Social thought in Indic civilization / edited by Himanshu Roy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dharma in Indic tradition / Ruchi Tyagi -- Stritva in Rigveda / Kaustubh Gaurh and Abhishek Parashar -- Music and musical thought in Ramayana and Mahabharata / Kaustubh Gaurh -- Knowledge traditions in ancient India / Shri Prakash Singh -- Violence and non-violence in Indian religious traditions / Dinesh Kumar Singh -- Medicinal concepts and institutions in precolonial India / Shankar Kumar -- Concept of Shakti and women saints in medieval Maharashtra / Sonali Chitalkar -- Knowledge traditions and institutions in precolonial India / Niraj Kumar Jha -- Methodology of Shastrarth / Sidheshwar Shukla -- Indic in Southeast Asian culture / Ritika Joshi -- Colonial institutions and oriental knowledge formation / Santoshi Kumari.

"Social Thought in Indic Civilization presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the pre-colonial social thought. It draws on the methodologies and research traditions of history, political science and sociology to look at major themes and social processes to provide a comprehensive understanding of the society in the historical setting contextualized in the social and political relations of the time. The arguments, facts, themes and interpretations presented in the book are usually not found in the mainstream academic narratives. This book explores a range of key themes such as non-violence in religious praxis; dharma in Indic social traditions; medicinal concepts and institutions; ideas and praxis of Shastrarth; knowledge traditions and institutions; music traditions; and Stritva in texts and praxis. This study highlights the impact of colonial rule on the 'construction of knowledge' from a Western (colonial) perspective and how it ignored the importance of Indian political thought of the pre-colonial period"-- Provided by publisher.