Preface

1. See Hegel, Lectures on the History of Philosophy, vol. I (New York, NY: Humanities Press, 1974), chaps. Introduction and Indian Philosophy; See also, B. K. Matilal, Mind, Language and World, edited by J. Ganeri (New Delhi: OUP, 2002), pp. 351–369.

2. See Himanshu Roy, Secularism and Its Colonial Legacy in India (Delhi: Manak, 2009), Preface and Introduction.

3. John Austin and Jean Bodin are considered as the theoretical classical representatives of legal and external sovereignties of early bourgeois state. See, for example, their books: John Austin, Lectures on Jurisprudence (London: John Murray, 1832) and Jean Bodin, On Sovereignty, edited by Julian H. Franklin (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

4. See Farhat Hasan, ‘Forms of Civility and Publicness in Pre-British India’ in Rajeev Bhargava and Helmut Reifeld (eds) Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship (New Delhi: Sage, 2005).

5. See Gail Omvedt, SeekingBegumpura (New Delhi: Navayana, 2008).

6. See K M. Panikkar, ‘Colonialism, Culture and Revivalism’, Social Scientist, vol. 31, nos 1–2, Jan-Feb 2003.

7. See Yogendra Yadav, ‘Was Lohia Parochial and Monolingual?’, Economic & Political Weekly, 24 Oct 2009.