MAKING OF THE INDIAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND OTHER ESSAYS

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MAKING OF THE INDIAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND OTHER ESSAYS

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ABSTRACT

As there are several references to the Indian philosophical  technicalities in (s)talker’s enunciation, he was eager to look at the archaeology of the discursive space called “Indian Philosophy”.

There are many  problems, when we are talking about something called Indian Philosophy (IP). We forget, at the moment of speaking about it that

(a)    “India” is a socio-political construct that was born out of (mainly) 19 C. Industrial as well as print capitalist imagination of nation state.

(b)    and that imagination was also appropriated by the different modes of colonialism.

(C)   “Philosophy” is equated with the “darsana” as a part of political translation. Apart from their obvious similarities, there are also differences as Bankimchandra pointed out that “Philosophy” is sadhya (is to be mediated) and darsana is sadhaniya (ought to be mediated. Chattopadhyay, B. ,1879/1974:217-18)

(d)    What are categorized under the umbrella of homogenized “lP” is a purely “good orient”-al project that excludes “other” non-Sanskritized way of thought and methods of proving truth. This had a precedence in Sayana Madhava’s “savrvadarsansamgraha (14^th. C A.D.), which was taken, at the moment of constructing “IP” as an appropriate paradigm for setting up order of things.

(e)    This order of things are approximated and appropriated by the western knowledge-base. Thus what is called as “IP” is also a derivative discourse.

(f)     “vijnana” in the Indian tradition means “consciousness” (as translated by Dasgupta, 1936:86). Nothing was classified separately as “science’ in the so-called Indian tradition, though some elements of so-called “Indian culture” obviously may be categorized as “science” from the European point of view.

(g)    What, as a whole, may be called and perceived as “lP of Science” today is merely a result of retrospective perceptual effect ( pratyavbhijna) , i.e. appropriating past knowledge by deploying today’s knowledge-base and techniques, which may be called “epistemological recurrence” following Bachelard.

(h)    Due to this recurrence and appropriation by the western epistemology, the de-sign of modem “lP” has emerged as a result of “epistemological amalgamation”.

All these problems must be seriously explained and elaborated before going to venture into the realm of “IP of Science” as all these statements should be “proved” (i.e. need pramana) according to the need of “global”(?) Philosophy of science.

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MAIN PAPERS:

·         2000. “The Making of the Indian Philosophy of Science”. From the Margins. February ‘00 (pp.57-73) Kolkata.  Download (.pdf)

·         2000. “ভারতীয় বিজ্ঞানের দর্শন -এর নির্মান.” (Translated from English: “The Making of the Indian Philosophy of Science” Tr. Suman Roy) Nabanna. XI:2-3 (pp. 40-51)
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OTHER ESSAYS:

·         2014. “The Movement Within: A Secret Guide To Esoteric Kayaasadhanaa: Caryaapada”. Journal of Bengali Studies, Vol.3 No.1. (pp. 113-27) ISSN# 2277-9426  Download (.pdf)

·         2014. O King, Stop Killing Deer Of Our Hermitage: Environmental Consciousness In Indian Science And Technology National Seminar on Science and Technology in Ancient India. Lalbaba College, Belur. University Grants Commission; Dept of Sanskrit, Lalbaba College, Belur; Ramkrishna Mission Vidyamandir . Nov 18, 2014.  Download (.pptx)   

·         2013. “Language: From I- Dentity to My-Dentity”. S. Imtiaz Hasnain, Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta and Shailendra Mohan Alternative Voices: (Re)searching Language, Culture, Identity eds.. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholar publishing. (pp. 158-73) ISBN-10: 144384716X | ISBN-13: 978-1443847162  Download (.pdf)

·         2013. “ভারতীয় সংস্কৃতি ও অনেকান্ত বেদান্ত: ভাষ্য”(A Commentary on Indian Culture and Anekanta Vedanta). Basu, Pathik ed. Shrayan Yearbook 2013. (pp. 249-64)  Download (.pdf)

·         2012. “চর্যা-চর্চায় নীরবতার ভাষাতত্ত্ব সন্ধান”[In Search of Linguistics of Silence : Caryapada]. Pranab K. Chakroborty ed. Interaction VIII. (pp.23-31)  Nabadwip, West Bengal. India. ISSN 2277-4335  Download (.pdf) English version: “The Movement Within: A Secret Guide To Esoteric Kayaasadhanaa: Caryaapada”.

·         2012. "ECP Is Dead, Long Live ECP!" M. S. Thirumalai ed. Language in India. 12:4. (pp. 79-86). ISSN 1930-2940.  Download (.pdf)

·         2011. “সম্প্রদান- ব্যাকরণ--রাজনীতি-- অর্থনীতি (Political Economy of Sampradana Karaka)”. Pranab K. Chakroborty ed. Interaction VII. (pp. 4-13).  Nabadwip, West Bengal. India. ISSN 2277-4335  Download (.pdf)

·         2009. “জিজ্ঞাসাপাঠ”. ( Philosophy of Science[s] for teens) KoiSor : Understanding Ephebe. Ed. Basu, Pathik. Kolkata: Shrayan. (pp. 155-82)  Download (.pdf)

·         2009.”কামনা, শৃঙ্গার, নচিকেত অভিযাত্রা –কৈশোরেই Adolescence and Sexuality”.  (Adolescence and Sexuality)”. Koisor:Understanding Ephebe. Ed. Basu, Pathik. Kolkata: Shrayan. (pp. 102-37)  Download (.pdf)

