________________ 106 PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL ACTION teaching, research and publication and philosophical thinking to be commensurate with the finance and trust invested in them. While the growing need of most of the disciplines is met by their respective All-India Councils, Philosophy has no such academic guardian. The instituting of a Council of Philosophy is an urgent need for the development and progress of vigrous creative philosophy in India. O DISSERTATIONS IN PHILOSOPHy* AN analysis of 643 dissertations in 38 universities in India upto 1971 reveals the following: 63 percent theses pertained to traditional brahmanic philosophi cal systems and/or comparative studies. 18 percent dealt with modern Hindu thought including refor mist and/or comparative studies. 12 percent were related to the history of Western mostly English philosophy and/or to some Anglo-Saxon individual philosopher including comparative studies with some brahmanic traditional thinker. 6 percent dealt with the Buddhist and the Jain systems and/or an individual thinker or religious saint. Only six dealt with Islamic thought and Sufism. Only four with Christianity. Only one with Dignaga's logical system, Only one with 'Psycho-Social Study of Caste. Only one with the Problem of Change.' Only two with problems of modern Education. Only one with Religion of Tribes of Travancore. Only one with the Dialectical Materialism. Only one with Karl Marx. In contrast there were thirteen theses on God, and twenty-two on Sri Aurobindo. A further study of the titles of dissertations indicate a dismal lack of concern with socio-political phenomena of our times, and want of interest in the discoveries of scientific achievements of our age. ---Editor * This study is based on the data provided by the recent scientific publica tion of Dr. Abdul Rawoof, INDEX TO DISSERTATIONS IN PHILOSOPHY, (Madras : Centre for Advanced Study in Philoshphy, University of Madras, 1974).
