The Editors

A. P. Ashwin Kumar is Professor at the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chanakya University, Bengaluru, where he also heads the Centre for Languages and Lifeworlds.

Vivek Dhareshwar is currently engaged in building a platform for learning and teaching called Indian Slate. He was a co-founder, senior fellow and (for a time) Director of the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bengaluru.

Publisher’s Acknowledgements
From the Series Editors

Prefatory Note
A. P. Ashwin Kumar and Vivek Dhareshwar

1. Introduction: An Institution and a Research Programme
Vivek Dhareshwar

2. Valorising the Present: Orientalism, Postcoloniality, and the Human Sciences
Vivek Dhareshwar

3. Normativity and Experience: An Inquiry into the Formation of Ontologically Peculiar Objects
Vivek Dhareshwar

4. The University, Liberal Education, and the Case of India
Shashikala Srinivasan

5. In Search of a Language for Experience: Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and his Contemporary Critics
Polly Hazarika

6. The Gandhi–Ambedkar Debates on Untouchability: Two Critiques of Society
Elizabeth Thomas

7. Doxastic Community Experience: Towards an Abductive Theory of Nationalism
A. P. Ashwin Kumar

8. On the Difficulty of Refuting or Confirming the Arguments about the Caste System
Dunkin Jalki and Sufiya Pathan

9. Adhyasa and the ‘I’: On Some Aspects of Stereotypes
Vivek Dhareshwar

Afterword

The Difficulty of (being) Heathen: Doing Science, Reflecting on Experience, Creating Practitions
Vivek Dhareshwar

Cultural Studies to Studying Cultures
A. P. Ashwin Kumar

Annexure
The Human Sciences and the Asian Experience

Notes on the Contributors
Index