Retrospective and Prospective at Indic Academy (2020) Reading Indian Texts (2018) Is this possible? Mythic Society Book Rerelease (2018) History vs. Itihasa, Para and Happiness (2017) What do Indians need, a history or the Past? A challenge to Indian historians (2014) RRI-4 Truth & Falsity; the Witness & the judge; judicial facts (2012) Secularization Balagangadhara & Jakob de Roover (2011) On …
“We shall not cease from exploration …” The Heathen in His Blindness: Asia, the West and the dynamic of religion (The ebook (pdf file) can be had from here ; hardcopy costs about US$25.)
Do all roads lead to Jerusalem?: The making of Indian religions ( Manohar Publishers. For more on this, check this post .)
Reconceptualizing India Studies ( OUP India; costs about $21)
Europe, India and the …
Please direct your comments to raindoctor@gmail.com This website contains articles of many kinds: published papers; ideas that are yet to be developed in a form of theory; posts that help to clarify/understand the research program “Comparative Science of Cultures”.
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Europe, India and the limits of Secularim (OUP, 2015), by Jakob de Roover
The secular state and religious conflict: Liberal neutrality and the Indian case of pluralism The dark hour of secularism: Hindu fundamentalism and colonial liberalism in India Liberal political theory and cultural migration of ideas: the case of secualrism in India Secular law and the realm of false religion On the dark …
There is so much nonsense peddled by well-meaning Indians that (a) one should use “Indian categories” to describe India; that (b) one should not use “Western categories” to describe India, her culture and her traditions; and that (c) one should not translate words from Indian languages, but retain them as “untranslatables”. Such responses indicate the depth of ignorance of these Indians and of …
Do we understand colonialism? On colonialism and the Indian renaissance: a prolegomenon to a project Rehtinking Colonialism and Colonial Consciousness Mantras of anti-brahmanism: colonial experience of Indian intellectuals What is colonial consciousness? Is colonial consciousness hypothesis adhoc? Colonial consciousness: Normative ethics I Colonial consciousness: Normative ethics II Colonial …
If you are new to this site, start with these posts. Majority of these posts are not written for this website, rather they were lifted from the conversations on the defunct sulekha.com, the defunct yahoo group, and other places. (Check this forum for current connversations.) These posts serve three purposes: (a) to help newbies to understand Balagangadhara’s research program called “Comparative …
This site hosts a collection of posts and articles (both publish and unpublished) about many things related to India, her culture and her traditions.
Today, whatever descriptions exist about Indian culture is a product of labors of generations of western intellectuals. These descriptions are laden with many common sense themes, which are taken as true, because the whole western culture believes in …
