Papers by Periannan Chandrasekaran
On the McCaulay Education Reform and the Yearnings for the Gurukula System of Edcuation, 2023
This paper discusses certain popularly unknown facts from the historical context of the McCaulay-... more This paper discusses certain popularly unknown facts from the historical context of the McCaulay-Bentinck educational reform of 1835 and argues for a more balanced and nuanced view of it. It also attempts to reset the popular misconception that the British colonists hated Indian culture and were conspiring against Indian culture and had schemed to destroy it by, amongst other things, pursuing religious conversion and destroying various cultural elements such as manuscripts. Overall it pleads for a view of history that transcends identities and focuses on the individual and stop ignoring harms perpetrated by the ingroup ("us") in processing historical events.
A heretofore unidentified word structure with a special compounding pattern
discovered in the Dr... more A heretofore unidentified word structure with a special compounding pattern
discovered in the Dravidian language family and reconstructible to the proto-stage is
described here and an application of that pattern to systematically explain the structure
and etymology of words in the Vedic substratum is also illustrated.
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Papers by Periannan Chandrasekaran
discovered in the Dravidian language family and reconstructible to the proto-stage is
described here and an application of that pattern to systematically explain the structure
and etymology of words in the Vedic substratum is also illustrated.
discovered in the Dravidian language family and reconstructible to the proto-stage is
described here and an application of that pattern to systematically explain the structure
and etymology of words in the Vedic substratum is also illustrated.