The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple
Second Revised Edition
by Ishwar Sharan
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Comprehensive study of the St. Thomas in India legend and its use by the Catholic Church and Indian media as a propaganda tool to malign Hindus by wrongly claiming that Thomas was assassinated by a Hindu king and his Brahmin priest.
The book documents the destruction of the ancient Kapaleeswara Shiva Temple by the Portuguese and its replacement by San Thome Cathedral in Mylapore, Madras (Chennai), India.
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Christian Mythology, St. Thomas, San Thome Cathedral, Kapaleeswara Temple, Portuguese in IndiaPeople
St. Thomas the ApostlePlaces
Madras (Chennai), Mylapore, Tamil Nadu, IndiaTimes
16th century to presentShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple: Fourth Revised Edition
2019, Voice of India, Voice Of India
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The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple: Third Revised Edition
2010, Voice of India
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The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple: Second Revised Edition
1995, Voice of India
HB & PB
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8185990212 9788185990217
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The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple: First Edition
1991, Voice of India
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This 1995 second edition is out of print and not available on the internet. Readers are directed to the 2019 fourth edition available through the Internet Archive portal.
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The 2019 updated edition of The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple is a complete study of the St. Thomas in India legend—its origin, history in India, and communal ramifications. The book is named after the main, 24-chapter essay by Ishwar Sharan and includes authoritative, independent articles by senior journalists and research scholars.
The book exposes in detail the vicious blood libel perpetrated by Christians against Hindus for centuries, that a Hindu king and his Brahmin priests murdered Apostle Thomas on a hilltop south of Madras, and the unconscionable support for this libel by India’s mainstream secular media.
Notably a chapter in the book documents the pronounced pro-Christian bias of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and popular on-line reference portal Wikipedia. Both encyclopedias carry fanciful, non-factual entries for St. Thomas the Apostle in India that they refuse to correct or change.
And last but not least, the book documents the destruction of the original Kapaleeswara Shiva Temple by the Portuguese and its replacement by San Thome Cathedral on the Mylapore seashore in Chennai.
Indologist Dr. Koenraad Elst has written a comprehensive foreword for the book. In it he makes some pertinent remarks about Indian secularists and their uncritical acceptance of Christian mythology as Indian history.
The book has an extensive bibliography and is a valuable tool for researchers and historians.
References, updates, and links to other editions of the book are available on the author's ACTA INDICA website.
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| July 29, 2024 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
| May 23, 2023 | Edited by Ishwar Sharan | Book data copied from Internet Archive for this third edition (2010) of The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple. |
| August 4, 2021 | Edited by Ishwar Sharan | Fixing dead links |
| January 20, 2021 | Edited by Ishwar Sharan | Adding keywords |
| June 14, 2011 | Edited by Ishwar Sharan | Adding links to the book online. |