HINDUISM A BRAHMIN-EUROPEAN DISCOVERY In the following essay, I try to explain the meaning and purpose of this discovery and how it affects the existence of the Indian majority, based on an article written by Pankaj Mishra. It does not mean that I agree with everything Mr. Mishra mentions in this article. Though I have heard about his fundamental problem in Hinduism, Mishra’s, ‘The Invention of the Hindu’ is the first article I read on it. When he writes, “Hinduism is largely a fiction”, an 18th and 19th century creation of the colonial Europeans and their Sanskrit learned Brahmin intermediaries in India, I believe, it is a revelation not only to the Hindus but also to the Indians in general who shares one common Indian culture. I quote, “Together, the British scholars and the Brahmin interpreters came up with a canon of sorts, mostly Brahmanical literature and ideology, which they began to identify with a single Hindu religion”. Before going further, I suggest to read this article f...