Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses (Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses)
Theory of debate (vāda, jalpa, vitaṇḍā) in Nyāya, Buddhist, Jain and other traditions, and records of actual debates and assemblies.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Radhavallabh Tripathi
- Extent
- 3,392 passages, 111,728 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · D. K. Printworld, New Delhi 2021; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by Gemini… · In copyright (Radhavallabh Tripathi); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that…
Contents
- c1 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses — 28 parts
- c2 Prologue — 32 parts
- c3 Contents — 66 parts
- c4 Acknowledgements — 2 parts
- c5 1. The Nature of Vāda — 38 parts
- c6 2. A Brief History of Vāda — 30 parts
- c7 3. Vādaśāstra: The Theories of Debate, Dialogues and Discussions — 18 parts
- c8 4. Vāda in Darśana: Philosophical Debates — 11 parts
- c9 5. Vāda in Dharma: Socio-Political and Legal Debates — 17 parts
- c10 6. Vāda in Literary Theory and Literature — 17 parts
- c11 7. Vāda in Modern Age — 24 parts
- c12 Epilogue — 8 parts
- c13 Appendix: Selected List of Vādas Referred in This Work — 6 parts
- c14 Bibliography — 3 parts
- c15 Index — 1,210 parts