Indianising Psychology: Furthering the Legacy of Durganand Sinha1

Kundan Singh

Psychology and Developing Societies, 2024, vol. 36, issue 2, 135-160

Abstract: Written as a commentary on an article penned by Durganand Sinha (1965) for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology , this article of mine shows that he was a true visionary in proposing the integration of Indian psychological thought with modern psychology—the credit for which is almost non-existent in the mainstream psychological literature. Post the publication of his article, there have been certain developments in the West in the growth of the discipline of consciousness studies, which explicitly bear the mark of his contentions. As far as India is concerned, he most certainly influenced the growth of Indian psychology, which this article elucidates by going into its history. Finally, my own publications in the field of Indian psychology show an inadvertent connection with a couple of his enunciations, which allows me to argue and explicate that the legacy that he has left behind lingers on.

Keywords: Indian psychology; binary theorems; consciousness studies; postcolonial; philosophy of science; history of psychology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/09713336241276604

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