1 Teaching International Development: Histories, Disciplines, Methods. Ed. Paul Robert Gilbert, University of Sussex. Edward Elgar Publishing. What is Practical about ‘Practical Philosophy’? Immersion, Co-Transformation and the Group Unconscious in Community Engagement Anup Dhar Debt: This paper stems from grassroot experiences and immersive learnings emanating from the action research work of 112 MPhil Development Practice scholars in 112 villages in central and eastern India. It also stems from the community engagement of the Fellows in Action Research and the Research Associates of the Centre for Development Practice (CDP) 1 . In that sense, this paper is not being written by me alone; it remains co-authored by all the 112 MPhil action researchers in rural India and in forest societies as also by the Fellows in Action Research and the Research Associates at CDP; working in largely indigenous (adivasi) contexts; who have contributed in known and unknown ways to this paper. This paper is thus just a placeholder (and I am perhaps a limited scribe) of the multiple micro-insights and immanent feeling states that were born in the process of what I would like to call co-transformative praxis with communities. Indigenous members of Eka Nari Sanghathan (especially Aiya), Ayang Raje, Chinhari: The Young India, Chachanpur Mahila Kalyan Samiti continues to inform, re-form and inspire this rather unconventional journey from standard forms of academic research on the subaltern to co-transformative praxis with the subaltern. I am especially indebted to the young Gond and Yadav women members of Chinhari: The Young India - and Swarnima Kriti - who have worked towards the creation of a caring common since 2016. 2 1 See http://practicalphilosophy.co.in for a partial documentation of the work of CDP. 2 See www.chinhari.co.in. Bhavya Chitranshi and Ashutosh Kumar have worked towards the creation of a postcapitalist cooperative of ‘indigenous women afflicted with experiences of singleness’ in Rayagada, Odisha from 2013. I am indebted