Political thought in action : the Bhagavad Gita and modern India / edited by Shruti Kapila, Faisal Devji.
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TextPublication details: New Delhi Cambridge University Press, 2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 205 24 cmISBN: - 9781107033955
- 294.5/924046 Sh87 P 101984
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This volume brings together a group of intellectual and social historians to discuss the way in which modern interpretations of the Gita have focused on war and violence rather than peace and stability as a site for thinking about politics. The essays gathered here look at the Gita as a philosophical and ethical text both within South Asia and also on its ‘outward journey’ into western political debate. Though part of an ancient epic tradition the Gita did not achieve its current eminence until very recently. Its resurgence and reinterpretation in short is coterminous with the formation of modern life and politics. But if modern commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita cannot be described simply as participating in some ancient and continuing tradition neither should they be seen merely as the epiphenomena of an abstraction like capitalism that supposedly constitutes the true reality of Indian society.
This set of essays seeks to intervene in current debates within political thought and intellectual history and to offer new perspectives on both. They do so with the presumption that the place of India and its political thought is instructive for and foundational in the making of the national and post-national global order.
The book would be of interest to academic researchers as well as general readers interested in South Asian History Indian philosophy and religion.
List of contributors ;Introduction ;Chapter 1: India the Bhagavad Gita and theWorld ;Chapter 2: The Transnational Gita ;Chapter 3: The Transfiguration of Duty in Aurobindo’s Essays on the Gita ;Chapter 4: Gandhi’s Gita and Politics as Such ;Chapter 5: Gandhi on Democracy Politics and the Ethics of Everyday Life ;Chapter 6: Morality in the Shadow of Politics ;Chapter 7: Ambedkar’s Inheritances ;Chapter 8: Rethinking Knowledge with Action: V. D. Savarkar the Bhagavad Gita and Histories of Warfare ;Chapter 9: A History of Violence ;Index
"Reflects on the significance of the Bhagavad Gita for political and ethical thinking in modern India and beyond and contributes new perspectives to historical, contemporary and global political ideas"--
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