Contents: Introduction.  1. Reflection, alternation and meta-philosophy: an overview of the philosophy of Kalidas Bhattacharyya/Kalyan Kumar Bagchi. 2. Knowing beforehand/Manidipa Sanyal. 3. From language to metaphysics/Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty. 4. Metaphysics: a reflective engagement with experience/Amitabha Das Gupta. 5. Kalidas Bhattacharyya on object and content/Rupa Bandyopadhyay. 6. Kalidas Bhattacharyya on vedantic anekantavada: an evaluation/Raghunath Ghosh. 7. Anekanta Vedanta/Tara Chatterjee. 8. Man as a natural and transcendent being/Indrani Sanyal. 9. The concept of self in Buddhis/Maitreyee Datta. 10. The art of becoming: Kalidas Bhattacharyya’s concept of freedom/Santwana Majumdar. 11. Art as freedom: aesthetics of Kalidas Bhattacharyya/Goutam Biswas. 12. Kalidas Bhattacharyya: the educationist/Shefali Moitra. 13. Evolution of post-newtonian thoughts in physical science: from definite to indefinite/Gautam Bhattacharyya. 14.Revisiting Kalidas Bhattacharyya: a life merged into philosophizing/Angshuman Bhattacharya. Index.

The anthology Alternative Standpoints: A Tribute to Kalidas Bhattacharyya is a tribute to Prof. Kalidas Bhattacharyya, the eminent thinker of twentieth-century India, on his birth centenary by his students. A distinguished philosopher and an academician, Prof. Bhattacharyya presented philosophy in an original way with scientific spirit. He was essentially a metaphysician and his metaphysics was deeply rooted in the traditions of Advaita Vedanta and Shaivism. His ultimate concern was to present a theory of freedom and a theory of the possibility of realizing that freedom.

In this collection eminent scholars have written on different aspects of his philosophy. This anthology is divided into four parts - the first one concentrating on his metaphysics, the second part dealing with his views on freedom, the third one with education and science and the fourth one is a reminiscence of his student and his family members. In short this anthology tries to present a picture of Kalidas Bhattacharyya as a philosopher and also as a man within the two covers.

This volume is expected to familiarize students and present-day philosophers the persona of Prof. Bhattacharyya and his philosophical positioning and pedagogical skillset.