Bhushan: Professor of Philosophy, Smith CollegeGarfield: Silbert Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities, Smith College. Until 2016 he is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore and recurrent visiting professor of philosophy at Yale University

• Preface Introduction 1. The Tragedy of Indian Philosophy 2. Looking Backward: Reason, Cosmopolitan Consciousness and the Emergence of Indian Modernity3. The Company and the Crown: Macaulay's India? 4. On the Very Idea of a Renaissance 5. Reform Movements: From Universality to Secularity in the Brahmo and Arya Samaj 6. India Imagined: Contested Narratives of National Identity 7. Anticipating India's Future: Varieties of Nationalism 8. Theorizing Svaraj: Politics and the Academy 9. The Cambridge Connection: Idealism, Modernity and the Circulation of Ideas 10. Maya vs Lila: From Sankaracarya to Einstein 11. The Question of Subjectivity: Neo-Ved?nta in Academic Philosophy 12. Indian Ways of Seeing: The Centrality of Aesthetics 13. The Triumph of Indian Philosophy: Thinking through the Renaissance References

Bhushan and Garfield's book is an extremely valuable record of a community of philosophers that has fallen sadly into obscurity, and of the philosophical contributions of figures that are more often discussed in non-philosophical contexts--figures such as Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore, and Vivekenanda.

Bhushan: Professor of Philosophy, Smith CollegeGarfield: Silbert Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities, Smith College. Until 2016 he is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore and recurrent visiting professor of philosophy at Yale University

• Preface Introduction 1. The Tragedy of Indian Philosophy 2. Looking Backward: Reason, Cosmopolitan Consciousness and the Emergence of Indian Modernity3. The Company and the Crown: Macaulay's India? 4. On the Very Idea of a Renaissance 5. Reform Movements: From Universality to Secularity in the Brahmo and Arya Samaj 6. India Imagined: Contested Narratives of National Identity 7. Anticipating India's Future: Varieties of Nationalism 8. Theorizing Svaraj: Politics and the Academy 9. The Cambridge Connection: Idealism, Modernity and the Circulation of Ideas 10. Maya vs Lila: From Sankaracarya to Einstein 11. The Question of Subjectivity: Neo-Ved?nta in Academic Philosophy 12. Indian Ways of Seeing: The Centrality of Aesthetics 13. The Triumph of Indian Philosophy: Thinking through the Renaissance References

Bhushan and Garfield's book is an extremely valuable record of a community of philosophers that has fallen sadly into obscurity, and of the philosophical contributions of figures that are more often discussed in non-philosophical contexts--figures such as Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore, and Vivekenanda.

Bhushan: Professor of Philosophy, Smith CollegeGarfield: Silbert Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities, Smith College. Until 2016 he is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore and recurrent visiting professor of philosophy at Yale University

• Preface Introduction 1. The Tragedy of Indian Philosophy 2. Looking Backward: Reason, Cosmopolitan Consciousness and the Emergence of Indian Modernity3. The Company and the Crown: Macaulay's India? 4. On the Very Idea of a Renaissance 5. Reform Movements: From Universality to Secularity in the Brahmo and Arya Samaj 6. India Imagined: Contested Narratives of National Identity 7. Anticipating India's Future: Varieties of Nationalism 8. Theorizing Svaraj: Politics and the Academy 9. The Cambridge Connection: Idealism, Modernity and the Circulation of Ideas 10. Maya vs Lila: From Sankaracarya to Einstein 11. The Question of Subjectivity: Neo-Ved?nta in Academic Philosophy 12. Indian Ways of Seeing: The Centrality of Aesthetics 13. The Triumph of Indian Philosophy: Thinking through the Renaissance References

Bhushan and Garfield's book is an extremely valuable record of a community of philosophers that has fallen sadly into obscurity, and of the philosophical contributions of figures that are more often discussed in non-philosophical contexts--figures such as Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore, and Vivekenanda.