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The Eiffel Tower Incident and the Imperial Gaze: Why the West Still Seeks to Define Hinduism

A recent incident involving BAPS monks at the Eiffel Tower has reignited the ancient debate on whether Hinduism is a single, modern colonial construct or an ancient, unified civilizational identity. This Western obsession with rigidly defining a living, breathing civilizational tapestry like Hinduism is nothing but a continuation of colonial attempts to categorize and control the spiritual sovereignty of the Global South.