Indian Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. Cosmopolitan Modernity in Early 20th-Century India

   By Sachidananda Mohanty

   This book presents an alternative view of cosmopolitanism, citizenship and modernity in early 20th-century India through the multiple lenses of mysticism, travel, friendship, art, and politics.It makes a key intervention in the understanding of cosmopolitan modernity based on the lives and...

   Published December 12th 2014 by Routledge India
2. Textual Authority in Classical Indian Thought

   Ramanuja and the Vishnu Purana

   By Sucharita Adluri

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   Theistic Vedanta originated with Ramanuja (1077-1157), who was one of the foremost theologians of Visistadvaita Vedanta and also an initiate of the Srivaisnava sectarian tradition in South India. As devotees of the God Visnu and his consort Sri, the Srivaisnavas established themselves through...

   Published November 17th 2014 by Routledge
3. Swami Vivekananda

   A Contemporary Reader

   Edited by Makarand R. Paranjape

   Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) popularised Vedanta in the West and reformed Hinduism in India. He also inspired the mass movement that made India a modern nation. In showcasing his life and work, this Reader balances the two main aspects of his life: the religious and the secular, the spiritual and...

   Published October 24th 2014 by Routledge India
4. Epistemology in Classical India

   The Knowledge Sources of the Nyaya School

   By Stephen H Phillips

   In this book, Phillips gives an overview of the contribution of Nyaya--the classical Indian school that defends an externalist position about knowledge as well as an internalist position about justification. Nyaya literature extends almost two thousand years and comprises hundreds of texts, and in...

   Published July 3rd 2014 by Routledge
5. Nothingness in Asian Philosophy

   Edited by Jeeloo Liu, Douglas Berger

   A variety of crucial and still most relevant ideas about nothingness or emptiness have gained profound philosophical prominence in the history and development of a number of South and East Asian traditions—including in Buddhism, Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, Hinduism, Korean philosophy, and the...

   Published June 26th 2014 by Routledge
6. Religious Cultures in Early Modern India

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Rosalind O'Hanlon, David Washbrook

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious...

   Published June 23rd 2014 by Routledge
7. The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi

   By Makarand R. Paranjape

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   Who is responsible for the Mahatma’s death? Just one single, but determined, fanatic, the whole ideology of Hindu nationalism, the ruling Congress-led government whichfailed to protect him, or a vast majority of Indians and their descendants who considered Gandhi irrelevant? Such questions...

   Published May 5th 2014 by Routledge
8. Consciousness in Indian Philosophy

   The Advaita Doctrine of ‘Awareness Only’

   By Sthaneshwar Timalsina

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   This book focuses on the analysis of pure consciousness as found in Advaita Vedanta, one of the main schools of Indian philosophy. According to this tradition, reality is identified as Brahman, the world is considered illusory, and the individual self is identified with the absolute reality....

   Published April 28th 2014 by Routledge
9. Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality

   Global Perspectives

   Edited by Debjani Ganguly, John Docker

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book presents a rethinking of the world legacy of Mahatma Gandhi in this era of unspeakable global violence. Through interdisciplinary research, key Gandhian concepts are revisited by tracing their genealogies in multiple histories of world contact and by foregrounding their relevance to...

   Published April 28th 2014 by Routledge
10. Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West

    Between Mind and Body

    Edited by Geoffrey Samuel, Jay Johnston

    Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

    Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a...

    Published March 22nd 2013 by Routledge