Thank you a-TB, mskmoorthy, and Prasad1 for your comments. All of you have given me a lot to think about and I am quite excited to dive deep into the resources suggested by mskmoorthy and Prasad1 after my semester exams are complete. I plan on updating my progress on this forum and would greatly appreciate it if you would offer your opinions/ ideas/ resources in the future!
My coursework is entirely tied to the legal system, and my motivation for pursuing a PhD is mostly for the opportunity to engage in academic discourse. I understand that it would be more "sensible" to get a D.Phil in Law or Public Policy but I feel that philosophy as a subject allows for more abstract theories to be theorised. After my 4-7 years at grad school, I do plan on finding work within the legal fold or some other affiliated field like policy or politics and will be pursuing this for the sake of personal gratification.
By Indian logic I am not referring to the Nyaya-sutras alone but rather Nastika and Astika schools of philosophy (Nyaya, Vedanta, Mimansa, Samkhya, et cetera). At the moment I am in the preliminary stages and have not narrowed it down to which school yet.
I am open to any idea as I have a couple of years to prepare and fine-tune my thesis proposal. My core interest lies in comparative studies as well as something of relevance to us in this day and age.
I think I am facing some issues in narrowing the scope, considering how many different approaches and sub-fields/schools exist. Furthermore, I am hoping to make it rooted in philosophy and then have an extremely short section on effects and solutions (if any). I believe that to be the major cause for the extremely open-ended thesis statement.
At the moment, I am looking at the evolution from preclassical to classical in Indian philosophy and its Greek-roman counterpart, as most of the modern philosophy that is taken as gospel in the West is based on Greek and Roman philosophy. I am a bit unsure if I want to take a mainstream approach as it has been covered to a good degree, and a new thesis would essentially be the grammar nazi equivalent.
I do plan on focusing on colonial and post-colonial figures, particularly Ramakrishna Paramahansa as he had essentially changed the philosophical outlook of most Indian Hindus and allowed for the emergence of a new outlook, one that heavily incorporated western ideals of the time. I am still looking into other philosophers of the yesteryear and trying to get a better idea though.
