Modern South Asian Thinkers | Interface of Region and Universe

This exceptional anthology brings together a collection of insightful expositions on modern South Asian thinkers and thoughts. Employing an encyclopedic approach, this volume delves deep into the intellectual history of South Asia, transcending traditional academic perspectives and exploring a rich tapestry of ideas from various sources across time. The book departs from the imported ideas of South Asia by delving into the diverse intellectual heritage of the region pertaining to political thinkers, social and cultural thinkers and activists.

Historically, the book aids in approaching the enduring social and political challenges in South Asia. Drawing from an extensive array of works, including polemics, commentaries, literary accounts, politics and poetics, modern thoughts in South Asia provide systematic solutions to the perennial issues that shape the region. The curatorial consequence of the modern thoughts from the region, put together in this compendium, is a collective consciousness of South Asia as an offspring of the epistemological interface between region and universe.

The readers of this book shall arrive at a profound insight into the social, political and cultural intricacies, the transformative power of ideas and their enduring influence on the development of the region. This book would be useful to students, researchers and teachers working in the field of political science, philosophy, history and sociology, in varied course curricula such as Indian political thought, Eastern philosophy, South Asian thought, political thinkers and modern political thought.