About the Book: India and civilizational futures
This second volume based on the deliberations of the Backwaters Collective puts
into serious question the most familiar categories that have informed humanistic
inquiry and social science research until now. The contributors probe how the
intellectual and cultural resources of Indic civilization might be deployed to
introduce greater plurality into the world of modern knowledge systems and
reinitiate metaphysics into the discourses of politics, with the hope that
similar inquiries will in future be extended across the Global South. The
chapters offer newer perspectives on Indias past and intellectual traditions and
suggest how we might liberate ourselves from the straightjackets