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Understanding the Caste System and Its Maintenance: Brave New World’s World State and Ambedkar’s Stratified Hindu Society in Annihilation of Caste
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World contains and resembles a caste system found in Hindu society. While in Hindu society, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas...
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A Dialogue between Hindu and Catholic Perspectives in Taking Care of Newborns at their End-of-Life
Hinduism is considered one of the most ancient religions in the world. Although the technological innovation of modernization has undermined the...
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A Hindu Perspective on Humanizing Business
Humanizing business requires a commitment to the flourishing and dignity of all human beings and to the service of the common good. It excludes the...
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A Symphony of Looking-Glasses: Hindu Systems of Thought as Cultural “Existents”
The title of this lecture must sound unfamiliar and exotic at the Colloquium for the History and Philosophy of Science. So it will be the first of my...
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Why Do We Need to Discuss the Practice of Veiling?
Veiling is one of the sources of seclusion of women from and within society. Ghūnghat ( avagunṭhana, purdāh ) or veiling is primarily associated with...
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Imagining the Hindus and Hinduism
The mythical representation of the colonized by the colonizer cannot happen without engaging in fabrications and falsehoods. While accounting for the...
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Revisiting Hindu Nationalism: Perspective of Bankimchandra
Bankimchandra was a stalwart in terms of his writings in the nineteenth-century Bengal. He was one of the pioneers of nationalism in India and a...
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Mill’s Colonial-Racist Discourse in School Textbooks
James Mill was the first colonial to write a comprehensive history of India. Soon after its publication, he became a high-ranking employee of the...
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Sri Aurobindo’s Hindu Philosophy: Spiritual Evolution of Human Consciousness
As I understand, Sri Aurobindo’s deep concern was twofold against the backdrop of the existing social, political, and spiritual situations of his...
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Bhakti and Accidental Grace: Hate as Love in the Hindu Tradition
Love can be as violent as hate, its twin emotion. The poet Robert Frost captured this in his poem “Fire and Ice,” in which he likened (and rhymed)...
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Primitivizing the Hindus: Hindus as Oppressive and Hierarchical
The contentions of the Francophone postcolonial thinkers are proven fair and square when critically examining Mill’s chapters on the Hindu people in...
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‘The More You Think of It, the Less the Difference’: Rebirth and Animals in Thoreau and Tagore
The British Romantics and American Transcendentalists were deeply influenced by translations of Indian philosophical and literary texts. These...
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Muddled Roots and Diverse Routes of Reality: Understanding Hindu Rāṣṭra and Gandhi Rāṣṭra Through the Myth of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita
The Gandhian ontology of modern India that began from the colonial exploitation was deeply epistemic with recent memories. Gandhi did not supplement...
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Secularizing Society
This chapter provides a detailed analysis of the secularizing characteristics of contemporary society, and how this phenomenon is best understood...