Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Postmodernism in Indian history writing

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), President, Savitri Era Party (2007) and Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006)

[PDF] Locating Indianness in the Works of Anglo-Indian Fiction Writers

S Maji - International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies, 2022
This essay situates Anglo-Indian fiction into the corpus of Indian English Fiction and
discusses the fictional works produced by writers of the Anglo-Indian community in
India and the diaspora. The diasporic writers here considered are in the tradition of …

[PDF] A Study of How the Political System of India is Beneficial or Harmful for Democracy

PK Chaudhary - Integrated Journal for Research in Arts and Humanities, 2023
… Prime Minister Modi as well as the BJP party symbolise the century-old Hindu
nationalist ideology, whose philosophy is Hindutva. Since before freedom,
nationalists have contended that India should be the homeland of South Asia's …

[PDF] From Tattered Past to Triumphant Present: Weaving Partitioned Lives by

TP Mukhopadhyay - DOI https://dx. doi. org/10.21659/rupkatha
Inherited memory reflects the intensity of the impact of incidents, experienced by the
ancestors on the descendants, and in the case of the partition of Bengal, these
memories of memories are about both the violence-induced partition and its …

Relevance of Duty Through the Lens of Gandhi and East–West Jurisprudence

KK Singh, SK Jain - Relevance of Duties in the Contemporary World, 2022
… Footnote 22 The following passage from the writings of Sri Aurobindo demarcates
the distinction between Indian and European perspectives on right and duty, and on
the antithesis of community and the individual: …

The Knowable and the Unknowable Real in Radhakrishnan's and Hick's Thinking

S Sugirtharajah - John Hick's Religious Pluralism in Global Perspective, 2023
This chapter focuses on two eminent thinkers whose perspectives on religious
pluralism have attracted much attention: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975), a
prominent Indian philosopher, statesman and cultural ambassador to the West …

Leadership Wholeness, Volume 1: A Model of Spiritual Intelligence

T Thakadipuram - 2023
This book investigates the lived experience of CEOs in their quest for wholeness
and presents a model of spiritual intelligence for contemporary leadership. The
experience of ethical and spiritual crisis in the post-modern society especially in …

[PDF] Nation Branding, Soft Hindutva, and Ecotraditionalism in Anti

G Pathak - Identities
… The environment thus becomes a domain for the permeation of a seemingly
apolitical strand of Hindutva … the cultural politics of this emerging stream of
Hindutva-linked ‘ecotraditionalism’. … I argue that the environment is an emerging …

[PDF] Modi's India, Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy

M Hafeez - Journal of Security & Strategic Analyses, 2022
Written by renowned author Christophe Jaffrelot and translated by Cynthia Schoch,
the voluminous book with over 600 pages gives a unique insight into the Indian
political system and its journey from conservative democracy (1950s–1960s) to the …

[PDF] Reflections Of Contemporary India In Shashi Tharoor's The Struggle For India's Soul: Nationalism And The Fate Of Democracy: A Critical Study

D Nayal, GA Naik - Journal of Positive School Psychology, 2023
Postcolonial literature is written by authors from formerly colonised countries. It
usually discusses the problems and repercussions of a country's decolonisation, in
particular concerns relating to the social and political freedom of the previously …

[PDF] British Loot And Plunder Of India: A Post-Colonial Study Of Shashi Tharoor's An Era Of Darkness

DGAN Priyanka - Journal of Positive School Psychology, 2023
… Contrary to pro-Hindutva ideologues, Tharoor views Muslims as fellow citizens
rather than as historical foes. Muslims did conquer Indian lands, but they also lived
there, made improvements, and claimed the country as their own. Tharoor is thus …

Conclusion: Re-Conceptualizing and De-Centring Populism in International Relations

T Wojczewski - The Inter-and Transnational Politics of Populism, 2023
… Although not constructing a transnational populist identity of ‘the people’, the
Hindutva discourse of Narendra Modi does derive from Hinduism an internationalist
and universalist, even if chauvinist, aspiration that differs from the anti-universalism …

John Hick's Religious Pluralism: Home and Abroad

S Sugirtharajah - John Hick's Religious Pluralism in Global Perspective, 2023
… Footnote 8 The volume draws attention to some resonances between the pre-Kantian
Hick and Aurobindo (the twentieth-century Indian … But in the late 1970s Hick
distanced ontologically from Aurobindo and moved towards neo-Kantian distinction …

Securing Rights by Following Duties: A Substantial Conceptualization Reinforcing Gandhian Credence

R Sharma, A Jasrotia - Relevance of Duties in the Contemporary World, 2022
… It was reiterated by Aurobindo that the idea of rights and duties in the context of
Indian philosophy and deontology is the remarkable feature of the mind of Indians. It
is usually expected that the sanctions of the meanings pertaining to the religion and …

