India Penguin Modern Classics
Meaning of India
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- Raja Rao
- India Penguin Modern Classics
- Paperback
- 9780143448600
- 7.8 X 5.1 X 0.8 inches
- 0.45 pounds
- Philosophy > Metaphysics
- English
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First published in 1996 when he was eighty-eight years old, this selection of nearly six decades of Raja Rao's non-fiction is an audacious contemplation on the deeper significance of India. A combination of fables, journeys, discussions and meditations, The Meaning of India advances the view that India is not just a geographical entity, or even a civilization-state. India is, above all, a metaphysic, a way of being and regarding the self and the world.
Drawing on a wide range of sources-including the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Gita, the Buddha, Sankara, Bhartrihari, Kalidasa, Dostoevsky, Val�ry, Rilke, Mann and Mallarm�-as also meetings with Gandhi, Nehru, Forster and Malraux, Rao teases out the implications of Advaita or non-dualism, which he regards as India's unique contribution to the world.
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