David Frawley has written numerous books on topics spanning the Vedas, Hinduism, Yoga, Ayurveda and Vedic astrology.
12 Facts About David Frawley
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David Frawley's works have been popular among the general public.
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David Frawley was born to a Catholic family in Wisconsin and had nine siblings.
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David Frawley previously taught Chinese herbal medicine and western herbology.
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David Frawley criticizes the 19th-century racial interpretations of Indian prehistory, and went on to reject the theory of a conflict between invading caucasoid Aryans and Dravidians.
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David Frawley is a practitioner of Ayurveda, and recommends the practice of ascetic rituals along with moral purification as indispensable parts of the Advaita tradition.
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David Frawley has been described as a prominent figure of the Hindutva movement and numerous scholars have described him as a Hindutva ideologue and apologist.
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David Frawley has been widely accused of practicing historical revisionism.
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Meera Nanda asserts David Frawley to be a member of the Hindu far right, who decries Islam and Christianity as religions for the lower intellects and whose works feature a Hindu Supremacist spin.
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Peter Heehs deems of him to be part of a group of reactionary orientalists, who professed an avid dislike for the Oriental-Marxist school of historiography and hence, chose to rewrite the history of India but without any training in relevant disciplines; he accused David Frawley of misappropriating Aurobindo's nuanced stance on the Indigenous Aryans hypothesis.
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David Frawley's proposed equivalence of Ayurveda with vedic healing traditions has been rejected by Indologists and David Hardiman considers Frawley's assertion to be part of a wider Hindu-nationalist quest.
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Irfan Habib criticized David Frawley's invoking the Sarasvati River in the book as an assault against common sense.