ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- Dissent, Heterodoxy and Civilizational Dynamics: Some Analytical and Comparative Indications -- The Enemy Within: Idealism and Dissent in South Indian Hinduism -- On the Beginning of Sutta Pitaka (The Brahmajāla Sutta) -- Orthodoxy and Philosophy in India: Philosophical Implications of the Mīmāṃsā School -- Dissent Through Holiness: The Case of the Radical Renouncer in Theravada Buddhist Countries -- Ancient Indian Political Theory and Contemporary Indian Politics -- India: A Syncretic Mode of Economic Legitimation -- COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES -- "Orthodox" and "Heterodox" Law: Some Remarks on Customary Law and the State -- Calvinism, Religious Dissent and the Establishment of a New Cultural Order in Early Modern Europe.