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Indian History and Culture in the Volgograd Oriental Studies

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017
The article is devoted to the study of Indian history and culture in Volgograd in the late 20th – early 21th century under the guidance of famous Russian orientalists Arkady Ya. Serebryany and Evgeny L. Besprozvannyh.
Vasiliy V. Tarakanov   +2 more
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The Transmission of Greek Astral Science into India Reconsidered - Critical Remarks on the Contents and the Newly Discovered Manuscript of the Yavanajātaka

open access: yesHistory of Science in South Asia, 2013
Since Pingree's 1978 publication of his work on the Yavanajātaka, the text had established itself as one of the most important historical documents in various fields of Indology, from the history of mathematics and astral science, to Indian chronology ...
Bill M. Mak
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Ex occidente imperium : Alexander the Great and the rise of the Maurya empire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Since the nineteenth century, many authors have seen the campaign of Alexander the Great in the Punjab as a pivotal moment in the history of the Indian subcontinent.
Fauconnier, Bram
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Advice for grammarians [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article offers some reflections based on certain remarks contained in a recent message to an electronic discussion group. These remarks emphasize the need for critical editions of the main texts of indigenous Sanskrit grammar.
Bronkhorst, Johannes
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Indian Archaeology and Postmodernism: Fashion or Necessity?

open access: yesAncient Asia, 2014
This paper begins by considering the origins and trajectory of growth of Indian Archaeology, from an Antiquarian stage, through to its present state, which may best be described, positioned between cultural historical,
Ajay Pratap
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‘Pure and Mixed’ in East India: Gerasim Lebedev’s Intercultural Enthusiasms

open access: yesCracow Indological Studies, 2015
This article attempts to delineate and plot the contours of the intercultural contributions of Gerasim Lebedev in a linguistic-cultural domain totally alien to him, in early-colonial Calcutta.
Gautam Chakrabarti
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Useful knowledge, 'industrial enlightenment', and the place of India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Research is now turning to the missing place of technology and ‘useful knowledge’ in the debate on the ‘great divergence’ between East and West. Parallel research in the history of science has sought the global dimensions of European knowledge.
Angerstein   +34 more
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