$300.00
HAM4201 – This course is the first of a two-quarter course sequence that examines the scientific evidence emerging in contemporary times, in relation to the popular narratives on the history of the Hindu civilization, logically and rationally. The deep history of India is the history of the Hindu civilization, starting from ancient Indian prehistory.
We use the term “Hindu” in a rich multi-dimensional context, inclusive of varied geographical, genetic, linguistic, cultural, and philosophical meanings. The primary focus of this course is to examine the best evidence available for the origins of the Hindus, in relation to the Aryan Invasion/ Migration theories that have become canonical to the outsider’s narrative of Indian history.
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Hindu History as it is reconstructed in school and college textbooks, suffers from both commissions and omissions. It presents the Hindu civilization as the illegitimate offspring of an “Aryan race” that came into India from somewhere outside, as it inter-mixed with the “native Dravidian” or Aboriginal population of India. This illegitimacy of the Hindu is a foundational presumption of most western scholarship on Hinduism.
Hindus note with dismay the severe distortions, errors, misrepresentations, commissions, and omissions in the reconstructed History, which are nevertheless presented as uncontestable historical truth, certified by the western expert. More often than not, a Hindu cannot recognize their own civilization in the contemporary presentation of Hindu History. Before we embark on a positive reconstruction of Hindu history, it is necessary to confront the challenges posed by the already existing western reconstructions.
This 1-credit course will (a) expose the student to the problems and issues in the five major frameworks used by outsiders to reconstruct present-day narratives, (b) build the foundations used to challenge the existing narratives, and (c) present an evidence-based alternative narrative for the deep history of Hindus. The course will be multi-disciplinary, and touch upon linguistics, astronomy, genetics, archeology, climate-records, and other related areas.
This course is for the person who wants a rational, logical understanding of ancient Hindu history, and wants to understand the evidence from multi-disciplinary fields. The pre-requisite for the course is a basic degree, in order to allow students to follow a college-level discourse. The background required to understand the various subject areas will be covered in the course itself.
The Instructor will provide a strong understanding of the evidence from these areas, and how that contributes to a strong, bold, inspiring, factual new narrative on the Hindu civilization.
The class is structured into supplement classroom instruction with discussions and self-study each week. While the content being discussed in each class will be concluded within 50 minutes, the discussion time will be free format and can continue for an additional 25 minutes maximum. Quizzes will evaluate students’ understanding of the material. Students will either write a final paper on a topic of their choice from within the course syllabus or take a final exam at the end of each term. The first 10 topics will be handled in the 1st term, where a strong foundation will be laid for the antiquity of Hindus. The remaining topics will be handled in the second term, where we will address the knowledge systems of the Hindus.
$300.00
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