Absent women philosophers from past to present in Indian thought: Ṛṣikās, Sarojini Naidu, and Jaishree Odin

Ali, Muzaffar, Shukla, Richa and Rathour, Mansi (2024) Absent women philosophers from past to present in Indian thought: Ṛṣikās, Sarojini Naidu, and Jaishree Odin. Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. ISSN 2666-3171 (In Press)

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Abstract

This essay seeks to retrace, retrieve, recover, and reclaim the voices of women thinkers and philosophers throughout the history of Indian philosophy. The aim is to initiate a discussion on the conventional and ‘malestream’ character of established knowledge in philosophy. We focus on a few women thinkers to underline the fact that by acknowledging and elevating their previously erased and marginalized works, an alternative, and enriched, trajectory of the entire philosophical corpus of Indian thought is possible. To create a slice of such an alternate trajectory, we discuss the contributions of Ṛṣikās (women sages), Sarojini Naidu, and Jaishree Odin in the ancient, modern, and contemporary domains of Indian philosophy to argue and underline that these otherwise erased and absent women are thinking-beings actively involved in the give and take of philosophical progress in the Indian context.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Vedic | Rig-Veda | Nationalism | Hypertext | Thinker | Feminist
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Arts and Humanities > Religious studies
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General)
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Law School
Depositing User: Subhajit Bhattacharjee
Date Deposited: 06 Sep 2024 11:00
Last Modified: 06 Sep 2024 11:00
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/2666318X-bja00026
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/8433

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