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Indic Lectures — session notes · Indic Warriors lecture series

Artificial intelligence learns a civilization from whatever that civilization has put online — and for India, what is online is disproportionately what others wrote about her. This lecture works through the consequences: AI systems that repeat colonial-era framings by statistical default, heritage questions answered from secondary sources, and the quiet disappearance of anything undigitized.

The constructive half is a programme: documentation as a civilizational duty (our own heritage-mapping work is offered as a case), source digitization, and the discipline of publishing primary-source-grounded material where the machines — and the students using them — will actually find it.

Attend or revisit: session schedules and recordings are announced on the Indic Lectures page; related reading grows on the Kashi & Living Heritage shelf.

Credits: lecture programme by Indic Warriors; notes by the editorial team.

Indic Lectures — session notes · Indic Warriors lecture series

Political freedom arrived in 1947; narrative freedom did not arrive with it. This lecture maps the machinery by which a colonized account of India — of its history, capabilities, and worth — outlived the colonizers: the curriculum that carried it, the prestige economy that rewarded it, and the reflexes it installed so deep that they now feel like personal opinion.

The session’s method is diagnostic rather than resentful: participants trace one inherited belief of their own back to its source, and test it against evidence. The lecture closes with the discipline of replacement — not swapping one dogma for another, but rebuilding judgement on primary sources and honest comparison.

Attend or revisit: session schedules and recordings are announced on the Indic Lectures page; related reading grows on the Indian Knowledge Systems shelf.

Credits: lecture programme by Indic Warriors; notes by the editorial team.