Debashish Banerji

Debashish Banerji
Debashish Banerji at the Getty Center, Los Angeles in May 2015
Born
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater
Known forWritings in Integral Yoga, Art History
Websitedebashishbanerji.com

Debashish Banerji is a Bengali scholar. He writes in English and specializes in Integral Yoga, Indian Philosophy and Psychology, Art History and Cultural Theory.[1][2] He is the Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures and the Doshi Professor of Asian Art at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, where he also chairs the department of East-West Psychology.[3]

Banerji has worked on the philosophy and psychology of 20th c. yogi-philosopher Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950), as well as on the Indian artist Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951), of whom he is a great-grandson.[4][5] He has also worked on Critical Posthumanism and 20th c. Indian nationalism, as manifest in the Bengal Renaissance.[6]

  1. ^ "Faculty Profile: Dr. Debashish Banerji". California Institute of Integral Studies. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Journey to Wholeness: Self, Person, Cosmos, God, and Other in Indic Yoga Traditions and the Transformational Psychology of Sri Aurobindo with Debashish Banerji, PhD". California Institute of Integral Studies. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Faculty and Staff Directory: Debashish Banerji". California Institute of Integral Studies. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  4. ^ Dorbolo, Jon L (2015). "Review of "Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformative Yoga Philosophy Based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo" by Banerji, D." International Journal of Dharma Studies. 3. doi:10.1186/s40613-015-0014-4. S2CID 56554868.
  5. ^ Romain, Julie. "The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore". CAA.Reviews. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  6. ^ Banerji, Debashish (2010). The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore. New Delhi: SAGE. pp. xviii–xxviii. ISBN 978-8132102397.