Vibhinnata Paschatay Sarvbhomikta Ko Bhartiya Chunauti

Author : Rajiv Malhotra
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789351367604

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Vibhinnata: Paschatay Sarvbhomikta Ko Bhartiya Chunauti by Rajiv Malhotra Pdf

'This deserves to be one of the defining books of the age' - John M.Hobson, author of The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics India is more than a nation state. It is also a unique civilization with philosophies and cosmologies that are markedly distinct from the dominant culture of our times - that of the West. In this book, thinker and philosopher Rajiv Malhotra addresses the challenge of a direct and honest engagement with differences, by reversing the gaze and looking at the West from the dharmic point of view. In doing so, he challenges many hitherto unexamined beliefs that both sides hold about themselves and each other, pointing out the integral unity that underpins dharma's metaphysics and contrasts this with Western thought and history as a synthetic unity. Erudite and engaging, Vibhinnata critiques fashionable reductive translations. It concludes with a rebuttal of Western claims of universalism, recommending a multicultural worldview.

Author : Rajiv Malhotra
Publisher : Harpercollins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9351160505

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Being Different : An Different Challenge To Western Universalism by Rajiv Malhotra Pdf

'Rajiv Malhotra's insistence on preserving difference with mutual respect - not with mere "tolerance" - is even more pertinent today because the notion of a single universalism is being propounded. There can be no single universalism, even if it assimilates or, in the author's words, "digests", elements from other civilizations' - Kapila Vatsyayan In Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism, thinker and philosopher Rajiv Malhotra addresses the challenge of a direct and honest engagement on differences, by reversing the gaze, repositioning India from being the observed to the observer and looking at the West from the dharmic point of view. In doing so, he challenges many hitherto unexamined beliefs that both sides hold about themselves and each other. He highlights that while unique historical revelations are the basis for Western religions, dharma emphasizes self-realization in the body here and now. He also points out the integral unity that underpins dharma's metaphysics and contrasts this with Western thought and history as a synthetic unity. Erudite and engaging, Being Different critiques fashionable reductive translations and analyses the West's anxiety over difference and fixation for order which contrast the creative role of chaos in dharma. It concludes with a rebuttal of Western claims of universalism, while recommending a multi-civilizational worldview.

Author : Rajiv Malhotra
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789351775393

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The Battle for Sanskrit by Rajiv Malhotra Pdf

There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing westernization of the discourse about India. The Battle for Sanskrit seeks to alert traditional scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti - Indian civilization - concerning an important school of thought that has its base in the US and that has started to dominate the discourse on the cultural, social and political aspects of India. This academic field is called Indology or Sanskrit studies. From their analysis of Sanskrit texts, the scholars of this field are intervening in modern Indian society with the explicitly stated purpose of removing 'poisons' allegedly built into these texts. They hold that many Sanskrit texts are socially oppressive and serve as political weapons in the hands of the ruling elite; that the sacred aspects need to be refuted; and that Sanskrit has long been dead. The traditional Indian experts would outright reject or at least question these positions. The start of Rajiv Malhotra's feisty exploration of where the new thrust in Western Indology goes wrong, and his defence of what he considers the traditional, Indian approach, began with a project related to the Sringeri Sharada Peetham in Karnataka, one of the most sacred institutions for Hindus. There was, as he saw it, a serious risk of distortion of the teachings of the peetham, and of sanatana dharma more broadly. Whichever side of the fence one may be on, The Battle for Sanskrit offers a spirited debate marshalling new insights and research. It is a valuable addition to an important subject, and in a larger context, on two ways of looking. Is each view exclusive of the other, or can there be a bridge between them? Readers can judge for themselves.

Author : Rajiv Malhotra,Satyanarayana Dasa Babaji
Publisher : Manjul Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789390085484

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Sanskrit Non-Translatables by Rajiv Malhotra,Satyanarayana Dasa Babaji Pdf

Sanskrit Non-Translatables is a path-breaking and audacious attempt at Sanskritizing the English language and enriching it with powerful Sanskrit words. It continues the original and innovative idea of nontranslatability of Sanskrit, first introduced in the book, Being Different. For English readers, this should be the starting point of the movement to resist the digestion of Sanskrit into English, by introducing loanwords into their English vocabulary without translation. The book presents a thorough mechanism of the process of digestion and examines the loss of adhikara for Sanskrit because of translating its core ideas into English. The movement launched by this book will resist this and stop the programs that seek to turn Sanskrit into a dead language by translating all its treasures to render it redundant. It discusses fifty-four non-translatables across various genres that are being commonly mistranslated. It empowers English speakers with the knowledge and arguments to introduce these Sanskrit words into their daily speech with confidence. Every lover of India’s sanskriti will benefit from the book and become a cultural ambassador propagating it through routine communications.

