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Understanding the Caste System and Its Maintenance: Brave New World’s World State and Ambedkar’s Stratified Hindu Society in Annihilation of Caste
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World contains and resembles a caste system found in Hindu society. While in Hindu society, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas...
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The Smells of Caste – Body, Self and Politics
Odours, because of their proximity to bodies and because of their surreptitious nature, can be very potent sources of understanding how power is...
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The Insurrectionary Gandhi and the Revolutionary Ambedkar: Caste and Varna
The conflict between Gandhi and Ambedkar was at its worst around the issues of caste and varna. This chapter will present and philosophically...
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Pan Asian Caste System: Way, to Divide Wealth Through “Work”
Indian caste system is based on the discernment of karma. Caste system that was practiced in ancient Asia is interpreted as an efficient way to...
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Shaking Up (and Kee** Intact) the Old Boys’ Network: The Impact of the Mandatory Gender Quota on the Board of Directors in India
Prior research on the impact of mandatory quotas in one dimension of diversity, on other dimensions, shows contradictory results. We seek to resolve...
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Why Do We Need to Discuss the Practice of Veiling?
Veiling is one of the sources of seclusion of women from and within society. Ghūnghat ( avagunṭhana, purdāh ) or veiling is primarily associated with...
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Rethinking Affirmative Action: Problematising the “Least Privileged”
Affirmative action as a state policy is one of the powerful ways of empowering the underprivileged in the society. While such a policy is aimed at...
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Akka Mahadevi of India Circa 1130–Circa 1160
Akka Mahadevi, 1130–1160, was one of the leaders of Virasaivism (literally ‘Heroic-Saivism’), a major philosophical and socio-religious movement of...
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Michels, the Intellectuals and the Issue of Organization
The theme of the instrumental use of the law by ruling groups, which were transformed, due to a relationship of passive delegation, into a priestly...
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A Hindu Perspective on Humanizing Business
Humanizing business requires a commitment to the flourishing and dignity of all human beings and to the service of the common good. It excludes the...
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In the Name of Merit: Ethical Violence and Inequality at a Business School
This study examines how meritocracy as a collective social imaginary promoting social justice and fairness reproduces class and caste inequalities...
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Dharma as Principle of Self-denial and Emptiness
This paper aims to establish the meaning of Dharma as the principle of self-denial and emptiness. Dharma, a key concept in the religious thought of...
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Understanding Economic Inequality Through the Lens of Caste
Research on economic inequality has largely focused on understanding the relationship between organizations and inequality but has paid limited...
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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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An Exposition of the Notion Self and Identity in the Philosophy of Rāmānuja: A Critical Study
The proposed study endeavors to delve into the philosophical concepts of self and identity as elucidated by the eminent Indian philosopher...
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Gandhi on Caturvarṇa and Niṣkāma Karma: A Re-interpretation
Gandhi’s writings on the issue of Caturvarṇa, despite their apparent lacunas, dogmatic tones and seeming inconsistencies, are available to a...
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Impartiality and Samdarshita: Ambedkar and Gandhi on Justice
Moving to the third, of the three concepts, in The Ambedkar Gandhi Debate: On Identity Community and Justice, this chapter will argue that...
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Introduction
Development in India follows the ethnic planes, especially, caste and religion. Muslims in India, the second largest religious population of India...
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Charvaka (Cārvāka)
The Charvaka (Cārvāka)-s are the last known materialists in India. They appeared in or around the eighth century CE and, for some unknown reason,...
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Swami Vivekananda: An Epitome of Nationalism
What we understand by nationalism is the idea of supporting one’s country, people, culture and sovereignty of the nation. It believes in self-rule,...