A rare Indian sociologist who refused to think inside British intellectual frameworks — his is one of the few attempts to develop a genuinely Hindu social science, reading the tradition from within rather than against Western categories.
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This school holds that the West's divorce between sciences and humanities is a civilizational pathology — and that the Indian knowledge tradition, which never separated the two, offers a working model of their reintegration.
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Continuous, Comprehensive and Cumulative - The Knowledge Tradition of India
India's knowledge tradition characterized by three properties that colonial historiography denied it — its continuity across millennia, its comprehensiveness across all domains, and its cumulative rather than rupture-based development.
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What is the Core of Sanatana Dharma?
What is the unchanging core of Sanatana Dharma — an idea, an institution, a worldview, or a value system? Bodha's most foundational research question.
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School of Cultural Traditionalists
The oldest living school in India: scholars who see themselves as contemporary interpreters of the same tradition that produced the Upanishads and the Nāṭyaśāstra — treating metaphysics, aesthetics, and philosophy as one continuous project rather than separate departments.
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The historian who went back to British colonial archives and proved that India had thriving educational and industrial systems before colonization destroyed them — his work is the empirical foundation for any serious claim about what India actually lost.
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A fundamental re-articulation of Dharma: not as rule or duty but as a civilizational inheritance — the genetic-level encoding that tells Bhāratīya culture how to understand itself, its cosmos, and its obligations across generations.
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Did Brahmins Monopolize Knowledge in Ancient India?
Dismantling the colonial claim that Brahmins monopolized knowledge in ancient India — the textual and archaeological evidence for broad-based literacy, cross-varna scholarship, and the structural openness of the gurukula tradition.
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Dukh, Depression and Journeys of Life - Depression is the Absence of Dukkha - Part I
The provocative argument that depression is the absence of duḥkha, not its presence — how the Sanskrit framework for suffering provides an experiential map that modern psychology, focused on symptom-removal, cannot offer.
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The founding sociobiologist whose work on eusociality, biodiversity, and genetic altruism carries the closest Western scientific approximation to the Hindu understanding that human beings are embedded in a larger order — not above it.
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What living models of traditional Hindu education still survive in India — and what do they demonstrate about the alternative to Western schooling? Field studies of surviving gurukulas, pathshalas, and vidyalayas documenting how Indian Knowledge Systems are transmitted in practice today.
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Hindu Response to Enlightenment
Where does Enlightenment rationalism reveal its own metaphysical blind spots — and what does Hindu philosophy offer in response? A civilizational dialogue contrasting Western secular universalism with Vedantic metaphysical plurality, proposing a Hindu diagnostic rather than a defensive rejection.
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Hindu View of the Simulation Hypothesis
Nick Bostrom's simulation hypothesis examined alongside the concept of māyā — where the two frameworks converge, where they fundamentally diverge, and why the Hindu model is teleologically richer than the computational one.
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The antiquity of the Hindu temple examined through textual, sculptural, and archaeological evidence — dismantling the Western academic claim that temple architecture was a Buddhist invention absorbed by Hinduism.
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Six decades of scholarship on the philosophy underlying every Indian art form — dance, architecture, painting, sculpture — Vatsyayana built the most comprehensive modern account of how Hindu arts form a unified system of knowledge, not a collection of disciplines.
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The Many Meanings of the Hindu Temple
The Hindu temple as simultaneously sacred mountain, cosmic axis, human body, and gateway between worlds — a layered symbolic reading of the temple form as encoded theological knowledge made visible in stone.
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The definitive modern scholar of Indian philosophy: his systematic expositions of the darshanas remain the clearest English-language entry point into Hindu metaphysics and epistemology — rigorous without being reductive.
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Dr. R. Nagaswamy on the essential nature of the Hindu temple — what it actually is, why its origins predate Buddhism, and how the Western academic genealogy that credits Buddhism with inventing the temple form gets the history exactly backward.
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What Do Hindus Practice, but Cannot Prove?
What do Hindus practice with deep śraddhā but cannot prove — karma phala siddhānta, reincarnation, mantra efficacy — and what is the right epistemic posture toward such axioms?
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Puranas as the Source for a Chronology of Indian History
A Purāṇic chronological framework for ancient Indian history — building on Pargiter's genealogical reconstruction and Subhash Kak's Mahābhārata dating to propose a coherent timeline for the previous six manvantaras.
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Teaching and Research - The Rot That Has Set In
The HRD Ministry's proposal to de-emphasize research in college promotions — why the policy response is inadequate to the depth of the rot, and what the real diagnosis of India's academic collapse requires.
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An ethnobotanist who spent decades living with indigenous peoples across the world and documented what is actually lost when a language or culture dies — not diversity as abstraction, but irreplaceable knowledge systems encoded over millennia.
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Survey introduction to Indian Knowledge Systems and their major domains, methods, and categories.
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On the Nature of Mathematics and Scientific Knowledge in Indian Tradition
Study of how Indian traditions theorized mathematics, knowledge, and scientific reasoning.
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Discussion of historical method with relevance to Sanskrit and Indian civilizational sources.
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Indian Science and Technology in the 18th Century
Documentary study of scientific and technical practices in early modern India.
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Text advocating or explaining the revival of Agnihotra and related Vedic fire ritual practice.
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Traditional practical compendium on useful arts, household knowledge, and applied sciences.
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Survey of the classical list of sixty-four arts and what it reveals about education and cultured accomplishment.
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Work on Indian Knowledge Systems, bringing traditional categories into conversation with practice, theory, or pedagogy.
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Historical argument about indigenous education in India before colonial disruption.
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Reflection on art, meaning, symbolism, and the experience of beauty in Indian thought.
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Introductory or interpretive study of the Natyashastra and its framework for drama, performance, and rasa.
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Study of performance as a conceptual and embodied category in Indian aesthetic theory.
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