“…A fruitful interface between indigenous Indian thought and psychological discourse is found in the Guru Chela paradigm of therapy (Neki, 1973), the nurturant task style of leadership (J. Sinha, 1980), analyses of self and personality (Naidu, 1994;Tripathi, 1988), the reconceptualization of achievement (Dalai, Singh, & Misra, 1988;Misra & Agarwal, 1985), analyses of the Indian psyche (Kakar, 1978), emotion (Jain, 1994), justice (Krishnan, 1992), morality (Misra, 1991 ), the concept of well-being (D. Sinha, 1990Sinha, , 1994, development (Kaur & Saraswathi, 1992), values (Prakash, 1994), detachment (N. Pandey & Naidu, 1992), and methods of organizational intervention (Chakroborty, 1993). As Marriott (1992) envisioned, these developments suggest that alternative social sciences are potentially available in the materials of many non-western cultures, and their development is essential to serve in the many places now either left to ad hoc descriptions or badly monopolized by social sciences borrowed from the West.…”