Critical Humanities from India: Contexts, Issues, Futures

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: crossing (the) legacies -- 1 Education and structures of moral formation: the limits of liberal education in India -- 2 In-discipline(s): diversity, disciplinarity and the humanities -- 3 Sites of learning and intellectual parasitism: the case for new humanities -- 4 Why communalism is an Indian problem: the relationship between communalism and Hinduism in colonial discourse -- 5 Sacerdotal violence and the caste system: the long shadow of Christian-Orientalism -- 6 Caste as an impediment in the journey of a Bhakta: Lingayat Vachanas, jati and aadhyatma -- 7 River literacy and the challenge of a rain terrain -- 8 Accents of memory: critical humanities and the question of inheritance -- 9 Indian culture and its social security system -- 10 The politics of knowledge, here and now: a conversation with Ashis Nandy -- Glossary -- Index

• | Author: D. Venkat Rao
• | Publisher: Routledge India
• | Publication Date: Mar 13, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 302 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138743046
• | ISBN-13: 9781138743045