Ethical Life in South Asia

Name: Ethical Life in South Asia
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ISBN: 9780253222435

ISBN-10: 0253222435

ISBN-13: 9780253222435

Edition: 2010

Authors: Anand Pandian, Daud Ali

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 9/22/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Anand Pandian is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India.Daud Ali is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Traditions in Transmission



The Subhasita as an Artifact of Ethical Life in Medieval India




Disciplining the Senses, Schooling the Mind: Inhabiting Virtue in the Tamil Tinnai School




Ethical Traditions in Question: Diaspora Jainism and the Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements




Ethics and Modernity



Vernacular Capitalists and the Modern Subject in India: Law, Cultural Politics, and Market Ethics




The Ethics of Textuality: The Protestant Sermon and the Tamil Public Sphere




Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History




Practices of the Self



Between Intuition and Judgment: Moral Creativity in Theravada Buddhist Ethics




Young Manliness: Ethical Culture in the Gymnasiums of the Medieval Deccan




Ethical Subjects: Time, Timing, and Tellability




Demoralizing Developments: Ethics, Class, and Student Power in Modern North India




Ethical Lives of Others



Living by Dying: Gandhi, Satyagraha, and the Warrior




Moral and Spiritual Striving in the Everyday: To Be a Muslim in Contemporary India




Ethical Publicity: On Transplant Victims, Wounded Communities, and the Moral Demands of Dreaming



List of Contributors


Index