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Exploring the interconnections between culture, ideology and hegemony, this book is an effort to understand how Indians
under colonial subjection came to terms with their past and present and thus envi-sioned a future for their society. The
process of exploring the indigenous epistemological tradition and assessing it in the context of the advances made by the west was not unilinear or undifferentiated; it was riven with contradictions,
contentions, ruptures. Locatingi ntellectual history at the intersection of social and cultural history, the book covers a wide
range, from an overview of religious and social ideas in colonial India to empirical studies of themes like indigenous medicine,
the family and literary fiction. Panikkar contests both the imperialist and the nationalist paradigms of intellectual history;
his analysis is sensitive to the nature of class formation and class values, and to the material conditions of human existence. K.N. Panikkar, formerly Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, is now Vice-Chancellor of Sree San- karacharya University of Sanskrit, Kerala. His numerous ublications include British Diplomacy in North India (1968),
Against Lord and State: Religion and Peasant Uprisings in Malabar (1989), Culture and Consciousness in Modern India
(1990), Communalism in India: History, Politics and Culture (editor, 1991), The Concerned Indian’s Guide to Communalism
(editor, 1999). He has compiled two source volumes: Peasant Protest and Revolts in Malabar (1990) and Towards Freedom,
1940 (1998). Paperback xii + 212 pages 8.5 x 5.5 inches ISBN 81-85229-39-2
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