On Daya Krishna

Books

Monographs and Edited Volumes:

Chandel, B. & Sharma, K L. (Eds.), The Philosophy of Daya Krishna, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, Delhi, 1996.

Summary: Professor Daya Krishna has over the last four decades of this century, written extensively on the relations between logic and empirical reality, the nature of philosophy and the art of philosophizing, the problem of freedom and its relation to values, analysed issues in social and political philosophy, and put forward a new counter- Perspective on Indian philosopher. In this volume, his ideas and writings are subjected to close critical scrutiny by some of the foremost philosophers of India, such as J. N. Mohanty, D. P. Chattopadhyaya, Sibajiban Bhattacharyya, P. K. Sen, K. J. Shah. The detailed reply by Professor Daya Krishna to each of them turns the volume into a philosophical debate on these issues in contemporary India.

Shail Mayaram (Ed.), Philosophy as Saṃvāda and Svarāj. Dialogical Meditations on Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi, Sage Pub., Delhi, 2014.

Summary: Philosophy as Samvada and Svaraj discusses Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi’s respective intellectual contributions and speculates how one might take forward the work of the two persons, who were among the most brilliant minds of our times.Both Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi emphasized freedom and autonomy of thought and upheld the importance of Samvada, somewhat inadequate in its English translation as dialogue. Moreover, both of them were philosophers concerned with how philosophy might seek its Svaraj, free from the orientalist hold of the religious, the colonial crippling of indigenous languages and institutions, and the structures and categories of un-freedom that continue to haunt inhabitants of West and non-West. Philosophy must involve Samvada — an open dialogue and intimate encounter between self and other. Both philosophers experimented with these concepts and were enormously creative.This book is a testament not only to the core values of philosophy but also to how these values can be carried forward by new weaves of tradition and modernity.

Sharma, K. L. & Bhatnagar, R. S. (Eds.), Philosophy, Society and Action, Essays in Honour of Prof. Daya Krishna, Aalekh Publishers, Jaipur, 1984.

Raveh, Daniel, Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy. A New Way of Thinking about Art, Freedom and Knowledge. Bloomsbury, London-New Delhi, 2020.
Summary: Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy introduces contemporary Indian philosophy as a unique philosophical genre through the writings of one its most significant exponents, Daya Krishna (1924-2007). It surveys Daya Krishna's main intellectual projects: rereading classical Indian sources anew, his famous Samvad Project, and his attempt to formulate a new social and political theory for India.

Conceived as a dialogue with Daya Krishna and contemporaries, including his interlocutors, Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya, Badrinath Shukla, Ramchandra Gandhi, and Mukund Lath, this book is an engaging introduction to anyone interested in contemporary Indian philosophy and in the thought-provoking writings of Daya Krishna.
Mukherjee, Asha (Guest Editor), Daya Krishna Special Volume, in Gauhati University Journal of Philosophy (GUJP), Volume 5: December 2020 (published in 2021).
Pradhan, Ramesh Chandra. The Early Philosophy of Daya Krishna. Springer, New Delhi, 2021.

Articles

Special Issues:

Philosophy East and West, Volume 58, Number 4, October 2008: Remembering Daya Krishna (1924-2007). With the contributions of:

Daniel Raveh: Knowledge as a Way of Living: In Dialogue with Daya Krishna, pp. 431-437

Shail Mayaram: Daya Krishna: A Philosopher and Much More, pp. 439-443

Eliot Deutsch: A Memorial Tribute to Daya Krishna, p. 445

Philosophy East and West, Volume 63, Number 4, October 2013: Special Issue: Remembering the Work of Daya Krishna and Govind Chandra Pande. Guest Editors: Jay Garfield and Arindam Chakrabarti. With the contributions of:

Ramesh K. Sharma: Is Nyāya Realist or Idealist? Carrying on a Conversation Started by Daya Krishna, pp. 465-490

