A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
Unlike “progressive” Americans who embrace race, the caste reformer B.R. Ambedkar envisioned a world where race/caste distinctions were annihilated – and specifically by mixing, by intermarriage. The view of racial purity shared by the mainstream American left and right – Continue reading “The future will belong to the mestiza”
Suguru Ishimura and I are currently preparing a heavily annotated English translation of Ślokavārttika ātmavāda, verses 107–139, the section concerned with I-cognition (ahampratyaya). The translation is to appear in a Kumārila Reader, edited by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das. After Continue reading Is there a seeming contradiction in Kumārila’s account of I-cognition?