Philosophy In Colonial India
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Author |
: Sharad Deshpande |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2015-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9788132222231 |
ISBN-13 |
: 8132222237 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Philosophy in Colonial India by : Sharad Deshpande
This volume focuses on the gradual emergence of modern Indian philosophy through the cross-cultural encounter between indigenous Indian and Western traditions of philosophy, during the colonial period in India, specifically in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This volume acknowledges that what we take ‘Indian philosophy’ or ‘modern Indian philosophy’ to mean today is the sub-text of a much wider, complex and varied Indian reception of the West during the colonial period. Consisting of –twelve chapters and a thematic introduction, the volume addresses the role of academic philosophy in the cultural and social ferment of the colonial period in India and its impact on the development of cross-cultural philosophy, the emergence of a cosmopolitan consciousness in colonial India; as also the philosophical contribution of India to cultural globalization. The issue of colonialism and emergence of new identities in India has engaged the critical attention of scholars from diverse fields of inquiry such as history, sociology, politics, and subaltern studies. However, till today the emergence of modern Indian philosophy remains an unexplored area of inquiry. Much of the academic philosophical work of this period, despite its manifest philosophical originality and depth, stands largely ignored, not only abroad, but even in India. This neglect needs to be overcome by a re-reading of philosophical writings in English produced by scholars located in the universities of colonial India. This edited volume will facilitate further explorations into the presence of colonial tensions as they are visible in the writings of modern Indian academic philosophers like B. N. Seal, Hiralal Haldar, Rasvihary Das,, G. R. Malkani, K. C. Bhattacharyya, . G. N. Mathrani and others.
Author |
: A. Raghuramaraju |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 169 |
Release |
: 2007-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199087921 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019908792X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Debates in Indian Philosophy by : A. Raghuramaraju
This volume traces the impact of colonialism and Western philosophy on the dialogical structure of Indian thought and highlights the general tendency in contemporary Indian philosophy to avoid direct dialogue as opposed to the rich and elaborate debates that formed the pivot of the classical Indian tradition. It defines three possible areas of debate: between Swami Vivekanand and Mahatama Gandhi; V.D. Savarkar and Mahatama Gandhi; and Sri Aurobindo and Krishna Chandra Bhattacharyya—on state and pre-modern society, religion and politics, and science and spiritualism respectively. This book will be of considerable interest not only to students and scholars of Indian philosophy and religious studies but to scholars of politics and sociology as well.
Author |
: Nalini Bhushan |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 673 |
Release |
: 2011-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199773039 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199773033 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indian Philosophy in English by : Nalini Bhushan
This book publishes, for the first time in decades, and in many cases, for the first time in a readily accessible edition, English language philosophical literature written in India during the period of British rule. Bhushan's and Garfield's own essays on the work of this period contextualize the philosophical essays collected and connect them to broader intellectual, artistic and political movements in India. This volume yields a new understanding of cosmopolitan consciousness in a colonial context, of the intellectual agency of colonial academic communities, and of the roots of cross-cultural philosophy as it is practiced today. It transforms the canon of global philosophy, presenting for the first time a usable collection and a systematic study of Anglophone Indian philosophy. Many historians of Indian philosophy see a radical disjuncture between traditional Indian philosophy and contemporary Indian academic philosophy that has abandoned its roots amid globalization. This volume provides a corrective to this common view. The literature collected and studied in this volume is at the same time Indian and global, demonstrating that the colonial Indian philosophical communities were important participants in global dialogues, and revealing the roots of contemporary Indian philosophical thought. The scholars whose work is published here will be unfamiliar to many contemporary philosophers. But the reader will discover that their work is creative, exciting, and original, and introduces distinctive voices into global conversations. These were the teachers who trained the best Indian scholars of the post-Independence period. They engaged creatively both with the classical Indian tradition and with the philosophy of the West, forging a new Indian philosophical idiom to which contemporary Indian and global philosophy are indebted.
