Competing Knowledges: An Indian Perspective
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Abstract
: A comparative assessment of Indian philosophical traditions with some of the western traditions may appear a tempting enterprise. However, the semantic posi-tioning of the concepts forming the foundations of the two respective traditions poses a formidable challenge in bringing the two together within a single framework of abstractions. The difficulty is compounded by the colonial history of unequal power positions impacting philosophical traditions. However, the rapid shift from imagination to memory in technology and knowledge-transactions in recent decades, and the profound changes taking place in the nature of human cognition, may provide us an opening in this direction in future. dialectical words are those which are spoken with their meanings unchanged in the twelve divi-sions of Tamil land where correct Tamil is in use. The words of Northern languages, Vadasol , become fit to be used in Tamil when they adopt the Tamil phonetics discarding their northern ones. (Devy 2002: 16)