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The Ishwar Sharan Archive. The website is dedicated to studies of Christianity in India (ideology, practice, politics, and propaganda), Christian history in India (ancient and modern), and especially studies of the St. Thomas in India legend. The website hosts related articles by scholars, researchers, and journalists. The website also hosts Voice of India publications.
Website Book Titles edit
1. The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple - Ishwar Sharan. First Edition - 1991. 2. The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple - Ishwar Sharan. Second Revised Edition - 1995. 3. The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple - Ishwar Sharan. Tamil Edition - 2009 - Translated by Dr. B.M. Sundaram.
Description edit
Highly authoritative study of the St. Thomas in India legend. Many related articles by recognized scholars including historian Sita Ram Goel, indologist Dr. Koenraad Elst, researcher Veda Prakash, and others. Exposes anti-Hindu bias in India's secular English-language press. Exposes extreme Catholic bias in Encyclopedia Britannica's non-factual entry for St. Thomas. Gives the history of the destruction of the original Kapaleeswara Temple on the Mylapore beach by the Portuguese and its replacement by the San Thome Cathedral Basilica. Index and bibliography. Website has link to the full text of the Acts of Thomas by Bardasanes.
Author edit
Ishwar Sharan
About The Author edit
Ishwar Sharan is the pen name of author Swami Devananda Saraswati, a Canadian sannyasi who took his Vedic initiation from a renowned Dasanami mahamandaleswar at Prayag in 1977. In his purvasrama he had belonged to a family of middle class professionals who were practicing Christians. He does not have a formal education but is well-read in history and religion and has travelled extensively in USA, Canada, Europe, North Africa and West Asia. He has lived in a Franciscan hermitage at Assisi and worked on a Communist kibbutz in Israel. He now lives in South India.
The author's experience of these institutions helped turn him against all monolithic creeds and he came to India in 1967 in search of spiritual direction, choosing India because it gave an honourable place to the Goddess and because it had the only great Pagan civilization to have successfully survived centuries of repressive Islamic and Christian imperialism. He is a great lover of Hindu culture and religion and holds the view that although the sannyasi stands outside of society he does not stand above Hinduism that is Sanatana Dharma. He says that as long as Christianity wages an ideological war on Hinduism its curious theories and unique claims must be thoroughly investigated and vigorously replied to by informed Hindus of integrity and conviction.
Contact edit
Contact The Ishwar Sharan Archive at 
Buy Online edit
This book can be purchased online from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, and Alibris.com.
Buy in India edit
This book can be purchased in India from Voice of India, 2/18 Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi - 110002.
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New Titles edit
Jesus Christ - An Artifice for Aggression by Sita Ram Goel. Published in 1994 by Voice of India, New Delhi. This book is available on the website as a pdf download.
Other titles to be added to the website are Catholic Ashrams - Sannyasins or Swindlers edited by Sita Ram Goel and History of Hindu-Christian Encounters by Sita Ram Goel. These books are also Voice of India publications.
The is also a link on the website to a rare out-of-print book, Julian's Gods, by England's foremost cultural historian Rowland Smith.
Voice of India edit
A list of Voice of India publications is available at http://www.adityaprakashan.com
New Tamil Titles edit
Indiavil Saint Thomas Kattukathai by Veda Prakash. This Tamil-language book is now posted on the website.
Punidha Thomas Kattukadhaiyum and Mylapore Sivalayamum (The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple) by Ishwar Sharan is now available on the website as a pdf download in Tamil. The Tamil translation is by the noted Tamil scholar Dr. B.M. Sundaram.
New Websites edit
New weblogs called The St. Thomas Teller and Acta Indica have been inaugurated. All new material concerning the St. Thomas in India contriversy will be published on Acta Indica.
These weblogs have been made to sort out and collate all the St. Thomas material that has been collected at The Ishwar Sharan Archive over the years. It will confine itself only to the subject of St. Thomas in India and related issues.
Articles have been contributed by Sita Ram Goel, Koenraad Elst, Veda Prakash, Swami Tapasyananda, C.A. Simon, G.P. Srinivasan, V. Sundaram, B.R. Haran, and Ishwar Sharan.
Comments and documented contributions from visitors concerning the St. Thomas in India legend and controversy are welcome and can be sent to the websites' editor at
A third weblog called Bharata Bharati has also been inaugurated and will feature other material that has been collected on The Ishwar Sharan Archive. Visitors are welcome at all sites.