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5India and the Unthinkable (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2016.A remarkable but little commented on feature of the various discourses on India circulating today is the near total absence of its metaphysical heritage as a source of illumination into our contemporary condition. On the few occasions that this heritage is explicitly invoked, it is either as a subsidiary aspect of some purportedly larger concept such as religion, civilization, history, tradition etc., or as a set of quaint speculations fit for study as a tertiary branch of history of philosophy …Read more
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4India and Civilizational Futures: Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics Ii (edited book)Oxford University Press India. 2019.India and Civilizational Futures consists of the deliberations of the Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics, a group comprised largely of Indian scholars, academics, and writers. The authors probe how the intellectual and cultural resources of Indic civilization might be deployed to introduce greater plurality into the world of modern knowledge systems. They offer perspectives on the country's intellectual traditions that suggest how we might liberate ourselves from the straightjacke…Read more
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11Ranajit Guha, ed., a subaltern studies reader 1986-1995; Peter Heehs, nationalism terrorism, communalism: Essays in modern indian history; sumit Sarkar, writing social history; and achin vanaik, the furies of indian communalism: Religion, modernity and secularization (review)History and Theory 40 (1): 135-148. 2001.
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219Review: Subaltern Studies and Its Critics: Debates over Indian History (review)History and Theory 40 (1): 135-148. 2001.A Subaltern Studies Reader 1986-1995 by Ranajit Guha Nationalism, Terrorism, Communalism: Essays in Modern Indian History by Peter Heehs Writing Social History by Sumit Sarkar The Furies of Indian Communalism: Religion, Modernity and Secularization by Achin Vanaik.
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39Gandhi and the ecological vision of lifeEnvironmental Ethics 22 (2): 149-168. 2000.Although recognized as one of the principal sources of inspiration for the Indian environmental movement, Gandhi would have been profoundly uneasy with many of the most radical strands of ecology in the West, such as social ecology, ecofeminism, and even deep ecology. He was in every respect an ecological thinker, indeed an ecological being: the brevity of his enormous writings, his everyday bodily practices, his observance of silence, his abhorrence of waste, and his cultivation of the small as…Read more
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43The Tragi‐Comedy of the New Indian Enlightenment: An Essay on the Jingoism of Science and the Pathology of RationalitySocial Epistemology 19 (1). 2005.Though the resurgence of Hindu nationalism as a political phenomenon is well-understood, Meera Nanda is correct in suggesting that the ascendancy of Hindutva has other dimensions, such as the avent placed by cultural nationalist on 'Vedic science'. However, apart from this rudimentary insight, Nanda's contribution, far from being a resounding demonstration of potmodernism's complicity in the projects of Hindu nationalism, is a striking testament to her own commitment to a rigidly positivist, fer…Read more
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4Gandhi and the Ecological Vision of LifeEnvironmental Ethics 22 (2): 149-168. 2000.Although recognized as one of the principal sources of inspiration for the Indian environmental movement, Gandhi would have been profoundly uneasy with many of the most radical strands of ecology in the West, such as social ecology, ecofeminism, and even deep ecology. He was in every respect an ecological thinker, indeed an ecological being: the brevity of his enormous writings, his everyday bodily practices, his observance of silence, his abhorrence of waste, and his cultivation of the small as…Read more
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9Dissenting Knowledges, Open Futures: The Multiple Selves and Strange Destinations of Ashis Nandy (edited book)Oxford University Press India. 2013.This volume is the first attempt to engage with the work of one of the most exciting thinkers or our times. The essays in the first section by Nandy are either autobiographical in nature or provide insights into his unique sensibility. The later section offers some analytical perspectives on Nandy's work by contributors including leading scholars in the academy, as well as outside it
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History and the possibilities of emancipation: some lessons from IndiaJournal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. forthcoming.
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4Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global EconomyPluto Press (UK). 2002.New expanded edition of a classic anthropology title that examines ethnicity as a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relations.