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Organization: Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry
Position: Honorary (Senior Fellow)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts The University of Auckland
Postgraduate Diploma in Arts Dunedin
Doctor of Philosophy La Trobe University

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Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Abhava: Negation in logic, real non-existent, and a distinctive pramana in the Mimamsa
    Year: 2008
    Book: Logic, Navya-Nyaya & Application: Homage to Bimal Krishna Matilal
    Publisher: College Publications(London)
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  • Being and Text: Dialogic Fecundation of Western Hermeneutics and Hindu Mimamsa in the Critical Era
    Year: 2008
    Book: Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought: Toward a Fusion of Horizons
    Publisher: Springer
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  • Nyaya
    Year: 2008
    Book: Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures
    Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg(Berlin)
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Journal Articles

  • Nietzsche as "Europe's Buddha" and "Asia's Superman"
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Sophia - An International journal for Philosophical Theology and Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 359-376
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Indian Ethics
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Ashgate
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  • Traditions of Science: Cross-cultural Perspectives
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers(New Delhi)
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Book Chapters

  • A Prolegomenon for Reconfiguring Science and Theology within Metaphysics, India and the Rest
    Year: 2007
    Book: Traditions of Science: Cross-cultural Perspectives
    Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers(New Delhi)
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  • Animal ethics and ecology in classical India - reflections on a moral tradition
    Year: 2007
    Book: Indian Ethics
    Publisher: Ashgate
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  • Dismantling normativity in Indian ethics - from Vedic altarity to the Gita's alterity
    Year: 2007
    Book: Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • General Introduction
    Year: 2007
    Book: Indian Ethics
    Publisher: Ashgate
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  • Introduction to Part A: Vedas to the Gita; dharma, rites to 'Right'
    Year: 2007
    Book: Indian Ethics
    Publisher: Ashgate
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  • Introduction to Part B: Buddhist and Jain Approaches to Ethical Decision Making
    Year: 2007
    Book: Indian Ethics
    Publisher: Ashgate
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  • Introduction to Part C: Reflections on Moral Ideals and Modernity; Gandhi and Nonviolence
    Year: 2007
    Book: Indian Ethics
    Publisher: Ashgate
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  • Introduction: A Life in the History of Science
    Year: 2007
    Book: Traditions of Science: Cross-cultural Perspectives
    Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers(New Delhi)
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  • Karma's Suffering: a Mimamsa solution to the problem of evil
    Year: 2007
    Book: Indian Ethics
    Publisher: Ashgate
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  • Lost Souls, Troubled Minds: The Medicalization of Madness in Mysore State during the British Raj
    Year: 2007
    Book: Traditions of Science: Cross-cultural Perspectives
    Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers(New Delhi)
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Journal Articles

  • '9/11': Hindu and Asian Responses in Oceania
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Man in India
    Volume: 87
    Issue: 1 & 2
    Page numbers: 83 - 101
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  • Transglobalism of Self-exiled Hindus: The Case of Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Religion Compass
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 305 - 328
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Prameyas and J.L.Shaw
    Year: 2006
    Book: Contemporary Philosophy and J.L.Shaw
    Publisher: Punthi Pustak(Kolkata)
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Journal Articles

  • The pseudo-secularization of Hindutva and its campaign for uniform civil codes
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Nidan
    Volume: 18
    Issue: Dec 2006
    Page numbers: 1-21
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Perturbations of desire: emotions disarming morality
    Year: 2004
    Book: Thinking about feeling: contemporary philosophers on emotions
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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  • Toward revisioning Ricoeur's hermeneutic of suspicion in other spaces and cultures
    Year: 2004
    Book: Space, time and culture
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • What is the 'subaltern' of the comparative philosophy of religion?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Philosophy East and West
    Volume: 53
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 340-366
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Consciousness by any other name - some outstanding problems in the life of the mind
    Year: 2002
    Book: Consciousness and genetics
    Publisher: National Institute of Advanced Studies(Bangalore)
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  • Of ethics and mysticism: concluding reflections
    Year: 2002
    Book: Crossing boundaries: essays on the ethical status of mysticism
    Publisher: Seven Bridges Press(New York)
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  • The enlightenment paradigm of Native Right and forged hybridity of cultural rights in British India
    Year: 2002
    Book: Varieties of ethical reflection: new directions for ethics in a global context
    Publisher: Lexington Books(Lanham)
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Journal Articles

  • Book Review: Jose Ignacio Cabezon, ed., Scholasticism: cross-cultural and comparative perspectives
    Year: 2002
    Journal: History of religions
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 185-188
    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press(Chicago)
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  • Postcolonial critique of reason: Spivak between Kant and Matilal
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Interventions
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 160-167
    Publisher: Routledge
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Heidegger and the Japanese connection
    Year: 2001
    Book: A hundred years of phenomology
    Publisher: Ashgate(Aldershot)
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  • Hindu doubts about God: towards a mimamsa deconstruction
    Year: 2001
    Book: Indian philosophy
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • The making of the Hindu in Australia : a diasporic narrative
    Year: 2001
    Book: Hindu diaspora global perspectives
    Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers(New Delhi)
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Journal Articles

  • The enlightenment paradigm of native right and forged hybridity of cultural rights in British India
    Year: 2001
    Journal: South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-30
    Publisher: University of Papua New Guinea(Port Moresby)
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Major Reference Works

  • :Buddha, fifth century BCE
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Routledge(New York)
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  • :Indians
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • :Mahatma Gandha 1869-1948
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Routledge(New York)
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