Tag: indian history
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Family and society in the Vedic period
On the occasion of Guru Pūrṇimā, our thoughts may turn to the venerable lineages of successive teachers and students in India. As we will see, the need to record and preserve genealogical details of family and pedagogical lineages was already recognized in India in the earliest times. Indeed, this is very likely a continuation of…
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Faizi, Akbar and Sanskrit literature
The Mughal period in India was a fascinating and intriguing period from the perspective of development and dissemination of Sanskrit literature.
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