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Correlations
Between
Publishing
History
and
Epistemic
Range
of
Matilals
Collected
Essays
On 18th June 2015, the India branch of Oxford University Press
reissued two books by Bimal Krishna Matilal earlier published by
the Press in 2002, Mind, Language and World : The Collected
Essays of Bimal Krishna Matilal Volume I and Ethics and Epics :
The Collected Essays of Bimal Krishna Matilal Volume II, both
edited by Jornadon Ganeri.
In terms of orientation, the second volume, Ethics and Epics, the
title of which reflects Matilal's explorations of the relationships
between Indian epics such as the Mahabharata and philosophical
subjects, is fruitfully considered alongside another venture by
Matilal on the same subject, a volume edited by him, Moral
Dilemmas in the Mahabharata, published in 1989 by the Indian
Institute of Advanced Study, reissued in 2014 by a publisher in
India with a remarkable list of publications on Indian culture,
Motilal Banarsidass.
The physical form of the earlier publications by Oxford UP of the
collected essays by Matilal and the work on the Mahabharata
represent a strategy adopted in India to achieve rapid development
of a book publication culture serving both the national reading
public and the export market. The books are bound in sturdy
hardback but with obviously lower quality than is conventionally
used by Oxford University Press for its works issued by its
branches in the US and England.
The volumes are cheaper than Oxford UP publications normally
are and can be exported from India to buyers in other parts of the
world. That was how I bought my copies of the books, exported to
me in England from India. The same books can be sold on the