The Tulsi and the Cross: Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter in Goa

Professor Bijayananda Kar (b. 1940) was educated at the Ravenshaw Colegiate School, the Ravenshaw College (both at Cuttack), and Universities of Utkal and Bihar. He visited U.K. (1978) as a British Council Fellow, Greece (1987) as a Fellow under cultural Exchange Programme, Thailand (1992 and 1995) as a Visiting Professor, U.S.A. (1995, 1966 and 1999) as participant in the International Congress on Vedanta, Republic of Trinidad, Tobago (1999), and Bangladesh (1999) in connection with participation in International Seminar / Colloquim. He has been the regular member of the Indian Philosophical Congress, Indian Philosophical Association and All Orissa Philosophy Association. He has chaired, participated in number of national and international Seminars / Conference / Colloquim both in India and abroad. He has to his credit about a dozen of philosophical books (both in English and Oriya) and around 150 philosophical papers published both in national and international sources. His major interest has been to explore the analytic trend in Indian philosophy and also to expose the humanistic value in the Indian Philosophical tradition.