Reconceptualizing India Studies by S N Balagangadhara: Rethinking of Indian Colonial Narratives- IV
In the last chapters, SN Balagangadhara takes up the extremely vital contemporary issue of secularism in the Indian context. By taking the example of religious conversion, he shows the amount of stress the state More...
Reconceptualizing India Studies by S N Balagangadhara: Rethinking of Indian Colonial Narratives- III
It is a facet of colonial attitude which persistently generates literature, mainly from the West, causing violence to Indian culture and traditions. Colonialism in the form of physical usurping and material plunder More...
Reconceptualizing India Studies by S N Balagangadhara: Rethinking of Indian Colonial Narratives- II
SN Balagangadhara now looks at how colonialism of the past generates a disturbing colonial consciousness in the present. Colonial consciousness is a phenomenon of colonial thought deeply permeating in discussions More...
Reconceptualizing India Studies by S N Balagangadhara: Rethinking of Indian Colonial Narratives- I
Every book either written by Dr SN Balagangadhara or inspired by his ideas changes one’s perception of India, the world, and society radically; and this book is no exception. This book deals with many problematic More...
Book Summary: Genetics and the Aryan Debate by Shrikant Talageri- III
In the previous two parts, we saw Talageri deconstructing the new genetic evidence presented in support of an Aryan theory. So strong is the textual data of the Rigveda, almost inscriptional, in matters of chronology, More...
Book Summary: Genetics and the Aryan Debate by Shrikant Talageri- II
In the first part, we saw the basic framework of the Aryan invasion or migration theory as propagated by decades of motivated and biased scholarship. We saw how the three main evidence sources in the form of archaeology, More...
Book Summary: Genetics and the Aryan Debate by Shrikant Talageri- I
There are two theories regarding the history of ancient Indian civilization. The first is the AIT or the Aryan Invasion Theory, postulating that a group of people from South West Russia speaking Indo-European languages More...
Book Summary: Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism by Jakob de Roover-III
In the previous parts (1) and (2), we saw the evolution of secularism in the Western world and how it came for inappropriate and dangerous application to Asian cultures, especially India. For over a millennium, More...
Book Summary: Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism by Jakob de Roover-II
In the previous part, we saw the evolution of secularism in the Christian world but its inapplicability in the Indian context which does not have religions but traditions. An idea which made sense in a specific More...
Book Summary: Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism by Jakob de Roover- I
There has been a great fascination for India and Hinduism in the form of Indological studies. Starting from the English, French and Germans in the colonial times to present-day Americans, this passion for India More...