Why we need a revolution in the Social sciences: A post-colonial perspective

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We began our work in right and in serious earnest in the year 2005, November 14th, 2005 to be precise
when children’s day is celebrated all over India in commemoration of the birthday of Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. The underlying philosophy of our work however, stretches back
to the early 1990’s, even the mid 1980’s, when we faced a great deal of cognitive dissonance in many of
our endeavours and daily walks of life due to a constant exposure to, and a bombardment by, a large
number of philosophies and ideas from different sources, both human and non-human. In the year
2005, particularly after the aforesaid date, we had reached out to several leading lights and luminaries
in the fields of science, religion, philosophy and spirituality with a great deal of hope, to meaningfully
engage with them and elicit their own pet theories, proposals and...

About the Author

Sujay Rao Mandavilli is an IT professional (Governance Risk and Compliance) (Still practising as of 2024; Served major clients such as Tata Group, Mahindra Group, NECAM, Verizon and BAT, and also previously worked in IBM) and a born-again Anthropologist and researcher with major contributions to various fields of Anthropology and Social Sciences. He completed his Masters in Anthropology from the prestigious Indira Gandhi National Open University in New Delhi, India in 2020 with a first class. He has made major contributions to Anthropological Economics, the Sociology of Science, theories of socio-cultural change, Identity theory, Historiography, language dynamics, scientific method, Indo-European studies, the Aryan Problem, and the identity of the Harappans. His hypothesis is that most fields of Social sciences which are based on a study on social and cultural variables, are based on old Eurocentric paradigms, and that better theories can only come from intellectual multipolarity, and Ethnographic data...

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