The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple

by Ishwar Sharan

The 2010 updated edition of *The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple* is a complete study of the St. Thomas in India legend—its origin, history in India, and communal ramifications. The book is named after the main, 24-chapter essay by Ishwar Sharan and includes authoritative, independent articles by senior journalists and history research scholars. The book exposes in detail the vicious blood libel perpetrated by Christians against Hindus for centuries, that a Hindu king and his Brahmin priests murdered Apostle Thomas on a hilltop south of Madras, and the unconscionable support for this libel by India’s mainstream secular media. Notably a chapter in the book documents the pronounced pro-Christian bias of the *Encyclopaedia Britannica* and popular on-line reference portal *Wikipedia*. Both encyclopedias carry fanciful, non-factual entries for St. Thomas the Apostle in India that they refuse to correct or change. And last but not least, the book documents the destruction