Modern South Asian Thinkers
Interface of Region and Universe
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About this book
This exceptional anthology brings together a collection of insightful expositions on modern South Asian thinkers and thoughts. Employing an encyclopedic approach, this volume delves deep into the intellectual history of South Asia, transcending traditional academic perspectives and exploring a rich tapestry of ideas from various sources across time. The book departs from the imported ideas of South Asia by delving into the diverse intellectual heritage of the region pertaining to political thinkers, social and cultural thinkers and activists.
Historically, the book aids in approaching the enduring social and political challenges in South Asia. Drawing from an extensive array of works, including polemics, commentaries, literary accounts, politics and poetics, modern thoughts in South Asia provide systematic solutions to the perennial issues that shape the region. The curatorial consequence of the modern thoughts from the region, put together in this compendium, is a collective consciousness of South Asia as an offspring of the epistemological interface between region and universe.
The readers of this book shall arrive at a profound insight into the social, political and cultural intricacies, the transformative power of ideas and their enduring influence on the development of the region. This book would be useful to students, researchers and teachers working in the field of political science, philosophy, history and sociology, in varied course curricula such as Indian political thought, Eastern philosophy, South Asian thought, political thinkers and modern political thought.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy: Ideas on Cultural and Political Consciousness
- 2 Alvin Robert Cornelius: Jurisprudence and Constitutionalism in Pakistan
- 3 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan: The Muslim Gandhian
- 4 Ali Shariati: The Ideologue of Iranian Revolution
- 5 A Truth Seeker from Eastern Bengal: Aroj Ali Matubbar
- 6 Aurobindo Ghosh: Ideas on Humanism and Spiritualism
- 7 Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala: Vision of an Institution Builder
- 8 Key Ideas of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
- 9 Thoughts on Nationalism in Nepal: Literary Expressions of Bal Krishna Sama
- 10 Culture and Nation in the Thoughts of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- 11 The Social and Political Thoughts of Bhagat Singh
- 12 Bhudev Mukhopadhyay: Harbinger of Bengal’s Renaissance
- 13 Bimal Krishna Matilal: Reflections on Philosophical Ideas
- 14 Aung San: Independence, Ideals, and the Birth of Modern Burma
- 15 Dadabhai Naoroji: From Economic Nationalism to Political Nationalism
- 16 Ideas on Indian Traditions and Philosophy: Daya Krishna
- 17 Reflections on Buddhist Philosophy: David J. Kalupahana
- 18 Anagarika Dharmapala: A Leader of Cultural Revivalism in Sri Lanka
- 19 Eqbal Ahmad on Third World Politics and International Affairs
- 20 Ediriweera Sarachchandra: Theatrical Practices and Literary Ideas
- 21 Faiz Ahmad Faiz: Poetic Expressions and Public Concerns
- 22 Fayz Mohammad Katib Hazarah: Ideas on Afghan History
- 23 Post-Coloniality of Hamza Alavi
- 24 Literary and Feminist Ideas of Ismat Chughtai
- 25 Rewriting Tibet: The Radical Vision of Jamyang Norbu
- 26 Jayaprakash Narayan: An Architect of Total Revolution
- 27 Social and Political Ideas of Jyotirao Phule
- 28 Karma Ura: Architect of Bhutan’s Happiness and Cultural Renaissance
- 29 Kumari Jayawardene: Feminism and Postcolonial Struggles in the Third World
- 30 Literary and Social Ideas of Laxmi Prasad Devkota
- 31 Mohammed Ali Jinnah: Political Ideas and Making of the Pakistan
- 32 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Thoughts and Practices
- 33 Manvendra Nath Roy: Humanistic and Marxist Ideas
- 34 Islamic Marxism of Mohammad Qasim Akhgar
- 35 Political Ideas and Reformist Politics of Mahmud Tarzi
- 36 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad: Islamic Ideas and Gandhian Politics
- 37 People’s Maulana: The Life of Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani
- 38 Moulana Mehmood Madani: Ideas of Nation and Religion
- 39 Ideas through Literature: Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- 40 Mohammad Iqbal: Islam, Nation, and Modernity
- 41 Philosophy of Mohammad Ismail Muballigh
- 42 Munshi Premchand: Literature, Satires, and Social Reformations
- 43 Pandita Ramabai: Feminist Ideas on Patriarchy, Religion, and Education
- 44 The Life of a Bengali Pir: Shah Sufi Abu Bakr Siddique (Dada-Huzur) of Furfura Sharif
- 45 Ramchandra Dattatraya Ranade: Reflections on Philosophical Ideas
- 46 Social, Political and Cultural Thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore
- 47 Socialist Ideas and Political Practices of Ram Manohar Lohia
- 48 Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: Feminist Expressions in Literature
- 49 Sadat Hasan Manto: A Social Rebel
- 50 Sajjad Zaheer: The Radical Revolutionary
- 51 Ideas and Philosophy of Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
- 52 Savitribai Phuley: An Educationist par Excellence
- 53 The Philosophy of Sayagi U Ba Khin: Meditation, Ethics, and Modernity
- 54 Spiritual Philosophy of Swami Vivekanand
- 55 Key Ideas of Sayyed Abul Aʿlā Mawdūdī
- 56 Syed Ahmad Khan: Thoughts on Modernity and Islam
- 57 Islamic Modernity of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- 58 Tarabai Shinde: Reformist and Nationalist Thoughts
- 59 Tenzin Gyatso: A Compassionate Ethic for a Divided World
- 60 Ideology, Identity, and Nationalism of Vinayak D. Savarkar
- 61 Vasudeva Sharan Agrawala and the Idea of Indian Art
- Index