ഒരു ബെൽജിയം എഴുത്തുകാരനും ചരിത്രകാരനും ഇൻഡോളജിസ്റ്റുമാണ് ഡോ.കോൻറാഡ് എസ്റ്റ്.ഹിന്ദു പുനരുത്ഥാന വാദികളോടും ഹിന്ദുത്വ സംഖടനകളോടുമുള്ള മൃദുസമീപനത്തിന്റെ പേരിൽ അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ ഗ്രന്ഥങ്ങൾ പലപ്പോഴും വലിയ ചർച്ചയ്ക്ക് വഴിവച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്.[1]

Koenraad Elst
author portrait (2003) shown on the Voice of India website
ജനനം (1959-08-07) 7 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 1959  (65 വയസ്സ്)
ദേശീയതബെൽജിയം (ഫ്ലെമിഷ്)
തൊഴിൽഇൻഡോളജിസ്റ്റ്
  • Het boek bij het Boek (“The companion book to the Book”, Waregem 2009)
  • The India chapter in Wim Van Rooy & Sam Van Rooy, eds.: De islam. Kritische essays over een politieke religie (“Islam: Critical Essays on a Political Religion”), ASP, Brussels 2010.
  • De donkere zijde van het boeddhisme (“The Dark Side of Buddhism”, Mens & Cultuur, Ghent 2010)
  • Heidendom in India: hindoeïsme en christendom, dialoog tussen vreemden (“Paganism in India: Hindus and Christians, Dialogue between Strangers”, Mens & Cultuur, Ghent 2014):
  • Sharma, Arvind, ed. (2001). "India's Only Communalist: an Introduction to the Work of Sita Ram Goel". Hinduism and Secularism: After Ayodhya. Palgrave. ISBN 978-0-333-79406-7. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editorlink= ignored (|editor-link= suggested) (help)
  • "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. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  • The Rushdie affair's legacy. Postscript to Daniel Pipes: The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West. 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. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link) (adapted from a paper of the International Ramayana Conference and the October 1995 Annual South Asia Conference in Madison, Wisconsin)
  • The Ayodhya debate: focus on the "no temple" evidence, World Archaeological Congress, 1998
  • “Ayodhya’s three history debates”, in Journal of Indian History and Culture (Chennai), September 2011.
  • “The gatherings of the elders: the beginnings of a Pagan international”, Pomegranate (Equinox, Sheffield UK) 2012/1.
  • India's Only Communalist: In Commemoration of Sita Ram Goel (edited by Koenraad Elst, 2005) ISBN 81-85990-78-6 (With contributions by Subhash Kak, David Frawley, Lokesh Chandra, Shrikant Talageri, Vishal Agarwal, N.S. Rajaram and others.)
  • An article on an attempt to ban a book by Ram Swarup, in Sita Ram Goel, ed.: Freedom of Expression (Voice of India 1998).
  • "The Rushdie Rules". Middle East Quarterly. June 1998.
  • An article in the second edition of Ishwar Sharan’s The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple (Voice of India 1997).
  • A paper in Angela Marcantonio & Girish Nath Jha, eds.: Perspectives on the Origin of Indian Civilization (DK Printworld, Delhi 2013).
  • Elst, Koenraad. "Humour in Hinduism." Humour and Religion: Challenges and Ambiguities (2011): 35-53., in Hans Geybels & Walter Van Herck, eds.: Humour and Religion, Challenges and Ambiguities (Continuum, London 2011).
  • A paper in P. Paramesvaran, ed.: Expressions of Christianity, with a focus on India (Vivekananda Kendra Prakashan, Chennai 2007).
  • Elst, Koenraad. "Manu as a weapon against egalitarianism: Nietzsche and Hindu political philosophy." Nietzsche, Power and Politics: Rethinking Nietzsche's Legacy for Political Thought (2008): 543. Herman Siemens & Vasti Roodt, eds.: Nietzsche, Power and Politics (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2008).
  • Foreword to: The Prolonged Partition and Its Pogroms: Testimonies on Violence against Hindus in East Bengal (1946–1964) by A. J. Kamra (2000).
  • "Banning Hindu Revaluation". Observer of Business and Politics (1-12-1993).


  1. Bryant, E. F. (2008). The Indo-Aryan controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history. London: Routledge.
  2. Review https://books.google.com/books?id=hS5uAAAAMAAJ
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