From www.countercurrents.org - January 21, 2014 1:41 PM

There could be many ways to read this new book by Braj Ranjan Mani. Coming 8 years after his earlier, path-breaking book “Debrahmanising History”( which became a best-seller in its category, went into three reprints in five years, and has just been revised) this book is another one-of-a-kind by this self-confessed maverick scholar that cannot be easily slotted or labelled. The author attempts to probe the age-old but little discussed role of the elites in appropriating not just power and wealth, but also knowledge, its appropriation and the means of its dissemination, thus not only ensuring their dominance in the areas of governance, economics, religion and the academy, but also perpetuating the masses in poverty and powerlessness.