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Vorwort – Professor Mrinal Miri. – Einführung: Sri Aurobindo lesen: Auf dem Weg zu einem Swaraj in Ideen Bindu Puri. – Teil I: Sri Aurobindo und die Idee der Evolution. – Kapitel 2: Sri Aurobindos hinduistische Philosophie: Spirituelle Evolution des menschlichen Bewusstseins Hari Shankar Prasad -- Kapitel 3: Der Mensch: Auf dem Weg zu seiner Selbsttranszendenz: Im Lichte von Sri Aurobindo Raghunath Ghosh -- Kapitel 4: Segen von Nachiketas und Savitri V Ananda Reddy -- Teil II: Sri Aurobindo: Über integrales Yoga -- Kapitel 5: Evolution mit Harmonie: Integraler Yoga und sein Transformationspotenzial in der Philosophie von Sri Aurobindo Nishant Kumar. – Kapitel 6: Sri Aurobindo als archetypischer Guru: Auf dem Weg zu einer Theologie der Befreiung durch Integralen Yoga Sebastian Velassery. – Teil III: Situierung von Sri Aurobindo: Moderne und Postmoderne -- Kapitel 7: Postmodernismus und Sri Aurobindo Debashish Banerji -- Kapitel 8: Harmonien des Lichts: Wandern mit Rohith Vemula undSri Aurobindo Monica Gupta -- Teil IV: Sri Aurobindo: Über die Nation, den Staat und das Ideal von menschliche Einheit -- Kapitel 9: Aurobindos Konzept des Nationalismus verstehen: Eine integrale Philosophie oder ein religiöser Glaube? Reetu Jaiswal -- Kapitel 10: Sri Aurobindo und die Idee der menschlichen Einheit Ramin Jahanbegloo.-Kapitel 11: Nation-Seele, Staat und Einheit: Sri Aurobindo und Tagore über die Religion der Menschheit Bindu Puri -- Teil V: Sri Aurobindo: Philosophie und Praxis. – Kapitel 12: Sri Aurobindo lehren: Die Herabkunft des Bewusstseins Christopher Key Chapple. – Kapitel 13: Sprache, Wissen, Selbst, Gesellschaft und Staat überdenken und transformieren und die Berufung alternativer planetarischer Zukünfte: Wandern und Meditieren mit Sri Aurobindo Ananta Kumar Giri -- Teil VI: Sri Aurobindo: Über Emotionen -- Kapitel 14: Sri Aurobindo über die Transformation von Emotionen: Reflexionen über göttliche Liebe und absolute Hingabe Dipika Bhatia -- Teil VII: Sri Aurobindo: Auf dem Weg zu einer Ethik der Umwelt -- Kapitel 15: Umweltbewusstsein und Aurobindo: Erkenntnisse für die Gegenwart Dr. Sujata Roy Abhijat. – Kapitel 16: Spiritualistischer Ökologismus in den Evolutionsideologien von Sri Aurobindo Saji Varghese. – Teil VIII Sri Aurobindo: Über philosophischen Agnostizismus. – Kapitel 17: Sri Aurobindo , Agnostizismus und das Unerkennbare Peter Heehs.

1. Chapter 1. Introduction: A Brief History of the Gandhi--Ambedkar Debate -- Chapter 2. Memory, Humiliation, Oppression: Untouchability and Dalit Self-Identity -- Chapter 3. The Individual and the Religious Community: On Religion and Conversion -- Chapter 4. Individual and Collective Identity: Confrontations on Caste and Varna -- Chapter 5. The Politics of an Encumbered Self: Ambedkar and Gandhi on Separate Electorates -- Chapter 6. Debating Guru: Owners and Authors -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Gandhi and Ambedkar: Philosophical divergences and convergences. .

Foreword - Professor Mrinal Miri -- Introduction: Reading Sri Aurobindo: Towards a Swaraj in ideas Bindu Puri -- Part I: Sri Aurobindo and the idea of evolution -- Chapter 2: Sri Aurobindo's Hindu philosophy: Spiritual evolution of human consciousness Hari Shankar Prasad -- Chapter 3: Man: Towards its Self-Transcendence: In the light of Sri Aurobindo Raghunath Ghosh -- Chapter 4: Boons of Nachiketas and Savitri V Ananda Reddy -- Part II: Sri Aurobindo: On Integral Yoga -- Chapter 5: Evolution with Harmony: Integral Yoga and its transformational potential in the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo Nishant Kumar -- Chapter 6: Sri Aurobindo as Archetypal Guru:Toward a theology of liberation through Integral Yoga Sebastian Velassery -- Part III: Situating Sri Aurobindo: Modernity and post-modernity -- Chapter 7: Postmodernism and Sri Aurobindo Debashish Banerji -- Chapter 8: Harmonies of Light: Walking with Rohith Vemula and Sri Aurobindo Monica Gupta -- Part IV: Sri Aurobindo: On the nation, the state and the ideal of human unity -- Chapter 9: Understanding Aurobindo's concept of nationalism: An integral philosophy or a religious faith? Reetu Jaiswal -- Chapter 10: Sri Aurobindo and the idea of human unity Ramin Jahanbegloo.-Chapter 11: Nation-soul, State and unity: Sri Aurobindo and Tagore on the Religion of Humanity Bindu Puri -- Part V: Sri Aurobindo: Philosophy and Practice -- Chapter 12: Teaching Sri Aurobindo: The descent of Consciousness Christopher Key Chapple -- Chapter 13: Rethinking and transforming language, knowledge, self, society and state and the calling of Alternative planetary futures: Walking and meditating with Sri Aurobindo Ananta Kumar Giri -- Part VI: Sri Aurobindo: On emotions -- Chapter 14: Sri Aurobindo on the transformation of emotions: Reflections on divine love and absolute devotion Dipika Bhatia -- Part VII: Sri Aurobindo: Towards an ethics of the environment -- Chapter 15: Environmental Consciousness and Aurobindo: Learnings for the present Dr. Sujata Roy Abhijat -- Chapter 16: Spiritualistic Ecologism in the evolutionary ideologies of Sri Aurobindo Saji Varghese.-Part VIII Sri Aurobindo: On philosophical Agnosticism -- Chapter 17: Sri Aurobindo, Agnosticism, and the Unknowable Peter Heehs.

