Indology and Civilizational Critique

Modern critical works examining Indology, orientalism, academic method, and the ideological framing of Indian traditions and civilization.

Cry Hindutva How Rhetoric Trumps Intellect

Critical intervention on contemporary Hindutva rhetoric and the costs of replacing scholarship with slogans.

Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee

German Indology Aryanism and Anti Semitism

Study of German Indology and its entanglement with racial theory, Aryanism, and anti-Semitism.

Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee

Greeks in India

Historical study of Greek presence in India and the cultural exchanges that followed.

Demettios Vasilliades

Heidegger and the Inquiry into Technology

Essay using Heidegger to interrogate technology, modernity, and civilizational critique.

Joydeep Bagchee

Hindu Studies in a Secular Academy

Reflection on the institutional framing of Hindu studies and the limits of secular academic categories.

Vishwa Adluri

Hindu Temples Vol 1

Documentation and interpretation of the destruction, transformation, and historical memory of Hindu temples.

Sita Ram Goel

Hindu Temples Vol 2

Continuation of the documentary record on Hindu temples, iconoclasm, and historical memory.

Sita Ram Goel

How I Became a Hindu

Personal and polemical reflection on religious identity, conviction, and civilizational self-understanding.

Sita Ram Goel

Jews and Hindus in Indology

Comparative study of how Jewish and Hindu traditions have been handled within modern Indology.

Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee

Methods and Context Rethinking Religion

Methodological critique of dominant religious-studies frameworks and their application to India.

Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee

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

Philosophy and Criticism

Essay on the relation between philosophical interpretation and critical academic method.

Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee

Poetic Immortality to Salvation

Study tracing shifts from heroic-poetic ideals toward soteriological concerns in Sanskrit traditions.

Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee

Pride and Prejudice Orientalism and Germany

Study of German orientalism and the ideological lenses shaping Indological interpretation.

Vishwa Adluri

The Banality of Indology

Sharp critique of routinized assumptions and methodological shallowness in Indological scholarship.

Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee

The Nay Science

Provocative reflection on scholarship, critique, and the ideological posture of academic knowledge.

Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee

The Origins of Racism in the Humanities

Argument about how racial categories entered humanistic scholarship through philology and related disciplines.

Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee

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

The Real Threat to Humanities Today

Essay arguing that methodological decay, not external pressure alone, endangers the humanities.

Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee

Theses on Indology

Programmatic theses outlining a critique of Indology and an alternative scholarly orientation.

Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee

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