Author |
: Nalini Bhushan |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 345 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190457594 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190457597 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Minds Without Fear by : Nalini Bhushan
Minds Without Fear is an intellectual and cultural history of India during the period of British occupation. It demonstrates that this was a period of renaissance in India in which philosophy--both in the public sphere and in the Indian universities--played a central role in the emergence of a distinctively Indian modernity. This is also a history of Indian philosophy. It demonstrates how the development of a secular philosophical voice facilitated the construction of modern Indian society and the consolidation of the nationalist movement. Authors Nalini Bhushan and Jay Garfield explore the complex role of the English language in philosophical and nationalist discourse, demonstrating both the anxieties that surrounded English, and the processes that normalized it as an Indian vernacular and academic language. Garfield and Bhushan attend to both Hindu and Muslim philosophers, to public and academic intellectuals, to artists and art critics, and to national identity and nation-building. Also explored is the complex interactions between Indian and European thought during this period, including the role of missionary teachers and the influence of foreign universities in the evolution of Indian philosophy. This pattern of interaction, although often disparaged as "inauthentic" is continuous with the cosmopolitanism that has always characterized the intellectual life of India, and that the philosophy articulated during this period is a worthy continuation of the Indian philosophical tradition.
Author |
: A. Raghuramaraju |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2009-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199088058 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199088055 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Enduring Colonialism by : A. Raghuramaraju
This volume explores three significant issues—absence, the consciousness of the contemporary, and new philosophical episteme—relevant to thought systems in the Indian subcontinent. The author discusses the present lack of original philosophical discourse in the context of South Asia, especially India, and investigates the reasons of such absences. It also investigates the reasons for decline in traditional philosophical schools and Sanskritic studies in the subcontinent. The book discusses the manner in which Indian thinkers from the times of nineteenth-century social reforms to the present day have interacted with the contemporary issues of philosophical engagement the world over.
Author |
: Nalini Bhushan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 644 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0190267607 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780190267605 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indian Philosophy in English by : Nalini Bhushan
This book publishes English-language philosophical literature written in India during the period of British rule. The author's own chapters on the work of this period contextualize the philosophical essays collected and connect them to broader intellectual, artistic and political movements in India. This book yields a new understanding of cosmopolitan consciousness in a colonial context, of the intellectual agency of colonial academic communities, and of the roots of cross-cultural philosophy as it is practiced today.
Author |
: Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya |
Publisher |
: Pearson Education India |
Total Pages |
: 1240 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 8131728188 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788131728185 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: pt. 1. Science, technology, imperialism and war by : Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya
Author |
: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 656 |
Release |
: 1952 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015003341057 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary Indian Philosophy by : Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Author |
: Andrew J. Nicholson |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2013-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231149877 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231149875 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unifying Hinduism by : Andrew J. Nicholson
Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its roots in innovations within South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. During this time, thinkers treated the philosophies of Vedanta, Samkhya, and Yoga, along with the worshippers of Visnu, Siva, and Sakti, as belonging to a single system of belief and practice. Instead of seeing such groups as separate and contradictory, they re-envisioned them as separate rivers leading to the ocean of Brahman, the ultimate reality. Drawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early modern traditions, including Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana Sarasvati, Nicholson shows how influential thinkers portrayed Vedanta philosophy as the ultimate unifier of diverse belief systems. This project paved the way for the work of later Hindu reformers, such as Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, and Gandhi, whose teachings promoted the notion that all world religions belong to a single spiritual unity. In his study, Nicholson also critiques the way in which Eurocentric concepts—like monism and dualism, idealism and realism, theism and atheism, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy—have come to dominate modern discourses on Indian philosophy.
Author |
: A. Raghuramaraju |
Publisher |
: OUP India |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0198092237 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780198092230 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Philosophy and India by : A. Raghuramaraju
This book brings to bear critical perspectives on the major Indian academic philosophers' discussions on the West, modernity, colonialism, classical Indian philosophy, and modern Western philosophy. Through a discussion of the works and influence of philosophers it establishes the strengths and limitations of philosophy as practised in India.