In the concluding episode we examine some fundamental contrasts with the Western framework of Indology and offer a few guides to decolonise the Hindu psyche.
There is a fundamental difference between the Hindu System of Philosophical Inquiry and the post-Christian intellectual milieu of the West. Confounding the two has been one of the greatest obstacles to decolonising the contemporary Hindu psyche.
A survey of the history and consequences of Western intellectualism and how its blind adoption by the Indian power elite after independence derailed the trajectory of decolonisation that had begun during the New Indian Renaissance.
A little-studied period of recent Indian history is the Golden Age of the New Indian Renaissance spanning the mid 19th to the mid 20th century. The jaw-dropping contribution of this period to Hindu decolonisation is a sure shot guide for our own time.
Unlike Muslim regimes, the British consciously destroyed traditional Hindu institutions as a result of which today's Hindu society has lost access to its own societal past.
Creating fake indexes and misleading journalistic reportage about India is just the latest avatar of the biased colonial discourse emanating from the West for over three centuries.
The singular role played by Mathas, Ghatikas, Agraharas and Temples in teaching and disseminating sacred education throughout Bharatavarsha has been almost forgotten.
The first part of an essay series tracing the extraordinary educational tradition of spreading sacred knowledge throughout the length and breadth of Bharatavarsha for a period of at least three millennia.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to thoroughly revamp the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and rename it as the Pradhan Mantri Sangrahalaya should be celebrated.
