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Department of Anthropology, University of Harvard, Massachusetts, United States

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• Review Article   
  People's Philosophy People's Movement
  Author(s): Muttaki Bin Kamal*
  
  This paper argues that the Adivasi and local environmental movements in India correspond with Carvaka or Lokayata philosophy’s outlook and receives condescending treatment from the political hegemony like them. Both Lokayata and the environmental movements hold a bottom-up materialist policy outlook against the state’s top-down approach in the question of resource distribution and development. The challenge this argument faces is that Lokayata school does not exist in its name at present and it is not a single school of thought either. Several Indian philosophical schools as Tantra, Buddhism, Sangkhya philosophy, Ajivikas. shows links to Carvaka philosophy. Also, documents written by the Carvaka philosophers are rare and we barely know names of such philosophers. We come to know about them mostly from the scholars who criticized them. Secondly, the word “Carvaka&rdqu.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2684-1304.23.6.146

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