Towards a New Paradigm in Higher Education Appropriate Knowledge: Essays in Intellectual Swaraj [Hardcover]

Language: English. "I confess I have taken all knowledge to be my province," declared Bacon in the year 1592. The Baconian credo has ruled the Western consciousness ever since. With the introduction of western learning in India we imbibed the Baconian belief in the universality of all knowledge. In practice, however, it meantthanks to the colonial bondagethe universality of western knowledge only. This was particularly disabling for a country like India which had three thousand years of History and culture of its own. It meant for the most part an engagement with ideas and issues that were either irrelevant or peripheral and joining in a rat race in which we were doomed to be laggards. No wonder one of our social scientists once ruefully observed, "We are neither Asian nor scientists. We are beggars, all of uswe sneak under many an academic table to gather the crumbs under them.", , Long before independence, sensitive minds had voiced their dissatisfaction with the prevailing situation. K.C. Bhattacharya warned against mindless acceptance of western ideas and pleaded far "discovering our own self". Other illustrious "swarajists" are Tagore, Nauroji, Ranade and of course Gandhi. More recently Dube, Joshi and Daya Krishna have emphasised the sociocultural matrix of ideas., , May be, by bringing philosophers, sociologists, litterateurs and political activists on one platform, we could take a step in the right direction, i.e., intellectual swaraj. About The Author: Ashok Celly, the editor of this book was Reader in English, Rajdhani College, University of Delhi. He has authored a book entitled Emily Bronte, D.H. Lawrence and the Black Horse and edited D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. He has also contributed articles on cultural and educational issues to leading dailies like The Times of India, Hindustan Times and Indian Express. Contents: Contents, Preface 7, Acknowledgements 9, List of Contributor 11, Introduction 13, 1. Swaraj in Ideas 27, 2. An Eastern University 45, 3. Encounter between Civilizations : The Question, of the Centre and the Periphery 75, 4. Indigenization of the Social Sciences 99, 5. Countering Aupaniveshik Mansikta : Swaraj and, Swadeshi in Indian Social Science 115, 6. Science and Swaraj 163, 7. On Schemes of Research at Indian Universities 173, 8. Their Classics, Our Classics 183, Bibliography 197, Index 201 The Title 'Towards a New Paradigm in Higher Education Appropriate Knowledge: Essays in Intellectual Swaraj written/authored/edited by Ashok Celly', published in the year 2008. The ISBN 9788178356143 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 207 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Education. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: 207.…