publications
Publications
Translation, Interpretation, and Culture: on the disingenuity of a comparative Theology
On the Dark side of the "Secular': is the Religious-Secular distinction a binary?
Gandhi, conversion and the Equality of religions: more experiments with truth
Liberal Political Theory and the Cultural migration of ideas: the case of secularism in India
Rethinking Orientalism: Colonialism and the study of Indian traditions
Genealogy of Colonial discourse: Hindu traditions and the limits of European representation
The Saint, the Criminal and the Terrorist: towards a hypothesis on terrorism
Liberty, Tyranny, and the Will of God: the principle of toleration in Early modern Europe and Colonial India
Reconceptualizing the Postcolonial Project: Beyond the strictures and Structures of Orientalism
John Locke, Christian Liberty and the predicament of Liberal Toleration
Incurably religious? Consensus gentium and the cultural universality of religion
An unhappy lover of theology: Feuerbach and contemporary religious studies
Comparing India and the West
Are dialogues antidotes to violence? Two recent examples from Hinduism studies
Rethinking Colonialism and colonial consciousness
Spirituality in management theories: a perspective from India
Orientalism, postcolonialsm and the 'construction' of religion
Review Essay: Religion and the Secular
The dark hour of secularism: Hindu fundamentalism and colonial liberalism in India
Secularization as the harbinger of religious violence in India: hybridization, Hindutva and post-coloniality
Conversion of the world: Proselytization in India and the universalization of Christianity
Mantras of anti-brahmanism: colonial experience of Indian intellectuals
The Secular state and religious conflict: liberal neutrality and the Indian case of pluralism
How to speak for Indian traditions: An agenda for the future
The future of the present: thinking through orientalism
The origin of religion: why is the issue dead?
Understanding and Imagination: A critical notice of Halbfass and Inden
Comparative anthropology and moral domains: an essay on selfless morality and the moral self
Comparative anthropology and action science: an essay on knowing to act and acting to know
Comparative anthropology and rhetorics: norms in argumentation
Review Article: Frits Staal's Rules without Meaning: Ritual, Mantras and the Human Sciences
Rethinking a Humboldtian vision for the twenty first century
Decolonising the social sciences. Utopia or a task for today
1985 "...We Shall Not Cease From Exploration..." An invitation disguised as a position paper composed at the behest of arena for the theme "Decolonizing Social Sciences"
Inter cultural dailogue On the very idea of an inter cultural dialogue