The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics

This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. It reports on contemporary wide-ranging social and communal problems facing people in the areas of politics, gender, bioethics and ecology. As a contemporary volume, it builds linkages between existing theory and emerging issues in India, using multiple forms of writing and research, including the classical essay form, reportage and interview, case studies and textual analysis. The volume brings together contributions from leading philosophers and writers in contemporary thinking in ethics, particularly pertaining to applied or practical ethics. It explores both scope as well as the boundaries or limits of Indian ethics that might also possibly be extended to applied concerns in India today and a contemporary globalizing world.

The book develops applications in the areas of gender, justice and ecology and will be of interest to students and researchers of Indian philosophy, Indian ethics, gender studies, environmental ethics, social justice and cross-cultural responses to dominant Western moral thought. It will also be useful to researchers working on Gandhi, sustainability, ecology, bioethics, comparative philosophy, dharma studies.