- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustration
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Pandits and Professors
- 2 Rabindranath Tagore, “Nationalism in India” (1917)
- 3 Aurobindo Ghosh, “The Renaissance in India” (1918)
- 4 A. K. Coomaraswamy, “Indian Nationality” (1909)
- 5 Lajpat Rai, “Reform or Revival?” (1904)
- 6 Bhagavan Das, “The Meaning of Swaraj or Self-Government” (1921)
- 7 K. C. Bhattacharyya, “Svaraj in Ideas” (1928)
- 1 A. K. Coomaraswamy, “Art and Swadeshi” (1910)
- 2 Aurobindo Ghosh, “The Future Poetry” (1917–1918)
- 3 Rabindranath Tagore, “Pathway to Mukti” (1925)
- 4 B. K. Sarkar, “Viewpoints in Aesthetics” (1922)
- 5 K. C. Bhattacharyya, “The Concept of Rasa” (1930)
- 6 M. Hiriyanna, “Indian Aesthetics 2,” “Art Experience 2” (1951)
- 7 Art Experience 2
- 8 An Indian in Paris
- 1 R. D. Ranade, “The Problem of Ultimate Reality in the Upanishads” (1926)
- 2 Vivekananda, Jñāna Yoga (1915)
- 3 A. C. Mukerji, “Absolute Consciousness” (1938)
- 4 Ras Bihari Das, “The Falsity of the World” (1940)
- 5 S. S. Suryanarayana Sastri, “Advaita, Causality and Human Freedom” (1940)
- 6 A. C. Mukerji, “Śaṅkara’s Theory of Consciousness” (1937)
- 7 V. S. Iyer, Śaṅkara’s Philosophy (1955)
- 8 P. T. Raju, “Scepticism and Its Place in Śaṅkara’s Philosophy” (1937)
- 9 Bringing Brahman Down to Earth
- 1 The Plato of Allahabad
- 2 A. C. Mukerji, “The Realist’s Conception of Idealism” (1927)
- 3 Hiralal Haldar, “Realistic Idealism” (1930)
- 4 K. C. Bhattacharyya, “The Concept of Philosophy” (1936)
- 5 M. Hiriyanna, “The Problem of Truth” (1930)
- 6 G. R. Malkani, “Philosophical Truth” (1949)
- 7 A. C. Mukerji, “Traditional Epistemology” (1950)
- 1 Symposium
- A Bibliography of Significant Work in Indian Philosophy from the Colonial Period and the Immediate Postindependence Period
- Index
Pandits and Professors
Pandits and Professors
The Renaissance of Secular India*
- Chapter:
- (p.3) 1 Pandits and Professors
- Source:
- Indian Philosophy in English
- Author(s):
Nalini Bhushan
Jay L. Garfield
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines the contribution of Indian philosophy to the so-called “gift of the secular” in India under the British Raj. More specifically, it looks at a set of strategies adopted by Indian intellectuals in a range of disciplines—including the social sciences, visual arts, poetics, philosophy, politics, and religion—that gave rise to a rich and enduring form of secular modernity in India. The chapter first considers the context within which philosophy was pursued during the colonial period before turning to a discussion of methodological pluralism and pluralistic secularism that characterized Indian philosophy under British rule. It then explores Rabindranath Tagore's poetics, along with Indian visual arts and art criticism. After highlighting the diverse strands of the progressive secularization of classical Indian culture in the context of Indian engagement with modernity during the colonial period, the chapter explains how professional Indian philosophers brought the philosophical ideas that emerge from ancient Indian religious traditions into a secular space in the university.
Keywords: intellectuals, Indian philosophy, gift of the secular, India, British Raj, modernity, secularism, Rabindranath Tagore, poetics, visual arts
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustration
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Pandits and Professors
- 2 Rabindranath Tagore, “Nationalism in India” (1917)
- 3 Aurobindo Ghosh, “The Renaissance in India” (1918)
- 4 A. K. Coomaraswamy, “Indian Nationality” (1909)
- 5 Lajpat Rai, “Reform or Revival?” (1904)
- 6 Bhagavan Das, “The Meaning of Swaraj or Self-Government” (1921)
- 7 K. C. Bhattacharyya, “Svaraj in Ideas” (1928)
- 1 A. K. Coomaraswamy, “Art and Swadeshi” (1910)
- 2 Aurobindo Ghosh, “The Future Poetry” (1917–1918)
- 3 Rabindranath Tagore, “Pathway to Mukti” (1925)
- 4 B. K. Sarkar, “Viewpoints in Aesthetics” (1922)
- 5 K. C. Bhattacharyya, “The Concept of Rasa” (1930)
- 6 M. Hiriyanna, “Indian Aesthetics 2,” “Art Experience 2” (1951)
- 7 Art Experience 2
- 8 An Indian in Paris
- 1 R. D. Ranade, “The Problem of Ultimate Reality in the Upanishads” (1926)
- 2 Vivekananda, Jñāna Yoga (1915)
- 3 A. C. Mukerji, “Absolute Consciousness” (1938)
- 4 Ras Bihari Das, “The Falsity of the World” (1940)
- 5 S. S. Suryanarayana Sastri, “Advaita, Causality and Human Freedom” (1940)
- 6 A. C. Mukerji, “Śaṅkara’s Theory of Consciousness” (1937)
- 7 V. S. Iyer, Śaṅkara’s Philosophy (1955)
- 8 P. T. Raju, “Scepticism and Its Place in Śaṅkara’s Philosophy” (1937)
- 9 Bringing Brahman Down to Earth
- 1 The Plato of Allahabad
- 2 A. C. Mukerji, “The Realist’s Conception of Idealism” (1927)
- 3 Hiralal Haldar, “Realistic Idealism” (1930)
- 4 K. C. Bhattacharyya, “The Concept of Philosophy” (1936)
- 5 M. Hiriyanna, “The Problem of Truth” (1930)
- 6 G. R. Malkani, “Philosophical Truth” (1949)
- 7 A. C. Mukerji, “Traditional Epistemology” (1950)
- 1 Symposium
- A Bibliography of Significant Work in Indian Philosophy from the Colonial Period and the Immediate Postindependence Period
- Index
