It is quite significant that here and on many other occasions, the standard secularist allegations against the Hindu movement are literal rehashings … - Koenraad Elst

Conversely, banning this book would send a signal that the present establishment will do what it can to prevent Hinduism from rising up, from regaining self-confidence, from facing the challenge of hostile ideologies.

That the BJP would adopt the Manusmriti as the Indian constitution, is just one of those ludicrous claims made in the free-for-all of India-watching.

Isn’t that funny: people wearing the mantle of the academic quest for knowledge who denounce the search for knowledge on the dogmatic plea that the outcome is known beforehand? ...Even back then, given all the earlier evidence, everything indicated that something would be discovered. They themselves cannot have been ignorant of this, so their opposition was a deliberate attempt to obstruct the progress of scientific knowledge.