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Memory, History and Itihaas: Ambedkar and Gandhi
This chapter will move away from the more apparent differences between Ambedkar and Gandhi to examine the differences between their conceptions of...
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By Way of Introduction: The Ambedkar–Gandhi Debate: Three Fundamental Questions
The introductory chapter to this book on the Ambedkar–Gandhi debate will bring up three important questions, answers to which, underlay the conflicts...
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“Educate, Agitate, Organize”: Inequality and Ethics in the Writings of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Scholars of business and management studies have recently turned their attention to inequality, a key issue for business ethics given the role of...
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Pragmatism, Spirituality, and the Calling of a New Democracy: The Populist Challenge and Ambedkar’s Integration of Buddhism and Dewey
In his critique of parliamentary democracy’s limits of suffrage, periodic elections, and governance, Ambedkar notes that they need to be anchored in...
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Harmonies of Light: Walking with Rohith Vemula and Sri Aurobindo
This essay explores the existential pain experienced by Rohith Vemula through the philosophical perspective of Sri Aurobindo. It outlines the complex...
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Dissent and Protest Movements in India: Revisiting Gandhi’s Ideas of Peaceful Protest
For the last few years, dissents and protests are being seen almost everywhere in the world. Some of them were violent and occupation movements...
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Utility of Philosophy
Philosophy is an incredible intellectual enterprise that promotes comprehensive exposure to creative and critical thinking. The paper is written to...
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Facilitating the Convergence of Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental Duties Through the Gandhian Interpretation of ‘Dharm’
The distinctive character of the Indian Constitution is its affirmation in the balance of rights and duties. Written on the touchstone of the Indian...
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Early Habermas’s Critique of Gadamer and His Later Approach to Religion
This chapter deals with the theory of tradition by Hans-George Gadamer and the critique of that concept by early Habermas. The chapter deals with the...
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Pragmatism and Spirituality: New Horizons of Theory and Practice and the Calling of Planetary Realizations
Pragmatism has been an important philosophical and sociocultural movement in the United States of America which has influenced our views of self,...
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Lived Experience and the Idea of the Social in Alfred Schutz: A Phenomenological Study of Contemporary Relevance
The concept of lived experience plays a significant role in the social sciences in general and in philosophy in particular. The idea of lived...
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Reservations in India: Constitutional and Historical Perspectives, and Contemporary Concerns
This chapter presents a historical analysis of reservations in India. The chapter seeks to trace the trajectory of the reservation policy as it...
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What Comes After Postcolonial Theory?
This essay explores possible paths after postcolonial theory, with the after understood not as a negation, but as a form of inheritance and the...
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Languages of Secularity
Kaviraj Sudipta’s Languages of Secularity outlines two main concerns: recent debates about secularity in Indian social science, and the colonial side...
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Conclusion: Ethics of Governance: Moral Limits of Policy Decisions
This chapter gathers together various ethical tools included in the toolbox that has been fashioned in previous chapters. It seeks to place in...
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Zen and the Art of Resistance: Some Preliminary Notes
In the modern Western and oftentimes Asian imagination, Buddhism generally—and Zen more specifically—is understood as being resolutely disengaged,...
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