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Development as Freedom

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

The Wretched of the Earth

Mind, Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist

Truth and method

My dissertation titled “Two Models of Consensus” is based on five arguments. 1. Consensus is asymmetrical. 2. Consensus is partial or limited unanimity. 3. Consensus and democracy do have a concomitant relation. 4. Consensus is not organic to political systems. 5. Consensus depends upon civil society, subsidiarity, and the dominant cultural paradigm of

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Two Models Of Consensus

In his magnum opus, "A Theory of Justice" (1971), John Rawls, one of the most influential American philosophers of the twentieth century, emphasizes two principles of justice, one that ensures equa...

Digital Divide And Equity In Education: A Rawlsian Analysis

In recent debates on the theoretical framework of social sciences, Indian political scientist Gopal Guru mounted a critique that Indian social science is not representative and egalitarian. In the same breath, Gopal Guru sought to rationalise this lacuna. Guru claimed that the works of Dalit scholars and thinkers are more performance-oriented and less theoretical. This paper would raise several issues with reference to Gopal Guru’s claims: Does theory belong to an elite category? Does the lack of representation of Dalit scholarship present a theoretical conundrum for Indian social sciences? Is Gopal Guru falling into the trap of hierarchical complementarity between theory and performance/praxis? And, is there an intractable dilemma among the Dalit scholars between the politics of representation and the politics of ideas? This paper demonstrates that Guru’s insistence on the moral, existential and social necessity of the Dalit theory is valid. But he is wrong in what he denies.

Sudarsan Padmanabhan

Papers

Two Models Of Consensus

Digital Divide And Equity In Education: A Rawlsian Analysis

Theory as Elite: The Phenomenological Dilemma of Dalit Critique

The Democratic Predicament : Cultural Diversity in Europe and India

Becoming Minority: How Discourses and Policies Produce Minorities in Europe and India