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India has its own highly systematized method of scientific discourse that is followed in all scientific texts, called śāstras. Every ... Read More

PHS7302 - The current mainstream narrative in western academia is that there are two kinds of Hinduism: traditional and neo ... Read More

PHS8302 - In the colonial and postcolonial contexts, there have been many attempts both by Indians and western people to ... Read More

Orientalism employs a technique termed “deconstruction.” In order to effectively and critically examine a colonial and postcolonial discourse, it is ... Read More

In postcolonial scholarship, Edward Said’s work Orientalism can be considered a landmark text. This course helps students understand what Said ... Read More

To examine the core ideas such as state, war, and peace in the ancient text Arthashastra, a major treatise on ... Read More

CPS5504 - To elaborate ideas of good governance and duties of a ruler towards his subjects and Dharma as enshrined ... Read More

HSF5002 - Distilled from the Upaniṣad, the Śrīmad Bhagavad-Gītā is a fundamental text of Hindu Dharma which has given rise ... Read More

This course introduces the theories of various anticolonial and postcolonial writers in order to create a framework for a critical ... Read More

HSF5004 - Vedānta also known as the Upaniṣad, found at the end of all four Vedas, reveal the goal and ... Read More