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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Economic Ethics
This innovative collection of essays draws together and compares the teachings of world and regional religions on the subject of economic morality.
Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste
This book examines the interface between Buddhism and the caste system in India. It discusses how Buddhism in different stages, from its early period to contemporary forms—Theravāda, Mahāyāna, Tantrayāna and Navayāna—dealt with the question of caste. It also traces the intersections between the problem of caste with those of class and gender. The volume reflects on the interaction between Hinduism and Buddhism: it looks at critiques of caste in the classical Buddhist tradition while simultaneously drawing attention to the radical challenge posed by Dr B. R. Ambedkar’s Navayāna Buddhism or neo-Buddhism. The essays in the book further compare approaches to varṇa and caste develop...
Tools of Justice
In the years since independence, the Indian subcontinent has witnessed an alarming rise in violence against marginalized communities, with an increasing number of groups pushed to the margins of the democratic order. Against this background of violence, injustice and the abuse of rights, this book explores the critical, ‘insurgent’ possibilities of constitutionalism as a means of revitalising the concepts of non-discrimination and liberty, and of reimagining democratic citizenship. The book argues that the breaking down of discrimination in constitutional interpretation and the narrowing of the field of liberty in law deepen discriminatory ideologies and practices. Instead, it offers an ...
The New BJP
This book examines how the BJP became the world’s largest political party. It goes beyond the usual narrative of the party’s Hindutva politics to explain how, under Narendra Modi, the party reshaped the Indian polity using its own brand of social engineering. According to the findings of this book, this reconstruction was cleverly powered by new caste coalitions, the claim of a new welfare state that focused on marginalised social groups and the making of a women-voter base. Based on data from three unique indices—the Mehta–Singh Social Index, which studies the caste composition of Indian political parties; the Narad Index, which calculates communication patterns across topics and au...
Contested Representation
Popular Hindi cinema has become a significant signpost of contemporaneity due to its construction of social language. Generally, Hindi cinema has been understood through internal (auteur or genre or cinéma verité) and external aspects (consumption spheres and moviegoers’ complex response in the form of catharsis or everydayness mimesis). However, cinema also needs a new way of discerning with respect to ‘Dalit Representation’. The study needs to look at the construction and meaning of the social language of Hindi cinema. Construction refers to exploring factors beyond the film industry responsible for shaping the social language. Meaning entails the exhibition of social language in the form of messages. Herein, relational exploration becomes crucial. The relationship between factors of social language of Hindi cinema and Dalits must be unraveled for understanding the meaning of social language for Dalits. Contested representation encompasses the nature of absence and presence of Dalits in Hindi cinema.
New Dimensions and Perspectives in Gandhism
The papers presented in this volume is an important collection writen by various experts and sheds light on different dimensions of Ganhian thought. The book is divided into seven parts. The first part contains seven articles on Ganhi's idea on theory of politics. The second part contains four articles on Gandhi's ideas on religion and metaphysics. The third part contains three articles on Ganhi's economic ideas. The fourth part contains three articles on comparative analysis of Ganhi with Marx, Thoreau and other thinkers. The fifth part contains five articles which provide insight into GAnhi's ideas on nationalism and internatioanlism. Part six contains four articles which explain Ganhi's ideas on women, law, Harijans and vegetarianism. Part seven contains six articles viz. Ganhi's way; the Inner voice and Ganhi-coming back from West to East are highly illuminating.
Integral Liberation
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Protection of Human Rights, a Critique
Contributed articles; with reference to India.
Social Action
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