Fundamental questions about India

New book on ‘Bharata before the British’ decolonises Indology

Shonaleeka Kaul is India’s leading cultural and intellectual historian specializing in Sanskrit literature. She is a Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University and has also held Chairs at Yale, Leiden and Heidelberg. She has authored 9 path-breaking books demolishing colonial fallacies about India. This is an excerpt from her latest: Bharata Before the British and Other […]