Author : Rajiv Malhotra
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789351362487

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Indra's Net by Rajiv Malhotra Pdf

Originating in the Atharva Veda, the concept of Indra's Net is a powerful metaphor for interconnectedness. It was transmitted via Buddhism's Avatamsaka Sutra into Western thought, where it now resides at the heart of post-modern discourse. According to this metaphor, nothing ultimately exists separately by itself and all boundaries can be deconstructed. This book invokes Indra's Net to articulate the open architecture, unity and continuity of Hinduism. Seen from this perspective, Hinduism defies pigeonholing into the traditional, modern and post-modern categories by which the West defines itself; rather, it becomes evident that Hinduism has always spanned all three categories simultaneously and without contradiction.It is fashionable among intellectuals to assert that dharma traditions lacked any semblance of unity before the British period, and that the contours of contemporary Hinduism were bequeathed to us by our colonial masters. Such arguments routinely target Swami Vivekananda, a key interlocutor who shattered many deeply rooted prejudices against Indian civilization. They accuse him of having camouflaged various alleged 'contradictions' within traditional Hinduism, and charge him with having appropriated the principles of Western religion to 'manufacture' a coherent and unified worldview and set of practices known today as Hinduism.Indra's Net: Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity provides a foundation for theories that slander contemporary Hinduism as illegitimate, ascribing sinister motives to its existence, and characterizing its fabric as oppressive. Rajiv Malhotra offers a detailed, systematic rejoinder to such views, and articulates the multidimensional, holographic understanding of reality that grounds Hindu dharma. He also argues that Vivekananda's creative interpretations of Hindu dharma informed and influenced many Western intellectual movements of the post-modern era. Indeed, as he cites with many insightful examples, appropriations from Hinduism have provided a foundation for cutting-edge discoveries in several fields, including cognitive science and neuroscience.

Author : Rajiv Malhotra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Hinduism
ISBN : 9385485016

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Academic Hinduphobia by Rajiv Malhotra Pdf

Author : Rajiv Malhotra
Publisher : Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9390356431

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Artificial Intelligence and TheFuture of Power by Rajiv Malhotra Pdf

A recurrent debate surrounding AI concerns the extent of human work that could be replaced by machines over the next twenty years when compared to new jobs created by AI. Numerous reports have addressed this issue, reaching a wide range of conclusions. Experts consider it a reasonable consensus that eventually a significant portion of blue- and white-collar jobs in most industries will become obsolete, or at least transformed, to such an extent that workers will need re-education to remain viable. This percentage of vulnerable jobs will continue to increase over time. The obsolescence will be far worse in developing countries where the standard of education is lower.

Author : Zarreen Khan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789352779062

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Koi Good News? by Zarreen Khan Pdf

The hilarious private journal of a highly public pregnancy When Mona Mathur of Dehradun had married her college sweetheart Ramit Deol of Amritsar, there were two things she wasn't prepared for:1. The size of the Deol family - it put any Sooraj Barjatiya movie to shame2. The fertility of the Deol family - they reproduce faster than any other species known to mankindFor four years now, Mona and Ramit have done the unthinkable and remained childless. Of course, that also means that they've battled that one question day in and day out: 'Koi Good News?'It doesn't matter that they have been happy to be child-free - they are married; they are expected to make babies. After all, there are grandparents, great-grandparents, uncles, aunts and even colony aunties in waiting.Brutally honest, thoroughly irreverent, Koi Good News? is the funniest book you'll read this year.

Author : John M. Hobson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107020207

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The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics by John M. Hobson Pdf

Reveals international theory as embedded within Eurocentrism such that its purpose is to celebrate/defend the idea of Western civilization.

Author : Gopal Stavig
Publisher : Advaita Ashrama
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788175053342

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Western Admirers of Ramakrishna and His Disciples by Gopal Stavig Pdf

This classic work of research published by Advaita Ashrama, a Publication centre of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India, brings under a single volume around 600 persons inspired by the ideals of Sri Ramakrishna and his disciples. Notable personalities whose connection with the Vedanta Movement in the West is delineated include Aldous Huxley, Arnold Toynbee, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, Mark Twain, J D Salinger and Joseph Campbell among others. For the scholars it is a mine of information presented precisely, and for the devotees of Ramakrishna, it is an inspiring account of western admiration for Ramakrishna and his disciples. (Pdf version).

Author : Swami Atmashraddhananda
Publisher : Sri Ramakrishna Math
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Pilgrimage To Western Ghats Temples In Karnataka by Swami Atmashraddhananda Pdf

This travelogue provides a brief history of some of the centres of pilgrimage in Karnataka along with a description of their spiritual, cultural and architectural features. This book introduces the readers to India’s living spiritual tradition enshrined in these temples.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1274949288

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The Life of Swami Vivekananda by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gauranga Gopal Sengupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015040685383

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Indology and Its Eminent Western Savantas by Gauranga Gopal Sengupta Pdf

Indology And Its Eminent Western Savants Contains Life And Bibliographical Mention Of The Works Of About Three Hundred Eminent Savants Of Indologists Of Europe And America Belonging To Diverse Times. Without Dustjacket.

Author : John Snelling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8120831527

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The Sacred Mountain by John Snelling Pdf

(4) Truth of the path leading to the annihilation of suffering.

Author : Raminder Kaur
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781843311386

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Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism by Raminder Kaur Pdf

'Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism' focuses on one of the major festivals of western India, the Ganapati Utsava, dedicated to the elephant-headed god. Raminder Kaur uses this occasion as the central anthropological and historiographical site within which to examine the dynamic relationship between spectacle, religion and nationalist politics.