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Studies in Indology

open access: yes, 1960
Mirashi, V. V. Studies in Indology, vol.1 (Nagpur, 1960).
Mirashi, V. V.
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German Indology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this thesis I try to reconstruct the ideas of Sir William Jones in the light of the unpublished manuscript sources. I have drawn heavily on his unpublished correspondence to be found among the Spencer papers at Althorp Park, Northampton.
Mukherjee, Soumyendranath
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Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past, by Dilip K. Chakrabarti, Munshiram Manoharial Publishers, New Dehli, India, 1997

open access: yesBulletin of the History of Archaeology, 1997
Colonial Indology is the first extended critique of the premises underlying the Western study of ancient Indian history and archaeology and, as such, fills a major gap in the history of archaeology. It complements Ronald Inden's
Bruce G. Trigger
doaj   +2 more sources

GROWING UP AMID THE RELIGION AND SCIENCE AFFAIR: A PERSPECTIVE FROM INDOLOGY [PDF]

open access: yesZygon, 2012
This article identifies the tropes of “maturity” and “immaturity” in the dialogue between religion and science. On both sides of the aisle, authors charge, either directly or indirectly, that their dissenting interlocutors are not mature enough to see ...
NC DOCKS at Appalachian State University   +1 more
doaj   +3 more sources

What Weber Got Right About Brahmins-Testing His Theories About South Asian Caste Hierarchies. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Hist Behav Sci
ABSTRACT The following article is an assessment of Max Weber's depiction of Brahmins and ascetics in South Asia. Using contemporary historical analyses, the article has attempted to demonstrate the validity of Weber's analyses in his seminal treatise on South Asian society, “The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism” that he had ...
Pal S.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Ayurveda: between religion, spirituality, and medicine. [PDF]

open access: yesEvid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2013
Ayurveda is playing a growing part in Europe. Questions regarding the role of religion and spirituality within Ayurveda are discussed widely. Yet, there is little data on the influence of religious and spiritual aspects on its European diffusion. Methods. A survey was conducted with a new questionnaire.
Kessler C   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

What if We Selected our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections and Communist Revolutionaries

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 687-728, July 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT What if we selected our leaders by lottery? Zooming out from the mud huts of indigenous communities in the forested hills of eastern India, this article compares three different models of leadership and democracy: liberal electoral democracy; Marxist‐Leninist Maoist democracy; and democracy by sortition — the random selection of rotating ...
Alpa Shah
wiley   +1 more source

Forging Indian Religion: East India Company Servants and the Construction of ‘Gentoo’/‘Hindoo’ Scripture in the 1760s

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 77-100, March 2021., 2021
Abstract This article demonstrates how, in the 1760s, two British East India Company servants, John Zephaniah Holwell and Alexander Dow, constructed a particular interpretation of India's ancient religious past through creative misrepresentations of mysteriously sourced texts.
Jessica Patterson
wiley   +1 more source

The INDOLOGY Archive to May 1, 2022

open access: yes, 2023
Archives to the end of April 2022 of the listserv forum INDOLOGY. See also, http://indology.info and https://wujastyk.github.io/INDOLOGY-forum-archives/
Wujastyk, Dominik
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The development of the British Indology [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
India and the Mediterranean world have been in contact since prehistoric times. However, India remained shrouded in mystery and fable until the Portuguese established direct contact at the end of the fifteenth century.
Swanson, Kenneth B.
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