Padma Shri Prof. Meenakshi Jain talks with Dr. Rinkoo Wadhera about her latest book Vasudev Krishna and Mathura which presents literary, sacred and epigraphic evidence associated with the historic Krishna , the Katra Keshavdeva and the Bhagvata cult.
About the Speaker:
Meenakshi Jain is presently Senior Fellowship at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.
She has been Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. She is member
of the Academic Council of Nalanda University.
She was member of the Governing Council of Indian Council of Historical Research. She
was formerly Associate Professor of History at Gargi College, University of Delhi. .
She was awarded the Padma Sri by the Government of India in 2020 for her contribution in
the field of literature and education.
Her areas of research include cultural and religious developments in Indian history.
Her recent publications include –
- Vasudeva Krishna and Mathura (2021);
- Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples (2019);
- The Battle for Rama - Case of the temple at Ayodhya (2017);
- Sati - Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries and the changing Colonial Discourse
(2016);
- Rama and Ayodhya (2013);
- The India They Saw. Foreign accounts of India from the 8 th to mid-19 th century, 3
Vols., (2011);
- Parallel Pathways (2010);
- 2007. The Raja Moonje Pact, Documents on a Forgotten Chapter in Indian History,
co-edited, Originals.
Sub-Topics:
0:00 Introduction
4:10 Historicity of Vasudeva Krishna in the Upanishadic texts
13:08 Historicity of Vasudeva Krishna mentioned by Patanjali and Kautilya
20:32 Historicity of Krishna worship outside Bhaarat
25:10 Image worship evolution from Vedic sacrificial worship
30:35 Heliodorus pillar inscrptions of Krishna
39:25 Rebuilding of temples after Mahmud Ghazni's attack
57:20 Chronicles/Accounts by Indians about Temples being broken
1:03:13 Were Hindu Kings Iconoclasts of enemy Kings?
1:09:15 Aurangzeb a promoter/protector of Hindu temples - Myth or Truth?
1:22:47 The history of Krishna Janmabhoomi lawsuits
Q&A
1:33:59 Why our Epigraphical evidences are not given importance in mainstream history
1:38:56 How watertight is the Krishna Janmabhoomi case Vs Ram Janmabhoomi case
1:42:22 Indian historians have been trying to overturn 200 year old History that has been written
1:48:39 Buddhist Literature and Krishna
1:50:23 Ancient temples in Delhi?
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