Shatrubodha
Texts dealing with critique, conflict, ideology, and civilisational self-understanding.
Cry Hindutva How Rhetoric Trumps Intellect
Critical intervention on contemporary Hindutva rhetoric and the costs of replacing scholarship with slogans.
Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
hindutva debate
intellectual history
public argument
German Indology Aryanism and Anti Semitism
Study of German Indology and its entanglement with racial theory, Aryanism, and anti-Semitism.
Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
german indology
race theory
antisemitism
Greeks in India
Historical study of Greek presence in India and the cultural exchanges that followed.
Demettios Vasilliades
indo greek contact
classical history
cross cultural exchange
Heidegger and the Inquiry into Technology
Essay using Heidegger to interrogate technology, modernity, and civilizational critique.
Joydeep Bagchee
heidegger
technology critique
modernity
Hindu Studies in a Secular Academy
Reflection on the institutional framing of Hindu studies and the limits of secular academic categories.
Vishwa Adluri
academic method
secularism
religious studies
Hindu Temples Vol 1
Documentation and interpretation of the destruction, transformation, and historical memory of Hindu temples.
Sita Ram Goel
temple destruction
historical memory
religious conflict
Hindu Temples Vol 2
Continuation of the documentary record on Hindu temples, iconoclasm, and historical memory.
Sita Ram Goel
temple destruction
historical memory
religious conflict
How I Became a Hindu
Personal and polemical reflection on religious identity, conviction, and civilizational self-understanding.
Sita Ram Goel
religious identity
autobiographical essay
civilizational self understanding
Jews and Hindus in Indology
Comparative study of how Jewish and Hindu traditions have been handled within modern Indology.
Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
comparative reception
indological method
jewish hindu comparison
Methods and Context Rethinking Religion
Methodological critique of dominant religious-studies frameworks and their application to India.
Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
methodology
comparative religion
contextual reading
Paradigm Lost the Application of the Historical Critical Method to the Bhagavadgita
Critique of applying historical-critical methods reductively to the Bhagavad Gita.
Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
historical critical method
bhagavad gita
textual interpretation
Philosophy and Criticism
Essay on the relation between philosophical interpretation and critical academic method.
Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
philosophical method
criticism
interpretation
Poetic Immortality to Salvation
Study tracing shifts from heroic-poetic ideals toward soteriological concerns in Sanskrit traditions.
Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
soteriology
poetics
religious transformation
Pride and Prejudice Orientalism and Germany
Study of German orientalism and the ideological lenses shaping Indological interpretation.
Vishwa Adluri
orientalism
german thought
intellectual history
The Banality of Indology
Sharp critique of routinized assumptions and methodological shallowness in Indological scholarship.
Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
indological critique
academic conventions
methodology
The Nay Science
Provocative reflection on scholarship, critique, and the ideological posture of academic knowledge.
Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
scholarly critique
knowledge politics
academic culture
The Origins of Racism in the Humanities
Argument about how racial categories entered humanistic scholarship through philology and related disciplines.
Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
race theory
philology
humanities history
The Passion of Paul Hacker
Critical study of Paul Hacker and the theological-political assumptions behind his work on Hindu traditions.
Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
paul hacker
scholarly biography
theological polemics
The Real Threat to Humanities Today
Essay arguing that methodological decay, not external pressure alone, endangers the humanities.
Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
humanities crisis
academic method
institutional critique
Theses on Indology
Programmatic theses outlining a critique of Indology and an alternative scholarly orientation.
Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
programmatic theses
indological critique
intellectual sovereignty