# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/koenraad-elst
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:38:29.461Z

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name: "Koenraad Elst"
slug: "koenraad-elst"
description: "Koenraad Elst is a Belgian author, known primarily for his adherence to the Hindutva ideology and support of the Out of India theory, which is regarded as pseudohistorical by mainstream scholarship. Scholars accuse him of promoting Islamophobia."
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image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Koenraad_Elst_at_Varanasi.jpg?width=1200"
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birthDate: "1959-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump