Book Launch and Discussion on Dharmanomics By Sri SriramBalasubramanian
2024-11-25
25th November, 2024 (Offline)

A book launch was held on25th November, 2024 by the Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems for a newpublication by Author Sri Sriram Balasubramanian titled “Dharmanomics”.This comes as a sequel to his earlier book “Kautilyanomics”, thelaunch of which was also hosted at Chanakya University in 2022. The sessionbegan with Dr. Vinayachandra Banavathy welcoming the guest and introducingthe book, followed by the authors introduction to the book and setting thecontext for the discussion. Sri Shivakumar G.V. Director, IKS Changemakersat Indica, was a special guest invited to facilitate the discussion on thebook. The Discussion explained how the three parts of the book, each delveinto various paradigms of Economics from an Indian perspective, forinstance the practice of the ‘Śreṇi’ system which was used as afinancial control framework through various kingdoms. The discussion alsoshowed how prominent towns developed with Temples at their core leading toorganized temple economy where temples were not just a place of worship.Many such insights and details regarding commerce and governance inmedieval India were gained through the discussion. The discussion wasfollowed by a question-answer session by the students. Participantsincluded over 120 individuals including students, research scholars andfaculty. The session concluded by Prof. Bhavani M.R. from School ofManagement Sciences honoring the guests and a vote of thanks by Dr. VinayakRajat Bhat, Associate professor, Centre forIndian Knowledge Systems.
