Epilogue

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Notes

1.  Ajay Skaria reads Gandhi as a conservative in the deep philosophical sense of the term. See Ajay Skaria, Unconditional Equality: Gandhi’s Religion of Equality (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2016).

2.  Debes Roy has shown how the syntax and punctuation of Bengali prose was refashioned in colonial times as a mirror-image of English, and via the work of printing press technologies. See Debes Roy, ‘Use of Punctuation Marks in the Bengali Journalistic Prose, 1818–1858’, CSSSC Occasional Paper 18 (Calcutta: CSSSC, 1978).

3.  Sudipta Kaviraj, ‘Writing, Speaking, Being’, in The Imaginary Institution of India: Politics and Ideas (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), pp. 127–66.

4.  Dhurjati Prasad Mukherjee, ‘The Intellectuals in India’, in Diversities: Essays in Economics, Sociology and Other Social Problems (Delhi: People’s Publishing House, 1958), pp. 242–69.

5.  Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates between Gandhi and Tagore, 1915–1941 (Delhi: National Book Trust, 2011).

6.  Manik Bandopadhyay, ‘Sahitya Karar Age’, in Manik Granthabali, Vol. 12 (Calcutta: Granthalaya, 1975), pp. 354–60.

7.  Jean-Paul Sartre, What is Literature and Other Essays, ed. and trans. Steven Ungar (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 40; and Jacques Rancière, ‘The Concept of “Critique” and the “Critique of Political Economy” (from the 1844 Manuscript to Capital)’, in Economy & Society, Vol. 5, no. 3 (1976), pp. 352–76.

8.  For a study of the conflict between life and contemplation in the Western European intellectual tradition, see Peter Sloterdijk, The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as Practice (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012).

9.  Radhakamal Mukherjee, Principles of Comparative Economics, Vol. 1 (London: P.S. King & Sons, 1921).

10.  For reflections on the crisis of intellectual history in the European academy, see Dominick LaCapra and Steven Kaplan (eds), Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspectives (Ithaca, NY/London: Cornell University Press, 1982).

11.  Vinayak Chaturvedi, ‘From Oral History to Intellectual History (and the Unintended Autobiography)’, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 41, no. 4 (Dec. 2018), doi:10.1080/00856401.2018.1514554.