In this article, we examine the place of culture in the human sciences with specific reference to psychology and the cultural histories of India. Despite the depth of scholarly writing on the intimate and inextricable ties between culture and psychological processes, core advancements and definitive positions in psychology have remained elusive. The privileging of a single culturally specific world-view alongside the exclusion of others has seriously hindered the authentic internationalization of psychology. We propose that linkages between culture and psychology need to be visualized as a dialogue between different cultural traditions. In the dialectics between bheda–abheda (difference and non-difference), structural-developmental, dispositional-relational, and social-collective processes will be invoked to develop our arguments for a human-science approach to the study of persons in culture. We argue that it is through the inclusion, rather than suppression, of diverse ideologies that generalizability can be best achieved. This is a call for an audit and reconstruction of psychology and its practices as an international discipline with a roadmap for theory construction and research informed by a cultural psychological approach toward human phenomena.

在本文中，我们考察了文化在人文科学中的地位，并具体参考了心理学和印度的文化史。尽管关于文化和心理过程之间密切和密不可分的联系的学术著作很深入，但心理学的核心进步和确定的立场仍然难以捉摸。对单一文化特定世界观的特权以及对其他世界观的排斥严重阻碍了心理学的真正国际化。我们建议文化和心理学之间的联系需要被可视化为不同文化传统之间的对话。在 bheda-abheda（差异和非差异）、结构-发展、性格-关系之间的辩证法中，和社会集体过程将被用来发展我们的论点，即以人文科学方法研究文化中的人。我们认为，只有通过包容而不是压制不同的意识形态，才能最好地实现普遍性。这是对心理学及其实践作为一门国际学科进行审计和重建的呼吁，并根据对人类现象的文化心理学方法为理论构建和研究提供路线图。