Critique of Hinduism and Other Religions
Author: Lakshmaṇaśāstrī Jośī
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9788171548323
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Author: Lakshmaṇaśāstrī Jośī
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9788171548323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lakshmaṇaśāstrī Jośī
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kancha Ilaiah
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Author Writes With Passionate Anger And Sarcasm On The Situation In India To-Day. Synthesizing Many Of The Ideas Of Bahujans, The Author Presents Their Vision Of A More Just Society.
Author: Krishnan Ramaswamy
Publisher: Rupa Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 576
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndia, once a major civilizational and economic power that suffered centuries of decline, is now newly resurgent in business, geopolitics and culture. However, a powerful counterforce within the American academy is systematically undermining core icons and ideals of Indic culture and thought. For instance, scholars of this counterforce have disparaged the Bhagavad Gita as a dishonest book ; declared Ganesha s trunk a limpphallus ; classified Devi as the mother with apenis and Shiva as a notorious womanizer who incites violence in India.
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 808
ISBN-13: 9781594202056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. The Hindus brings a fascinating multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant and creative thinkers have kept Hinduism alive in ways that other scholars have not fully explored. In this unique and authoritative account, debates about Hindu traditions become platforms to consider history as a whole.
Author: Meera Nanda
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780813533582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe leading voices in science studies have argued that modern science reflects dominant social interests of Western society. Following this logic, postmodern scholars have urged postcolonial societies to develop their own "alternative sciences" as a step towards "mental decolonization". These ideas have found a warm welcome among Hindu nationalists who came to power in India in the early 1990s. In this passionate and highly original study, Indian-born author Meera Nanda reveals how these well-meaning but ultimately misguided ideas are enabling Hindu ideologues to propagate religious myths in the guise of science and secularism. At the heart of Hindu supremacist ideology, Nanda argues, lies a postmodernist assumption: that each society has its own norms of reasonableness, logic, rules of evidence, and conception of truth, and that there is no non-arbitrary, culture-independent way to choose among these alternatives. What is being celebrated as "difference" by postmodernists, however, has more often than not been the source of mental bondage and authoritarianism in non-Western cultures. The "Vedic sciences" currently endorsed in Indian schools, colleges, and the mass media promotes the same elements of orthodox Hinduism that have for centuries deprived the vast majority of Indian people of their full humanity. By denouncing science and secularization, the left was unwittingly contributing to what Nanda calls "reactionary modernism." In contrast, Nanda points to the Dalit, or untouchable, movement as a true example of an "alternative science" that has embraced reason and modern science to challenge traditional notions of hierarchy.
Author: Larmanshastri Joshi
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Published: 1941
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Taber
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-12-31
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1134307349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book provides an introduction to the history and the development of Indian epistemology, a synopsis of Kumarila's work and an analysis of its argument.
Author: Shashi Tharoor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-05-22
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1787380459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHinduism is one of the world's oldest and greatest religious traditions. In captivating prose, Shashi Tharoor untangles its origins, its key philosophical concepts and texts. He explores everyday Hindu beliefs and practices, from worship to pilgrimage to caste, and touchingly reflects on his personal beliefs and relationship with the religion. Not one to shy from controversy, Tharoor is unsparing in his criticism of 'Hindutva', an extremist, nationalist Hinduism endorsed by India's current government. He argues urgently and persuasively that it is precisely because of Hinduism's rich diversity that India has survived and thrived as a plural, secular nation. If narrow fundamentalism wins out, Indian democracy itself is in peril.
Author: Parimal G. Patil
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009-08-22
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0231142226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophical arguments for and against the existence of God have been crucial to Euro-American and South Asian philosophers for over a millennium. Critical to the history of philosophy in India, were the centuries-long arguments between Buddhist and Hindu philosophers about the existence of a God-like being called Isvara and the religious epistemology used to support them. By focusing on the work of Ratnakirti, one of the last great Buddhist philosophers of India, and his arguments against his Hindu opponents, Parimal G. Patil illuminates South Asian intellectual practices and the nature of philosophy during the final phase of Buddhism in India. Based at the famous university of Vikramasila, Ratnakirti brought the full range of Buddhist philosophical resources to bear on his critique of his Hindu opponents' cosmological/design argument. At stake in his critique was nothing less than the nature of inferential reasoning, the metaphysics of epistemology, and the relevance of philosophy to the practice of religion. In developing a proper comparative approach to the philosophy of religion, Patil transcends the disciplinary boundaries of religious studies, philosophy, and South Asian studies and applies the remarkable work of philosophers like Ratnakirti to contemporary issues in philosophy and religion.