Battle for Sanskrit: Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred? Oppressive or Liberating? Dead or Alive? - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollinsISBN-13:9789352641819ISBN-10:9352641817UPC:9789352641819Book Category:Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Library & Information Science, Editing & ProofreadingBook Topic:School MediaSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SCNK89ADXJ
There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing Westernization of the discourse about India. 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. The scholars of this field 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. Is each view exclusive of the other, or can there be a bridge between them?
Languages:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollinsISBN-13:9789352641819ISBN-10:9352641817UPC:9789352641819Book Category:Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Library & Information Science, Editing & ProofreadingBook Topic:School MediaSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SCNK89ADXJ
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.
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