 His second major work, "Reconceptualizing India Studies", appeared in 2012 and argues that post-colonial studies and modern India studies are in need of a rejuvenation.After Said's "Orientalism" (1978), post-colonialism, as a discipline, has not contributed much to human knowledge.A strange form of unproductive self-reflection and impenetrable jargon has come to stand for and replace theory building and knowledge production.