Sujay Rao Mandavilli

Email: sujayrao2000@yahoo.com

 

Publications

 

1

Syncretism and Acculturations in Ancient India

Which proposes a new Nine Phase Acculturation model between the Harappans, Indo-Aryans and other cultures, analyzes the role of internal and external migrations in shaping Indian culture, and proposes an Anchor Point Model and a Concurrent Dating Paradigm for understanding Ancient India besides arguing for delinking ethnicity, spoken and written language and cultural influences while studying Ancient India.  Plus prima facie evidence linking the “Late Harappan script” at Bet Dwarka to the Phoenician Alphabet and the Proto-Canaanite scripts, suggesting that two scripts were used in the post-Harappan period.

This was published earlier (older abridged version) in the proceedings of

(a)   The Waves Vedic conference, Houston, Texas July 2006

(b)   The Vedic conference, Saltillo, Mexico 2007

                     

And soon will be published and reviewed in academic journals and presented in some more conferences. This model is also being currently researched with a couple of prominent research institutions. (an old version was also available  on my old website www.sujayraom.com

between  Nov 23rd  2005 and Feb 23rd 2006)

2

Why Nehru’s language policy is fundamentally in conflict with itself and keeps on  producing a series of counter-reactions. (A 31 point list was submitted to various government  departments)

(a)   This was also published in the journal “Language in India” in January 2008 as “It is time for India to abandon its antiquated Rajbhasha policy”

(b)   “The case for a new language policy for India” published in Pragati April 2008

(c)   “The case for Sanskrit and Prakrit as National link languages” published in the journal “Language in India” in May 2008

 

3

Metrication in India (published in the US metric association site)

4

From the Left to the Right: unintended consequences of politicization of History (not yet published)

5

Future paths in Indology: What direction will research into India’s ancient past take? (not yet published)

 

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