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Indological approach, advocated by G. S. Ghurye, focuses on the study of Indian society through Indian texts. How can Indological approach be useful in the study of other society? Comment in detail.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Indology studies a civilisation through the texts it wrote about itself. G. S. Ghurye, from Caste and Race in India (1932) to Family and Kin in Indo-European Culture (1955), treated the Sanskritic corpus as the archive encoding India's normative order. Can such a method travel? It travels well as a comparative method of textual-civilisational reconstruction,…

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