POLITICS FOR A NEW INDIA

This book may be treated, but
with precaution, as indigenization of political science in India.This book is
a modest attempt to seek an identity for Bharatiya Ways of Study and move
away from the Western domination in social science. It attempts to negate the
system of Euro-supremacist control and expose the dependence and unrelenting
academic imperialism. It cautions against blind imitation without carefully
testing against empirical realities of India to save the social sciences in
general and political science in particular, from possible bias. That is why
this book aims at setting an alternative discourse in political science as
against hegemonic discourse to diversify the outlook amenable to the
historical and cultural context of India.Politics for a New India relies on
objectivity and the analysis of world views drawn from our own intellectual
traditions, as well as the metaphysical, philosophical and ethical
assumptions at the core of our political issues. It also takes into its
inquiry all those problems which have not been adequately paid attention so
far but are legitimately needed in current political discourse. These include
the RSS ideology and practice; perspective of Dharma and Advaita; literary
excursion; integral humanism; Hindu philosophy and women rights; Kerala model
of development; uniform civil code, among others.