- 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
Lajpat Rai, “Reform or Revival?” (1904)
Lajpat Rai, “Reform or Revival?” (1904)
- Chapter:
- (p.75) 5 Lajpat Rai, “Reform or Revival?” (1904)
- Source:
- Indian Philosophy in English
- Author(s):
Nalini Bhushan
Jay L. Garfield
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter presents an excerpt from Lajpat Rai's 1904 essay, “Reform or Revival?,” in which he asks whether India's emergence into modernity requires a reform of Indian culture or a revival of its classical form. Rai was a major figure in the struggle for independence. Born in the Punjab, he was a leader of the Arya Samaj, a founder of the Young India movement and active in the Indian National Congress. His book Young India (1917) was (and still is) banned in the UK as seditious. Most of his writing is explicitly political, but nonetheless philosophical, providing astute analyses in Young India of the varieties of nationalism. Rai died as a result of injuries sustained protesting the appointment of the Simon Commission on Indian governance. In his essay, Rai likens the quarrel over “reform or revival” between the reformers to the wordy polemics between the Pandits. He analyzes the respective programs of reformers and the revivalists, arguing that the social reform program begins with the question of early marriage. He also considers the great evil of the present divisions and sub-divisions of caste.
Keywords: caste, Lajpat Rai, India, modernity, reform, culture, revival, nationalism, Pandits, marriage
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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
