Rameshwaram, the anchor of Indian Renaissance 5

The western academia is at awe when they see the richness of Indian mythology and symbolism. A religion without a name, without a tag of only book, only god and only central authority is able to unite a vast population for centuries together and can survive shocks of severe viciousness and amplitude time and again. This is unthinkable for some of the western academia who has been celebrated in Indian studies. How one can explain the existence of four dhams, 12 Jyotirlingas and Shaktipithas across the entire geography of Indian soil? And people religiously doing pilgrimages of these sites every year?

Unfortunately, the indological research of the west is a long tale of disgusting and enraging misinterpretations of Indian Gods and symbols which started with the British rule. And so from the time of, say, William Jones, the research, narrative, and interpretation were, unsurprisingly, colonial in both colour and flavour. In other words Eurocentric.

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