Indra's Net: Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity - Softcover

Malhotra, Rajiv

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9351771792 ISBN 13: 9789351771791

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

After studying physics and computer science, Rajiv Malhotra worked as a senior executive in the software and telecom industries before becoming a management consultant and then launching his own ventures in twenty countries. He took early retirement in the mid-1990s at the age of forty-four and established Infinity Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9351771792
• ISBN 13: 9789351771791
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400