Ramkrishna Bhattacharya North-South Divide The story of Agastya, a north Indian sage, crossing the Vindhya hills and visiting south India (never to return), is well known. It has given rise to a proverb, Agstya-yātrā in Bangla and maybe in other north Indian languages. Like all legends it is without date. So, it has been interpreted…
Ramkrishna Bhattacharya This is Part II of the essay “From Proto-materialism to Materialism: The Indian Scenario”. Part I can be accessed here. 6. Inventory of Sources for Studying Materialism in India What are the sources for studying the course of development from proto-materialism to materialism proper? A philosophical system in India implies…
Ramkrishna Bhattacharya The existence of more than one materialist school before the Cārvāka (eighth century) has been admitted by modern scholars.[1] They have used different nomenclatures to denote the pre-Cārvāka and Cārvāka materialist systems. I prefer to use simpler names, «old materialism» and «new materialism».[2] Unlike them, however, I do not propose to confine…