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The emergence of the modern-day Bhāṣyakāras in the discourse of modern Indian Philosophy
Nilambar Chakrabarti
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Poorvam Int. J. Creative Arts & Cult. Expr. (PIJCACE)
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Volume:
2 (2026)
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Issue:
1
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ISSN:
3107-6866
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This review essay examines Nalini Bhushan and Jay L. Garfield's new translation of Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's Subject as Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2026), a text long regarded as philosophically significant yet notoriously difficult. It argues that the edition exceeds ordinary translation practice, functioning at once as translation, commentary, and interpretive intervention, and proposes that Bhushan and Garfield are best understood as contemporary bhāṣyakāras: active philosophical participants rather than neutral transmitters. The review discusses the editors' lexical choices, such as rendering "object" as "intentional object," and their extensive introduction, which situates the text within Bhattacharyya's engagement with Advaita Vedānta through the "bookend" works of 1925 and 1936. While affirming the sophistication of this Advaitic reading, the review questions whether it constrains the text's methodological independence, given Bhattacharyya's phenomenological idiom and his departures from traditional Advaitic vocabulary. It concludes that the edition's parallel text presentation and editorial apparatus make it the standard English entry point into Bhattacharyya's thought, restoring him to philosophical discussion beyond his usual classification as an Advaita representative alone.
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