This comprehensive book explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia, focusing on the burgeoning 'psy-disciplines' - psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy. It was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Soumen Mukherjee teaches History at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. His research interests lie widely in the fields of socio-religious and intellectual history of modern South Asia. He has published in these fields and is the author of Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia: Community and Identity in the Age of Religious Internationals (2017).

Christopher Harding is Senior Lecturer in Asian History at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His published work includes Japan Story: In Search of a Nation (2018), Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan (co-edited collection; 2014), and Religious Transformation in South Asia: The Meaning of Conversion in Colonial Punjab (2008).

Foreword
Jitendra Nath Mohanty

1. Mind, soul, and consciousness: religion, science, and the psy disciplines in modern South Asia
Christopher Harding

2. The science of the self (atmavidya): the reconfigurations of Vedantic gnosis in Hindu modernities
Ankur Barua

3. Consciousness and relativity: anekantavada and its role in Jaina epistemology
Jeffery D. Long

4. Recovering wisdom of the 'ancient rishis': Girindrasekhar Bose, Indra Sen, and the psy-disciplines in modern India
Soumen Mukherjee

5. Self-reflection and projection in Jungian 'spirituality': Carl Gustav Jung's encounter with India and his critique of Indian psy-sciences
Claudia Richter

6. Music, emotions and reform in South Asian Islam: perspectives from the eighteenth to the twentieth century
M. Sajjad Alam Rizvi

Epilogue
Soumen Mukherjee