Daniel Raveh: Philosophical Miscellanea: Excerpts from an Ongoing Dialogue with Daya Krishna, pp. 491-512

Sibesh Bhattacharya: The Descent of the Transcendent: Viewing Culture with G. C. Pande, pp. 513-529

Michael McGhee: Learning to Converse: Reflections on a Small Experiment, pp. 530-542

Prabal Kumar Sen: Daya Krishna on Some Indian Theories of Negation: A Critique, pp. 543-561

Anand Jayprakash Vaidya: Nyāya Perceptual Theory: Disjunctivism or Anti-Individualism?, pp. 562-585

C. K. Raju: The Harmony Principle, pp. 586-604

Individual Contributions:

Balasubramanian, R., ‘Daya Krishna’s Retrospective Illusion’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 14 (1) (Sept-Dec 1996), pp. 137-156.

Bhatnagar, R. S., ‘On Binod Kumar Agarwala’s Response to Daya Krishna’s Essay on Kant’s Categories’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 19 (4) (Oct-Dec 2002), pp.137-147.

Bhattacharyya, K., ‘Philosophy: Influence of Theory on Practice - Comments’, in Philosophy: Theory and Practice, Proceedings of the International Seminar on World Philosophy, Madras, December 7-17, 1970, T. M. P. Mahadevan (Ed.), The Centre for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Madras, 1974, pp. 319-323.

Brandner, R., ‘Should one try to understand Indian Philosophy on the Western model? Fundamental defect in Daya Krishna’s approach to the ‘understanding of the Indian Philosophy’, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 16 (2) (January-April 1999), pp. 141-145.

Brunner, F., ‘Philosophy: Influence of Theory on Practice - Comments’, in Philosophy: Theory and Practice, Proceedings of the International Seminar on World Philosophy, Madras, December 7-17, 1970, T. M. P. Mahadevan (Ed.), The Centre for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Madras, 1974, pp. 317-318.

Chakrabarti, A., ‘Introduction. New Stuff: on the Very Idea of Creativity in Philosophical Thinking’, in Contrary Thinking, Selected Essays of Daya Krishna, N. Bhushan, J. L. Gafield, D. Raveh (Eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford-New York, 2011, pp. 4-24.

Chandra, S., ‘An Illusive Historiography of the View that the World is Māyā: Professor Daya Krishna on the Historiography of Vedānta’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 14 (2) (January-April 1997), pp. 123-133.

Chattopadhyaya, D. P., ‘Kant on Categories: Forward and Backward’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 18 (4) (October-December 2001), pp. 13-26.

Coquereau, E., ‘Relational Consciousness: Subjectivity and Otherness in Daya Krishna’s philosophy’, in Unzugänglichkeit des Selbst. Philosophische Perspektiven auf die Subjektivität, F. Gurjanov (Ed.), Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen, 2016, pp. 299-325.

Coquereau, E., ‘Seeking values in Daya Krishna’s philosophy’, in Kontexte des Leiblichen, Contexts of Corporality, C. Nielsen, K. Novotny, T. Nenon (Eds), Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen, 2016, pp. 125-149.

Coquereau, E., ‘Peut-on dialoguer avec un texte ? Interculturalisation de l’herméneutique, de Gadamer à Daya Krishna’, in AUC Interpretationes Studia Philosophica Europeanea (Vol. V/1/2015), Prague, 2016, pp. 59-78.

Dallmayr, F., ‘Reason and Lifeworld. Two Exemplary Indian Thinkers’, in Integral Pluralism, Beyond Culture Wars, The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2010, (Chater 8, pp. 143-165).

Freschi, E., 'Unveiling Indian Philosophy: an Obituary for Daya Krishna', in Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici II, 2007, pp. 265-270.

Freschi, E., Coquereau, E., Ali, M., 'Rethinking Classical Dialectical Traditions. Daya Krishna on Counterposition and Dialogue', in Culture and Dialogue, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2017, pp. 173 – 209.

