Calibrating Western Philosophy for India

Adi Samkara 39

Ambedkar, B. R. 67

anarchism 64

anxiety 42, 43

Archaeology of Knowledge, The 35

Aristotle 23, 24, 36, 40, 59, 70, 71, 87

Badarayana 8, 52

Bergson, Henri 70 – 89, 93

Bergsonism 7, 74

Bhattacharyya, Kalidas 83, 84

Bhattacharyya, Krishnachandra 4

Bilgrami, Akeel 48, 49

bondage 20 – 22

Brecht, Bertolt 93

bricolage 42, 45, 50

bricoleur 48, 49

Brooke, Christopher 30

Buddhism 8, 72, 74

Cartesian method 18

Cartesian obsession 80

Carvaka 74

Castle, The 56

Chandidas, Vaddera 70 – 89, 93

Chāndogya Upaniṣad 73, 74

Chatterjee, Partha 64, 65

Chattopadhyaya, Bankim Chandra 2

childhood 28, 29, 31, 40, 59, 75

Christianity 59

Citizen Kane 62

civil liberty 53

collective value 57

colonialism 3, 50, 63

colonial modernity 1

Confessions 37

contradictoriness 85 – 87

Coward, H. G. 36

Deleuze, Gilles 55 – 69, 74 – 78, 86, 93

Derrida, Jacques 34, 36, 91; word, forms 35 – 54

Descartes, Rene 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 28, 29, 33, 40, 59 – 61, 67, 81

Desire and Liberation: The Fundamentals of Cosmicontology 7, 83, 93

deterritorialization of language 57, 58

dialogue, transformation 36

Diderot 13

Discipline and Punish 35

Discourse on Method 40, 59, 80

Dumont, Louis 71

Durkheim, Emile 22

Eco, Umberto 45

egalitarian theory 71

Enduring Colonialism 84

English language 57

Essay on the Origin of Languages 37

eurocentrism 2

false problems 79

Foucault, Michel 31, 35, 41, 62

free play phenomena 43

Freud 46, 47

Gandhi, Harilal 67

Gandhi, M. K. 50, 55, 65 – 67, 92

Gandhism 64

Gaudapada 8, 52

Gauguin, Paul 62

Gauthier, David 30

general will concept 13, 14

Gourevitch, Victor 16

Grimsley, Ronald 15

Grotius 24, 26

Guattari, Félix 55 – 69

Hegel 23, 24

Heidegger 46, 47

hierarchy 70, 71, 81

Homo Hierarchicus 71

Hume, David 81, 82

Indian national movement 55

individualism 34

inequality 70

Jinnah, Mohammad Ali 67

Kafka 56 – 57, 62, 63, 67

Kantian legacy 27

Karmarkar, Damodar 8

Kautilya 2

Krishna, Daya 8, 94

Kuhn, Thomas 61

Kumar, Aishwarya 3

Levi-Strauss 38, 48

Life of Galileo 93

logocentrism 35, 41, 49 – 52

Macaulay 2, 6

Mahadevan, T. M. P. 8

major literatures 92

Marxists 3

Matilal, B. K. 8

metaphysics 44, 45

Mind 4

minor literature(s) 57, 92

“Minutes” 1, 2

modern Indian philosophy 1

modernity 31, 32, 41, 60, 63, 68, 92

modern morality 27

modern Western philosophy 1

Montesquieu 13

Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 73

Murti, T. R. V. 36

national political movement 64

Nibbana 74

Nietzsche 36, 39, 44, 46, 47

non-being concept 70 – 89

Nussbaum, Martha 82

Of Grammatology 7, 35, 36, 47

Okin, S. M. 26, 27, 29

old age home institution 7, 12 – 35, 91

open-ended dialogue 36, 39, 51

Orientalism 35

parent/child relations 27

permanence 70 – 89

Peyre, Henri M. 19

philosophical traditions 8

Plato 36, 38 – 40, 42, 48, 51, 71, 85, 91

Prague German 57

proletarian literature 58

Radhakrishnan, S. 4

radicalism 12, 18, 33; breach of 19; waxing of 13

rationalism 60

Rawls, John 26

reality 86, 87, 92

Renaissance 59, 60

Republic 71

Ṛgveda 72, 73

Riley, Patrick 12 – 15, 18, 33

Rimbaud, Arthur 19

Roberts, Robert C. 82

romantic writers 64

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 70, 71, 87, 90, 91; freedom and slavery 20 – 23; master and slave, relation 23 – 24; modernity, slavery in 24 – 26; old age home institution, founder 12 – 35; political philosophy 22

Ruskin 65, 67, 92

Russell, Bertrand 94

Said, Edward 35

Saussure 37, 38

scholarship 5, 8, 19, 67, 90

secularism 14

Shklar, Judith 12 – 15, 18, 33

Skaria, Ajay 3

Social Contract, The 12, 15, 16, 33, 91

Social Contract Philosophy 28

social realism 2

Socrates 36, 38, 39, 42, 47, 48, 91

speech 35 – 54

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty 35, 51

state of bondage 21

state of freedom 21, 22

Strauss, Leo 17, 40

tabula rasa 1

Tagore 65, 66

Taittirīya Upaniṣad 73

teaching philosophy 5

temporal imbalance 4

Tennyson, Alfred 62

Thoreau 65, 67, 92

Tolstoy 64, 65, 67, 92

totalism 2

Index