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Author Malhotra, Rajiv.

Title Being different : an Indian challenge to western universalism / Rajiv Malhotra.

Publication Info. New Delhi : HarperCollins Publishers India a joint venture with The India Today Group, 2011.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1538367~S1
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Description vii, 474 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [459]-471) and index.
Contents The audacity of difference -- Yoga: freedom of history -- Integral unity and synthetic unity -- Order and chaos -- Non-translatable Sanskrit versus digestion -- Contesting western universalism -- Conclusion: Purva Paksha and the way forward -- Appendix A. The integral unity of dharma -- Appendix B. A systems model of dharma and Abrahamic traditions.
Summary Malhotra 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 synthetic unity.
Subject Civilization, Western.
Universalism.
Philosophy -- India.
Dharma.
Comparative civilization.
Religions.
ISBN 9789350291900
9350291908
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