The following is a section from a long article called A Search for the Historical Krishna by Dr NS Rajaram, which precedes his upcoming book which will be of the same title. Dr NS Rajaram was a former engineer at NASA, a field which he subsequently left to study ancient civilisations. He has authored a number of scholarly and polemic works. He is widely respected in his field—although his conclusions are by no means universally accepted. Dr Rajaram has also invited hostility from some academics—although they tend to engage in personal attacks rather than refuting his ideas. I have witnessed Dr Rajaram engage in a public debate and also presenting his research papers, and his work is clearly well researched. This subject, of the dating of the life of Shri Krishna is not a settled subject, although scholars tend to converge on two dates (c. 3100 BCE or c. 1500 BCE). This article articulated some of the evidence in favour of the former.

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