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History and Theory of Knowledge Production

An Introductory Outline

By: Rajan Gurukkal

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History and Theory of Knowledge Production

An Introductory Outline

By: Rajan Gurukkal

Who decides what should be recognized as knowledge? What forces engender knowledge? How do certain forms of it acquire precedence over the rest, and why? Exploring these fundamental questions, this book provides an introductory outline of the vast history of knowledge systems under the broad categories of European and non-European, specifically Indian. It not only traces ontology and epistemology in spatio-temporal terms, but also contextualizes methodological development by comparing Indian and European systems of knowledge and their methods of production as well as techniques ensuring reliability. Knowledge cannot have a history of its own, independent of social history. Therefore, using a vast array of sources, including Greek, Prakrit, Chinese, and Arab texts, the book situates the history of knowledge production within the matrix of multiple socio-economic and politico-cultural systems. Further, the volume also analyses the process of the rise of science and new science and reviews speculative thoughts about the dynamics of the subatomic micro-universe as well as the mechanics of the galactic macro-universe.

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411

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Oxford University Press

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0199095809

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9780199095803

Moral Rights

Principles, Practice and New Technology

By: Mira T. Sundara Rajan

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Moral Rights

Principles, Practice and New Technology

By: Mira T. Sundara Rajan

Moral Rights: Principles, Practice and New Technology addresses the role and challenges of moral rights in the environment of digital technology from both practical and theoretical channels, including examples drawn from the legislation and practice of key jurisdictions around the world.

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572

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195390318

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9780195390315

The Leftover

A Relook on the Leftover Buddhist in the Indian Subcontinent through Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker (AVP)

By: Rajan P Guruvanshy

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The Leftover

A Relook on the Leftover Buddhist in the Indian Subcontinent through Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker (AVP)

By: Rajan P Guruvanshy

A team of three scholars travel for their research work from Delhi to Mangalam, a thuruth (island) located on a coastal belt in the Alappuzha District of Kerala. It is believed that a part of the coastal area submerged after a tsunami, and Sree Moolavasam, one of the largest cultural seats of Buddhism, also submerged. Around 150 years ago, in Mangalam village, a local hero named Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker (AVP) reflected true traits of Buddhism. He challenged the misrule of his time and was killed at the age of forty seven. To develop a research proposal for the Dark Age of India, the research team conducts a preliminary study of the local area. A relook on the untold history, they believe, will result in the empowerment of the majority, The Leftover. The story is narrated by a girl, who completed her MPhil degree from JNU.

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277

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Notion Press

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1945400730

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9781945400735

Social Formations of Early South India

By: Rajan Gurukkal

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Social Formations of Early South India

By: Rajan Gurukkal

This book presents an incisive analysis of social formations in present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala from pre-historic times to early medieval period. It examines the economy, technology, and the process of state formation to understand the transformation from agro-pastoral to agrarian social formation.

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368

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OUP India

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0198089392

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9780198089391

History and Theory of Knowledge Production

An Introductory Outline

By: Rājangurukkaḷ

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History and Theory of Knowledge Production

An Introductory Outline

By: Rājangurukkaḷ

This text seeks to provide an introductory outline of the history and theory of knowledge production, notwithstanding the vastness of the subject. It is a brief history of intellectual formation or history of ideas. One can see it as a textbook of historical epistemology, which in spatio-temporal terms historicises knowledge production and contextualises methodological development. It addresses the historical process of the social constitution of knowledge, that is, the social history of the making of knowledge.

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0199095817

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Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India

Losing Nature

By: Zélia M. Bora,Murali Sivaramakrishnan

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Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India

Losing Nature

By: Zélia M. Bora,Murali Sivaramakrishnan

Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India: Losing Nature, edited by Zelia Bora and Murali Sivaramakrishnan, contextualizes the two subcontinents of India and Brazil and closely examines environmental issues from within and without. This collection focuses largely on the fate of forests and water in these two geographical terrains. This book explores narratives that reflect transformations: hitherto unprecedented demographic expansions, exploitation of natural resources, pollution and depletion of river and fresh water sources, uncontrollable demands on the energy front, waste and garbage disposal, drastic reduction of biodiversity. All of these are factors to research when one considers “losing nature.” In philosophical as well as theoretical terms the question of what is nature, what is gained and lost in human-nature interaction, what is the essential “balance” of nature, are all important queries on a similar scale. Societal reality in present day Brazil and India is reconstructed and deconstructed at will by the powerful influence of the past alongside that of globalization and technocratic market structures. The volume contemplates the representation and interrogation of environmental issues in both subcontinents, Brazil and India.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498581153

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9781498581158

Book's by Rajan Gurukkal

History and Theory of Knowledge Production

History and Theory of Knowledge Production

Moral Rights

Moral Rights

The Leftover

The Leftover

Social Formations of Early South India

Social Formations of Early South India

History and Theory of Knowledge Production

History and Theory of Knowledge Production

Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India

Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India

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