Every simple story about it is wrong: Hinduism contains multitudes. And it went into the directions it did for specific reasons. Manu Pillai joins Amit Varma in episode 405 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe the role of history in the shaping of Hinduism -- and Hindu nationalism.

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Also check out:
1. Manu Pillai on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Amazon and his own website.
2. Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity -- Manu Pillai.
3. The Deccan Before Shivaji — Episode 98 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai).
4. Our Colorful Past — Episode 127 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai).
5. Kerala and the Ivory Throne — Episode 156 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai).
6. The Multitudes of Our Maharajahs -- Episode 244 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai).
7. Jeff Bezos on The Lex Fridman Podcast.
8. The Changing Forms of Creativity -- Episode 72 of Everything is Everything.
9. Hardcore History — Dan Carlin.
10. Devdutt Pattanaik and the Stories That Shape Us -- Episode 404 of The Seen and the Unseen.
11. Fixing the Knowledge Society -- Episode 24 of Everything is Everything.
12. Robert Sapolsky’s biology lectures on YouTube.
13. William Dalrymple kicking off a controversy.
14. Who We Are and How We Got Here — David Reich.
15. Early Indians — Tony Joseph.
16. Tony Joseph’s episode on The Seen and the Unseen.
17. The Evolution of Everything — Matt Ridley.
18. The Evolution of Everything — Episode 96 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Matt Ridley).
19. Merchants of Virtue -- Divya Cherian.
20. The Logic of Collective Action — Mancur Olson.
21. Caged Tiger — Subhashish Bhadra.
22. Subhashish Bhadra on Our Dysfunctional State — Episode 333 of The Seen and the Unseen.
23. Much Maligned Monsters -- Partha Mitter.
24. Literotica.
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