sentences:  Jha has repeatedly taken a position against Hindu nationalist ideology, arguing against what he claims is "communalism" and "saffronisation", especially during the 1998 to 2004 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of the Republic of India.He is critical of the view that "tolerance is the very essence of 'Hinduism qua Hinduism', and has claimed presence of what he terms as Brahmanical intolerance since early India, even though he is himself a Maithil Brahmin.Jha has received death threats over his book "The Myth of the Holy Cow" in which he outlines the practice of eating beef in ancient India as documented in Vedic and Post-Vedic texts.