Garfield, J. L., 'Love, Law and Language: Continuing to think with Daya-ji', Daya Krishna Annual Lecture, Jaipur, 2018. Unpublished.

Malkani, G. R., ‘A Discussion of Daya Krishna’s Views on Advaitic Adhyāsa’, in Philosophy East and West, 16 (1/2) (January-April. 1966), pp. 81-83.

Miller, D. ‘Reading Derrida with Daya Krishna: Postmodern Trends in Contemporary Indian Philosophy.’, in Sophia, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-018-0677-2.

Mishra, G., ‘The Parliament of Philosophies – Majority View Condemned, A Critique of Daya Krishna’s views on Vedānta in the First Millenium AD’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 16 (1) (September-December 1998), pp. 135-145.

Panneerselvam, S., ‘A Rejoinder to Daya Krishna’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 14 (3) (May-August 1997), pp. 150-153.`

Potter, K. H., 'Are all Indian philosophers Indian philosophers?’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2 (2) (1985), pp.145-149.

Potter, K. H., ‘Reply to Daya Krishna’s Review of Bibliography of Indian Philosophies (Third Edition)’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 15 (1) (1997), pp. 120-122.

Prasad, R., ‘Daya Krishna’s Therapy for Myths of Indian Philosophy’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 1 (2) (December 2015), pp. 1-14.

Raveh, D., ‘Text as a Process: Thinking with Daya Krishna’, in Sandhān, Journal of Centre for Studies in Civilizations, Vol. VII (2) (July-December 2007), pp. 191-205.

Raveh, D., ‘A Short Improvisation on Time, Transcendence, and Self-Identity’, in Transforming Tradition. Cultural Essays in Honour of Mukund Lath, M. Horstman (Ed.), Prakrit Bharati Academy & Aditya Prakashan, Jaipur, 2013, pp. 73-85.

Raveh, D., 'Thinking Dialogically about Dialogue with Martin Buber and Daya Krishna', in Confluence: Journal of World Philosophies, Volume 4, 2016, pp. 8-32.

Sebastian, C. D., 'Daya Krishna on Apoha', in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Volume 32, Issue 3, December 2015, pp 373–38.

Sjödin, A-P., 'Conceptualizing Philosophical Tradition: A Reading of Wilhelm Halbfass, Daya Krishna, and Jitendranath Mohanty', in Philosophy East and West, Volume 61, Number 3, July 2011, pp. 534-546

Tiwari, D. N., ‘Reflections on Daya Krishna’s Philosophy’, in Indian Philosophical Quarterly, 25 (3), (July 1998), pp. 373-387.

Xavier, C. J., ‘Saṃvāda as Successful Communication: Daya Krishna's Ideas on Dialogue in Communication’, in Indian Philosophical Quarterly, 43 (1-4) (April 2017), pp. 197-212.

Weiner, S., ‘Dialogue as Art – Reading Vikas Swarup’s Q & A with Daya Krishna’, in Culture and Dialogue, 2 (1), (2012), pp. 3-14.

Contribution in Hindi:

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Yashdev Shalya on the philosophy of Daya Krishna

‘Daya Krishna ka samaaj-darshanik vimarsh’, Bhartiya Darshan ke 50 Varsh, Ambika Datta Sharma (Ed.), Vishvavidyalaya Prakashan, Sagar, 2006, pp. 181-202.

Book Reviews

Ācārya Mahāprajña, ‘Comments on the Article entitled ‘How Anekāntika is Anekānta? Some reflections on Jain Theory of Anekāntavāda by Daya Krishna', published in the JICPR, vol. XVI, No 2’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 18 (1) (January-March 2001), pp. 205-218.

Bhatnagar, R. S., ‘Daya Krishna: The Problematic and Conceptual Structure of Classical Indian Thought About Man, Society and Polity’, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1996, pp. x + 198.’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Special Issue, 2002, pp. 113-137.