Jurisprudence of Duty, Fundamental Duties and Gandhian Philosophy

CSP Singh - Relevance of Duties in the Contemporary World, 2022
In the trilogy of fundamental rights, directive principles of state policy and
fundamental duties, the Gandhian emphasis on duties was largely overlooked at the
initial stages and has been accepted as creed of our multi-religious society on the …

[PDF] Cuckoo nationalism: Gandhi in Modi's India

G Menon - 2022
… His lack of empathy for, or even recognition of, the inhumane cost of his policies
was not seen as a failure of leadership, but as an expected response of one who
has fashioned himself as a renouncer in the Hindutva sense of the term – detached[2] …

Songs of Action, Songs of Calm: Rabindranath Tagore and the Aural Fabric of Bengali Life in America

NR Banerjee-Datta - 2022
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is often considered the most important literary
figure in modern Bengali history. He lived through the transformation of Bengali
culture and society from colonial to anticolonial to post-colonial times. Tagore was a …

[PDF] A Comparative Study of Manoj Das's Akasara Isara (Odia) and The Escapist

AK Sahu - The Creative launcher, 2022
ere are very few bilingual writers of repute in the country and Manoj Das distinctly
stands as a prolific writer who has carved a niche for himself in this arena. In fact, he
is one of the greatest writers of the country, who has given a new direction to the …

Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia

N Nair - 2023
An insightful history of censorship, hate speech, and majoritarianism in post-partition
South Asia. At the time of the India-Pakistan partition in 1947, it was widely expected
that India would be secular, home to members of different religious traditions and …

[PDF] Dramaturgy: Exploring the Elements of Shakespearean Tragedy with the Perspectives of R. Srinivasa Iyengar

HN Chaubey - The Creative launcher, 2022
… But two names were very close to heart: William Shakespeare and Sri Aurobindo.
His first encounter with Shakespeare was through reading Charles and Mary Lamb’s
Tales from Shakespeare in 1922. e impact of this first encounter with Shakespeare …

[PDF] Postmodernism and Its Influences on Indian History Writings

AV Kaur - International journal of economic perspectives, 2022
Postmodernism can be seen as the reaction against modernity. That's why it is
named as anti-modernity. But in terms of binary equation it is not simply anti modern.
Its development has been done through a long process of critical engagement …

[PDF] The Images That Represent Gandhi a Mahatma It's Background & an Encapsulate Overview from 1919 to 1948

RR Ghosal
… Soul was an integral and active part of human life according to Gandhi and not
just an abstract thing which is remembered when the body dies and soul departs or
addressed to in religious texts. Never underestimated Gandhijis though on the role …

[PDF] Vasudhaiva Kutumbhakam: A Holistic Understanding Of The Universal Spirit Of Oneness In Rural India

U Khandal, R Gaur, L Raghuvanshi, R Hassan - European Journal of Molecular & Clinical …
Sanskrit, the language of the Gods, is the origin of many modern Indian languages
and concepts. One such Sanskrit idea is' VasudhaivaKutumbakam,'which mean s
the world is one. Thus,'VasudhaivaKutumbakam'counts the entire universe as a …

[PDF] Contemporary Scenes and The Emergence of Sarojini Naidu

S Misra - Creative Saplings, 2022
Like Rabindra Nath Tagore and Shri Aurobindo Sarojini Naidu too was more than a
poet. She was one of mother India’s most gifted children, readily sharing her burden
of pain, fiercely articulating her agonies and hopes. The present paper “The …

Swa: Struggle for National Selfhood Past, Present and Future

J Nandakumar - 2022
The Nation that has no consciousness of the past cannot give shape to a great and
glorious future. Reclaiming our past and recapturing the Dharmic vision is important
for the furtherance of our future, to help us emerge as a confident nation capable of …

[HTML] Mysticism in Modern Poetry

D Chatterjee
… Aurobindo, a strong believer in this kind of development of spiritual life or Divine
life, thought the inspiration of Celtic Revival along with the spread of Indian mystical
thought were the basic sources of this new hope in the world. Sri Aurobindo …

Book review: Rajagopal Chattopadhyaya,'Paper Lioness': Margaret Noble

S Sarkar - 2022
… Her sympathies for the Bengal revolutionaries, especially her role in the escape
of the revolutionary Guru Aurobindo Ghosh from British Calcutta to the French
Pondicherry, on his way to the life divine, are all much too known, when she ignored …

Religions as Yogas: How Reflection on Swami Vivekananda's Theology of Religions Can Clarify the Threefold Model of Exclusivism, Inclusivism, and Pluralism

JD Long - International Journal of Hindu Studies, 2022
This article has two purposes. First, it aims to reformulate the threefold model of
exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism that has become standard in the theology of
religions. It will then give an analysis of Swami Vivekananda’s theology of religions …

