An upcoming book on life of Prof Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

Harappa - Gods City of Civilisation Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Rs. 319 Rs. 399 Save20% Available on Amazon https://www.amazon.in/dp/8169235235?dplnkId=1cbe9480-f2d5-4aae-9367-d2d993ae40b8&nodl=1 Harappa: God's City of Civilisation is an audacious act of literary and intellectual imagination that reclaims the Indus Valley civilisation from the long shadow of Vedic mythology. Ilaiah deliberately fashions a counter-myth—not because history is irrelevant, but because … Continue reading Harappa – Gods City of Civilisation

Kancha Ilaiah’s The Shudra Rebellion rewrites history from below, where spades built cities and obedience was not a choice. CYNTHIA STEPHEN A depiction of a Channar couple from the illustrated manuscript Seventy-two Specimens of Castes in India (1837). | Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons In The Shudra Rebellion, the political theorist and Dalit rights activist Professor Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd attempts what few historians … Continue reading What if the real builders of Indian civilisation never got to write the story?