Table of contents for Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India by Meera Nanda

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Prophets Facing Backward: Betrayal of the Clerks

Part I Hindu Nationalism and "Vedic Science"

Dharma and the Bomb: Reactionary Modernism in India

Vedic Science, Part One: Legitimation of the Hindu Nationalist Worldview

Vedic Science, Part Two: Philosophical Justification of Vedic Science

Part II Postmodern Critiques of Science

Epistemic Charity: Equality of All "Ethnosciences"

We Are All Hybrids Now! Paths to Reactionary Modernism

A Dalit Defense of the Deweyan-Buddhist View of Science

Part III Postmodernism and New Social Movements in India

The Battle for Scientific Temper in India's New Social Movements

The Ecofeminist Critique of the Green Revolution

The "Hindu Left," Agrarian Populism, and the Hindu Right

Conclusion: Prophets Facing Forward

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index