·         2009. “নীরবতার না- ভাষাতত্ত্ব: লালনে (Non-Linguistics of Silenceme: Lalon)”Shaktinath Jha ed. Ocin pakhi. Lalon saMrokgrontho. Vol.XX. Nadia, West Bengal Lalon Mela Samiti. (pp. 16-24). Revised version: 2012. ei nisOrgo pOtro. I:1 (pp. 9-16)  Download (.pdf)

·         2008. “ধর্ম ও জনসংস্কৃতি প্রসঙ্গে” [On Religion and Popular Culture]. Avishek Ray ed.Dhormo o jonosonSkriti prosonge.(pp. 111-128) Kolkata: Barta Prakasani.  Download (.pdf)

·         2008. “বিশ্ব সাথে 'যোগ' -বিহার ”. [Travelling With The Universe] Bektitto, Somiti, Santobiplab. [Personality, Horizontal Praxis and peaceful Revolution] Ed. Basu, Pathik. Kolkata: Shrayan. (pp.188-223)  Download (.pdf)

·         2007. “Wor(l)d Spaces: The Definition of ‘Word’.” Encyclopedia of Science of Language.  Milan, Italy: Polimetrica Onlus. (p. 127)

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·         2007. “জেগে বা ঘুমিয়ে--'ভারতীয়' দর্শনে” (Hanging between Sleeping and Waking -- ‘Indian' Philosophy). Tepantar .Vol. V (pp.141-66) Kolkata: Sanhati.  Download (.pdf)

·         2007. “স্বপ্নলীলা : কেন আমি জন্ম নেব?”. [Dream-play: Why Should I Be Born?] Ed. Basu, Pathik manus Hoye oTha (understanding Children’s World). Kolkata: Shrayan.(pp. 224-37)         Download (.pdf)

·         2007. “Scraps Notes on Modernity, Post- modernity and Indian Experience.” Proceedings of the UGC Sponsored Seminar on Post-modernity: A critique of Modernity—An Indian Experience. Naba Ballyganj College. (pp.8-12)  Download (.pdf)

·         2006. “স্বত্ব নিয়ে সমস্যার নিবেদন”. (Problems of Possession).Baromas, Vol XXVIII, October ’06. (pp. 217- 22) Reprinted in Interaction. Nov. ’09. (5-11)  Download (.pdf) English version: “Language: From I- Dentity to My-Dentity”

·         2006. “চার্বাক বেদান্ত পেরিয়ে???”Tepantar.Vol IV, July ’06. (pp. 279-303) Kolkata: Sanhati.          Download (.pdf)

·         2006. “সার্ত-এর চুপসাধনা” [Silenceme in Sartre].” Ed. Atanushasan Mukhopadhyay Dashadishi. Kolkata. II:2. (pp.52-3) Decl. No. 52/04.  Download (.pdf)

·         2006. “Little Boxes: (Il)Logic(s) of Truth-Room(s)”.  Download (.pdf)

·         2005. “হায় রাম!” (Oh Ram)”. Tepantar- III. Sanhati: Kolkata. (pp. 145-184)  Download (.pdf)

·         2005.“আমার বলে রইল না আর কিছু?” Sen, Ashok ed. Baromas. Vol. 28 (pp.90-5) RN 34830/78.      Download (.pdf)

·         2005."হায় পথবাসী, হায় গৃহহারা”Basu, Pathik ed.Swashroybhabana. Kolkata: Shrayansthal. (pp.239-64)  Download (.pdf)

·         2005. “'যেদিন নিঃশব্দ শব্দেরে খাবে' :নৈঃশব্দের ভাষাতত্ত্ব ” ['When Silence Would Swallow Non-Silence': Linguistics of Silence]. Ebang Mushayera. XI:4(226-47).R.N. 53193/94  Download (.pdf)

·         2004. “নাস্তিক্য, মৌলবাদ আর অনেকান্ত (Atheism, Fundamentalism and Anekantavada).” Jijnasa. XXIII:3-4 (pp.419-426).  Download (.pdf)

·         2002. “Soul’d in and out: Representation of Body, No-Body in the Hindu Philosophy.” From the Margins. (pp. 182-202). Kolkata.  Download (.pdf)

·         2000. “কানা রঘুনাথ: এক মূর্ত নঞ্ (Raghunatha: A Name of Negatives)”. Alochona Chakra. mOnonSOdeS-I.. (pp.71-85). Kolkata. Reprinted in the Souvenir of 2nd Navadvip Book –Fair 2002. (pp.33-38) Inauguration Lecture : 2008. “On Bhakti and Nyaya in Navadvipa”. Navadvipa Puratattva Parisat. Nadia: W. Bengal. 20/12/08.  Download (.pdf)

·         2000. নন্দিনী মাহাতো. "দর্শন-অদর্শন-এ বিশ শতক ". Sur, Chranjib ed. Alochona Chakra, Collection-14. Jan’00 (pp.92-102) RNI: 69543/87.

·         2000. “বিশ শতকে সমাজবিজ্ঞান :একটি খসড়া প্রতিবেদন মাত্র .” [Social Science in The 20th C: A Draft Report]Sur, Chiranjib ed. Alochona Chakra, Collection-14. Jan. (pp.47-62)  Download (.pdf)

·         2000. “মেলাবেন তিনি মেলাবেন: কোয়ান্টাম ও সমাজবিজ্ঞান?” [Quantum Mechanics And Social Science] Alochana Chakra Collection-14 . Jan. (pp. 175-190).  Download (.pdf)