears to carry some bias against the subject.

Great workIt shows the relevance of Dr.Ambedars work

Great book

The discovery of ancient India and the construction of the Aryan myth in Europe (in Gobineau or Nietzsche for example). The book also deals with the interpretation of this myth in India. Very bright.

I'm not a quarter of the way through this book and yet it is recognizable as one of the most important books I've ever had the pleasure of reading. One cannot properly understand Western History since the Enlightenment without knowing its contents. Ms. Figueira is an erudite scholar citing reference upon reference in the philosophical, philological and anthropological literature of the Romantic movement with special attention on the influence of Far Eastern exoticism upon a European culture searching for some way to eclipse the power of a corrupt church and its Old Testament antecedents. From Voltaire and Rousseau to Nietsche, we see how ill conceived, unscholarly and politically motivated concepts of the Hindu scriptures slowly and inexorably pushed mainstream and heretic writers, poets, composers and philosophers of the 1800's and early 1900's towards anti-semitism, racism and caste based economics. These occult saturated concepts fed directly into the twisted cosmologies, sociologies and ideologies of the various proto Nazi occultists such as Lanz Von Liebenfels, Hans Horbigger, Houston Stewart Chaimberlain, Arthur de Gobineau, Helena Blavasky and others, which groundwork shot Adolph Hitler & Co. out of a circus canon and into the pages of abject history.Finally one can assemble from the facts in this book, a big picture account of, not only the Nazi phenomenon, but a host of satellite and derivative social agglutinations such as radical environmentalism and Nature worship in general, New Age spirituality, alternative healing, various "health food" diet fads, eugenics, contemporary occultism and other so-called "progressive": throwbacks. Without this overarching interpretive framework, we could never fully understand the current mania for dissatisfaction with Western values among various irrationalist demographics which represent an infantile, if sublimated, id monster overlay upon human affairs. I'm hoping that this book represents an emerging school of thought in academia and I look forward to the fruits of its seeding.