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Indianizing India: Thinkers Whose Ideas Shaped a Nation
B Chakrabarty
This book presents a comprehensive portrait of how Indians conceived of the idea of India. It highlights the diverse traditions and intellectual threads that contributed to the making of vibrant a democracy. The book: Examines the different ideas of India …
[HTML] Virulent Hindutva, Vigilante State: Situating Backlash and its Implications for Women's Rights in India
S Chigateri, S Kundu - IDS Bulletin, 2024
India is facing a period of seismic backlash against feminist and progressive politics and the pace of change, particularly over the last ten years, has been breakneck with serious consequences for women’s equality and human rights. Drawing on an …
[HTML] Disrupting Anxious Masculinity: Fraternity as Resistance
A Das, J Dasgupta, M Mukhopadhyay, S Contractor… - IDS Bulletin, 2024
… The two case studies discussed in this article reveal how at the micro level ontological security is being constructed by Hindutva agents through, on the one hand, fantasies of Hindu unity and Muslim otherness, and on the other, the …
Challenges in the Pursuit of an Indigenous Psychology: A Self-Reflection
A Paranjpe - Review of General Psychology, 2024
… A conference was organized for psychologists interested in indigenous Indian psychologies at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry in 2002. During this conference, about 160 psychologists unanimously adopted the “Pondicherry …
Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The …
MS Swathi, K Enathur - The Influence of Literature in The Modern World
… This paper analyses Sri Aurobindo's one of the sonnets Transformation which stresses the essential goal of human life. Indian wisdom for ages long has been emphasizing only this transformation. Even … Sri Aurobindo's sonnet …
[PDF] Toru Dutt's Savitri: A Great Poetic Work
AN Prasad, SK Thakur - The Quintessential, 2023
… It is interesting to note that Sri Aurobindo has also written a great epic Savitri. The Savitri of Sri Aurobindo is a bit different from that of Toru Dutt in the presentation of Vedantic … We know that Sri Aurobindo was a Yogi par excellence. …
[PDF] The Mythical View of Rebirth in Arab and American Poetry
AAB Ibrahim, LIS Al-barzenji
… Another opinion by the twentieth-century Hindu philosopher and poet Sri Aurobindo who shows the significance of "rebirth" in the light of its function in the profound advancement of humankind, shows how this concept is so connected to …
Between Market and Domestication: The Quest for the Recognition of Yoga as Religion
L Bawidamann, R Walthert - Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 14 …, 2024
Yoga practices range from religious rituals to secular well-being techniques. However, during the Covid-19-pandemic, the Swiss government restricted recreational group activities, including yoga, while exempting religious practices …
[HTML] “The Yoga of 'You Go'”: Meher Baba's “Ascendant Path” to Nonduality
PM Beldio - Journal of Dharma Studies, 2024
… He seems to have used the word “Vedānta” in a broad way in God Speaks, his main sacred text, which is comparable to Sri Aurobindo’s use in The Life Divine and other works, who built upon Sri Rāmakṛṣṇa and Svāmī Vivekānanda’s Vedāntic …
[PDF] Ṛgvaidika knowledge on herbs-special reference with Oṣadhi Sūkta
NS Sruthy - 2024
This paper indented to recollecting the excellence of Vedas and the ability of Vedic age. They show in each and every sections related to living beings and nonliving things. The medical field was developed very much in that age. In this paper discuss …
Challenges in the Pursuit of an Indigenous Psychology: A Self-Reflection
A Paranjpe - Review of General Psychology, 2024
… expressed extreme dejection about research on Yoga; he was advised against studying … indicating that the religious association of Yoga would be dangerous. An autobiographical … Yoga is worth narrating since it reflects the attitudes of my …
[PDF] Exploring Different Facets of Integral Humanism of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
P Deb - AMBEDKAR COLLEGE
… Integral humanism as a doctrine developed by Deendayal Upadhyaya and it … of Integral Humanism has various dimensions such as social, political, and economic which emphasize every aspect of human life. This paper is an attempt to have a …
[PDF] PV Laxmiprasad's Sarvepalli Radhakrishna's The Hindu View of Life
DV Lakshmi - Creative Saplings, 2024
… training known as yoga for purification and refinity. Yoga is of four types such as Karma yoga (discipline of right actions), Bhakti yoga (path … His intuition is consolidated by Laxmiprasad in three ways such as integral, experience and result …
India's History, India's Raj, written by Robert Eric Frykenberg
C Mallampalli - International Journal of Asian Christianity, 2024
This volume compiles the most significant articles of Robert Eric Frykenberg, a historian of South India whose seminal work, Guntur District (1965), fundamentally altered the historiography of India. Prior to this, historians were divided between …
Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood
M Kapur - 2024
… the Hindu Right in rediscovering Lajpat Rai as an ideological ancestor of Hindutva. But what then explains Rai’s wholehearted approval of … politics: Are all expressions of ‘Hindu nationalism’the same as Hindutva? What are the similarities …
[PDF] GENDER AND MISINFORMATION: DIGITAL HATE AND HARASSMENT (PART II)
N Nanditha, M Hermanova, R Rega, J Henrichsen… - AoIR Selected Papers of …, 2023
… I argue the Hindutva government is using powerful tools, including media and digital propaganda to curtail the creative freedom of … This is a desire to return to India’s traditional values of brahmanical heteropatriarchy, Hindutva puritanism, and …
Singing in Saffron Times*: Documentary Film and Resistance to Majoritarian Politics in India
A Monteiro, KP Jayasankar - Cinemas of the Global South
… Patwardhan continues his documentation of the political underbelly of the Hindutva project … This focus on the normal and unremarkable ways in which Hindutva reproduces itself is … impetus deployed with a clear, ideological Hindutva …
[PDF] Neo‑nationalism, a many‑headed hydra
JA Douglass - 2023
In May 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), riding the “Modi wave,” swept to victory in my country’s national elections, setting the stage for Hindutva neo-nationalism. The BJP’s mission was to restore and steer India towards “one race, one people …
Artists and the Radcliffe Line: Partition Migrants on Silver Screen and “Others” in the Hindi Film Industry
A Ranjan - Migration, Memories, and the" Unfinished" Partition
This chapter attempts to address three questions. First, how did some Partition survivors land in Mumbai and establish themselves in the Hindi film industry? Second, how Partition and migrants are shown in the Hindi films based on such …
[PDF] Discover ACER India
A India - 2024
… We worked with the Sri Aurobindo Society to develop competency-based learning frameworks for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). The curriculum-aligned frameworks and accompanying practice assessment items for English, mathematics …
Thematic Concern of Asif Currimbhoy's Plays in the arena of Postmodernism Mr. MM Gopi, Research Scholar, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, TN & Asst. Professor …
MMM Gopi - The Influence of Literature in The Modern World
… He began his journey as a dramatist in Post-independence era. Most of his plays reveal a quest for truth and strong compassion for … Laxman's interaction with Savitri seems to be a kind of affection. Savitri affects with vocal defects by birth. Her …
“Cast [e] ing Shakespeare”: Intersections of Disability and Race in Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool
Z Cheema - The Shakespearean International Yearbook
… I argue that Maqbool illustrates the fluid and shifting formations of race and caste by channeling Hindutva discourses representing Indian Muslims through the representations of disability that transform India’s largest religious minority into an ur-caste—a …
