1. Reason and belief : richness and diversity in Indian thought
2. The Brahmanical beginnings : sacrifice, cosmic speculation, oneness
3. Renouncing the household : the Buddha's middle way
4. Issues and justifications : language, grammar, and polemics
5. Categories and method : Vaiśeṣika and Nyāya
6. Things and no-things : developments in Buddhist thought
7. The witness and the watched : Yoga and Sāṃkhya
8. The word and the book : Bhartṛhari, Mīmāṃsā, and Vedānta.