Indian philosophy in English from renaissance to independence (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references
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
Pandits and professors : the renaissance of secular India (B & G) -- R Tagore, Nationalism in India -- Aurobindo Ghosh, The renaissance in India -- AK Coomaraswamy, Indian nationality -- Lajpat Rai, Reform or revival? -- Bhagavan Das, The meaning of swaraj or self-government -- KC Bhattacharyya, Svaraj in ideas -- AK Coomaraswamy, Art and swadeshi -- Aurobindo Ghosh, The future poetry, cs. 1-5 (1917-1918) -- R Tagore, Pathway to mukti -- BK Sarkar, Viewpoints in aesthetics -- KC Bhattacharyya, The concept of rasa -- Hiriyanna, Indian aesthetics -- Hiriyanna, Art experience -- An Indian in Paris : cosmopolitan aesthetics in India (B & G) -- RD Ranade, The problem of ultimate reality in the Upanishads -- Vivekananda, Jñana yoga -- AC Mukerji, Absolute consciousness -- Ras Bihari Das, The falsity of the world -- The Plato of Allahabad : AC Mukerji's contributions to Indian and to world philosophy (B & G) -- AC Mukerji, The realist's conception of idealism -- Hiralal Haldar, Realistic idealism -- KC Bhattacharyya, The concept of philosophy -- Hiriyanna, The problem of truth -- GR Malkani, Philosophical truth -- AC Mukerji, Traditional epistemology -- Symposium : has Aurobindo refuted Mayavada? -- Indra Sen, Na Nikam, Haridas Chaudhuri and GR Malkani (amalner 1950) -- Bibliography of Indian philosophy in the colonial period