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Reconceptualizing India Studies, by S. N. Balagangadhara, is a book published in 2012 about the problems that the postcolonial studies, India studies and Indology are facing today, and the possible new directions for rejuvenating them. The emergence of the postcolonial scholarship had ingested a new life in the quest of the 'third world countries' to produce knowledge about themselves. However, over the years, postcolonial scholarship has become obsolete and is in need of a rejuvenation and rethought. This book is a stronger voice in the recent attempts to do this. This book avers that the post-colonial studies about India is, perhaps, unknowingly, promoting "the same old colonial ideas it had set out to debunk, lacking a original framework to study India from the Indian perspective the current model borrows the Oriental/colonial framework, thereby constraining the social science studies in India. The author of the book, S.N. Balagangadhara, here "urges his fellow-intellectuals from India to stop ‘mimicking’ western descriptions of India and to provide descriptions of themselves and their society against the background of their own culture. Although his book is addressed to Indian intellectuals, it ... reminds [the western social scientists and philosophers] ... that the social sciences as these have developed until now, cannot lay a claim to the predicate ‘science’ if and in so far their research-objects cannot escape from the scope of secularized Christian discourse."