Sanatan Gyan ज्ञान
Unit: Reading with apparatus
Topics
- A studied text read with critical apparatus in translation
- Manuscripts, recensions and editions — how texts reach us
- The student's first apparatus-aware essay
- Specialisation direction chosen
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Use the apparatus of the studied edition
- Explain how the text reached print
- Write the apparatus-aware essay
- Declare and justify a specialisation
Activities · Assessment
Edition study · Transmission seminar · Essay
Assessed by: Apparatus-aware essay
Sources
PSThe studied critical edition, named
ASTextual-criticism scholarship
GONCF Senior guidance
SSEBApparatus training design
Further units this grade
The specialised text begins
Sanskrit & Bharatiya Bhasha भाषा
Unit: Advanced reading
Topics
- Extended prose and verse from the chosen author/text
- Unseen translation at senior standard
- Grammar completed as the texts demand
- Reading aloud with metre and sense
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Translate senior-standard unseen passages
- Read the chosen text fluently with understanding
- Handle the grammar the text requires
Activities · Assessment
Author study · Unseen practice
Assessed by: Senior translation paper
Sources
PSThe chosen text/author, named
ASPhilology scholarship
GOCBSE senior Sanskrit alignment
SSEBAuthor-centred design
Further units this grade
Composition grows
Darshana & Viveka दर्शन
Unit: Vedanta and Mimamsa
Topics
- Mimamsa's method: how injunctions are read
- Vedanta's schools distinguished by their own texts
- One Brahmasutra passage with two bhashyas, in translation
- Comparative method practised formally
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Explain Mimamsa's interpretive method
- Distinguish the Vedanta schools textually
- Compare the two bhashyas on the passage
- Write a formal comparative paper
Activities · Assessment
Bhashya seminar · Comparative workshop
Assessed by: Comparative paper
Sources
PSBrahmasutra passage with named bhashyas, in translation
ASVedanta and Mimamsa scholarship
GOKTPI precedent
SSEBThe two-bhashyas exercise
Further units this grade
Charvaka and the critics' seat
Dharma & Ethics धर्म
Unit: Ethics and public life
Topics
- Classical positions on duty applied to public questions
- The administrator's dharma: cases from history
- A live civic question researched and argued
- Writing for the public square
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Apply classical positions to public cases with care
- Analyse the historical administrator cases
- Produce the researched civic argument
Activities · Assessment
Case seminars · Civic research · Public-writing workshop
Assessed by: Research paper
Sources
PSClassical positions from studied texts, named
ASEthics and governance scholarship
GONCF Senior guidance
SSEBThe public-square writing frame
Further units this grade
Institutions revisited critically
Sanskriti & Civilisation संस्कृति
Unit: Historiography
Topics
- How India's past has been written, by whom, and why it differs
- Colonial, nationalist and recent lenses examined
- One contested topic mapped across lenses
- The student's own careful position
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Describe the major historiographical lenses
- Map the contested topic across them fairly
- Defend a careful position with sources
Activities · Assessment
Lens seminar · Contested-topic project
Assessed by: Historiography paper
Sources
PSThe historians' own texts, named
ASHistoriography scholarship
GONCF alignment
SSEBThe lenses method
Further units this grade
Culture writing today
Bharatiya Knowledge Systems IKS
Unit: Specialisation I (incl. optional Jyotisha Studies)
Topics
- The chosen IKS field at depth — texts, instruments, mathematics as applicable
- For Jyotisha Studies: the historical astral tradition studied academically, astronomy and astrology distinguished throughout
- Methods: dating, evidence, translation use
- The year paper planned
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Master the field's core sources at senior level
- Apply the methods to one dated problem
- Plan the year paper defensibly
Activities · Assessment
Specialist seminar · Methods lab
Assessed by: Specialist paper plan + methods exam
Sources
PSThe field's primary texts, named (Jyotisha: Vedanga Jyotisha, siddhanta texts named; studied academically)
ASField scholarship
GOKTPI precedent; IKS Division direction
SSEBThe academic-not-predictive rule for Jyotisha Studies
Further units this grade
Specialisation II ahead
Yoga & Swasthya स्वास्थ्य
Unit: Yoga darshana in depth
Topics
- Yoga Sutra studied more fully with a named commentary
- Practice matured into self-directed discipline
- The literature on practice outcomes read critically
- Mentoring juniors formally
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Discuss the sutras with the commentary accurately
- Sustain self-directed practice with a rigorous journal
- Review outcome literature critically
- Mentor a junior practice group safely
Activities · Assessment
Commentary seminar · Mentored practice
Assessed by: Seminar paper + practical; never medical claims
Sources
PSYoga Sutra with named commentary, in translation
ASYoga-studies scholarship
GOCBSE Yoga precedent
SSEBThe mentor-year design
Further units this grade
Comparative traditions of discipline
Kala & Kaushal कला
Unit: The specialist track
Topics
- The chosen kala or kaushal at pre-professional depth
- Its shastra read where one exists (Natyashastra named for performance)
- Master-study: one great exponent researched
- The year's major work in progress
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Advance the discipline to the track's standard
- Present the shastra/master research
- Show the major work at mid-point
Activities · Assessment
Track studio · Shastra seminar
Assessed by: Studio review + research
Sources
PSThe discipline's shastra and masters, named
ASArts scholarship
GONCF arts/vocational guidance
SSEBThe track design
Further units this grade
The Grade-12 defended work