Sad demise of Dr Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
Nabanarayan Bandyopadhyay
Nagaraj Paturi
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LEADING MARXIST SCHOLAR RAMKRISHNA BHATTACHARYA PASSES AWAY IN KOLKATA
HE HAD THE UNIQUE QUALITY OF EXPLAINING MATERIALISTIC PHILOSOPHY IN LUCID LANGUAGE
Dr. Ramkrishna Bhattacharya, a renowned Kolkata based Marxist scholar passed away in a city hospital on October 2. He was 74. An unrepentant old-fashioned Marxist, Ramkrishna Bhattacharya preferred, for the most part of his life, to work for the ‘party in the broad historical sense’, as envisaged by Marx in a letter (29 February 1860) to Ferdinand Freiligrath. Of course, during his student life Bhattacharya was involved in active party politics and even became the President of the Bengal Provincial Student Federation. However, he resigned from the post following the invasion of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic by the Warsaw Pact countries headed by the then USSR in 1968. Gradually Bhattacharya withdrew himself from active Left politics which he came to see as increasingly getting tied up with the electoral mechanism. His faith in Marxism as a radical philosophy was never shaken.
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Studies on the Carvaka/Lokayata (2009)
It is a scientific study of the Carvaka/Lokayata, the materialist system of philosophy that flourished in ancient India between the eighth and twelfth centuries CE, and which has since disappeared. Despite the paucity of material relating to the Carvaka, a reconstruction of its basic tenets reveals it to be the lone contender standing against the perceived binary of pro-Vedic Brahminical schools on the one hand, and the non-Vedic Buddhist and Jain schools on the other.
This study seeks to disprove certain notions about the Carvaka/Lokayata, particularly that the Carvakas did not approve of any instrument of cognition other than perception, and that they advocated unalloyed sensualism and hedonism. In contrast, this book offers evidence to show that the Carvakas, despite their difference of opinion in other areas, did admit inference in so far as it was grounded on perception. The author argues that the common belief that "all materialists are nothing but sensualists" is a misconception, as no authentic Carvaka aphorism have been cited by the movement's opponents to support this view.
This study also seeks to establish the fact that a pre-Carvaka school of materialism existed in India, although there is no way to prove that the Carvaka system grew out of it. Yet if the evidence provided by the Manimekalai - and indirectly supported by Mahabharata - is admitted, it could be suggested that the two schools existed simultaneously.
Nagaraj Paturi
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Nabanarayan Bandyopadhyay
On Sat, 22 Oct 2022 at 14:13, Nagaraj Paturi<nagara...@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Sat, 22 Oct 2022 at 14:13, Nagaraj Paturi<nagara...@gmail.com> wrote:
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