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On the 29th of August 2010, the Kannada translation of Prof. S N Balagangadhara's book, "The Heathen in his Blindness"...Asia, West and the Dynamic of Religion (1994) was released by the Centre for the Study of Local Cultures (CSLC) at the Kannada Sahitya Parishat in Bangalore. The book titled 'Smriti, Vismriti: Bhaarateeya Samskruti', was translated by Dr. Rajaram Hegde.

Speakers:

• Dr. Rajaram Hedge, CSLC, Kuvempy University. 
• Ravi Belegere, writer and journalist.
• Prof. Shivarama Krishnan, retired Sociology Professor, Bangalore University.
• Prof. Sadananda Janekere, CSLC, Kuvempu University.

Doctoral defense: 2 April 2010, Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent

• Raf Gelders: 10h - 12h
  Ascetics and Crafty Priests: Orientalism and the european representations of india.
• Sarah Claerhout: 15h - 17h
  “Losing My Tradition”: Conversion, Secularism and Religious Freedom in India.

Newly published by Routledge, January 2010

• Rethinking Religion in India: The Colonial Construction of Hinduism
• Edited by Esther Bloch, Marianne Keppens, Rajaram Hegde
• Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series
• ISBN:978-0-415-54890-8
• More information and possibility of ordering the book