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Balagangadhara Rao

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Research group(s)

RCVC - Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap

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Projects

Projects as supervisor

Cold war social science and the development of the human sciences in Europe and India (2015 - 2016)
Secularism, colonialism and the Enlightenment. European toleration and the rise of fundamentalism in South Asia (2009 - 2012)
Development of the centre for the study of local cultures at Kuvempu University, Karnataka, India (2007 - 2011)
Caste, community, and tradition in Karnataka, India (2006 - 2008)
Ascetics and crafty priests. Orientalism and the European representations of India (2005 - 2010)
Conversion, secularism and religious freedom in India (2004 - 2010)
Bhakti, intentionality, and configurations of learning (2000 - 2002)
Ethische domeinen en cultuurverschillen. Een onderzoek naar de mogelijkheid dat cultuurverschillen zich uiten als verschillen in de constructie van de ethische domeinen (1996 - 1998)

Publications

Key publications

"The heathen in his blindness...": Asia, the West and the dynamic of religion(2005)
- Balagangadhara Rao
Reconceptualizing India studies(2012)
- Balagangadhara Rao
The secular state and religious conflict: liberal neutrality and the Indian case of pluralism(2007)
- Balagangadhara Rao
- Jakob De Roover
Reconceptualizing the postcolonial project : beyond the strictures and structures of orientalism(2009)
- Balagangadhara Rao
- Marianne Keppens
How to speak for the Indian traditions : an agenda for the future(2005)
- Balagangadhara Rao