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‘Religion is atool in the hands of the oppressor against the oppressed solely because heframes the commandments and calls them the God’s’, is an apt description of theHindu social order.The book rips open the raw nerveof Hinduism—its invidious castes, positioned as a ‘God-ordained’ institution,commandeered by its freebooter priestly class while clandestinely establishingits religious, social and political hegemony through interpolation of itspristine and effulgent scriptures.The author boldly analyses thisimbroglio through a microscopic analysis of these and more related issues:How priests controlled the Hindu religious, social,educational and political apparatus?How the dominant priestly class fractured the societyinto mutually antagonistic subordinated hierarchical segments, and ruled it byreserving all elite jobs for itself?How the fiendish priesthood emasculated shudras bydepriving them of the ‘shaastra and shastra’ (education and arms) and made thempermanent ‘village servant classes’?How the pretensions of attaining siddhisthrough 'meditation and penances' established priests as the ‘gods on earth’for their assertions of ‘purity and effulgence’?How ‘karma’, ‘reincarnation’ and ‘84-lakhs births’theories were devised to justify fatalism and hierarchical gradation of varnas?Can India be rightfully called the ‘vishvaguru’ and the mother of allcivilisations?How Buddhism effeminated Hindus and made them thedoormats for the ruthless?Why Hindus had to abandon their own, to adop foreigninstitutions of governance?Why Hinduism should become a universal andproselytising faith and fight demographic challenges posed by Islam andChristianity?