Pratap Bhanu Mehta on The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Ideas of India
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What's the Basic Concept of Reciprocity in India?
Reciprocity is, i want equal standing as you. Right now, the move to creating societies with that kind of reciprocity between duals as possible has been harder in india because of the particular history of illegalitadianism. I think what can be unleashed sometimes is something really quite extraordinary in the way ofkind of communal identification. In the west it's being displaced at a collective level, often through race, through empire, but i think the structural challenges are actually pretty similar.
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