South Asian philosophy
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painting: Village Scene, Amrita Sher-Gil, 1938
Intro to South Asian philosophy
Jay Garfield and Bryan Van Norden, "If Philosophy Won't Diversify"
Jonardon Ganeri, "Why Philosophy Must Go Global"
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Sri Ramakrishna and Harmony of Religions
Swami Medhananda, Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna and Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion, Chap. 3
Caste
"Liberation from Caste," in Anantanand Rambachan, A Hindu Theology of Liberation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015). Chapter 9.
B. R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste, edited and annotated by S. Anand, with the introduction of Arundhati Roy (London: Verso Books, 2014)
Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Textualization:
Grammar as Philosophy
Bhattacharya, Kamaleswar. Nagarjuna's Arguments Against Motion, 1985. [pdf]
Deshpande, M. M. (1993). Sanskrit & Prakrit, sociolinguistic issues (No. 6). Motilal Banarsidass Publications [view review via JSTOR]
Drocco, Andrea. "Eternal Sanskrit and the meaning of the tripartite Prakrit terminology tatsama, tadbhava and deśī." Linguistica e Filologia 32 (2012): 119-136. [read online]
Gold, Jonathan C. The Dharma's Gatekeepers: Sakya Pandita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet. SUNY Press, 2008. [read online, institutional access required]
Luigia, Nitti-Dolci, and Prabhakar Jha. Prakrit Grammarians. Motilal Banarsidass Publishe, 1972.
Ollett, Andrew Strand. Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India. Diss. Columbia University, 2015.
Selby, Martha Ann. "Desire for meaning: Providing contexts for Prakrit Gathas." The Journal of Asian Studies (1996): 81-93.
Political Theatre
Safdar Hashmi, The First Ten Years of Street Theatre
Shayoni Mitra, “Violating Performance: Women, Law and the State of Exception” . in Anita Singh, ed. Gender Space and Resistance: Women and Theatre in India. 2013.
South Asian Islamic Thought:
Trajectories of Non-violent Resistance
Muhammad Qasim Zaman. 2012. "Socioeconomic Justice" in Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 221-260. [read online, institutional access required]
Humeira Iqtidar. 2020. "Is Tolerance Liberal? Javed Ahmed Ghamidi and the Non-Muslim Minority" [pdf]
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