The Question of Novelty in Indian Philosophy during the Colonial Period

Abstract

The above question raised by Daya Krishna reflects the acknowledgement of the belief that the mode in which we construe and present traditional Indian thought-schemas is immediately co-related with how we begin to understand them. Such a claim is grounded in the implicit assertion that the historical positioning of an Indian philosophy can no longer be treated as being peripheral to an exploration that delves into the deep intricacies of the discourse that has come to be so marked.