[WhatsUpUoH] An INTERACTION and LECTURE DISCUSSION By PROF.RAJEEV BHARGAVA

UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

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An INTERACTION

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LECTURE DISCUSSION

By

PROF.RAJEEV BHARGAVA

Director Centre for the Study of Developing Societies,

New Delhi

Title

"BEYOND TOLERATION:CIVILITY AND PRINCIPLED DISTANCE IN ASOKAN EDICTS"

Abstract: One of the distinctive features of the Indian sub-continent is its rich religious diversity. Here I examine onepolitical response to deep religious and philosophical diversity in third centurybce, a period of great intellectual turmoil, conflict and innovation, Emperor Asoka issued edicts that advised people of all religious faiths to live together and claimed that the condition of sociability is fulfilled by all religious and philosophical perspectives as values of self-restraint and self-purification are available as resource in each. In the public arena, this translates into restraint of speech and civility towards one another, an advice that holds lessons even today. My presentation situates edicts 7 and 12 in their intellectual context and offers a detailed account of why they were required.

DATE / TIME: 22^rd  JANUARY 2014 AT 3.00  P.M.

VENUE : CONFERENCE HALL , SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

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Rajeev Bhargava is author of Individualism in Social Science, Secularism and its Critics (ed), What is Political Theory and Why do we need it?, The Promise of India's secular democracy.  His contributions to political theory particularly in debates on Secularism, constitutionalism and reconciliation between communities are internationally recognized. He received the Malcolm Adishesiah award for his contribution to Social Sciences and the UGC national award for his contribution to Political Science. He taught between 1979 and 2005 at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Delhi and is currently Senior Fellow and Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. 

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