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Thinkers and essays gathered around this school of thought.
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39Major Works
19Archive Entries
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Pandita Ramabai
Centers women’s learning, religious conscience, and practical care in social reform.
“Women’s education must be examined, not inherited.”
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Ecology · Ethics
The Essence of Sovereignty: Being and Belonging in the Modern World
The Essence of Sovereignty: Being and Belonging in the Modern World
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The Dangers of Unexamined Technological Assumptions
The Dangers of Unexamined Technological Assumptions
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The Role of Women’s Education in Preventing Societal Missteps
The Role of Women's Education in Preventing Societal Missteps
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Jyotirao Phule
Modern
Savitribai Phule
Modern
Pandita Ramabai
Modern
Rabindranath Tagore
Modern
Sister Nivedita
Modern
Mahatma Gandhi
Modern
Sri Aurobindo
Contemporary
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Contemporary
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Modern
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Contemporary
Thinkers
1887–1920
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Embodies the mysterious partnership between intuition, pattern, proof, and mathematical beauty.
Indian Thought · Intuition · Mathematics
1827–1890
Jyotirao Phule
Makes education and anti-caste critique central to social freedom.
Anti-Caste Thought · Education · Indian Thought
1858–1922
Pandita Ramabai
Centers women’s learning, religious conscience, and practical care in social reform.
Education · Feminist Thought · Indian Thought
1867–1911
Sister Nivedita
Explores education, service, culture, and national awakening through a cross-cultural lens.
Anti-Colonial Thought · Education · Feminist Thought
1872–1950
Sri Aurobindo
Connects consciousness, evolution, politics, and spiritual practice into a vast integral philosophy.
Indian Thought · Metaphysics · Political Philosophy
1888–1975
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Builds bridges between Indian philosophical traditions and global religious understanding.
Comparative Philosophy · Education · Indian Thought
1869–1948
Mahatma Gandhi
Examines truth-force, nonviolent resistance, self-discipline, anti-colonial politics, and the ethics of means and ends.
Anti-Colonial Thought · Ethics · Indian Thought
1952–present
Vandana Shiva
Critiques industrial agriculture, patents, seed sovereignty, biodiversity, ecofeminism, and the politics of knowledge and food.
Ecology · Feminist Thought · Indian Thought
1861–1941
Rabindranath Tagore
Explores nationalism, education, poetry, freedom, universal humanity, rural reconstruction, and the dangers of narrow identity.
Education · Ethics · Indian Thought
1895–1986
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Questions authority, conditioning, fear, thought, education, freedom, and whether truth can belong to any organization.
Education · Indian Thought · Psychology
1831–1897
Savitribai Phule
Centers education, anti-caste feminism, girls’ schooling, dignity, poetry, and social reform against inherited exclusion.
Anti-Caste Thought · Education · Feminist Thought
1879–1973
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Challenges caste, patriarchy, religious authority, rationalism, self-respect, Dravidian identity, and social hierarchy.
Anti-Caste Thought · Indian Thought · Political Philosophy
1891–1956
B. R. Ambedkar
Analyzes caste, democracy, law, Buddhism, equality, social reform, constitutionalism, and annihilation of inherited hierarchy.
Anti-Caste Thought · Indian Thought · Law
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