Foreword to 'Shudramimamse' by S. Srikanta Sastri (1958)

 

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Prof. R. Chandraprakash's Review of "INDIAN CULTURE" (2021)

 Book Review 

by 

Prof. R. Chandraprakash

Former Dean

University of Mysore

of

‘Indian Culture - A Compendium of Indian History, Culture and Heritage’

by 

Dr. S. Srikanta Sastri

The people of this ancient country are shaped by high ideals. They exhibit their noble qualities in their work culture, speech, mental makeup, in commerce, in social intercourse and in political activities. If the national character is flawed, then the society rests on a bedrock of lies and deceit. - Dr. S. Srikanta Sastri.

Indian Civilization is the oldest living civilization in the world today. India is the land of religious churning. This land gave to the world - Vedas, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and innumerable other religious tenets. This land founded earlier to 3000 B. C. the world’s first universities of Taxila (Takshashila), Mithila, Sharada Peetha, Nalanda and others where scholars from the world came for intellectual enlightenment. However, geographically India, that is Bharat, today is a far smaller country than it was a millennia before. Its outer geographical contours have been dismembered and its national boundaries have been constantly reduced. For a millennia this land has been attacked and conquered by different races and its riches plundered over the centuries. A significant size of its population today belongs to different religious beliefs implanted here from foreign lands through forceful conversions.

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S. Srikanta Sastri's Introduction to 'Varalakshmi Academy of Fine Arts' - Bulletin No. 1 (1954) on Vedic Octave and Sangita Sara

The Research Board of the Śrī Varalakşmī Academies of Fine Arts was constituted to meet a long felt need for conducting research in Indian Music. The contributions of eminent savants and scholars to Indian Musicology have, hither to, been the results of the efforts of individuals and some institutions in India and abroad. But a proper co-ordination of the various efforts has not been attempted; still less is there any attempt to delve systematically into original sources or to trace the evolution of Indian music on a sound chronological basis. Vague assertions, reliance on second hand sources, subjective valuations, biased opinions and generalisations can have no permanent value. Musical experience may have its emotional or purely subjective considerations. Musicology demands different but co-ordinated methods – artistic, critical, scientific, philosophical, historical, psychological, experimental, empirical, eclectical and systematic. As Seashore says the analytical approach to arts may not give the whole truth but nothing gives the whole truth – from all points of view.

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