This book presents contemporary perspectives of scholars working on different aspects of the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo- the idea of evolution, integral yoga, the transformation of the individual, society and earth, theories of nation and human unity, philosophy of emotions and ethics of the environment. Contributors examine Sri Aurobindos philosophy, its close conceptual relationship to classical Indian philosophy and its relevance. It sheds light on how his philosophy deals with the twenty-first century's fundamental problems and offers possible solutions. The book brings out the modern debate in Western philosophy involving thinkers like Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, and their predecessors, such as Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche. This book is an exercise in comparative Philosophy,one that unpacks the mind of Sri Aurobindo in the context of Indian, European and Anglo-American philosophical discourse. It is of great relevance for a new generation of students, scholars of Indian philosophy, politics, religious studies and those interested in knowing the thought and practice of the twentieth-century Indian, thinker and yogi, Sri Aurobindo.

Between 1915 and 1941, Tagore (1861-1941) and Gandhi (1869-1948) differed and argued about many things of personal, national, and international significance---satyagraha, non-cooperation, the boycott and burning of foreign cloth, the efficacy of fasting as a means of resistance and Gandhi's mantra connecting 'swaraj' and 'charkha'. The author tracks the development of this dialogue and argues that the debate was about more fundamental issues, such as the nature of truth and swaraj/freedom and the possibilities of untruth that Tagore saw in Gandhi's movements for truth and freedom. Puri shows that the differences between the two men's perspectives came from differently negotiated relationships to (and understandings of) tradition and modernity. Tagore was part of the Bengal renaissance and powerfully influenced by the idea that the Enlightenment consisted in the freedom of the individual to reason for herself. Gandhi, on the other hand, remained close to the Indian philosophical tradition which linked individual freedom to moral progress. Puri points out that Tagore cannot, however, be unreflectively assimilated to the Enlightenment project of Western modernity, for he came fairly close to Gandhi in rejecting the anthropocentricism of modernity and shared Gandhi's belief in an enchanted cosmos. The only single-authored volume on the Tagore-Gandhi debate, this book is a welcome addition to the existing literature. Bindu Puriis an associate professor with the Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. She has been interested in issues in political philosophy, moral philosophy, and modern Indian philosophy. She has published six books, including one monograph, entitled Gandhi and the Moral Life. She has edited Mahatma Gandhi and His Contemporariesand co-edited two volumes on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, entitled Reason, Morality and Beauty, and Terror, Peace and Universalism, published by Oxford University Press. She has recently co-edited a special issue of IIC Quarterly on Living with Religious Diversity(April 2014). She has published about 35 articles, including book reviews, in philosophical and interdisciplinary journals of international repute, including articles in Sophia, Philosophia and the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, some of which are: The Self and the Other: Liberalism and Gandhi(Philosophia, Vol. 39[4], 2011); Freedom and the Dynamics of the Self and the 'Other': Re-constructing the Debate between Tagore and Gandhi(Sophia 52[2], 2013); and Finding Reasons for Being Reasonable: Interrogating Rawls(Sophia 2014). Professor Puri has presented many papers in national and international seminars and has delivered several invited lectures in universities in India and abroad.

Introduction -- Satya and Ahimsa: Learning Non-violence from the Gita -- Ethics: Western and Indian -- For Love of Country: Gandhi and Tagore -- Body, Action, Authority, Ethics and Politics -- Gandhi's 'true' politics and the integrity of the good life: Satya, swaraj, tapasya and satyagraha -- Gandhi's Religion.

This book examines the centrality of ideas such as satya (truth), ahimsa (non-violence), humility, and respect for understanding moral life in the complex milieu of human existence. It provides a comprehensive view of how Gandhian ideas have both a temporal and spatial universality significantly different from Western modern philosophy's universality claims. The chapters represent different styles of philosophy but with a common purpose, offering insights into how the global debates on religion, morality, and politics are assessed from Gandhi's point of view. Written in language accessible to general readers with an interest in Gandhian thinking, the book will appeal to academics and philosophers.

Looking beyond exclusively state-oriented solutions to the management of religious diversity, this book explores ways of fostering respectful, non-violent and welcoming social relations among religious communities. It examines the question of how to balance religious diversity, individual rights and freedoms with a common national identity and moral consensus. The essays discuss the interface between state and civil society in 'secular' countries and look at case studies from the the West and India. They study themes such as religious education, religious diversity, pluralism, inter-religious.