Swadeshi Indology

The Swadeshi Indology Conference series has been envisioned to counter the 250-year-old narrative of Western Indology, the genre of Orientalism that focuses on India. As is well known, Western Indology helped formulate and legitimise the British colonial policies and played a very crucial role in the successful colonisation and oppression of the Indian peoples; it very nearly destroyed the Sanātana Saṁskrti.

The Swadeshi Indology Conference Series and publications intend to analyze and respond to the well-orchestrated, systematic attack on:

- the foundational elements (the Veda-s, Upaniṣad-s, Itihāsa-s, and Purāṇa-s),

- the living principles (the puruṣārtha-s and the varṇāśrama system),

- the cultural manifestations (śāstra-s, kāvya-s, and kalā-s) and

- the sacredness of the still living articulations (art, temples, kumbha-mela, festivals, family and social-structures) – that embody sanātana dharma.