Pankaj Jain is a Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at FLAME University, where he is heading the Indic Studies Initiative in the FLAME School of Liberal Education. He has also taught in Australia and the USA, and has published extensively in the fields of comparative religion and Indology.ĭr.
Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Scholarly and accessible, The Ruler's Gaze throws fresh light on Indian colonial history through a Saidian lens.įormerly of the IAS, Dr. He explores in an Indian context Said's contention that the relationship between knowledge and power is central to the way the West depicts the non-West. It critiqued Western scholarship about the Eastern world for its patronizing attitude and tendency to view it as exotic, backward and uncivilized.Īrvind Sharma, longstanding professor of comparative religion at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, now takes up the Palestinian academic's groundbreaking ideas - originally put forth predominantly in a Middle Eastern context - and tests them against Indian material. He is also the general editor of the Encyclopedia of Indian Religions (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer,2017).Įpisode 3 (New Books in Indian Studies): Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) is a seminal work in the field of postcolonial culture studies. He has contributed to and edited Our Religions: The Seven World Religions Introduced by Prominent Scholars from Each Tradition. His recent books include The Ruler’s Gaze: A Study of British Rule over India from a Saidian perspective, Gandhi: A Spiritual Biography Hinduism and Its Sense of History and Decolonizing Indian Studies. He was instrumental, through three global conferences (2006, 2011, 2016), in facilitating the adoption of a Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World’s Religions. Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, He has taught in Australia (University of Queensland, Sydney) and the USA (Northeastern, Temple, Boston, Harvard) and has published extensively in the fields of comparative religion and Indology. Speaker: Professor Arvind Sharma, McGill University, Canadaįormerly of the IAS, Dr. This talk will focus on the kind of shifts in understanding of such key categories suggested by modern developments. The history of Hinduism, from one point of view, is a history of the periodic realignments of its conceptual universe, consisting of such key categories as Karma, Dharma, Veda, Yoga, and soon. Rethinking Hindu Concepts: A Webinar by Professor Arvind Sharma
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