Indian Philosophy : A New Approach
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The crystallization: Jaimini and Badarayana Gautama and Kanada. 3. The Sankhyan stream. 4. Yoga: the transcendental praxis. 5. Panini and Bharata--language: the search for its roots and the mystery of imaginative creation. 6. Manu and Kautilya: the foundation of socio-political thought in India. 7. The Buddhist challenge and the Jain Syncretism. 8. The methodological interlude. 9. Prelude to Sankara, Gaudapada and Bhartrhari. 10. Udayana and Gangesa: the breakthrough in logic and epistemology. 11. The advaitins versus the non-advaitins: the unending debate in Indian philosophy. 12. Bhakti, the new Purusartha: the tidal wave from the south. 13. The modes of analysis and the search for precision: developments in Navya Nyaya after Gangesa. 14. Agama versus Sruti: the new challenges to the Vedic Orthodoxy. 15. Raghunatha the rebel. 16. Philosophy at the grass root level. 17. The British intrusion and the great apartheid. 18. Developments in classical Indian philosophy after British intrusion and the creation of the apartheid in the Intellectual World of Modern India. 19. The theory of cosmic manifestation. 20. The search for moral intelligibility of the universe: the theories of Karma, Rebirth and Purusartha. 21. Theories of Varna and Mandala or the theory of society and the theory of polity. 22. Theory of Rasa or the theory of aesthetic and cosmic delight. 23. Historical excursus. Index.
"A new picture of Indian philosophy, breaking the traditional moulds in which it has been presented untill now, bringing its story right up to present times. The amazing continuity of India's philosophical traditions, as against the discontinuities in the development of philosophical tradition in the West, is brought to light and the usual myths about its stagnation and decay shown to be unsupported by the evidence.
"This book supplements the picture with a discussion of the theoretical concerns which lay behind the two-and-a-half millennia long story of its development and ends with a brief 'Historical Excursus' which surprisingly reveals that most of the works on the subject have had a misleading focus at least with respect to philosophy in India in the first millennium AD when it was almost completely dominated by the Buddhists and not by the Vedantins or any of the other schools of Indian philosophy, including that of the Jains". (jacket)
