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And note the irony: one always speaks of “doubting Thomas”, also the title of Dalrymple’s film, but the finality of this article is to provide intellectual respectability to the all-out secular effort of suppressing doubt about the Thomas myth.

— Ishwar Sharan

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We have only the many and various legends and even they continue to change with the changing political needs of the Church.

His cult was brought to India by Thomas of Cana and the four hundred Syrian refugees he led, in 345 CE, and even as St. Thomas was identified with Jesus, so Thomas of Cana came to be identified with St. Thomas within a few generations of his death in Malabar.

Bishop Medleycott is the godfather of Thomas-in-India scholarship in India, and even in his day he was accused of working under racial, religious, regional, linguistic, and political influences.

Around 40% of all Muslims are already enjoying the benefits of reservation under the OBC quota

Around 70% of Christians and Muslims have been brought into the quota regime as backward communities or backward classes

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