Select Bibliography; Citations; Further Reading
Balagangadhara, S. N. 1988. ‘Comparative Anthropology and Moral Domains: An Essay on Selfless Morality and the Moral Self’. Cultural Dynamics 1 (1): 98–128.
———. 2006. ‘Imagining Hinduism: A Postcolonial Perspective. By Sharada Sugirtharajah. Routledge, 2003’. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74 (3): 801–5.
———. 2010a. ‘Spirituality in Management Theories: A Perspective from India’. In Spirituality and Business: Exploring Possibilities for a New Management Paradigm, edited by Sharda S. Nandram and Margot Esther Borden, 45–59. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.
———. 2012a. ‘Colonialism and Colonial Consciousness’. In Reconceptualizing India Studies, 95–120. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
———. 2022. Cultures Differ Differently: Selected Essays of S.N. Balagangadhara. Edited by Jakob De Roover and Sarika Rao. Oxon: Routledge.
Balagangadhara, S. N., and Sarika Rao. 2021. What Does It Mean to Be ‘Indian’? Chennai: Notion Press.
Balagangadhara, S.N. 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"’. http://www.cultuurwetenschap.be/.
———. 1987. ‘Comparative Anthropology and Action Sciences: An Essay on Knowing to Act and Acting to Know’. Philosophica 40 (2): 77–107.
———. 1990a. ‘The Origin of Religion: Why Is the Issue Dead?’ Cultural Dynamics 3:281–316.
———. 1990b. ‘Understanding and Imagination: A Critical Notice of Halbfass and Inden’. Cultural Dynamics 3 (4): 387–405.
———. 1994. ‘The Heathen in His Blindness...’ Asia, the West, and the Dynamic of Religion. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
———. 1998. ‘The Future of the Present: Thinking Through Orientalism’. Cultural Dynamics 10 (2): 101–21.
———. 2005a. ‘How to Speak for the Indian Traditions: An Agenda for the Future’. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 73 (4): 987–1013.
———. 2005b. ‘The Heathen in His Blindness...’ Asia, the West, and the Dynamic of Religion. 2nd ed. Delhi: Manohar.
———. 2007a. ‘India and Her Traditions: A Reply to Jeffrey Kripal’. In Invading the Sacred: An Analysis of Hinduism Studies in America, edited by Krishnan Ramaswamy, Antonio de Nicolas, and Aditi Banerjee, 429–48. Delhi: Rupa & Co.
———. 2007b. ‘“…To Follow Our Forefathers…” The Nature of Tradition’. India-Forum.Com, 2007.
———. 2007c. ‘What Can India Offer?’ Outlookindia.Com, 7 July 2007. http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?235020.
———. 2008a. ‘Comparing India and the West’. ASIANetwork Exchange 16 (1).
———. 2008b. ‘The Saint, The Criminal And The Terrorist’. Tehelka. 2008. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne061208saint.asp.
———. 2009a. ‘Bharatiyarige Enu Beku Charitreyo, Gatakalavo? [What Do Indians Want? History or Past?]’. Translated by Rajaram Hegde. Matukate, no. Feb, 1–27.
———. 2009b. ‘Stereotypes: A Theoretical Hypothesis’. Unpublished Manuscript.
———. 2010b. ‘Orientalism, Postcolonialism and the “Construction” of Religion’. In Rethinking Religion in India: The Colonial Construction of Hinduism, edited by Esther Bloch, Marianne Keppens, and Rajaram Hedge, 135–63. London: Routledge.
———. 2010c. Purvaavalokana: Vasahatu Prajne Mattu Samskrutika Adhyayana. Edited by Rajaram Hegde and J.S. Sadananda. Bangalore: Abhinava.
———. 2010d. Smruti-Vismruti: Bharateeya Samskruti. Translated by Rajaram Hegde. Heggodu: Akshara Prakashana.
———. 2011a. ‘Translations, Or Travesty of Traditions?’, 2011. www.hipkapi.com/2011/04/02/translations-or-travesty-of-traditions-s-n-balagangadhara/.
———. 2011b. ‘Why Understand the Western Culture?’ www.hipkapi.com/2011/04/02/why-understand-the-western-culture-s-n-balagangadhara/.
———. 2012b. ‘India and Her Traditions: An Open Letter to Jeffrey Kripal’. In Reconceptualizing India Studies, 121–46. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
———. 2012c. ‘Oh Europa, My Lady, Whither Are You Going?: An Open Letter to Europa.’ Witness to Our Times (blog). 2012. https://witness-to-our-times.org/2015/11/17/6/).
———. 2012d. Reconceptualizing India Studies. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
———. 2013. ‘Vachanagalannu Adhyatmika Sandharbadallittu Nodidaga... [When You Place the Vachanas in the Context of the Adhyatma...]’. Prajavani, 18 April 2013.
———. 2014a. ‘On the Dark Side of the “Secular”: Is the Religious-Secular Distinction a Binary?’ Numen 61 (1): 33–52.
