The normative order — Smriti, Dharmashastra, Arthashastra, and the broader tradition of Hindu statecraft, law, governance, and political ethics. How dharma structures collective life.
Connected Knowledge - 22
civilizational-consciousness
Bodha, the Pyramid of Priorities and the Nature of Hindu OrganizationsWhy Hindu organizational fragmentation is a feature, not a failure - Bodha's argument that Sanatana Dharma requires a diversity of independent organizations rather than monolithic unity, and what this means for civilizational strategy.
Pankaj Saxena
purva-paksha
Freedom of ExpressionWhy clarity about the nature of prophetic monotheism's claim on speech is a prerequisite for any meaningful Hindu engagement with the politics of free expression - the conceptual tools for a discourse that currently lacks them.
Padmavathy Manavazhahan
shatrubodha
The Battle Against Hindus in ManipurThe Manipur conflict is not a tribal dispute but a civilizational one - how the Christian missionary conversion of Kuki tribes created a political wedge that the Indian state misreads as ethnic tension while Meitei Hindu identity is the actual target.
Pankaj Saxena
svayambodha
Towards Dharma-centric Polity - Lokmanya Tilak and the Universalization of Gaṇeśa UtsavaAs dharma recedes from both personal life and public governance, what would a genuinely dharma-centric political order look like - and is it achievable within or only beyond the current Indian constitutional framework?
Pankaj Saxena
Study of resistance, legitimacy, and non-cooperation within Indian political and ethical traditions.
Dharampal
Interpretive study of Gandhi’s social philosophy, moral politics, and continuing relevance.
AK Saran
Reference study of dharmashastra literature, sources of dharma, and the historical formation of legal-ritual norms.
PV Kane
Reference study of dharmashastra literature with focus on ritual, samskara, and normative practice.
PV Kane
Reference study of dharmashastra literature continuing discussion of rites, duties, and normative institutions.
PV Kane
Reference study of dharmashastra themes including social duties, legal procedure, and normative ordering.
PV Kane
Reference study of dharmashastra themes with detailed treatment of law, custom, and social institutions.
PV Kane
Reference study of later dharmashastra topics, jurisprudence, and social-religious regulation.
PV Kane
Reference study completing the dharmashastra series with later legal and ritual materials.
PV Kane
Dharampal