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Lighting Asia, the Colonial Way

Vol. 56, Issue No. 49, 04 Dec, 2021
Sundar Sarukkai

The Light of Asia: The Poem that Defined the Buddha by Jairam Ramesh, Gurugram: Penguin Random House, 2021; pp 457, ₹799 (hardback).

 

 

Ambedkar in 2021, Episode 2: What Methods Did Ambedkar Use to Create Transformative Change?

In this episode, we speak to V Geetha about Ambedkar and Periyar's thought, as well as Ambedkar's views on Savarnas, fraternity, and the state.

Ambedkar’s Dhamma or Buddha and Plato minus Dialectics

Vol. 56, Issue No. 2, 09 Jan, 2021
Viplov Dhone (Wingkar)

The dialectical process or dialectical method plays a crucial role in the philosophy of change or the philosophy of processes. It determines the subject and the activity of the subject which is crucial in transforming material conditions. The process of dialectics not only determines the subject; rather, in its due course, it eliminates the mediating agencies and creates new conditions. Ambedkar’s reinterpretation of classical Buddhism is influenced by Buddha as well as Plato, but this reinterpretation eliminates the Buddhist dialectics and Platonic dialectics from its framework. Due to the elimination of Buddhist and Platonic dialectics, Ambedkar adopts the theory of imitation from Plato and constructs a new source of institutional power, that is, sangha.

The Long Sweep of India–China History

Vol. 55, Issue No. 15, 11 Apr, 2020
Nirmola Sharma

India, China and the World: A Connected History by Tansen Sen, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018; pp 560, ₹995.

Emerging New Social Status among Dalits in Bihar

Vol. 53, Issue No. 11, 17 Mar, 2018
Jitendra Ram

The social status of Dalits in Bihar is undergoing change. A study based in a village and a town in East Champaran district of north Bihar reveals that Dalits are developing social consciousness, adopting Sanskritisation, and accessing constitutional provisions, and socio-religious movements, to change both their caste and class status.

Rohingya Crisis: Focus on 'Intolerant Religion' Disregards Complex Moral and Policy Challenges

Vol. 52, Issue No. 38, 23 Sep, 2017
Identifying religious difference, and discrimination as the main culprit in the Rohingya crisis masks the economic and political interests that are profiting from their subordination and repression. It deflects attention away from state-sponsored violence, political and economic ambitions of the governing elite, and the anti-immigrant and xenophobic basis of the discrimination.

Continuities between Ancient and Contemporary India

Vol. 52, Issue No. 12, 25 Mar, 2017
Arshia Sattar

The Idea of Ancient India: Essays on Religion, Politics and Archaeology by Upinder Singh, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2016; pp 439 (hardback), ₹1,250.

The Work of Theory

Vol. 51, Issue No. 37, 10 Sep, 2016
Prathama Banerjee, Aditya Nigam, Rakesh Pandey

Tackling the question of how to recalibrate the relationship between history and theory in our favour without falling into the trap of either an unqualified universalism or a naïve historicism, this article proposes that we move from the position of being a critic of Western theory to that of being a composer and assembler of a new theory from different sources and different histories.

Poems of the First Buddhist Women

Vol. 51, Issue No. 35, 27 Aug, 2016
Kumkum Roy

Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women, translated by Charles Hallisey; Cambridge, Massachusetts, London: Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press, 2015; pp xli + 293; ₹295.

The Time of the Dalit Conversion

Vol. 41, Issue No. 18, 06 May, 2006
Gyanendra Pandey

More than a reference to the mass conversion of dalits to Buddhism in 1956 and to other religions in subsequent years, "dalit conversion", in this article, also denotes their conversion to full citizenship that followed with the abolition of untouchability, institution of universal adult franchise, extension of legal and political rights to all sections of the population, with special safeguards for disadvantaged groups. It could also denote a conversion to the "modern" - signified by a certain sensibility, particular kinds of dress and comportment and particular rules of social and political engagement. The time of the dalit conversion is also then the time of Indian democracy â?? a time of definition, anticipation and struggle, as seen in the call to educate, organise and agitate.

Why Is Religious Conversion Controversial in India?

Vol. 38, Issue No. 16, 19 Apr, 2003
M V Nadkarni

In Search of Identity – Debates on Religious Conversion in India by Sebastian C H Kim; Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2003; pp xi+250, Rs 525 (HB).

Buddha Jayanti

Vol. 5, Issue No. 22, 30 May, 1953

On the anniversary of the day that Gautama attained enlightenment and became the Buddha under the Bodhi tree near Gaya, the famous temple that was built near that Bodhi tree was ceremoniously handed over to a Committee.

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