8 s 02% &!#% our new modernity of today helps us see is that an additive approach cannot
fully accomplish a planetary turn in the field. To assume “Western modernity”(itself an …

D sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Mughals built one of the most powerful empires
in the early modern world. Their wealth was unmatched in both the East and the West, they …

In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all
castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are …

" Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state
secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan Brahman (d. ca. 1670), one of the great Indo-Persian …

What is it to occupy a first-person stance? Is the first-personal idea one has of oneself in
conflict with the idea of oneself as a physical being? How, if there is a conflict, is it to be …

In The Concealed Art of the Soul, Jonardon Ganeri presents a variety of perspectives on the
nature of the self as seen by major schools of classical Indian philosophy. For Indian …

Decolonizing Theory: Thinking across Traditions aims at disentangling theory from its
exclusively Western provenance, drawing insights and concepts from other thought …

This essay reviews a major new study of European Renaissance Arabist-humanist philology
as it was actually practiced, humanist neoclassicizing anti-Arabism notwithstanding. While …

Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian
thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy in the first millennium CE. He starts from …

During the height of Muslim power in South Asia, Muslim nobles of the Mughal Empire (1526-
1857) patronized the translation of a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian …