N. S. Rajaram

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Dr. N. S. Rajaram (Rajaram, Navaratna Srinivasa, 1943-) is an author and mathematician. He was born in 1943 in Mysore, in India, and he holds a Ph.D. degree in mathematics. He has worked in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, and he has written extensively in the fields of archeology and ancient history.

Rajaram has done research in ancient Indian history and Indian archeology. Eurocentric study of these subjects has come under fire, recently, both in India and elsewhere. Among Rajaram's advantages, in his work, are his scientific background and the fact that he is a native speaker of Indian languages. He himself says,

"Indology is a ‘secular eschatology’ built around an[sic] Euro-centric view of the world... Its creators were driven mainly by European colonial and Christian missionary interests."^{[citation needed]}

Rajaram's work and publications have investigated the lack of scientific methodology that has gone into the field of Indology. He has criticized the process by which, he says, eurocentric 19th century "Indologists / missionaries" arrived at many of their conclusions.

Rajaram questions how it was possible for 19th century European evangelical "Indologists / missionaries" to study and develop hypotheses on Indian history, when many of them were "functionally illiterate" in Indian languages, including even the fundamental classical language, Sanskrit. Such writers were not even able to read the most basic of ancient Indian historical texts, a skill critical in any evaluation of Indian history. Rajaram also suggests that many of these "Indologists" often had contempt for the so-called "paganism" of Hindu Indians and their culture, further contaminating their "research" in this area.

One particularly-interesting aspect of Rajaram's work is his examination of the development of mathematics in the ancient world, and of how this development relates to mathematical formulas found in the ancient Indian texts such as the Sulbasutras and the Vedas.

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(Sole author is "Rajaram, Navaratna Srinivasa, 1943-" unless indicated otherwise:)

Nostradamus and beyond : visions of yuga-sandhi (New Delhi : Rupa, 2002) ISBN 81-7167-954-4.
The Vedic Aryans and the origins of civilization : a literary and scientific perspective (with David Frawley), 3rd ed. with three supplements (New Delhi : Voice of India, 2001) ISBN 81-85990-36-0.
The Deciphered Indus Script (with N. Jha) (New Delhi : Aditya Prakashan, 2000) ISBN 81-7742-015-1.
Profiles in deception : Ayodhya and the Dead Sea scrolls (New Delhi : Voice of India, 2000) ISBN 81-85990-65-4.
Nationalism and distortions in Indian history : causes, consequences and cure (Bangalore : Naimisha Research Foundation, 2000).
From Sarasvati river to the Indus script : a scientific journey into the origins of the Vedic Age (Bangalore, Karnataka, India : Mitra Madhyama, 1999).
Christianity's scramble for India and the failure of the secularist elite (New Delhi : Hindu Writers Forum, 1999) ISBN 81-86970-09-6.
Gandhi, Khilafat and the national movement : a revisionist view based on neglected sources (Bangalore : Sahitya Sindhu Prakashan, 1999) ISBN 81-86595-15-5.
A Hindu view of the world : essays in the intellectual kshatriya tradition (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1998) ISBN 81-85990-52-2.
The Vedic Aryans and the Origins of Civilization (with David Frawley) 2nd rev. enl. ed. (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1997) ISBN 81-85990-36-0.
The Dead Sea scrolls and the crisis of Christianity : an Eastern view of a Western crisis (London : Minerva, 1997) ISBN 1-86106-206-0.
The politics of history : Aryan invasion theory and the subversion of scholarship (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1995) ISBN 81-85990-28-X.
The Vedic "Aryans" and the origins of civilization : a literary and scientific perspective (with David Frawley) (St-Hyacinthe, Québec : World Heritage Press, 1995) ISBN 1-896064-00-0.

"Search for the Historical Krishna" (PRISM BOOKS, Bangalore, 2004) "Sarasvati River and the Vedic Civilization: History, science and politics," (Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 2006), ISBN 81774206666

Secularism : the new mask of fundamentalism : religious subversion of secular affairs (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1995) ISBN 81-85990-34-4.
Aryan invasion of India : the myth and the truth (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1993) ISBN 81-85990-12-3.

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