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Ishwar Sharan

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in Canada

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History, Historical Fiction, Religion

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June 2013

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Ishwar Sharan is the pen name of Canadian author Swami Devananda Saraswati, a Smarta Dashanani sannyasi who took his Vedic initiation from a renowned mahamandaleswar at Prayag in 1977. His purvasrama family were middle class professionals and God-fearing Protestant Christians. He did not complete high school and is self-educated through reading books on all subjects, with a special interest in religion and history. He has travelled extensively in Canada, USA, Europe, North Africa, West Asia and India. His experiences during these wandering years include service in a communist kibbutz during the Six Day War in Israel and some months spent in retreat in a Franciscan hermitage near Assisi, Italy. En route to India by road in 1967, he visited t ...more

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Religious Conversion: Challenges before Hindu society – Maria Wirth

Is it possible that the government does not want to know what is happening on the religious front. … When there is no will to know what is happening regarding conversions, there is probably also no will to stop it. The government, rightfully, maintains that it is secular and not concerned about the religion of […]

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The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple
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Ishwar Sharan (Goodreads Author),

Koenraad Elst (Foreword)

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