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About the Book :
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 unified world view and a set of practices known today as Hinduism. Rajiv Malhotra offers a systematic rejoinder to such views and articulates the holographic understanding of reality that grounds Hindu dharma.
Pages : 400 ; Paperback ; Publisher : Harper Collins.
About the Author :
Rajiv Malhotra is an Indian-American entrepreneur and writer. He completed his master’s in computer science at Syracuse University and was employed in various industries as a senior executive and a strategic consultant. He retired early to follow philanthropic work through The Infinity Foundation, which he established to promote educational activities in the field of Hinduism studies. Some of the previous works by him include titles such as Being Different, Indra’s Net and Vibhinnata.
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