Many Many Many Gods of Hinduism

It's pretty shocking how few books of Hindu apologetics exist in English. This was a concise, clear-eyed religious defense of Hinduism, written in a way that people who have no knowledge base in Indian history or Hinduism will be able to understand.

A lively combination of history, religious doctrine, linguistics and scholarly politics, it keeps the readers attention with succinct chapters on a variety of topics. Many Many Many Gods gives the uninformed reader a nice little dip into the broad cultural knowledge needed to understand a religion which has lasted for thousands of years and influences the politics of billions of people.

The only time the book lost me was in last couple of chapters– Achuthananda dipped into Wendy Doniger and her cohorts, and his bitterness at her kinda got a little overwhelming. I mean, I'm all into thinkshaming Wendy Doniger et al's shitty claims, but it could have been done in one chapter instead of three.