Description
Book SynopsisMoral thought and ethical practice in South Asia, past and present
Trade Review[A] welcome addition to the growing body of literature on ethics in South Asia. While not losing sight of the significance of texts and religion, the essays move the discussion . . . The recurring theme of embodiment of ethical knowledge through memorization and recitation is as much an important and useful intervention in the study of ethics, as it is in the study of the interface between text and performance in South Asia.
* JRNL ASIAN STUDIES *
Setting a novel and exciting agenda for the understanding of ways through which 'ethical lives' in South Asia are produced, debated and experienced in the every day, this volume will no doubt take a prominent place on the bookshelves of scholars and students researching ethics and morality in the subcontinent and beyond.
* Pacific Affairs *
This book is a competent and credible illustration of the richness of south Asian ethical traditions and the resources to be found there for a reorientation and renewal of our ethical sensitivity in changing times. It will be valuable book for anyone studying ethics in the south Asian context, and especially for historians and moral philosophers.
* Economic and Political Weekly *
This stimulating book well rewards a close and careful reading, and lays the foundation for much future research.
* Biblio *
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Anand Pandian and Daud Ali
Part 1. Traditions in Transmission
1. The Subhas.ita as an Artifact of Ethical Life in Medieval India / Daud Ali
2. Disciplining the Senses, Schooling the Mind: Inhabiting Virtue in the Tamil Tin.n.ai School / Bhavani Raman
3. Ethical Traditions in Question: Diaspora Jainism and the Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements / James Laidlaw
Part 2. Ethics and Modernity
4. Vernacular Capitalists and the Modern Subject in India: Law, Cultural Politics, and Market Ethics / Ritu Birla
5. The Ethics of Textuality: The Protestant Sermon and the Tamil Public Sphere / Bernard Bate
6. Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History / Dipesh Chakrabarty
Part 3. Practices of the Self
7. Between Intuition and Judgment: Moral Creativity in Theravada Buddhist Ethics / Charles Hallisey
8. Young Manliness: Ethical Culture in the Gymnasiums of the Medieval Deccan / Emma Flatt
9. Ethical Subjects: Time, Timing, and Tellability / Leela Prasad
10. Demoralizing Developments: Ethics, Class, and Student Power in Modern North India / Craig Jeffrey
Part 4. Ethical Lives of Others
11. Living by Dying: Gandhi, Satyagraha, and the Warrior / Ajay Skaria
12. Moral and Spiritual Striving in the Everyday: To Be a Muslim in Contemporary India / Veena Das
13. Ethical Publicity: On Transplant Victims, Wounded Communities, and the Moral Demands of Dreaming / Lawrence Cohen
List of Contributors
Index
