[3] The basic thesis that this book presents, i.e. "that Hinduism does not exist," alters "our notion of Indian culture and social structure fundamentally.

According to Abu-Dhabi-based newspaper The National:[5][In this] ground-breaking work...SN Balagangadhara...wrote a devastating critique of the very language we use today to describe religious phenomena in India.

He asked whether what are essentially Christian categories may be imputed to non-Western systems of belief and practice without utterly misunderstanding their content and misrepresenting their function.

Balagangadhara, as they provide independent arguments and epistemic warrants to the claim that Indian traditions are not religions:[7] A detailed chapter-by-chapter questions-and-answers page to understand The Heathen in his Blindness is also available freely on the web.

[11] In 2014, Manohar Publishers brought out a condensed and shortened version of The Heathen in His Blindness..., entitled Do all Roads Lead to Jerusalem?