OBS 123 Contemporary Indian Thought

Program :

Baccalaureate in Philosophy

Semester :

S6

Credits :

04

Teacher :

Rev. Dr. Chundamthadam Stephen

Aim

The task of this course is to familiarize the students with the modern and contemporary Indian thinkers, the main themes they have discussed. In the first part, we will review the contributions of the great philosophers of both modern and contemporary India beginning with Raja Ram Mohan Roy. We shall select a few of these thinkers such as Rama Krishna Parama Hamsa, Swami Vivekananda, Dayananda Saraswati, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, Rabindranath Tagore, Aurobindo, Dr. Ambedkar, Jiddhu Krishnamoorti, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ramana Maharshi, Amartya Sen etc. In the second part, we discuss the different modern and contemporary Indian religious movements.

References

  1. T.M.P Mahadevan, Contemporary Indian Philosophy (Bangalore: Sterling Publishers, 1981).
  2. Basant Kumar Lal, Contemporary Indian Philosophy (Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass, 1973).
  3. S. Radhakrishnan (ed.), Contemporary Indian Philosophy (London: Bradford and Dickens, 1958).
  4. Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana: Realization of Life (London: Macmillan and Co., 1966).
  5. Rabindranath Tagore, Towards Universal Man (Calcutta: Asia Publishing House, 1962).
  6. Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India (Calcutta: Asia Publishing House, 1967).
  7. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (Oxford: University Press. 1999).
  8. Amartya Sen, The Ideal of Justice (New York: Penguin Books, 2009). The Collected Works of Aurobindo.