'Greater India'and the Indian Expansionist Imagination, C. 1885-1965: The Rise and Decline of the Idea of a Lost Hindu Empire

J ZabarskaitÄ— - 2022
This book is the first systematic study of the genealogy, discursive structures, and
political implications of the concept of'Greater India', implying a Hindu colonization of
Southeast Asia, and used by extension to argue for a past Indian greatness as a …

[PDF] A Response to Sovereignty and the Sacred in Three Parts

B Collins - Religious Studies Review
I am glad to have the opportunity to respond to Robert Yelle’s noteworthy new book
Sovereignty and the Sacred, especially since I have thought a lot recently about the
subject matter, having published in 2020 a book about the mythology of the Hindu …

[PDF] TOWARDS AN ECUMENIAL OR A CATASTROPHIC CITY? A DESIGN, ECUMENE AND HUMANITARIAN DISCUSSION

PC SEIXAS, N LOBNER
This paper is an attempt to explore the interplay of humanity and science to respond
to novel globalization processes in the face of the 21st century. The human situation
is presented through two schisms: the human-nature and the socio-cultural …

Locusts vs. the gigantic octopus: the Hindutva international and “Akhand Bharat” in VD Savarkar's history of India

A Mishra - India Review, 2022
… Illustratively, Aurobindo’s understanding on violence overlaps with Savarkar’s in
the context of militant anticolonial activism. And it has been conjectured that
Aurobindo’s writings may have influenced Golwalkar’s thought. At the same time …

Embracing and Learning from Utopian Thought

K Blincoe - Achieving Sustainability: The Ultimate Human …, 2022
This chapter examines alternatives to the current growth Growth model Models and
delves into utopian thought and constructs. It offers a look into history, from Plato’s
the ‘just’ man and the ‘just’ society to the present time’s small intentional community …

Saffron Republic

A ur Rehman - Defence Journal, 2022
… s version of Hindutva and its effort to make India a Hindu-only nation. Thus, this
book echoes the dominance of Modi’s version of Hindutva in … It could also be
considered suitable reading for academicians interested in studying the nature and …

[HTML] Posts in category

M Wolf
… During Modi’s first and second tenure as Prime Minister, the Hindutva ideology—and
Modi’s populism—engulfed not only the politics, but also … In so doing, we show
how Hindutva nationalism has drawn on the ideas of culture, nostalgia, aspiration …

Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Diets

K Kevany, P Prosperi - 2022
… Bindu Mohanty is a writer and sustainability consultant based in Auroville, an
alternative community and international town in South India. She has worked in the
fields of rural development, waste management, sustainable agriculture, policy …

(Re) imagining the idea of India: Contestations about Hindutva among the Indian American diaspora

B Biswas - Nations and Nationalism
… -Hindutva diaspora actors identify and leverage political opportunities in order to
engage in moral signalling in local, national and global spaces. By shining a light on
ongoing counternarratives to Hindutva, … By shining a light on ongoing …

Human and Integral Education: Educational paradigms from the Indian context expanding meanings of peace and conflict

K Kumar - Journal of Peace Education, 2022
… With curriculum being flexible, open-ended, and centered on group projects,
there is a focus on cultivating peace through integral education that aims at students’
holistic development. As noted in the curriculum documents, integral education …

Fundamentals of Well-Being: Four Qualities You Can't Live Without

P Gailey - 2022
… In his Synthesis of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo writes about humans developing toward a
state of perfection characterized by an experience of wholeness. More specifically,
he discusses three bodies: the gross body (food sheath and vital vehicle), the subtle …

[HTML] Saha on Guha's The Curious Trajectory of Caste in West Bengal Politics

A Guha
… He compares the TMC’s sporadic attempts to mobilize the community with the BJP’s
sustained and more consistent mobilization strategy based on the blueprint of
Hindutva politics. Guha argues that the Matua movement’s Hinduization over the …

CHAPTER EIGHT RETELLING THE 'SIGNS'OF HOLY MILITIA: SUJOY GHOSH'S KAHAANI TAKBEER SALATI

S GHOSH'S - Thematizations of the Goddess in South Asian Cinema, 2022
… The Hindutva politics has cannily absorbed women into its fold, often involving
them in violent activities against religious minorities. The … of Hindutva. They often
utilize the iconography of Durga to justify their status as a holy militia. However, the …

[PDF] Image and Perception of RSS in the Context of Cultivating National Men and Hinduism: An Empirical Study of People's Perception

H Pallathadka - Integrated Journal for Research in Arts and Humanities, 2022
It is in some cases said that officers battle the last conflict. Likewise, political
investigators will generally observe the latest worldwide scourge in each cultural
sickness they experience. During the 1940s and 1950s, numerous libertarian …