Infinity Foundation · Princeton · 1994

Reclaiming the Narrative.

A non-profit research institution advancing civilisational scholarship through the Dharma lens — challenging Eurocentric frameworks, restoring India's intellectual heritage, and building the scholarship the world needs.

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Our Purpose

Beyond the
Eurocentric
frame.

Globalisation cannot simply mean the Westernisation of the planet.

Infinity Foundation was established in Princeton in 1994 to do what few institutions dared: apply the Dharma lens to civilisational studies and rigorously challenge the assumptions embedded in Western academic frameworks.

Guwahati has always been a city of stories — but so has every civilisation. Ours were told over palm-leaf manuscripts, sung in classical ragas, encoded in Sanskrit texts that span mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and statecraft. The Foundation exists to ensure that these stories are studied on their own terms, not as footnotes to a Western narrative.

The foundation seeks dialogue that breaks out of false dualities — of right vs. left, science vs. spirituality, growth vs. ecology. To create a true global family requires that non-Western civilisations take their seat as equals — not as exotic artifacts to be plugged into a Eurocentric frame.

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Research
Original civilisational scholarship across 10+ disciplines
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Grants
400+ grants to scholars, universities and institutions
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Publishing
Foundational books, the HIST series, and e-courses
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Outreach
1,000+ lectures, conferences and public events
The Canon

Books that
changed the discourse.

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Civilisation Studies
Being Different
An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
Geopolitics
Breaking India
Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Fault Lines
Philosophy
Indra's Net
Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity
Linguistics
The Battle for Sanskrit
Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred, Oppressive or Liberating?
Indology
Academic Hinduphobia
A Critique of Wendy Doniger's Erotic School of Indology
Language
Sanskrit Non-Translatables
The Importance of Sanskritizing English
Technology
AI & The Future of Power
5 Battlegrounds — India as the Case Study
History · 14 Vols.
HIST Series
History of Indian Science & Technology
Areas of Inquiry

Where we direct
our scholarship.

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Consciousness Studies
Bringing Indian mind sciences into dialogue with Western cognitive science and philosophy of mind. The paradigms underlying Dharmic traditions challenge materialistic metaphysics at its core.
Mind Sciences Yoga Sutras IIT Conferences
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Comparative Religion
A novel framework classifying religions by their dependence on history — contrasting history-centric Abrahamic traditions with the dharmic non-history-centric traditions of India.
Dharmic Lens History-Centrism Abrahamic Faiths
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History of Indian Science
The 14-volume HIST series — a systematic, academically rigorous documentation of India's contributions to mathematics, metallurgy, astronomy, medicine, and more.
14 Volumes Peer Reviewed Published
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Civilisation & Globalisation
Examining the competition between civilisations in a world of scarce resources — China, Pan-Islam, and the West — and India's potential role as a fourth civilisational voice.
Geopolitics Grand Narrative Soft Power
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Digestion & Intellectual Property
Identifying and studying Western scholars who appropriated Indian mind sciences without acknowledgement — a body of work with no parallel in the world.
Appropriation Academic Bias Purva Paksha
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Sanskrit & Knowledge Systems
The Sanskrit Non-Translatables movement — preserving terms like Dharma, Karma, and Yoga against distorting translations that strip them of their full civilisational meaning.
Sanskrit Epistemology Pari-bhashas
Rajiv Malhotra — Founder, Infinity Foundation
Founder & Director

Rajiv Malhotra

Physicist · Entrepreneur · Author · Civilisational Scholar

Trained as a physicist, then as a computer scientist specialising in AI, Rajiv Malhotra built and ran several IT companies across 20 countries before dedicating himself entirely to civilisational scholarship. Since founding Infinity Foundation in 1994, he has produced some of the most disruptive original thinking in the field of Dharmic studies — coining terms that have entered everyday intellectual discourse.

Coined "Breaking India", "Digestion", "Hinduphobia", "History-Centrism"
Chairman, Center for Indic Studies, UMass Dartmouth
Visiting Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
7 bestselling books, 1,000+ video lectures published
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Featured Media

Ideas that
demand to be heard.

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Featured Lecture
Reversing the Gaze: The Battle for Sanskrit & the Future of Indian Heritage
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Education
The Wokefication of India's Education System
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Geopolitics
One Global Ideological War: Israel and India on the Same Front
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Year in Review
2026: Rajiv Malhotra's New Year Message — Achievements & Future
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Purva Paksha
Defending Narrative Sovereignty: The Digestion of Indian Civilisation
The Grants Programme

Funding the scholarship India needs.

Infinity Foundation has given over 400 grants to scholars, universities, and research centres — including visiting professorships at Harvard, research at Columbia and Penn, and the landmark HIST series on Indian science and technology.

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400+ Total Grants Awarded
14 Volumes, HIST Series
Harvard Indic Studies Chair
1994 Princeton Founding Year