Evolving a form of unique cultural politics and aesthetics, key writers and thinkers engendered global proximities in Indian neighbourhoods. From the colonial times to the present, the trajectory of alternative globalization and modernity shows how Indian ideas, texts, and cultural expressions interacted with a wider world, vectored by the creative insights of figures like Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo, Kosambi, Narayan, Ezekiel, Spivak and others.
Evolving a form of unique cultural politics and aesthetics, key writers and thinkers engendered global proximities in Indian neighbourhoods. From the colonial times to the present, the trajectory of alternative globalization and modernity shows how Indian ideas, texts, and cultural expressions interacted with a wider world, vectored by the creative insights of figures like Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo, Kosambi, Narayan, Ezekiel, Spivak and others.
Makarand R. Paranjape is Professor of English at the Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was the inaugural Eric Auerbach Visiting Chair in Global Literary Studies at the University of Tubingen, Germany, and served as the first ICCR Chair in Indian Studies at the National University of Singapore. His latest works includes The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi (2014) and Swami Vivekananda: A Contemporary Reader (2015).
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Preface. Introduction Part I 1. The Future of the Past, the Past of the Future 2. Regaining the Indian Eye/I: The Rasas of the Past 3. The Third Eye and Two Ways of (Un)knowing 4. Aesthetics and Ideology: The State of the Art Part II 5. Tagore's Viswa-Sahitya: Re-wor(l)ding the House of World Literature 6. 'Natural Supernaturalism?' The Tagore-Gandhi Debate on the Bihar Earthquake 7. Contrasting Peace Perspectives: Kant and Gandhi: A Trans-Civilizational Inquiry 8. Hind Swaraj in Our Times Part III 9. Transparency, Globalization, Integrality: Jean Gebser's Several Wo(r)lds 10. The Reluctant Guru: R. K. Narayan and The Guide 11. A Poetry of Proportions: Nissim Ezeliel's Quest for the Exact Name 12. Ramchandra Gandhi's 'Truths': Non-Dual Mediations and Meditations. Index
Preface. Introduction Part I 1. The Future of the Past, the Past of the Future 2. Regaining the Indian Eye/I: The Rasas of the Past 3. The Third Eye and Two Ways of (Un)knowing 4. Aesthetics and Ideology: The State of the Art Part II 5. Tagore's Viswa-Sahitya: Re-wor(l)ding the House of World Literature 6. 'Natural Supernaturalism?' The Tagore-Gandhi Debate on the Bihar Earthquake 7. Contrasting Peace Perspectives: Kant and Gandhi: A Trans-Civilizational Inquiry 8. Hind Swaraj in Our Times Part III 9. Transparency, Globalization, Integrality: Jean Gebser's Several Wo(r)lds 10. The Reluctant Guru: R. K. Narayan and The Guide 11. A Poetry of Proportions: Nissim Ezeliel's Quest for the Exact Name 12. Ramchandra Gandhi's 'Truths': Non-Dual Mediations and Meditations. Index
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