Index of Ph.D theses in Sanskrit

DETAILS : 

• Author : Parbhat Singh Thakur
  
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Bharatiya Book Corporation
  
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 January 2011
  
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
  
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8183151590
  
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8183151597
  
• Weight : 400 g

ABOUT THE BOOK

Index of Ph.D Theses in Sanskrit, compiled by the meticulous researcher and scholar Parbhat Singh Thakur, is an indispensable reference manual and academic research tool for Indological studies. Published by the New Bharatiya Book Corporation, this curated reference volume serves as an essential roadmap for postgraduate scholars, university faculty, and research departments across India. The core philosophy of this text rests on the ancient Indian academic tradition of creating Anukramanis—systematic lists and indexes used since the Vedic period to catalog complex texts by meters, deities, and seers. Thakur modernizes this heritage to solve a critical issue in contemporary higher education: the repetitive overlapping of research topics, by providing an exhaustive, structured database of completed doctoral works in the field of Sanskrit literature, linguistics, and philosophy.

The volume is structurally organized like a technical bibliography, ensuring high scannability for scholars at the very initial stage of choosing their dissertations. Rather than presenting a cluttered chronological list, the book categorizes doctoral theses across major thematic domains of Indology. It systematically partitions entries into core segments such as Vedic Literature and Upanishads, Classical Sanskrit Poetics (Kavya Shastra), Sanskrit Grammar (Vyakaran), Epics and Puranas, and different schools of Indian Philosophy (Darshana). Each structured entry carefully documents the precise title of the thesis, the registering scholar, the supervising guide, the awarding university, and the year of completion. This exhaustive indexing acts as an intellectual shield against academic plagiarism and redundant research, while simultaneously highlighting unexplored areas and gaps in modern Sanskrit scholarship.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Parbhat Singh Thakur is an elite Indian researcher, bibliographer, and academic chronicler with deep expertise in Indological data curation. Driven by a passion for creating specialized reference literature, his academic work centers on building systemic research aids that preserve, catalog, and organize India's vast higher-educational contributions in traditional shastras and classical languages.

Thakur’s authorial and compiling style is characterized by remarkable structural precision, thorough archival cross-referencing, and a supportive, peer-to-peer approach. Writing specifically for the modern research scholar navigating complex university microfilms and digital repositories, he strips away the friction of academic research by doing the heavy sorting beforehand. By translating decades of fragmented university records into a cleanly arranged, unified printed compendium, his literature continues to serve as an enduring foundational guide for institutional libraries, research committees, and Indologists worldwide.