Hell with Max Muller. Long live Max Muller

Rajesh Kochhar Germany-born, Oxford-based, Sanskritist Professor Max Muller was an influential figure of his time. The eminent Indian Sanskrit scholar of the day, Rajah Radha Kant Deb, called him a…

The cow is dead: Long live dead cow

Rajesh Kochhar If the nefarious Indian caste system with its inhuman rigidity has survived for so long it is because it did not interfere with economics. Even when India was…

Ancient India: Discovery, invention and uses

Rajesh Kochhar Paper presented at British Scholar Conference ‘Britain and the World’ King’s College London23 June 2016   Physical conquest of India by the British was relatively a simple affair…