About
A living archive of Indic scholarship
Aryan Culture brings together a century of research published in Jain, Indological and Indian-history journals, from the Jaina Gazette of the 1900s to journals still publishing today, so that students, scholars and curious readers can find, read and cite it in one place.
- 8,176
- Articles
- 2,591
- Authors
- 13
- Journals
- 1906–2024
- Years
What you can do here
- Search inside the articles. Search covers titles, authors, summaries and the full text of every article, in English and Hindi, and shows the passage that matched.
- Read a summary first. Every article has a summary and conclusion, with the original PDF one click away.
- Follow the people and journals you care about. Author pages collect everything a scholar wrote across the archive; your picks on the home page follow your interests.
- Browse by era. The timeline shows what was published each year, journal by journal.
- Keep it with you. Install the app on your phone; articles you open stay readable offline.
The journals
The archive currently holds articles from these journals:
- The Indian Historical Quarterly · 2,454Calcutta Oriental Press
- Jain Bharati · 1,966Jain Swetamber Terapanthi Mahasabha
- Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology · 1,142Jain Bhawan
- Sambodhi · 906L. D. Institute of Indology
- Journal of Indian History and Culture · 602C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological Research
- Jain Vidya · 353
- The Jaina Gazette · 245Bharat Jaina Mahamandal (All-India Jain Association)
- Jain Avenue · 237JAINA India Foundation
- Jinamanjari · 148Brahmi Jain Society
- Jnana Desana · 56
- The Maha Bodhi · 25Maha Bodhi Society of India
- Hita-mita · 24
- Dharmadoot · 18Maha Bodhi Society of India, Sarnath
Articles remain the work of their authors and publishers. The archive links each article to its source PDF and credits the journal, issue and pages.
How summaries are made
Summaries and conclusions are written with the help of AI language models from each article's text, then checked. Every article page says how far its summary has been checked:
- Reviewed by a volunteer editor: a person has read and corrected it.
- Automatically checked: an automated review compared the summary against the article text.
- Not yet checked: an AI-assisted summary awaiting review.
When a check finds that a summary may not match its article, the summary is withheld until it is rewritten. Many older articles were digitised from print by OCR, so their text can contain errors; always consult the original PDF before quoting or citing a detail. If you spot a mistake, use Report an issue on the article page.
Citing articles
Use the Cite button on any article for a ready-made MLA, APA, Chicago or BibTeX citation. Cite the original journal article (journal, volume, issue, year and pages); the archive link is included so readers can find the PDF.
Languages
Articles are in English, Hindi, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Prakrit and other languages. Each article lists its languages, and you can filter by language anywhere in the archive.
Credits
Illustrations on the site are public-domain manuscript folios from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art via Wikimedia Commons, and a photograph of the Khajuraho temples by Tangopaso (CC BY-SA 3.0). Magazine and article information was compiled by the archive's volunteers.