The earliest textual attestation of ‘dharmaśāstra’ and more: An analysis of chronology in ‘A…Abstract: Which is the earliest extant textual attestation of the word ‘dharmaśāstra’? Is the birth of the Dharmaśāstra genre causally…Nov 29, 2020Nov 29, 2020
Dave Anderson’s terminological prescription to the The Democratic Party — ‘Mixed Economy’— and its…Earlier today, I read Dave Anderson’s Nov 21 2020 article Democrats fell into the language trap — again. The following lines in his piece…Nov 22, 2020Nov 22, 2020
Landscape in the Nāṭyaśāstra and clues to its spatial origin: A study in 2019 (Dr.Note prescribed* for inclusion: “This paper is already presented in the National Seminar The Recensions of Nāṭyaśāstra, sponsored by the…Oct 15, 2020Oct 15, 2020
A response to Kasturi and Gomes’ article ‘Debate: History, Historians and the Many Ideas of India’On Aug 18th, I had written this sentence-by-sentence response to Kasturi and Gomes’ article To Say That an Indian Nation-State Existed in…Aug 29, 2020Aug 29, 2020
That which Iain McLean called ‘one of the finest parts of WN,’ seen in the light of Balbir Singh…For Iain McLean (DPhil), Professor of Politics, Official Fellow, Nuffield College, ‘one of the finest parts of WN’[1] (‘WN: Inquiry into ……Jun 23, 2020Jun 23, 2020
The British propagation of Christianity in India: A Tharoorian blindspot?In her conversation with Shashi Tharoor at the launch of his book An Era of Darkness: The British empire in India at the Ahmedabad…Sep 24, 2018Sep 24, 2018