Dr. Ashmita Khasnabish Guest Lecture “Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context”

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London

The talk "Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context" is based on Dr. Ashmita Khasnabish’s recent monograph Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: a Philosophical Politics which analyses how Indian philosophical imagination could bring transcendence and immanence or pragmatism together. It starts with the Amartya Sen's theory of "capability" which arose as a critique of the American philosopher…