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 may have ended in the first half of the twentieth century; but the violence of the non-physical type continues as a grim reminder of colonial attitudes. More...
National Seminar on Aryan Invasion Myth at Hyderabad
Pragna Bharati and Indic Academy and jointly conducting a National Seminar on Dec 7th at ISB Campus, Hyderabad on “Bharat Beyond Aryan Invasion Myth”. More than 10 experts from across the world will 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...
Wonders, Mysteries and Misconceptions in Indian Astronomy- III
In the previous article of this series, dear reader, we read about one of the great wonders of ancient Indian science, namely, the Pulsating Epicycle. Leaving behind Wonders, let us now don our Sherlock Holmes 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...
Aryan Debate: Do the recent genetic studies validate Aryan invasion theory?
Last September, with the release of the genetic paper titled ‘An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers’ by Shinde et al, which is about study conducted on ancient 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...
Wonders, Mysteries and Misconceptions in Indian Astronomy- II
In the previous article we read about one of the great misconceptions in Indian astronomy, namely, the tilt or obliquity of the earth’s axis, and how the European colonial scholars of yesteryear managed to obfuscate More...