A Historian of Indian Culture and Civilisation There are historians who reconstruct the past from…
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Workshop on Ideas of Indic Cultural and Social Studies From Civilizational Categories…
CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION Special Issue of the Journal of Sanatana Dharma — Ideas…
The Ambassador Who Discovered That England Was Still a Petitioner at the Mughal Court If…
The English Captain Who Entered Jahangir’s Court Before England Had an Empire in India There…
The English Merchant Who Discovered Bharat Through Its Roads, Rivers and Markets When Ralph…
The Venetian Merchant Who Saw Vijayanagara After Its Great Rupture There is a particular sadness…
The Portuguese Chronicler Who Tried to Remember Vijayanagara’s Past There is something fundamentally different about…
The Portuguese Traveller Who Saw Vijayanagara at the Height of Its Power There are travellers…
The Portuguese Apothecary Who Tried to Understand How the Commercial World of Bharat Actually Worked…
The Portuguese Who Recorded a Living Bharat Before It Became a Colonial Possession By…
The Traveller Who Moved Through Bharat’s Commercial World Before Becoming Part of the Portuguese Intervention…
A Russian Traveller Who Did Not Come to Discover India, but Found Himself Living Within…
A Venetian Merchant’s View of a Wealthy, Maritime and Urban Civilization There is something…
When Vijayanagara Appeared Before a Persian Ambassador There are moments in travel writing when…
A Moroccan Jurist Inside the Delhi Sultanate Ibn Battuta occupies a distinctive position among…
Al-Bīrūnī and the Problem of Understanding Bharat Among the travellers who came to Bharat,…
A Chinese Scholar’s Journey into the Intellectual Life of Seventh-Century Bharat In 671 CE,…
The Intellectual Pilgrim and the World He Found in Bharat Xuanzang (玄奘, c. 602–664…
A Pilgrim’s Record of Gupta-period Bharat What kind of civilizational world had to exist for…
An Outsider Looking at Mauryan Bharat A Short Biography Megasthenes was a Greek diplomat associated…
Nationalism as Self-Realisation and Civilizational Awakening A Short Biography Bipin Chandra Pal was one of…
The Idea of Bharat: Geography, Culture and Civilizational Unity A Short Biography Radhakumud Mukherjee, often…
Recovering the Constitutional Traditions of Ancient Bharat A Short Biography Kashi Prasad Jayaswal was a…
Making Vedic Knowledge a Living Intellectual Practice A Short Biography Pandit Shripad Damodar Satwalekar was…
Reconstructing Indian Society Through Institutions, Education and Social History A Short Biography Anant Sadashiv Altekar…
A Short Biography Nirmal Kumar Bose was among the most important Indian anthropologists of the…
An Introduction to “Cultural Anthropology” | Indic Social Studies Series Series: An Indic Social Studies…
An Introduction to “A Dharmic Social History of India” | Indic Social Science Series Series:…
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How Should We Study a Civilization? When you enter the Civilizational Studies section, you will…
“The ideas are drawn from Hindu cultural categories… because they illuminate variations which escape the…
Who was Vinoba Bhave? Acharya Vinoba Bhave was one of modern India’s foremost philosophers, social…
Who was Mahatma Gandhi? Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, widely known as Mahatma Gandhi, was one of…
Who was Swami Vivekananda? Swami Vivekananda was one of modern India’s greatest spiritual leaders, philosophers,…
Who was Lokmanya Tilak? Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was one of the foremost architects of…
Who was Veer Savarkar? Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, popularly known as Veer Savarkar, was an Indian…
Who was Sri Aurobindo? Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghose) was one of modern India’s foremost philosophers,…
How Does a Civilization Encounter the Other? Every civilization eventually confronts the same historical…
What is the economy, and does it exist outside society? Modern economics often treats…
Must Society Be Destroyed Before It Can Be Improved? Few ideas have shaped modern…
Beyond Centralization: How Bharat Distributed Power, Knowledge and Responsibility Can a civilization flourish only through…
Must Bharat Always Choose? Modern political thought often presents society as a choice between two…
Is Society a Machine or an Ecosystem? How do we imagine society? As a machine…
Shaping Human Behavior through an interplay of Nature (Biological and Psychological traits) and Nurture (Social…
Indic Frameworks · Understanding the Human Being Man Is More Than the Sum of His…
What Holds a Society Together — Competition or Contribution? Modern social theory often begins with…
Can a society survive for millennia without remaining politically unified? History presents us with…
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