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  Written in stone, or not at all A Hindi polemic argues that Sanskrit is a late invention and that the script of Ashoka could never have written it. Linguists disagree, but the book’s questions are harder to dismiss than its answers Every few decades, India rediscovers that its past is contested. The latest weapon in the argument is a modest paperback. Bhram Ka Pulinda (“A Bundle of Delusions”), by Rajiv Patel, sold by a small Delhi press that specialises in Buddhist and anti-caste writing, makes a bold claim: that Sanskrit, the language of the Vedas and the epics, is a late, manufactured tongue, and that the evidence is carved in stone for anyone willing to read it. The argument begins with Darwin. Mr Patel holds that language, like humans, evolved by degrees. In the Stone Age, he writes, people communicated with bare vowel sounds, the sur that a newborn or an animal still makes. The Indus Valley civilisation left a script, but nobody can read it, which is why the period is ...

The Book Bhram Ka Pulinda (भ्रम का पुलिंदा, roughly “A Bundle of Delusions”) is a Hindi-language polemic on ancient Indian history, published by Samyak Prakashan, New Delhi . The first edition appeared in 2021 (Buddhist Era 2565) and a second edition followed the same year. It runs to roughly 175 pages and was priced at ₹250 (ISBN 978-93-91503-14-7). The book argues that India’s original culture was a Buddhist-centered “Samyak culture,” and that a later priestly class rewrote history, language and religious vocabulary to make Brahmanical and Vedic tradition appear ancient. It moves through the Stone Age, the Indus Valley, the Mauryan, Shunga, Satavahana, Kushan, Gupta and Pala periods, and then the Mughal era, using photographs of inscriptions, coins and sculptures as its main evidence. Its recurring demand is that claimed ancient texts and authors be shown on stone or metal inscriptions. Its tone is combative, with frequent insults aimed at its opponents, and it is better read as a...

 The case of the missing stones A bestselling polemic says Panini, Chanakya and Kalidasa never existed. The evidence says otherwise Few things are as satisfying to a historian as an inscription. Carved in stone, dated by a king’s reign and impossible to quietly edit, it is the nearest the ancient past comes to a signed confession. A Hindi-language book that has found an eager readership, Bhram Ka Pulinda (“A Bundle of Delusions”), by Rajiv Patel, takes this respect for epigraphy and pushes it to an extreme. If a figure is not on a rock, he argues, he was not real. The test is applied with gusto. No Mauryan edict mentions Chanakya, the wily minister said to have made Chandragupta emperor. No stone records the grammarian Panini, the sage Patanjali or the poet Kalidasa. The surviving manuscripts of their works are on paper, and paper reached India via China and the Arabs. Mr Patel concludes that these men were “implanted” into the Buddhist-era past by a later priestly class, using...

1. Introduction: Hook the Reader on Historical Misconceptions How often do modern religious assumptions and fabricated traditions distort our understanding of the ancient past? Across popular culture, mythological legends and retroactively invented dogmas routinely eclipse empirical archaeological, stratigraphical, and inscriptional evidence. This gap between manufactured popular narrative and verifiable material remains has allowed pseudo-historical claims to masquerade as established fact for centuries. To systematically dismantle these entrenched illusions, author Rajiv Patel, alongside co-author Sanjay Kumar Singh, written Bhram Ka Pulinda (A Bundle of Delusions), published by Samyak Prakashan. The text delivers an incisive, evidence-based critique that interrogates long-held historical myths using the rigorous methodology of epigraphy, archaeology, and historical linguistics. By subjecting readable stone edicts, coins, urban physical strata, and script evolution to ...

  Stones and Scrolls: The Argument from Inscriptions in Bhram Ka Pulinda The core claim Rajiv Patel’s Bhram Ka Pulinda rests on one rule of evidence: what is real in ancient India is what survives in stone. Before roughly the 9th-10th century CE, he argues, rulers and scholars wrote on rock, pillars, copper plates and metal. They used Dhamma (Brahmi) script and Pali/Prakrit, and nothing else. The author builds his case from four observations. Writing in the ancient period is epigraphic. Ashoka’s edicts, the Bharhut railings, Satavahana and Kushan records, Gupta coins and the Prayag pillar all sit in museums and fields, and anyone can read them. The “classical” authors leave no such trace. No inscription of Panini, Chanakya, Valmiki, Vyasa, Kalidasa or Patanjali has been excavated. No Vedic hymn or Gita verse is found carved in the Mauryan or Gupta layers. The surviving manuscripts are late in form. The texts exist on paper, in Nagari script, in Sanskrit. Paper reached In...

 T. Chiranjeevulu IAS(Ret), FOunder Chairman BCIF (BC Intellectuals Forum) From Deed Registration to Title Registration — The Need, Benefits, and Reforms In the previous two articles, we discussed (1) the land ownership system and reforms in Telangana from the Nizam era to the present day, and (2) the evolution of land records. In this article, we will discuss the reforms needed in the registration system and the concept of title registration. In India, the registration system plays an extremely important role in land transactions such as purchases, sales, inheritance, partition, and gifts. However, merely purchasing land and registering the sale deed at the Sub-Registrar's Office does not necessarily provide the buyer with an indisputable ownership right over that land. This is the principal weakness of India's existing deed registration system. Due diligence: A person purchasing land must examine previous ownership documents and determine whether there are court dispu...