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Common Ground Publishing
Language
English
Pages
348

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Subjects
East and West, Cultural pluralism, Acculturation, Eurocentrism, Philosophy, Colonization, Globalization, Civilization, History, Intercultural communication

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Table of Contents

Introduction / Burjor Avari and George Gheverghese Joseph
Section I. Eurocentrism
Modern science and traditional knowledge / Nels H. Granholm and Charles L. Woodard
Closed continuity or cross-fertilization : how did the scientific revolution happen? / Arun Bala
Kant and Chinese philosophy / Keekok Lee
Pharmacy in ancient Egypt and its legacy to world pharmacopoeia / Jacquline M. Campbell
Mathematics : a global history / George Gheverghese Joseph
Engineering shared prosperity : kautilya's Arthashastra / Balbir Sihag
Panini : the father of grammar / Amba Kulkarni
Strategies of a Eurocentric project / George Joseph
Ibn Khaldun's philosophy of history / Burjor Avari
The attitude of Islamic civilization to ancient sciences / Rabie E. Abdel-Halim
Section II. Patterns of cultural encounters
Travel writing in a cross-cultural and historical perspective / Mary Searle-Chatterjee
Iran and India : two cultures across time : an Iranian perspective / Afsaneh Monfared
The journey of African religious and epistemological ideas to the New World-diaspora / Afe Adogame
From Liszt to Eurovision : the impact of Gypsy music / Yaron Matras
The impact of Christian missions on the non-Christian world / Martin Palmer
The multicultural roots of humanism / Robin Grinter
Egypt-Mesopotamia-Greece nexus / George Gheverghese Joseph
Zoroastrianism and Abrahamic faiths / Farrokh Vajifdar
Section III. Colonialism and its aftermath
Colonialism and the economics of unequal exchange / Tidings P. Ndhlovu
The spread and impact of English education in colonial India / Anindita Ghosh
Postcolonial literature from Africa and the Caribbean : contact zones of language and culture / Ketu H. Katrak
Palestine, orientalism and the orientalists : remembering Edward Said / Burjor Avari and George Gheverghese Joseph
Section IV. Westernisation and its fruits
The idea of democracy and its practice / Burjor Avari
On feminist/gender approaches in an intersecting world : "But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth..." / Shoba Arun
Ebbs and flows in education from the pre-eminence of the European classical model to global developments / Nicholas J. Tyldesley
Financialisation in an interwoven world / Thankom Arun
Sport and values : transmission and transformation / Robin Grinter
Virtues of the West / Burjor Avari
The man who knew infinity : the life and times of Srinivasa Ramanujan / George Gheverghese Joseph.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Champaign, Illinois
Series
Community series

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Dewey Decimal Class
909
Library of Congress
CB69 .I585 2015, CB69

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pages cm.
Number of pages
348

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OL30401478M
ISBN 13
9781612298283, 9781612298290
LCCN
2015041979, 2015049161

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