Andrew J. Campa is a member of the Fast Break team at the Los Angeles Times, having previously covered the Eastside and San Gabriel Valley. Before, he worked at several medium and small daily ...

While conversions did happen, the story isn’t so simple, as author and historian Manu Pillai argues in his new book, Gods, Guns, and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu. He writes about the ...

Manu S. Pillai’s new book, Gods, Guns and Missionaries, traces “The Making of Modern Hindu Identity" (as its subtitle says) through history, especially the trauma of colonial invasion and ...

Driven by dispassionate curiosity, Manu S. Pillai’s latest book captures the complex ways in which religious identities are challenged and refashioned under duress. Through biographical sketches ...