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Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram (born 1943 in Mysore) is an Indian mathematician, who is however notablefor his publications with the Voice of India publishing house focusing on the "Indigenous Aryans"controversy in Indian politics, in some instances in co-authorship with David Frawley. He is also a memberof Folks Magazine's Editorial Board since 2009.[1]

Contents

1 Professional career2 Indian history3 Criticism4 Works5 Notes6 See also7 References8 External links

Professional career

Rajaram holds a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Indiana University, and has published papers on statisticsin the 1970s [2] (http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA037099)[3] (http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA039208) and on artificial intelligence [4] (http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADD803894)[5] (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=30081&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=15700578&CFTOKEN=24643596) and robotics[6] (http://md1.csa.com/partners/viewrecord.php?requester=gs&collection=TRD&recid=A8415667AH&q=%22N+S+Rajaram%22+-Aryan&uid=790197364&setcookie=yes) in the 1980s.

Indian history

Rajaram has published on topics related to ancient Indian history and Indian archaeology, allegingEurocentric bias in EurocentricIndology and Sanskrit scholarship, arguing within the "Indigenous Aryans"ideology instead. According to Rajaram,

"Indology is a ‘secular eschatology’ built around a Euro-centric view of the world... Itscreators were driven mainly by European colonial and Christian missionary interests."

Rajaram's work and publications claim to expose the "lack of scientific methodology" that has gone into thefield of Indology. He has criticized the process by which, he says, eurocentric 19th century "Indologists /missionaries" arrived at many of their conclusions. Rajaram questions how it was possible for 19th centuryEuropean evangelical "Indologists / missionaries" to study and develop hypotheses on Indian history,claiming many of them were "functionally illiterate" in Indian languages, including even the fundamentalclassical language, Sanskrit, suggesting that "every available modern tool from archaeology to computer

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science" be used to "clearing away the cobwebs cast by questionable linguistic theories" as he chooses torefer to mainstream historical linguistics and philology.[2]

Rajaram has also published on historical Indian mathematics found in the Sulbasutras and the Vedas.

Criticism

Rajaram's some view points are characterized by physicist and pseudoscience expert Alan Sokal aspseudoscience,[3] and by Asko Parpola as "trash" and "crude" or "nonsensical propaganda".[4][5] Rajaram'sand Jha's claim of having deciphered the Indus script were also questioned by other competing experts suchas Iravatham Mahadevan.

Works

Aryan Invasion of India: The Myth and the Truth (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1993) ISBN81-85990-12-3.The politics of history : Aryan invasion theory and the subversion of scholarship (New Delhi : Voiceof India, 1995) ISBN 81-85990-28-X.with David Frawley, The Vedic "Aryans" and the origins of civilization : a literary and scientificperspective (St-Hyacinthe, Québec : World Heritage Press, 1995) ISBN 1-896064-00-0, 2nd rev. enl.ed. (New Delhi : Voice of India, 1997) ISBN 81-85990-36-0.Secularism : the new mask of fundamentalism : religious subversion of secular affairs (New Delhi :Voice of India, 1995) ISBN 81-85990-34-4.The Dead Sea scrolls and the crisis of Christianity : an Eastern view of a Western crisis (London :Minerva, 1997) ISBN 1-86106-206-0.with David Frawley, A Hindu view of the world : essays in the intellectual kshatriya tradition (NewDelhi : Voice of India, 1998) ISBN 81-85990-52-2.Gandhi, Khilafat and the national movement : a revisionist view based on neglected sources(Bangalore : Sahitya Sindhu Prakashan, 1999) ISBN 81-86595-15-5.Christianity's scramble for India and the failure of the secularist elite (New Delhi : Hindu Writers'Forum, 1999) ISBN 81-86970-09-6.From Sarasvati river to the Indus script : a scientific journey into the origins of the Vedic Age(Bangalore, Karnataka, India : [Mitra Maadhyama,][7] (http://www.mitramaadhyama.co.in) 1999).Profiles in deception : Ayodhya and the Dead Sea scrolls (New Delhi : Voice of India, 2000) ISBN81-85990-65-4.Nationalism and distortions in Indian history : causes, consequences and cure (Bangalore : NaimishaResearch Foundation, 2000).with N. Jha, The Deciphered Indus Script (New Delhi : Aditya Prakashan, 2000) ISBN81-7742-015-1.with David Frawley, The Vedic Aryans and the origins of civilization : a literary and scientificperspective, 3rd ed. with three supplements (New Delhi : Voice of India, 2001) ISBN 81-85990-36-0.Nostradamus and beyond : visions of yuga-sandhi (New Delhi : Rupa, 2002) ISBN 81-7167-954-4.

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"Sarasvati River and the Vedic Civilization: History, science and politics," (Aditya Prakashan, NewDelhi, 2006), ISBN 81-7742-066-6

Notes

^ Magazine, Folks. "Folks Magazine's Editorial Board" (http://folks.co.in/about/management-team/). Retrieved28 August 2011.

1.

^ Rajaram 1995, page 230, (cited in Bryant 2001 page 742.^ Rajaram's claim that Many of the questions arising in Quantum Physics today had been anticipated bySwami Vivekananda heads the chapter on Hindu nationalism in Alan Sokal's 2004 essay on Pseudoscience andPostmodernism

3.

^ A. Parpola, Of Rajaram's 'Horses', 'decipherment' and civilisational issues,4.^ Frontline, November 2000 [1] (http://www.safarmer.com/frontline/taleoftwohorses.pdf)5.

See also

Indigenous AryansIndo-Aryan migrationNationalism and ancient history

References

Alan D. Sokal, Pseudoscience and Postmodernism: Antagonists or Fellow-Travelers? in:Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public,ed. Fagan (2004). Downloadable (http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/pseudoscience_rev.pdf)"Horseplay in Harappa" (http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1720/17200040.htm) review by Witzel &Farmer, Frontline, October 2000.A Tale of Two Horses (http://www.safarmer.com/frontline/taleoftwohorses.pdf), Frontline, November2000, includes:

N. S. Rajaram, "Frontline Cover has 'the head of a horse'" [8] (http://www.flonnet.com/fl1723/17231220.htm)"Jha sent the photo... I have not computer enhanced it" (interview with Rajaram)A. Parpola, Of Rajaram's 'Horses', 'decipherment' and civilisational issuesI. Mahadevan One sees what one wants to [9] (http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1723/17231250.htm)Witzel & Farmer, New Evidence on the 'Piltdown Horse' Hoax

External links

Further Articles by Rajaram (http://members.tripod.com/~ramkumaram/contents.html)

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