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India: What Can It Teach Us
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This scholarly work is good read for anyone interested in history and the knowledge of scriptures which according to the author are a quintessential element of human experience in the subcontinent .
Divided into 8 lucid chapters ,it is a collection of series of lectures delivered by author to the future ICS officers in Britain before they left to serve in India ; where he persuades them to read the scriptures to understand the idea of India and also overcome their prejudices towards the Indian peoples.
Covering diverse aspects ranging from unique character of Indian civilization,Sanskrit literature , vedic deities and concluding with a treatise on Vedanta ,it is good read to develop a perspective on western thinking and evolution of orientalism .
Divided into 8 lucid chapters ,it is a collection of series of lectures delivered by author to the future ICS officers in Britain before they left to serve in India ; where he persuades them to read the scriptures to understand the idea of India and also overcome their prejudices towards the Indian peoples.
Covering diverse aspects ranging from unique character of Indian civilization,Sanskrit literature , vedic deities and concluding with a treatise on Vedanta ,it is good read to develop a perspective on western thinking and evolution of orientalism .
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