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Author : Bharat Somal
Publisher : BHARAT
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book WORLD INTELLECTUALS ON INDIA written by Bharat Somal and published by BHARAT. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read what Great Scholars and Great Minds of World Talk about Vedic Dharma.p'
Author : Kris Manjapra
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674727460
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Age of Entanglement written by Kris Manjapra and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age of Entanglement explores patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of a diverse collection of individuals from South Asia and Central Europe who shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another’s worlds. Moving beyond well-rehearsed critiques of colonialism towards a new critical approach, this study recasts modern intellectual history in terms of the knotted intellectual itineraries of seeming strangers. Collaborations in the sciences, arts, and humanities produced extraordinary meetings of German and Indian minds. Meghnad Saha met Albert Einstein, Stella Kramrisch brought the Bauhaus to Calcutta, and Girindrasekhar Bose began a correspondence with Sigmund Freud. Rabindranath Tagore traveled to Germany to recruit scholars for a new Indian university, and the actor Himanshu Rai hired director Franz Osten to help establish movie studios in Bombay. These interactions, Manjapra argues, evinced shared responses to the cultural and political hegemony of the British empire. Germans and Indians hoped to find in one another the tools needed to disrupt an Anglocentric world order. As Manjapra demonstrates, transnational intellectual encounters are not inherently progressive. From Orientalism and Aryanism to socialism and scientism, German–Indian entanglements were neither necessarily liberal nor conventionally cosmopolitan, often characterized as much by manipulation as by cooperation. Age of Entanglement underscores the connections between German and Indian intellectual history, revealing the characteristics of a global age when the distance separating Europe and Asia seemed, temporarily, to disappear.
Author : Salil Gewali
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184759266
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Great Minds on India written by Salil Gewali and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian culture and spiritualism have exerted a strong hold over the world’s greatest intellectuals—from psychologists like Carl Jung to poets like T.S. Eliot, from orators like Swami Vivekananda to philosophers like Sri Aurobindo, from statesmen like Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to writers like H.G. Wells. Compiled by Salil Gewali, Great Minds on India is a remarkable collection of the thoughts and views of these world-renowned opinion-makers on India’s cultural inheritance and glorious legacy.
Author : Shruti Kapila
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521199751
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book An Intellectual History for India written by Shruti Kapila and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the power of ideas in the making of Indian political modernity. As an intermediate history of connections between South Asia and the global arena the volume raises new issues in intellectual history. It reviews the period from the emergence of constitutional liberalism in the1830s, through the swadeshi era to the writings of Tilak, Azad and Gandhi in the twentieth century. While several contributions reflect on the ideologies of nationalism, the volume seeks to rescue intellectual history from being simply a narration of the nation-state. It does not seek to create a 'canon' of political thought so much as to show how Indian concepts of state and society were redrawn in the context of emergent globalized debates about freedom, the constitution of the self and the good society in the late colonial era. In so doing the contributions here resituate an Indian intellectual history that has long been eclipsed by social and political history. These essays were originally published in a Special issue of the journal Modern Intellectual History (CUP, April 2007).
Author : Romila Thapar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789384067380
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (673 download)
Download or read book The Public Intellectual in India written by Romila Thapar and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew J. Nicholson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231149875
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Unifying Hinduism written by Andrew J. Nicholson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Shivshankar Menon
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815737246
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book India and Asian Geopolitics written by Shivshankar Menon and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear-eyed look at modern India's role in Asia's and the broader world One of India's most distinguished foreign policy thinkers addresses the many questions facing India as it seeks to find its way in the increasingly complex world of Asian geopolitics. A former Indian foreign secretary and national security adviser, Shivshankar Menon traces India's approach to the shifting regional landscape since its independence in 1947. From its leading role in the “nonaligned” movement during the cold war to its current status as a perceived counterweight to China, India often has been an after-thought for global leaders—until they realize how much they needed it. Examining India's own policy choices throughout its history, Menon focuses in particular on India's responses to the rise of China, as well as other regional powers. Menon also looks to the future and analyzes how India's policies are likely to evolve in response to current and new challenges. As India grows economically and gains new stature across the globe, both its domestic preoccupations and international choices become more significant. India itself will become more affected by what happens in the world around it. Menon makes a powerful geopolitical case for an India increasingly and positively engaged in Asia and the broader world in pursuit of a pluralistic, open, and inclusive world order.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (458 download)
Download or read book What is India? written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ranjan Pant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974739304
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (393 download)
Download or read book IIT India's Intellectual Treasures written by Ranjan Pant and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Akhileshwar Jha
Publisher : New Delhi : Vikas Publishing House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Intellectuals at the Crossroads written by Akhileshwar Jha and published by New Delhi : Vikas Publishing House. This book was released on 1977 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9788124604762
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book India's Intellectual Traditions and Contributions to the World written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles selected from papers presented at the fourth International Conference on "India's Contributions and Influences to Solve the World's Current Problems, held at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth during 12-14 July 2002 and fifth International Conference on "India's Intellectual Traditions in Contemporary Global Context", held at University of Maryland, Shady Grove Campus during 9-11 July 2004 moderated by WAVES.