———. 2014b. ‘Translation, Interpretation and Culture: On the Disingenuity of a Comparative Theology’. Canadian Social Science 10 (5): 39–47.
———. 2014c. ‘What Do Indians Need, A History or the Past?: A Challenge or Two to Indian Historians’. VII Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Memorial Lecture, Indian Council of Historical Research, November 11. http://ichr.ac.in/snb_lec.pdf.
———. 2015a. ‘A Prolegomenon: Are Dialogues Between Us Possible?: Reconceptualizing Inter-Tradition Dialogues in the Twenty-First Century’. www.academia.edu/19646482/Rethinking_Inter-religious_Dialogues.
———. 2015b. Bauddhika Dasyadalli Bharata [India in Intellectual Slavery]. Translated by Rajarama Hegde. 2nd ed. Bangalore: Vasanta Prakashana.
———. 2015c. Buddhijeevigala Moodhanambikegalu [Superstitions of the Intellectuals]. Translated by Rajarama Hegde. Bangalore: Vasanta Prakashana.
———. 2015d. ‘Chidbelagina Bayalu: Bharateeyara Jnanodayada Parikalpane Mattu Vachanakaararu [On Indian Notion of Enlightenment and the Vachana Composers]’. In Kotta Kudureyaneralariyade: Vachanagala Adhyayanadalli Adhunikara Purvagrahagalu Mattu Avugalaachege [Not Riding the Given Horse: Assumptions of Modern Scholars in the Vachana Studies and Going Beyond Them], edited by Rajaram Hegde and A Shanmukha, 3–45. Bangalore: Nilume.
———. 2017. ‘Some Theses on Colonial Consciousness’. Unpublished/Forthcoming. https://www.academia.edu/5336185/SOME_THESES_ON_COLONIAL_CONSCIOUSNESS.
Balagangadhara, S.N., and Sudha Anantharaman. 2007. ‘In Search of New Idioms [An Interview With S.N. Balagangadhara]’. The Hindu, 9 December 2007, sec. Magazine. http://www.hindu.com/mag/2007/12/09/stories/2007120950090400.htm.
Balagangadhara, S.N., Esther Bloch, and Jakob De Roover. 2008. ‘Rethinking Colonialism and Colonial Consciousness: The Case of Modern India’. In Rethinking Forms of Knowledge in India, 179–212. Delhi: Pencraft International.
Balagangadhara, S.N., and Shoma Chaudhury. 2008. ‘“Crimes Are Transformed into Moral Acts”’. Tehelka Magazine, 2008. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne131208crimes_are.asp.
Balagangadhara, S.N., and Sarah Claerhout. 2008. ‘Are Dialogues Antidotes to Violence? Two Recent Examples from Hinduism Studies’. Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 7 (19): 118–43.
Balagangadhara, S.N., and Jakob De Roover. 2007. ‘The Secular State and Religious Conflict: Liberal Neutrality and the Indian Case of Pluralism’. The Journal of Political Philosophy 15 (1): 67–92.
———. 2009. ‘The Saint, the Criminal and the Terrorist: Towards a Hypothesis on Terrorism’. The Journal of Political Philosophy, 1–15.
———. 2012. ‘The Dark Hour of Secularism: Hindu Fundamentalism and Colonial Liberalism in India’. In Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perspective from Europe to Asia, 111–30. New York: Routledge.
Balagangadhara, S.N., and Divya Jhingran. 2014. Do All Road Lead to Jerusalem?: The Making of Indian Religions. New Delhi: Manohar.
Balagangadhara, S.N., and Marianne Keppens. 2009. ‘Reconceptualising the Postcolonial Project: Beyond the Strictures and Structures of Orientalism’. Interventions 11 (1): 50–68.
De Roover, Jakob, and S.N. Balagangadhara. 2008. ‘John Locke, Christian Liberty, and the Predicament of Liberal Toleration’. Political Theory 36 (4): 523–49.
———. 2009. ‘Liberty, Tyranny and the Will of God: The Principle of Toleration in Early Modern Europe and Colonial India’. History of Political Thought 30 (1): 111–39.
De Roover, Jakob, Sarah Claerhout, and S. N. Balagangadhara. 2011. ‘Liberal Political Theory and the Cultural Migration of Ideas: The Case of Secularism in India’. Political Theory 39 (5): 571–99.
Gelders, Raf, and S.N. Balagangadhara. 2011. ‘Rethinking Orientalism: Colonialism and the Study of Indian Traditions’. History of Religions 51 (2): 101–28.
Jalki, Dunkin, ed. 2012a. Bharatadalli Jaativyavasthe Ideye?: Jaativyavasthe Kuritu S.N Balagangadhara Mattu Avara Samshodhana Tandada Vichaaragalu. Malladihalli: Anandakanda Granthamale.
Pinxten, Rik, and S.N. Balagangadhara. 1989. ‘Comparative Anthropology and Rhetorics in Cultures: Reflections on Argumentation Theories and Forms of Life’. In Norms in Argumentation, 195–212. Dordrecht: Foris Publications.
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