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Index
Front
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction: Prophets Facing Backward
“Alternative Modernity” as Reactionary Modernism
Hindu Nationalism and Fascism: Shared Traits
The Total Critique of Modernity: Deconstruction of Science
Indian Intellectuals and the Siren Songs of Postmodernism
The Betrayal of the Clerks
The Crimes of Modernization?
Conclusion
2. Dharma and the Bomb: Reactionary Modernism in India
Two Scenarios: Dharma and the Bomb
Two Hypotheses: Religiosity and Authenticity as Political Forces
India: Secularism without Secularization
Indian Secularism: Hindutva and Postmodern Critics
How “Western” is Indian Secularism?
The Romance of “Tolerance”
“Religionization” of the public sphere
Conclusion: The Dangers of Difference
3. Vedic Science, Part One: Legitimation of the Hindu Nationalist Worldview
Science and “Vedic Science”
Vedic Science in Action: “The Pizza Effect”
An Objection Confronted and Answered
Two Cheers for Disenchantment
The Spirit in Nature, or the Mythos as the Logos
Historical Roots of Vedic Science: British Orientalism and Indian Nationalism
4. Vedic Science, Part II: Philosophical Justification of Vedic Science
“Reductionist” and “Holist” Science
Philosophical Anti-Semitism: Hindutva Critique of “Dualist” Science
Vedic Science as the Expression of the Hindu Soul
Vitalism
Quantum Physics
Equality of all Truths
Vedic Physics
Vedic Creationism
Conclusions
5. Epistemic Charity: Equality of All “Ethnosciences”
The Strong Programme: I’m OK, You’re OK
Cyborgs in the Citadel: Science as Culture
Postcolonial Science Studies: Ending “Epistemic Violence”
Conclusion
6. We are All Hybrids Now! : Paths to Reactionary Modernism
Post-Universal Science I: Multicultural Bricolage
“Hybrid Times, Hybrid People”
The Route to Reactionary Modernism
Hybridity and the Fate of Contradictions
Conclusion
7. A Dalit Defense of the Deweyan-Buddhist View of Science
John Dewey: Science and the Revaluation of Values
Ambedkar’s Confrontation with Tradition
Ambedkar’s Deweyan Buddha
The Social Significance of Ambedkar’s Buddha
Ambedkar’s Epistemological Revolution
Conclusion
8. The Battle for Scientific Temper in India’s New Social Movements
“Scientific Temper”: Its Nehruvian Supporters…
….And Gandhian Opponents
The Context of the Debate
Impact on New Social Movements
Conclusions
9. The Ecofeminist Critique of the Green Revolution
Three Dogmas of Ecofeminism
Women-nature relationship
Ecofeminism as “standpoint epistemology” of Third World peasant women
Women’s “Experience”
Women's Entitlements and Green Revolution Agriculture
Entitlement to life-- or the case of the “missing women”
Access to Visible Work
Access to land
The Environment, Wage Labor and Women
Conclusion
10. The “Hindu Left,” Agrarian Populism and Hindu Nationalism
Farmers Movements and the Agrarian Myth
Post-development, Ecofeminism and the Farmers’ Movements.
Hindu Nationalism and Farmers’ Movements
Conclusion
11. Conclusion: Prophets Facing Forward
Postmodernism and Hindutva: a Brief Recapitulation
Resuming the Enlightenment Quest
Notes
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