Essays in the Honour of Prof. Kuldip Chand Agnihotri
An essay collection reclaiming Bharatiya history, culture, and geopolitics from Western and Marxist interpretive frameworks, dedicated to scholar Kuldip Chand Agnihotri.
Honoring Prof. Kuldip Chand Agnihotri — scholar, nationalist thinker, and decades-long voice on Kashmir, Punjab, and North-East separatism — this essay collection sets out to do what Agnihotri spent his career arguing for: to understand Bharat through its own categories rather than through Western, Marxist, or Greco-Roman frameworks imposed from outside.
The range is deliberately wide. Essays address the concept of nationalism as it developed within Bharatiya thought; the role of Dharma in the national movement; the ethical framework around artha in ancient economic life; Sanskritic traditions in Punjab; Bharat's current foreign policy; the geopolitics of China; and Buddhism's influence on the subcontinent. Alongside these thematic essays, contributors examine specific recovery projects — the ancient names Agnihotri championed, including Jambudvipa and Sapt-Sindhu, and the Dashguru Parampara — as acts of decolonisation rather than nostalgia. The editors argue that the dominant narrative marketplace remains hostile to indigenous knowledge frameworks, and that correcting this requires not just new content but a different epistemological starting point.
Readers working in history, political philosophy, cultural studies, or anyone who has wondered why Bharat's self-understanding has been so consistently filtered through alien categories will find this anthology both a tribute and a provocation.
To look at Bharat from Western, Marxist or Greeco-Roman lenses is fraught with the risk of distortions, And these distortions have been imposed upon us. An Anthology of Discourses on Bharat: Essays in the Honour of Pof Kuldip Chand Agnihotri is a collection of essays elaborating on the unique aspects of Bharatiya history, culture and polity including Bharatiya Dharma and its religions, ancient language Sanskrit and the present geopolitics based on things Bharatiya that have shaped Bharat-which is often to be denied by those who adopt a completely alien lens to know it. The essays ranging from a wide array of topics like the concept of nationalism in Bharat; the influence of Dharma in the Bharatiya national movement; how the pursuit of ethical acquisition of wealth (artha) was welcome in ancient Bharat; Sanskritic traditions in Punjab; to Bharat's current foreign policy; geopolitics and China; to Buddhism's influence in Bharat; and much more. The essays are meant to decolonize the marketplace full of narratives inimical to Bharat. These essays are dedicated to Prof Agnihotri, an academician, an author and nationalist thinker who has vociferously emphasised on the inclusion of national and indigenous thoughts to be made a part of institutional knowledge system. Apart from his contribution to academia, he has worked extensively on the issues of separatism in Kashmir, Punjab and North-East. He also strives to revive the ancient nomenclatures for Bharat; for instance, Jambudvipa, Sapt-Sindhu, Dashguru Parampara.
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