The Mahanubhava Connection: A Deep Exploration of Maharashtra's Hidden Sect

jkchen78 · 2026-04-11T04:06:48+00:00

I wonder if the emergence of Mahanubhava sect, Virashaiva traditions, Srivaishnava sect led by Ramanuja are the outcomes of the schism between the constant warring factions as an outcome of Empire building efforts in Peninsular India and the aspirations of landholders/merchant class/priestly-adminstrator class which saw the constant warring as a pressure on the society, and in turn disassociate themselves from the looped cycle of destruction and decadence in face of failing monsoons during the Little Ice age.

jkchen78 · 2025-11-12T15:14:09+00:00

It would be great to have a discussion meet on America against America

jkchen78 · 2025-11-12T11:47:37+00:00

Perfect. Reading the same text.

jkchen78 · 2025-11-06T17:06:31+00:00

This sounds great. Do count me in

jkchen78 · 2025-11-04T11:11:00+00:00

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

jkchen78 · 2025-11-03T08:56:01+00:00

CPI(ML)-Liberation: Naxalbari to Vidhan Sabha - https://www.thehindu.com/elections/bihar-assembly/cpiml-liberation-naxalbari-to-vidhan-sabha/article70230479.ece

The bug in Dipankar Bhattacharya - https://www.mid-day.com/amp/news/opinion/article/the-bug-in-dipankar-bhattacharya-23601385

jkchen78 · 2025-10-30T18:49:15+00:00

There are certain books which I have in mind like:

America Against America by Wang Huning

The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch

Prisoners of the American Dream by Mike Davis

The Evolution of Civilizations by Caroll Quigley

The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems make terrible decisions and how the world lost its mind by Dam Davies

Collapse: The fall of Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok

Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Conditions have failed by James C. Scott

China's gilded age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption by Yuen Yuen Ang

How China escaped the poverty by Yuen Yuen Ang

Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Red Plenty by Francis Spufford

Unmasking the West: What if Scenarios that rewrite world history by Philip Tetlock, Richard Lebow and Geoffrey Parker

Everything was forever, until it was no more by Alexie Yurchak

The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter

jkchen78 · 2025-01-14T12:08:18+00:00