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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What does 'Being Indian' Mean?
What does Indian identity mean in light of Partition, the Muslim question, and conflicting nationalist visions from Gandhi to Savarkar to Nehru?
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Brahmacāriṇī | Navadurgā - Part 2
Second in the Navadurgā series: the theology and iconography of Brahmacāriṇī Devī — the form of Durgā who represents austerity, renunciation, and the discipline through which the soul approaches the absolute.
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Candraghaṇṭā | Navadurgā - Part 3
Third in the Navadurgā series: the theology and iconography of Candraghaṇṭā Devī — the warrior form whose crescent-bell emblem signals the transition from inner austerity to active, world-facing śakti.
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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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Dharampal School of Svayambodha
Built on Dharampal's archival discoveries about pre-colonial India, this school argues that Svayambodha — self-knowledge grounded in India's actual historical capacities — is the precondition for any viable Indian future, not a romantic luxury.
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The Difference Between Us - on One-life vs. Multiple-life Metaphysics
What actually separates the Hindu and Abrahamic worldviews at the deepest level is not ritual or scripture but the one-life versus multiple-life metaphysical foundation — and the implications of that single difference ramify through everything.
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Grasping for the Beyond - On a Critical Schism in the Modern Psyche
Weber's disenchantment and Jung's diagnosis of the Western mind as a madhouse of abstractions — arguing that the modern psyche's loss of the sacred is precisely the illness that India's living metaphysical tradition can address.
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The sharpest institutional critic the West produced: his dissections of schooling, medicine, and economic growth argue that modern institutions systematically destroy the autonomous competence they claim to produce — a critique that hits differently once you've read Dharampal.
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Kālarātri | Navadurgā - Part 7
Seventh in the Navadurgā series: the theology and iconography of Kālarātri Devī — the most fearsome form, destroyer of darkness and ignorance, whose terrifying appearance conceals absolute protection for the devotee.
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Kātyāyanī | Navadurgā - Part 6
Sixth in the Navadurgā series: the theology and iconography of Kātyāyanī Devī — the fierce warrior form born to destroy the demon Mahiṣāsura, and the deity invoked for strength in the face of civilizational threat.
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Fourth in the Navadurgā series: the theology and iconography of Kūṣmāṇḍā Devī — the form who created the universe with her smile, and who is propitiated for health, vitality, and the removal of darkness.
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Mahāgaurī | Navadurgā - Part 8
Eighth in the Navadurgā series: the theology and iconography of Mahāgaurī Devī — the luminous, peaceful form that follows Kālarātri, representing the purity and grace that emerge after the destruction of all that is false.
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Śailaputrī | Navadurgā - Part 1
Opening the Navadurgā series: an introduction to the Navarātrī tradition followed by the theology and iconography of Śailaputrī Devī — daughter of the mountain, first of the nine forms, embodiment of primal śakti.
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Siddhidātrī | Navadurgā - Part 9
Ninth and final in the Navadurgā series: the theology and iconography of Siddhidātrī Devī — the granter of all siddhis, the form who completes the Navarātrī cycle and whose worship is the culmination of the entire nine-day journey.
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Skandamātā | Navadurgā - Part 5
Fifth in the Navadurgā series: the theology and iconography of Skandamātā Devī — mother of Skanda (Kārttikeya), the form that holds together the energies of motherhood, courage, and cosmic order.
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Historical reading of the Rigveda that uses textual evidence to discuss chronology, culture, and social setting.
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Essays aimed at recovering Indian civilizational categories, intellectual memory, and cultural self-knowledge.
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Historical argument about indigenous education in India before colonial disruption.
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Essays on Tradition, Recovery and Freedom
Essays on cultural continuity, intellectual decolonization, and the recovery of civilizational freedom.
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Panchayat Raj and India's Polity
Study of village governance and decentralized political structures in Indian constitutional and civilizational context.
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General overview of Hindu tradition, covering its beliefs, practices, social vision, and intellectual foundations.
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Sri Aurobindo’s symbolic interpretation of the Vedic hymns as spiritual and psychological texts rather than merely ritual documents.
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Introductory reflections on Vedic and Upanishadic insight framed for modern readers.
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Survey introduction to Indian Knowledge Systems and their major domains, methods, and categories.
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Civilizational reflection arguing for a spiritually grounded future rooted in perennial wisdom.
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