William Archer: The Most Ignorant ‘Self-Appointed Expert’ on Hinduism

William Archer was the master of recycling. He effortlessly assembled a patchwork of borrowed opinions and presented them as his original creations. His book is a marvelous display of laziness and self-assuredness, relying on second-hand ideas and superficial impressions. Archer’s journalistic trickery knew no bounds as he dismissed an entire culture and reduced it to base vulgarity.