Rajiv Malhotra
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Rajiv Malhotra
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15 September 1950 New Delhi, India |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
St. Stephens College Syracuse University |
| Genre | Religion and science, Civilizations |
| Notable works |
Being Different (2011), Breaking India (2011), Indra's Net (2014), The Battle for Sanskrit (2016), Academic Hinduphobia (2016) |
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Rajiv Malhotra (born 15 September 1950) is an Indian-American author and Hindu activist who, after a career in the computer and telecom industries, took early retirement in 1995 to found The Infinity Foundation, which focuses on Indic studies, but also funds projects such as Columbia University's project to translate the entire Tibetan Buddhist Tengyur. Apart from the foundation, Malhotra promotes a non-western and nationalistic view on India and Hinduism. Malhotra has written prolifically in opposition to the academic study of Indian history and society originating in Europe and USA, especially the study of Hinduism as it is conducted by scholars and university faculty of the West, which he maintains denigrates the tradition and undermines the interests of India "by encouraging the paradigms that oppose its unity and integrity".
Malhotra studied physics at St. Stephen's College, Delhi and computer science at Syracuse University, and was "a senior executive, strategic consultant and an entrepreneur in the information technology and media industries" until he took early retirement in 1994 at age 44. to establish the Infinity Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey the next year. Besides directing that foundation, he also chairs the board of governors of the Center for Indic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and advises various organisations. The U.S. Indologist Yvette Rosser describes Malhotra's stance toward Hinduism "as that of a ‘non-Hindutva Hindu’".
Based in New Jersey, the Infinity Foundation promotes Indic studies.
The Foundation has given more than 400 grants for research, education and community work and has provided small grants to major universities in support of programs including a visiting professorship in Indic studies at Harvard University, Yoga and Hindi classes at Rutgers University, the research and teaching of non-dualistic philosophies at University of Hawaii, Global Renaissance Institute and a Center for Buddhist studies at Columbia University, a program in religion and science at University of California, an endowment for the Center for Advanced Study of India at University of Pennsylvania, and lectures at the Center for Consciousness Studies at University of Arizona. The foundation has provided funding for journals like Education about Asia and International Journal of Hindu Studies and for the establishment of the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Non-violence at James Madison University.
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