An Indologist and student of comparative religions, Dorothy Figueira reflects on the rising tide of Hindutva in which she finds surprising echoes of her work, Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity, first published by SUNY Press in 2002 and now republished by Navayana in 2015.   On February 20, 1939, 20,000 German-Americans attended a rally of the German-American Bund at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The organising entity, also known as t