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This lecture will be on Sri Dharampal (19.02.2022 – 24.10.2006)’s life and works. He was a provocative Gandhian thinker with a creative mind and an imaginative intellect who engaged in extensive archival research in British and Indian archives, and the resultant publications revolutionised our understanding of the cultural, scientific and technological achievements of India at the eve of the British conquest. However, the enormous portent of his historical discoveries still needs to make more of an impact on conventional perceptions of pre-colonial India.
Sri Dharampal authored several rigorously documented books. His corpus presents to us different aspects of Indian society and polity from an Indian perspective and naturally disrupts the scholarly consensus about the backwardness and dis-functionality of pre-British India. The resultant picture is of a society that in fact was highly sophisticated and advanced in its political ideas and arrangements and in its sciences, technologies and education systems. His works, naturally, are of abiding interest and importance in the onerous task of nation building and understanding the quintessence of Indianness.
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