Language & Sanskrit

The science of language — Sanskrit grammar, linguistics, philosophy of language, Bhartrhari's sphota theory, the Amarakosha as knowledge structure, and Sanskrit as civilizational medium.

Connected Knowledge - 11

language philosophy

bhartrhari

amarakosha

sanskrit pedagogy

grammar reference

morphology

Essays

svayambodha

Decolonization - A Personal Footprint and Some Ramp Ways

Decolonization as daily practice - a personal account of what it actually looks like to replace a colonial operating system of the mind - starting with the words you use, the foods you eat, the festivals you observe.

Amritanshu Pandey

svayambodha

Decolonizing Language

How colonialism froze the evolution of North Indian vernaculars by installing FATE languages (Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, English) as prestige languages - and what it would take to let them grow again.

Pankaj Saxena

shatrubodha

Sanskṛta vs. FATE Languages

The battle between Saṃskṛta and FATE languages (Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, English) for the cognitive and expressive inheritance of India - why language is not culture-agnostic, but the primary site of civilizational contestation.

Pankaj Saxena

Books

Epicenter of the Indo-European Linguistic Spread

Johanna Nichols

Language and Reality, World View of the Nyaya-Vaisesika System of Indian Philosophy

VN Jha

Logic, Language and Reality

Bimal Krishna Matilal

Methodological Issues In The Indo European Debate

Michel Danino

The Indo Aryans Of Ancient South Asia

Michael Witzel

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