Hegel's Spectre on Indian Thought and its God-in-Nothingness

Authors

  • Purushottama Bilimoria Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v4i2.199

Keywords:

Arvind-Pal S. Mandair, identity politics, language, monotheolingualism, postcolonialism, religion, Sikhism

Abstract

This review discusses Arvind-Pal S. Mandair’s Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation (hereafter RSW), published in 2009 by Columbia University Press.

Author Biography

  • Purushottama Bilimoria, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

    Purushottama Bilimoria, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Studies at Deakin University and Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia; Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley; currently Shivadasani Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. His research and publications cover classical Indian philosophy, comparative ethics; Continental thought; cross-cultural philosophy of religion, diaspora studies; bioethics, and personal law in India. He is Editor-in-Chief of Sophia, Journal of Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics (Springer).

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Published

2012-01-20

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How to Cite

Bilimoria, P. (2012). Hegel’s Spectre on Indian Thought and its God-in-Nothingness. Religions of South Asia, 4(2), 199-211. https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v4i2.199