Forms of Knowledge in India: Critical Revaluations is a collection that attemtpts to explore some of the major texts, contexts, and cultural figures like Gandhi and Tagore to give a sense of the dynamic and vibrant nature of the knowledge-systems India has produced since antiquity. Comparative analysis and juxtaposition of various conflicting views to question a given hegemonic perspective define the collection's objective and mode of analysis. The essays analyze and revaluate the importance of some ancient Sanskrit texts, ancient Indian Philosophy, ancient and medieval linguistics, Buddhist art, Sanskrit archival traditions, colonial and postcolonial discourse, and some of the works and projects of Gandhi and Tagore. These disciplines and figures are studied for their continuing importance for modern India and for developments for forms of inquiry in the West and elsewhere. The highly focused, learned, and thoughtful reflections and revaluations proposed in this book contitute and a truly interdisciplinary project, representative of some of the best work being done in the various discipliens on India and Southeast Asia. About Author : Suresh Raval is Professor of English at the University of Arizona. Author of Metacriticism; The Art of Failure: Conrad's Fiction; and Grounds of Literary Criticism, he has also published essays in literary and philosophcial journals such as ELH, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The Monist, Style, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, among others. He is currently writing a book on Kipling, Forster, and Tagore. G.M. Mehta is currently Director, Vidya Bhawan Rural Institute, Udaipur. He taught English at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur for a number of years. He had served that University as Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Head of English Department. A specialist in English Language Teaching, he has been trained at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, UK as a British Council scholar fr