Abstract

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: crossing legacies -- 1 Education and structures of moral formation: the limits of liberal education in India -- 2 In-discipline: diversity, disciplinarity and the humanities -- 3 Sites of learning and intellectual parasitism: the case for new humanities -- 4 Why communalism is an Indian problem: the relationship between communalism and Hinduism in colonial discourse -- 5 Sacerdotal violence and the caste system: the long shadow of Christian-Orientalism -- 6 Caste as an impediment in the journey of a Bhakta: Lingayat Vachanas, jati and aadhyatma -- 7 River literacy and the challenge of a rain terrain -- 8 Accents of memory: critical humanities and the question of inheritance -- 9 Indian culture and its social security system -- 10 The politics of knowledge, here and now: a conversation with Ashis Nandy -- Glossary -- Index.