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The complexity of the Hindu epics is beyond the neat categories of history or mythology, fact or fiction, philosophy or religion. Yet, Orientalists attempt to rewrite the history of the Hindu epics to meet Western expectations, especially to fit into Western genres of literature, and destroy the religious epistemological framework of Indians, whether these Indians were Hindu or non-Hindu.
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MisirHiralall, S.D. (2017). Religious Epistemology with a Focus on the Ramayana. In: Confronting Orientalism. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-191-9_5
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