Jajmani System, Jatis and Castes
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Dr Harsh Satya talks about India’s traditional Jajmani system and its linkages with jatis and castes. The word Jajmani comes from Yajman which is linked to the practice of Yajnya. This video is recorded at the SIDH campus, Kempty, during…
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IGNCA-SIDH Dharampal centenary program
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Read more: IGNCA-SIDH Dharampal centenary programIt is heartening to see that there appears to be an awakening of interest and a recognition of the importance of Dharampalji’s work. The Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) and SIDH are collaborating on a year-long program to…
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Rediscovering India – Preface
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Read more: Rediscovering India – Preface(The following is an abridged version of the Preface to the second edition written by Pawanji. Take a look…) Professor Samdhong Rinpoche, highly revered monk and founding Director (later Vice-Chancellor) of Tibetan Institute of Higher Studies, Sarnath, as well as…
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Rediscovering India – Excerpts
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Read more: Rediscovering India – ExcerptsI have been carefully going through the ‘Rediscovering India’ document before we send it for typesetting and printing. I started copying out paragraphs that I thought were hard-hitting and am now having trouble selecting 500 words for this blog post.…
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Rediscovering India
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Read more: Rediscovering IndiaAt SIDH we are republishing an out-of-print book, ‘Rediscovering India’, by Dharampalji. With a foreword by Chandra Shekharji, former Prime Minister of India, it is a book of essays and speeches (1956-1998) in which Dharampalji talks about a wide range…
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The Fourth Political Theory
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Read more: The Fourth Political Theory“The future world should be characterized by multiplicity; diversity should be taken as its richness and its treasure, and not as a reason for inevitable conflict; many civilizations, many poles, many centers, many sets of values on one planet and…
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Andheri Raat Ke Taare
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Read more: Andheri Raat Ke TaareSIDH wants to bring out books written in our languages that helps us to see India, it’s samaaj, it’s ways, it’s aesthetics from our indigenous perspective. ‘Andheri Raat Ke Taare’, which was out of print for a long time, is…
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Invisible systems and their visible effects
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Read more: Invisible systems and their visible effectsSIDH is going to publish ‘The White Sahibs In India’ (first published in 1937 and talked about here, here and here on this blog) by Reginald Reynolds in a month or two. I read the full book once and then…
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A sangoshthi at Jeevika Ashram (Part 2)
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Read more: A sangoshthi at Jeevika Ashram (Part 2)On the second day, I liked Sant Sameer’s presentation on bhāshā. It was informative and useful to my rudimentary interest in languages. Sant Sameer’s claim that Indic scripts (he was referring to devanāgri in particular, but I guess it would…
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A sangoshthi at Jeevika Ashram (Part 1)
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Read more: A sangoshthi at Jeevika Ashram (Part 1)(A 3-day sangoshthi was held at Jeevika Ashram (Indrana) near Jabalpur, 24th-26th December 2021, on “Bhārtiyatā and the perspective of Ravindra Sharma “Guruji”, with contributions of around 50 participants from different parts of the country. The event was organized with…
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Looking back at one year of weekly blog posts
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Read more: Looking back at one year of weekly blog postsThis blog started in November 2020 as a way to keep the conversation going among the participants of the online courses that we were running at SIDH. We started with some basic rules:a. There would be a new post every…
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A Baithak at SIDH
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Read more: A Baithak at SIDH(Photos from the 5 day meeting at SIDH campus at Kempty. 6th to 10th December 2021. With around 30 participants) I’ve been thinking on this word ‘baithak’. Pawan ji has used it often in conversations. The gathering in SIDH, although…
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