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In the September issue of Foreign Affairs, Ananya Vajpeyi writes on the controversy around Wendy Doniger and his book "The Hindus: An Alternative History" in the context of Hindu nationalism and the re-mixing of religion and politics in modern India. You can read her whole article here.[caption id="attachment_1239" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Wendy Doninger, The Hindus: An Alternative History[/caption]Ananya Vajpeyi is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and an alumni of the Zukunftsphilologie Winterschools of the Forum Transregionale Studien entitled "Textual Practices beyond Europe"ˆ and "Philologies across the Asias", held in Cairo and Delhi in 2010 and 2012.