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How do people come to live as they ought to live? This book addresses this enduring question through the lens of cultivation—at work in the moral horizons of modern development, in the personal life of desires, deeds, and habits, and in the making of living environments for both moral and natural growth. Pandian argues that the work of cultivation in all these senses has been central to the modern fate of the Piramalai Kallar caste of south India, condemned ...
Breaking from prevailing conceptions of ethics and morality as matters of moral rule or principle, this volume calls attention to ethical life in South Asia—the moral dispositions at work in lived experience, and the embodied practices of ethical engagement through which such dispositions may be cultivated and shared. Using approaches from history, anthropology, religious studies, and philosophy, these original essays constitute an unprecedented ...