This volume explores the interconnections between culture,
ideology and hegemony in an effort to understand and explain how
Indians came to terms with colonial subjection and envisioned a
future for the society in which they lived. The process of
exploring the indigenous epistemological tradition and assessing it
in the context of advances made by the west was not unilinear and
undifferentiated; it was driven with contradictions, contentions
and ruptures. Locating intellectual history at the intersection of
social and cultural history, the eight essays in this book cover a
wide range of issues, moving from an overview of religious and
social ideas in colonial India to empirical studies of themes such
as indigenous medicine, the family and literary fiction.
Professor Panikkar contests both the imperialist and nationalist
paradigms of intellectual history. Meticulously researched and
lucidly argued, his analysis is illuminated by a rare sensitivity
to the nature of class formation and class values, as well as to
the material conditions of human existence.
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