First published in 1998, this volume reflects that, ever since the publication of Edward Said's
Orientalism twenty years ago, scholars have tested his thesis against the wider application …

For thirty years in India at the cusp of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Henry
Thomas Colebrooke was an administrator and scholar with the East India Company. The …

Evolutionary political economy (EPE) deals with populations and economic change over
time but has not been systematised beyond European industrial history. The world's largest …

Buddhism is essentially a teaching about liberation-from suffering, ignorance, selfishness
and continued rebirth. Knowledge of'the way things really are'is thought by many Buddhists …

This book suggests how the internationalisation of teaching and learning for sustainability
can be a vehicle for a two-way flow of knowledge across national, cultural and theoretical …

In this paper I develop a cross-cultural critique of contemporary critical thinking education in
the United States, the United Kingdom, and those educational systems that adopt critical …

As Aristotle began to codify rhetorical practices in Greece, a theoretical and pragmatic text
on argument, the Nyaya Sutra, emerged in Ancient India, founding one of six key …

This book covers śakti and artha, and specifically relates them to the significance of
testimony and the epistemology of meaning in the Indian discussion. It pays attention to …

This book is the first comprehensive study of Schopenhauer's philosophy of religion. It
develops a contextual account of Schopenhauer's relation to the religions of India by placing …

Jātaka stories, or stories relating to episodes in the past births of the Buddha, are ubiquitous
in Buddhist texts and societies. Although there are many texts which contain jātaka stories …