Deutsch, E. ‘Indian Philosophy: A Counter-Perspective by Daya Krishna’, in Philosophy East and West, 42 (4), Mt. Abu Regional East-West Philosophers’ Conference, ‘Culture and Rationality’ (Oct. 1992), pp. 665-668.

Griffiths, P. J., ‘Samvāda: A Dialogue Between Two Philosophical Traditions by Daya Krishna; M. P. Rege; R. C. Dwivedi’, in Philosophy East and West, 45 (1) (Jan. 1995), pp. 121-122.

Hirst, R. J., ‘The Nature of Philosophy by Daya Krishna’, in Philosophical Quarterly, 6 (25) (Oct. 1956), pp. 381-382.

Kalla, S., ‘Daya Krishna, Prolegomena to any Future Historiography of Cultures and Civilizations’, Project of History of Indian Sciences, Philosophy and Culture, 1997, pp. xi + 241, Rs 280.’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Special Issue, June 2001, pp. 239-246.

Kline, G. L., ‘The Nature of Philosophy by Daya Krishna’, in Ethics, 68 (1) (October 1957), pp. 67-69.

Kantak, V. Y., ‘Daya Krishna, Mukund Lath and F. E. Krishna (Eds.): Bhakti: A Contemporary Discussion’, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, 2000, pp. vi + 257, PB, Rs 300’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Special Issue, 2002, pp. 168-177.

Karla, S., ‘Review Article: Daya Krishna, Prolegomena to any Future Historiography of Cultures and Civilizations’, Project of History of Indian Sciences, Philosophy and Culture, 1997, pp. xi + 241, Rs 280, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research Special Issue (June 2001), Ed. G. C. Pande and Daya Krishna, pp. 239-246.

Kaul, R. K., ‘Historiography of Civilizations: A Review’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 14 (1) (September-December 1996), pp. 174-179.

Krishan, Y., ‘Comments on the article entitled ‘Yajña and the Doctrine of Karma: A Contradiction in Indian Thought and Action’, published in the JICPR, Vol. VI, No. 2’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 18 (1) (Jan-March 2001), pp. 227-234.

Miri, M., ‘Daya Krishna, Indian Philosophy: A Counter Perspective’, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1991, pp. 217.’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 11 (2) (1993), pp. 145-150.

Mishra, S., ‘Review Article: Daya Krishna – The Nyaya Sutras’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 34 (1) (October-December 2006), pp. 193-198.

Moore, R. M., ‘Social Philosophy (Past and Future) by Daya Krishna’, in Philosophy East and West, 20 (3) (July 1970), pp. 323-324.

Mukherjee, A., ‘The Nature of Philosophy. By Daya Krishna, With a New Introduction by Mrinal Miri’, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, 2009’, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 27 (4) (October-December 2010), pp. 117-130.

v. P., N., ‘Considerations towards a Theory of Social Change by Daya Krishna’, Revue française de sociologie, 7, (3) (July-September 1966), pp.406-407.

Sharma, A., ‘Competing Perspectives on Indian Philosophy, Indian Philosophy – A Counter Perspective by Daya Krishna’, in Philosophy East and West, 49 (2) (Apr. 1999), pp. 194-206.

Sogani, K. C., ‘Some Comments on ‘The Active and the Contemplative Values’, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 32 (2) (December 1971), pp. 264-266.

Thiruvengadam, R., ‘The Problematic and Conceptual Structure of Classical Indian Thought about Man, Society and Polity by Daya Krishna’, in Philosophy East and West, 49 (2) (April 1999), pp. 220-223.

Encyclopedia Article

‘Daya Krishna’, by D. Raveh, in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, S. Goetz and C. Taliaferro (Eds.), Wiley-Blackwell, New Jersey. (forthcoming)

* This bibliographical list comprises all the entries that I could locate on Daya Krishna's philosophy. However, at this point of research, exhaustivity cannot be claimed. Additions and corrections are welcome via the contact form of the website. (compiled by Elise Coquereau-Saouma)