According to Meera Nanda, in her important book, Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodernism, Science, and Hindu Nationalism (Permanent Black, 2006), this problem is particularly rife in India, with intellectuals of Indian origin hav[ing] taken a lead in the development of postmodern and/or postcolonial critiques of science and modernity in the Western academy. (2) Even more concerning is that this