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Dattatreya. Hindus and Muslims visit this shrine in common and have done so for gen-
erations, but the VHP is determined to tidy the borders and “liberate” the shrine for Dat-
tatreya. There is plenty of resistance—not just from Muslims, but from Hindus as well.
- Sepoys: Rajiv Malhotra, “Problematizing God ’s Interventions in History,”
http://www.sulekha.com, 23 (accessed March 21, 2003); “neocolonial brown (mem)sahibs...
who often guard the India and/or Hindu bashing fortresses at many American univer-
sity departments”: “The Axis of Neocolonialism,” http://www.sulekha.com, 15 (accessed July
10, 2002); “ ‘honorary white ’ Indian thinkers”: “The Position of Hinduism in America’s
Higher Education,” http://www.infinityfoundation.com, 1 (downloaded December 4, 2000).