David Frawley (Sanskerta: वामदेव शास्त्री, IAST: Vāmadeva Śāstrī; lahir 21 September 1950), adalah seorang guru Hindu(akarya) Amerika Serikat dan aktivis Hindutva.[a][2] Ia menulis sejumlah buku tentang topik Weda, Hindu, Yoga, Ayurweda dan astrologi Weda. Meskipun ditolak oleh kalangan akademik, karya-karyanya meraih ketenaran di kalangan masyarakat umum. Pada 2015, ia dianugerahi Padma Bhushan, penghargaan sipil tertinggi ketiga di India, oleh Pemerintah India.
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^In India, Hindutva is the predominant form of Hindu nationalism. According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations, "Hindutva ... refers to the ideology of Hindu nationalists, stressing the common culture of the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent. ... Modern politicians have attempted to play down the racial and anti-Muslim aspects of Hindutva ... but the term has Fascist undertones."[1]
^Chetan Bhatt (2000). "Hindu Nationalism and Indigenous 'Neo-racism'". Dalam Back, Les; Solomos, John. Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader. Psychology Press. hlm. 590–591. ISBN9780415156714. Diakses tanggal 22 March 2019. It is important to note the marriage between far-right-wing Hindutva ideology and western New Ageism in the works of writers like David Frawley (1994, 1995a, 1995b) who is both a key apologist for the Hindutva movement and the author of various New Age books on Vedic astrology, oracles and yoga
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Arvidsson, Stefan (2006). Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science. translated by Sonia Wichmann. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN978-0-226-02860-6.
