http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4146 2026-03-14T00:34:38Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4341 Title: Objectivism, Relativism, Pluralism: Notes on the Study of Communities and Communalism Authors: Raghuramaraju, A. Abstract: The study of communal-ism has to be prefaced by the study of communities. The study of communities carries important methodological apparatus. And Indian social theory is largely informed by the modern Western social theory-be it Marxism, liberalism, structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism or any other. There may be social theories that are non Western and non-modern. 1995-12-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4340 Title: Savarkar' s Quest for a Modern Hindu Consolidation Authors: Sharma, Suresh Abstract: Theological clarification and.metaphysical restatement were seen by Hindus, almost to the end of the nineteenth century, as the prime means of ensuring survival and salvation in a world overshadowed by Europe. This response, despite its apparently timid acceptance of British rule in its early phase, was sustained by an intense longing for parity with the West. 1995-12-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4339 Title: In Search of Self-undestanding and Swaraj Authors: Shah, K.J. Abstract: I began my journey into the philosophical understanding (anubhava, vicara and acara) of Gandhi some twenty-five years ago-in Gandhi's centenary year, at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. In the hundred and twenty-fifth year, I think, in a certain sense I have completed the journey. 1995-12-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4338 Title: Elusive Search for a Society: Beginnings of Modernity in 19th Century Bengal Authors: Chakravarti, Kumaresh Abstract: Eradication of an undesirable custom prevalent in a society under foreign rule should be possible by educating the people', said a correspondent of a Bengali periodical in 1842. 'The effect of knowledge, however, may fail to fructify', continued the .correspondent, 'and it takes a long time for the desired effect of knowledge (which education attempts to impart) to be realised. 1995-12-01T00:00:00Z