Abstract
Philosophy, a Greek invention, is the prerogative of the West - this once triumphant certainty has long since been shaken, and India is now conceding a philosophical tradition of its own. However, both in the West and in India, efforts are still being made to reduce this deeply conceptual and polemical heritage to a practical wisdom, a mysticism or a set of dogmas. Distinguishing between Indian philosophy and religion without overlooking the close interweaving of these two domains, and discerning, through the din of the Scripturesand even in the margins of Sanskrit manuscripts, the singular voice of the philosophers of the subcontinent: these are some of the major challenges facing philologists and historians of Indian systems of thought today.
