ABSTRACT
Hinduism, they assert, lays such stress on sexual indulgence, and is so bound up with phallic worship in its grossest forms, that the vigour of the Hindu community has become altogether sapped and under mined. The picture of a society sunk in rottenness and obscenity is drawn in lurid colours and illus trated from the carvings of Hindu temples. This sexual viciousness is supposed to be produced wholly by religion and to have eaten into the virile life of the people, debilitating its manhood. The centre of all the mischief-so these books tell the West-is the moral debasement of the Hindu faith itself. One of these books goes so far as to represent Hinduism, not as a religion, but as a disease.
