Dr. Koenraad Elst was born in Leuven, Belgium, on 7 August 1959, into a Flemish Catholic family. He graduated in Philosophy, Chinese Studies and Indo-Iranian Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven. During a stay at the Benares Hindu University , he discovered India's communal problem and wrote his first book about the budding Ayodhya conflict . While establishing himself as a columnist for a number of Belgian and Indian papers , he frequently returned to India to study various aspects of its ethno-religio-political configuration and interview Hindu and other leaders and thinkers. His research on the ideological development of Hindu revivalism earned him his Ph.D. in Leuven in 1998. He has also published about multiculturalism, language policy issues, ancient Chinese history and philosophy, comparative religion, and the Aryan invasion debate. Dr. Elst became a well-known author on Indian politics in the 1990s.

Works

• Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society
• Negationism in India - Concealing the Record of Islam
• Psychology of Prophetism - A Secular Look at the Bible
• Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate
• Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple
• BJP vis-à-vis Hindu Resurgence
• The Demographic Siege
• Who is a Hindu?
• Ayodhya, The Finale - Science versus Secularism the Excavations Debate
• Gandhi and Godse - A review and a critique
• The Saffron Swastika - The Notion of Hindu Fascism
• Decolonizing the Hindu Mind - Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism
• Dr. Ambedkar - A True Aryan

See also

• Sita Ram Goel
• Ram Swarup
• Francois Gautier
• Michel Danino
• Girilal Jain
• Meenakshi Jain
• Sandhya Jain

External links

• Articles and Books by Dr. Elst