The Unity of the Bhāratiya Civilisation: Evidence and Issues (Talk by Dr. Raj Vedam)

In this extremely well illustrated talk, Dr. Raj Vedam walks the audience through rich data representing a wide range of cultural and knowledge domains — music, architecture, astronomical knowledge traditions, evolution of script, languages, knowledge of medicine, mathematics, genetics and more — to illustrate how an underlying unity has been the key aspect of Indian civilisation. The evidence he presents proves well the hypothesis he starts his talk with, namely, all the evidence one finds from within the land-mass called Bharat points to a deep cultural unity which has led the historical march of the Bhāratiya civilisation.

This talk was the first event of a new series ‘Reawakening Bhārata Shakti – Toward an Indian Renaissance' being organised by the Renaissance-AuroBharati team to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and 75th year of India's Independence. Renaissance is a monthly e-journal of Sri Aurobindo Society, available at journal.aurobharati.in

About the speaker: Dr. Raj Vedam is Visiting Faculty at Hindu University of America, USA, and also at Arsha Seva Kendram, Coimbatore. He is the co-Founder of Indian History Awareness & Research and also serves on the India Advisory Council, Dharma Civilization Foundation. He earned his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA and has many years of multi-disciplinary work experience in diverse industries, with several journal and conference papers and patents.

Dr. Vedam believes that an evidence-based narrative of Indian history is urgently needed to correct the grievously distorted identity and history of Indian civilization. With this aim, he has delivered over 150 talks in various cities in India and USA. He has been invited to share his research findings at some of the highly prestigious and popular platforms. He has also conducted over a dozen teacher-training workshops. At Hindu University of America, Dr. Vedam offers two courses on Reconstructing Hindu History. He has also worked on reviewing and correcting school history textbooks in two states in India and in Texas.

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