[This paper was submitted to the Swadeshi Indology Conference held in Chennai (December 2017)]
Dr. B G L Swamy
Bangalore Gundappa Lakshminarayana Swamy, (5.2.1916–2.11.1980) also known as B G L Swamy, was a botanist of international repute. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University for eight years, working under the guidance of Prof. Irving Bailey. Swamy's primary research area was plant anatomy, particularly the structure of...
[This paper was submitted to the Swadeshi Indology Conference held in Chennai (December 2017)]
Sediyapu Krishna Bhat
Vidvān Sediyapu Krishna Bhat (8.6.1902 – 8.6.1996) was a polymath hailing from Tuḻunāḍu, Karnataka. He was an Ayurvedic doctor, grammarian, prosodist, linguist particularly interested in etymology, and a poet. He was also a polyglot, fluent in Kannada, Sanskrit, English, Tulu, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Konkani, Marathi, and Telugu...
[This paper was submitted to the Swadeshi Indology Conference-3 held in Chennai (December 2017)]
Abstract
The Aryan-Dravidian divide is a politically motivated fabrication without basis in fact. It has plagued our country for years, trying to tear our cultural fabric by striking at the unity of our people. Although this Aryan-Dravidian theory has been systematically debunked, it continues to be circulated in academic circles, with its far-...