Foreword — G.B. Deglurkar
Editorial Note
List of Illustrations
List of Participants in the Seminar
Sir Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar (1837–1925):
A Brief Life-Sketch — K. Paddayya
I. General Estimates
1. Introduction
— K. Paddayya
2. The Orientalism Debate and Responses from the Orient: Contributions of Sir R. G. Bhandarkar
— Madhav M. Deshpande
3. Sir RGB: An Indologist or an Orientalist?
— K.M. Shrimali
4. Professor Sir R.G. Bhandarkar KCIE: Career and Contributions
— Uma Vaidya
5. Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar’s Framework of Social Reform
— Avanish Patil
6. Dr. R.G. Bhandarkar and Prarthana Samaj
— Dilip S. Joag
II. Sanskrit and Philological Studies
7. Vedic Foundations of Nātyaśātra and Ancient Indian Theatre
— Radhavallabh Tripathi
8. On the Usage of Compounds in Sanskrit: Paṇini and His Commentators in Mahimabhaṭṭa’s Perception
— C. Rajendran
9. The Sulabha-Janaka Dialogue in the Mahābhārata:
A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Indian Eristics
— N.K. Sundareswaran
10. A Few Interesting Sanskrit Numerograms (Bhūtasamkhyā): Searching for the Roots
— Debarchana Sarkar
11. On R.G. Bhandarkar’s Article “A Review of Martin Haug’s
Aitareya-Brahmana”
— Jayashree Sathe
12. Sir Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar: A Sanskrit
Grammarian of the Nineteenth Century
— Prasad Joshi and Shilpa Sumant
13. On R.G. Bhandarkar’s Contributions to the Comparative and Historical Study of Indo-Aryan Languages: The Case of His Wilson Philological Lectures
— Panchanan Mohanty
14. The V-CP RAH Progressive Aspect Construction in Dialects of Marathi: Sociolinguistic and
Historical Analysis of an Isogloss
— Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi and Praffulla Meshram
III. Historical, Socio-Religious and Archaeological Studies
15. Bhandarkar’s Approach to Ancient Indian History and
Subsequent Theoretical Perspectives
— R. Mahalakshmi
16. Early History of the Deccan: R. G. Bhandarkar and Beyond
— Aloka Parasher Sen
17. A Three-fold Tyranny: Bhandarkar’s Vision of
Society and Social History
— Kumkum Roy
18. Apropos Vaiṣṇavism, Śaivism and Minor Religious Systems
by Professor R.G. Bhandarkar
— A.P. Jamkhedkar
19. The Vedic Rudra: From Bhandarkar’s Study on
Śaivism to Recent Publications
— Kristoffer af Edholm
20. An Appraisal of Structural Stupas in Maharashtra
— Reshma Sawant and Gurudas Shete
21. Buddhist Structural Remains in Andhradesa: A Review
— E. Sivanagi Reddy and P. Srinath Reddy
22. Contributions of R.G. Bhandarkar to Epigraphic Studies
— Abhijit Dandekar
23. R.G. Bhandarkar and Creation of a Vital Research Resource: Manuscript Collection, Study and Curation
— Shreenand Bapat and Amruta Natu
24. R.G. Bhandarkar as a Pioneer-Exponent of Holistic and Scientific Methodology, and an Advocate of Educational Idealism, Universal Humanism and Higher Spiritualism
— K. Paddayya
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