N. S. Rajaram
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Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram (born 1943 in Mysore, India) is an author and mathematician. He is notable for his extensive publications on the archeology and ancient history of India, focussing on the "Indigenous Aryans" controversy in Indian politics, in some instances in co-authorship with David Frawley, contributions characterized by mainstream scholars as pseudoscience.[1]
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Professional career
Rajaram holds a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Indiana University, and has published papers on statistics in the 1970s [1][2] and on artificial intelligence [3][4] and robotics[5] in the 1980s.
Indian history
Rajaram has done research in ancient Indian history and Indian archeology, alleging Eurocentric bias in mainstream Indology and Sanskrit scholarship, arguing within the "Indigenous Aryans" ideology instead. According to Rajaram,
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- "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 claim to expose 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, claiming many of them were "functionally illiterate" in Indian languages, including even the fundamental classical language, Sanskrit, suggesting that "every available modern tool from archaeology to computer science" be used to "clearing away the cobwebs cast by questionable linguistic theories" as he chooses to refer to mainstream historical linguistics and philology.[2]
Rajaram has also published on historical Indian mathematics found in the Sulbasutras and the Vedas.
Works
- Aryan invasion of India : the myth and the truth (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1993) ISBN 81-85990-12-3.
- The politics of history : Aryan invasion theory and the subversion of scholarship (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1995) ISBN 81-85990-28-X.
- with David Frawley, The Vedic "Aryans" and the origins of civilization : a literary and scientific perspective (St-Hyacinthe, Québec : World Heritage Press, 1995) ISBN 1-896064-00-0, 2nd rev. enl. ed. (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1997) ISBN 81-85990-36-0.
- Secularism : the new mask of fundamentalism : religious subversion of secular affairs (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1995) ISBN 81-85990-34-4.
- The Dead Sea scrolls and the crisis of Christianity : an Eastern view of a Western crisis (London : Minerva, 1997) ISBN 1-86106-206-0.
- with David Frawley, A Hindu view of the world : essays in the intellectual kshatriya tradition (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1998) ISBN 81-85990-52-2.
- Gandhi, Khilafat and the national movement : a revisionist view based on neglected sources (Bangalore : Sahitya Sindhu Prakashan, 1999) ISBN 81-86595-15-5.
- Christianity's scramble for India and the failure of the secularist elite (New Delhi : Hindu Writers Forum, 1999) ISBN 81-86970-09-6.
- From Sarasvati river to the Indus script : a scientific journey into the origins of the Vedic Age (Bangalore, Karnataka, India : Mitra Madhyama, 1999).
- 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).
- with N. Jha, The Deciphered Indus Script (New Delhi : Aditya Prakashan, 2000) ISBN 81-7742-015-1.
- with David Frawley, The Vedic Aryans and the origins of civilization : a literary and scientific perspective, 3rd ed. with three supplements (New Delhi : Voice of India, 2001) ISBN 81-85990-36-0.
- Nostradamus and beyond : visions of yuga-sandhi (New Delhi : Rupa, 2002) ISBN 81-7167-954-4.
- "Sarasvati River and the Vedic Civilization: History, science and politics," (Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 2006), ISBN 8177420661
Notes
- ^ Rajaram's claim that Many of the questions arising in Quantum Physics today had been anticipated by Swami Vivekananda heads the chapter on Hindu nationalism in Alan Sokal's 2004 essay on Pseudoscience and Postmodernism
- ^ Rajaram 1995, page 230, (cited in Bryant 2001 page 74
References
- Alan D. Sokal, Pseudoscience and Postmodernism: Antagonists or Fellow-Travelers? in: Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public, ed. Fagan (2004).
See also
- Indigenous Aryans
- Aryan invasion theory
- Biblia Impex India
- Voice of India
- Nationalism and ancient history