ABSTRACT
The introductory chapter situates the importance of S.N. Balagangadhara’s research and briefly introduces the essays selected for this volume. Today, exciting questions about human beings as culturally differentiated beings end either in cul-de-sacs or in identity politics. In 1985, Balagangadhara formulated ‘decolonising social sciences’ as an intellectual and cognitive project spanning multiple generations. This developed into the research programme ‘Comparative Science of Cultures’. It raises and addresses new questions in the study of Western culture, Indian culture and social sciences more generally. The essays selected for this volume reflect different stages and themes in the growth of this programme from 1987 to 2021.
