Ethical life in South Asia

By:

Pandian Anand

Contributor(s):

Ali Daud

Publication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2011Description: 290p viiISBN:

9780253222435

Subject(s):

1. Social Ethics - South Asia 2. Social Values - South Asia 3. Religion & Ethics - Moral Conditions - Social Conditions

DDC classification:

170.954 PAN

Contents:

Contents: Introduction / 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.

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Contents:
Introduction / 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.

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