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The book, the third volume to emerge from the enterprise known as 'The Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics', attempts to further the collective's ambition to put into question the certitudes of conventional social science discourse, decolonize the dominant knowledge frameworks, and understand how the intellectual and cultural resources of Indian civilization may be deployed to think both, about some problems in contemporary politics and culture, and to introduce greater plurality into the world of modern knowledge systems. Some of the collective's members remain deeply committed to reinitiating metaphysics into politics, and similarly, the collective's enduring interest in Narayana Guru is reflected in at least three chapters. Although engagement with Gandhi and Ambedkar is a familiar part of the Indian intellectual landscape, other chapters on offer pivot around histories of power, performative traditions, and modes of worship. Unlike the scholarship that is now the norm, organized around a distinct theme, this volume exhibits a more daring approach to India's intellectual traditions, traversing the world of Kannada intellectuals, the Kashmir Shaiva tradition, a Marathi Bhakti poet, and a contemporary Indian philosopher, as much as conceptual ideas drawn from a wide array of Indian texts and experiences.
Contents
1: The Social Representation of Power in India: A History in Fragments
2: Love in Future Tense
3: Cities of the Mind: Lost Cities and Their Inhabitants
4: The Uncommon through the Common: Of the Ramayana Performative Traditions
5: The Kannada Intellectual Tradition: Transcending Dichotomies and Binaries
6: Social and Political Role-play through the Theology of the Hindu Icon: An Exercise in Versatility
7: What 'Bahena' Saw
8: The Saddle of Experience: Adhyatma, Duality and Practical Knowledge
9: Interpreting Catastrophes: God, Karma, and Martyrdom
10: Backwater Infinitude: Pastness, Proprietariness, and the Symbolic Economy of Rupture
11: Othering the Same: Narayana Guru's Engaged Advaita
12: Beyond Binaries: Sreenarayana and the Political
13: Ambedkar, Tarde, and 'Castes in India': Six Remarks
14: Nature and Evil: Gandhi and Ambedkar on Caste and Untouchability