Author : Gonzalo Lamana
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816539669
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book How “Indians” Think written by Gonzalo Lamana and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conquest and colonization of the Americas marked the beginning of a social, economic, and cultural change of global scale. Most of what we know about how colonial actors understood and theorized this complex historical transformation comes from Spanish sources. This makes the few texts penned by Indigenous intellectuals in colonial times so important: they allow us to see how some of those who inhabited the colonial world in a disadvantaged position thought and felt about it. This book shines light on Indigenous perspectives through a novel interpretation of the works of the two most important Amerindian intellectuals in the Andes, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca. Building on but also departing from the predominant scholarly position that views Indigenous-Spanish relations as the clash of two distinct cultures, Gonzalo Lamana argues that Guaman Poma and Garcilaso were the first Indigenous activist intellectuals and that they developed post-racial imaginaries four hundred years ago. Their texts not only highlighted Native peoples’ achievements, denounced injustice, and demanded colonial reform, but they also exposed the emerging Spanish thinking and feeling on race that was at the core of colonial forms of discrimination. These authors aimed to alter the way colonial actors saw each other and, as a result, to change the world in which they lived.
Author : Ian Philip McGreal
Publisher : HarperResource
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great Thinkers of the Eastern World written by Ian Philip McGreal and published by HarperResource. This book was released on 1995 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information on religious and philosophical thinkers from China, India, Japan, Korea and the Islamic world
Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466854294
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Argumentative Indian written by Amartya Sen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nobel Laureate offers a dazzling new book about his native country India is a country with many distinct traditions, widely divergent customs, vastly different convictions, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. In The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen draws on a lifetime study of his country's history and culture to suggest the ways we must understand India today in the light of its rich, long argumentative tradition. The millenia-old texts and interpretations of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Muslim, agnostic, and atheistic Indian thought demonstrate, Sen reminds us, ancient and well-respected rules for conducting debates and disputations, and for appreciating not only the richness of India's diversity but its need for toleration. Though Westerners have often perceived India as a place of endless spirituality and unreasoning mysticism, he underlines its long tradition of skepticism and reasoning, not to mention its secular contributions to mathematics, astronomy, linguistics, medicine, and political economy. Sen discusses many aspects of India's rich intellectual and political heritage, including philosophies of governance from Kautilya's and Ashoka's in the fourth and third centuries BCE to Akbar's in the 1590s; the history and continuing relevance of India's relations with China more than a millennium ago; its old and well-organized calendars; the films of Satyajit Ray and the debates between Gandhi and the visionary poet Tagore about India's past, present, and future. The success of India's democracy and defense of its secular politics depend, Sen argues, on understanding and using this rich argumentative tradition. It is also essential to removing the inequalities (whether of caste, gender, class, or community) that mar Indian life, to stabilizing the now precarious conditions of a nuclear-armed subcontinent, and to correcting what Sen calls the politics of deprivation. His invaluable book concludes with his meditations on pluralism, on dialogue and dialectics in the pursuit of social justice, and on the nature of the Indian identity.
Author : B. P. Sharma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The World of Intellectuals written by B. P. Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles in the Indian context, most presented at a seminar held at the Nanakchand Anglo Sanskrit Post-graduate College, Meerut, 1988.
Author : Maureen Konkle
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807875902
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Writing Indian Nations written by Maureen Konkle and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the republic, the United States government negotiated with Indian nations because it could not afford protracted wars politically, militarily, or economically. Maureen Konkle argues that by depending on treaties, which rest on the equal standing of all signatories, Europeans in North America institutionalized a paradox: the very documents through which they sought to dispossess Native peoples in fact conceded Native autonomy. As the United States used coerced treaties to remove Native peoples from their lands, a group of Cherokee, Pequot, Ojibwe, Tuscarora, and Seneca writers spoke out. With history, polemic, and personal narrative these writers countered widespread misrepresentations about Native peoples' supposedly primitive nature, their inherent inability to form governments, and their impending disappearance. Furthermore, they contended that arguments about racial difference merely justified oppression and dispossession; deriding these arguments as willful attempts to evade the true meanings and implications of the treaties, the writers insisted on recognition of Native peoples' political autonomy and human equality. Konkle demonstrates that these struggles over the meaning of U.S.-Native treaties in the early nineteenth century led to the emergence of the first substantial body of Native writing in English and, as she shows, the effects of the struggle over the political status of Native peoples remain embedded in contemporary scholarship.
Author : Kris Krishnan Manjapra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (455 download)
Download or read book The Mirrored World written by Kris Krishnan Manjapra and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I situate German and Indian intellectuals within their respective intellectual and political horizons, as well as within the intertemporal context of the traditions that informed their thought and activities. Thinkers applied ideas and created meaning in ways informed not only by new encounters, but also by where they had come from. I consider the recapitulation of Swadeshi internationalism and Pan-Asianism amongst Indians and of Orientalism and Eurocentrism amongst Germans within interwar zones of thought. The communication between German and Indian thinkers belied persisting and significant difficulties. I point to the endemic breaches in transcultural communication, the possible illiberal implications of cosmopolitanism in specific historical contexts, as well as the personal toll that cosmopolitan life inflicted on Indian diasporic nationalists, as they affronted both the regime of British imperialism, as well as of the independent nation-state later on.
