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100	1		_aGopal Guru
245	1	4	_aThe Cracked Mirror : _ban Indian debate on experience and theory / _cGopal Guru, Sundar Sarukkai.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew Delhi _bOxford University Press _c2017
300			_a248 _c23 cm.
500			_aWestern constructs giving precedence to ideas over experience have, for long, dominated theorization in Indian social sciences. Problematizing their tenuous relationship, this book presents a passionate plea to create new frameworks for describing contemporary Indian social experiences. Using a dialogic form and placing the reality of untouchability and Dalit life at the centre of analyses, Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai examine the ontological and epistemological nature of experience, thereby exhibiting the politics of experience. By illustrating ways of using alternative frameworks for theorizing, The Cracked Mirror argues for a more careful understanding of the ethics of representation
505	0		_aEgalitarianism and the Social Sciences in India / Gopal Guru -- Experience and Theory: From Habermas to Gopal Guru / Sundar Sarukkai -- Understanding Experience / Sundar Sarukkai -- Experience, Space and Justice / Gopal Guru -- Experience and the Ethics of Theory / Gopal Guru -- Ethics of Theorizing / Sundar Sarukkai -- Phenomenology of Untouchability / Sundar Sarukkai -- Archaeology of Untouchability / Gopal Guru.
520			_a"This volume explores the relationship between experience and theory in Indian social sciences in the form of a dialogue. It focuses on questions of Dalit experience and untouchability. While Gopal Guru argues that only those who have lived lives as subalterns can represent them accurately, Sundar Sarukkai feels that people located outside the community can also represent them. Thematically divided into five sections, the first discusses the problems associated with theory in the social sciences in the Indian context. The next makes inquiries into the nature of personal and collective experience. The third explores the larger connection between ethics and theory in India, both in the natural and social sciences. The fourth examines the ontological and epistemological nature of experience itself and the politics of experience, and the last focuses on the experience and theory of experience in India. The authors invoke the image of a cracked mirror to suggest a more complex and distorted relation between experience and theory."--Publisher's website.
650		0	_aEquality
650		0	_aSocial ethics
650		0	_aDalits
700	1		_aSarukkai, Sundar.
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