Back in 1987, the late poet A K Ramanujan wrote an essay called “Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?”. A more appropriate title might have been “Is There a Hindu Way of Thinking?” because that’s what the essay was about.
Ramanujan had assumed that all Indians were Hindus, I think, a common enough feature. The essay was devoted to moral issues and how for the Hindus morality was contextual.
But recently I read a book that talks about how Muslim Indians thought about legal and political issues in the 1920s and 1930s. As the Americans say, we get a sense of
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