The Quantum and the Eternal
How physicist Erwin Schrödinger turned to the Upanishads and Advaita Vedānta for his view of consciousness, identity and the self.
About Ānvīkṣikī
An open journal and research platform for rigorous inquiry, civilizational memory, and beautiful long-form scholarship.
Anvikshiki is a journal dedicated to the rigorous and beautiful study of ideas. Our aim is to bridge timeless wisdom with contemporary inquiry while preserving the calm, serious reading experience that scholarship deserves.
What the journal publishes
We accept essays, research papers, translations and commentary across philosophy, history, psychology, sociology, science, geopolitics, civilizational thought and the Sanskrit tradition. The work published so far is essays, mostly on history, philosophy and politics.
7 essays published so far, the most recent on . Every essay is free to read.
- History (4 works): Historical chronicles, narratives, and research
- Philosophy (1 work): Philosophical schools and systems of thought
- Psychology (1 work): Mind, consciousness, and behavioral studies
- Political Theory (1 work): Statecraft, governance, and polity studies
The name
The ancient word Ānvīkṣikī (आन्वीक्षिकी) means the philosophical examination of truth: the disciplined habit of questioning, comparing, and seeing clearly.
Read the complete treatise on the Meaning of Ānvīkṣikī: its Sanskrit etymology, Kautilya's account of it in the Arthaśāstra and its place in the Nyāya tradition.
The essay Why This Website Exists explains why the journal was started.
Published essays
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THE ARITHMETIC OF BETRAYAL
How the Mandal Commission, OBC reservations and the Indra Sawhney judgment reshaped Indian politics and the balance of caste power.
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The Triple Fragmentation:
An essay on the crisis of coherence facing the project of building a modern Indian nation-state, and the fractures behind it.
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Indo-Fijians overtook indigenous Fijians numerically in the 1940s then Why are they minority now?
Indo-Fijians outnumbered indigenous Fijians by 1946. Girmit, colonial policy, fertility, the coups and emigration explain why they are a minority today.
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The Human Tapestry of the Slave Trade
How the transatlantic slave trade dismantled African societies, and how their peoples, beliefs and traditions survived across the Americas.
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Beyond Angkor: Why Is Vietnam Frequently Excluded from the History of Hindu Influence in Southeast Asia?
Why is Champa, the Hindu kingdom of central Vietnam, so often left out of the history of Hindu influence in Southeast Asia?
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Why This Website Exists
Why Ānvīkṣikī was started: a serious research platform for Indic thought, culture, history, philosophy, politics and society.
How submissions work
Submitting needs an account. Authors write the piece in the browser editor or upload a PDF, Word (.doc or .docx) or plain-text file together with its details.
Each submission is read by the editor, who may accept it, ask for revisions or decline it. Nothing is published without the editor's decision. Authors keep ownership of their work (see the terms).
Contact
Write to the editor at xiyatosaanvi@gmail.com, or use the contact page.