Introduction / Anand Pandian and Daud Ali Part 1. Traditions in Transmission 1. The Subhas.ita as an Artifact of Ethical Life in Medieval India / Daud Ali; 2. Disciplining the Senses, Schooling the Mind: Inhabiting Virtue in the Tamil Tin.n.ai School / Bhavani Raman; 3. Ethical Traditions in Question: Diaspora Jainism and the Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements / James Laidlaw Part 2. Ethics and Modernity 4. Vernacular Capitalists and the Modern Subject in India: Law, Cultural Politics, and Market Ethics / Ritu Birla; 5. The Ethics of Textuality: The Protestant Sermon and the Tamil Public Sphere / Bernard Bate; 6. Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History / Dipesh Chakrabarty Part 3. Practices of the Self 7. Between Intuition and Judgment: Moral Creativity in Theravada Buddhist Ethics / Charles Hallisey; 8. Young Manliness: Ethical Culture in the Gymnasiums of the Medieval Deccan / Emma Flatt; 9. Ethical Subjects: Time, Timing, and Tellability / Leela Prasad; 10. Demoralizing Developments: Ethics, Class, and Student Power in Modern North India / Craig Jeffrey Part 4. Ethical Lives of Others 11. Living by Dying / Ajay Skaria; 12. Moral and Spiritual Striving in the Everyday: To Be a Muslim in Contemporary India / Veena Das; 13. Ethical Publicity / Lawrence Cohen List of Contributors; Index
Moral thought and ethical practice in South Asia, past and present
Anand Pandian is Associate Professor of Anthropology at 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.
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