{"product_id":"dharma-categorial-imperative-ide797","title":"Dharma: The Categorial Imperative","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Specification\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ctable\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eItem Code:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eIDE797\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/sa\/book-author\/editors%20ashok%20vohra%20arvind%20sharma%20mrinal%20miri\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Editors: Ashok Vohra, Arvind Sharma \u0026amp; Mrinal Miri\"\u003eEditors: Ashok Vohra, Arvind Sharma \u0026amp; Mrinal Miri\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/sa\/book-publisher\/d%20k%20printworld%20pvt%20ltd\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"D. 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Ltd.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eEnglish\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e2005\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e8124602700\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePages:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e472\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eCover:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eOther Details\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd rel=\"product-dimensions\"\u003e8.6\" X 5.6\"\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eWeight\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd rel=\"product-weight\"\u003e800 gm\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003c\/table\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Description\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"product-details-description\" style=\"max-height: 63rem; overflow-y: auto;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom the Jacket:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Each stable culture and major civilization of the world consists of a distinct material base and a distinct ideational structure and has an inherent mechanism of striking its own equilibrium between the two. In the Indian tradition \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/sa\/article\/dharma-for-modern-man\"\u003edharma\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is the balancing force. Religion and ideology are literally treated as synonymous with the \u003ca href=\"\/sa\/book\/Hindu\/sanskrit\"\u003eSanskrit\u003c\/a\u003e word \u003ci\u003edharma. \u003c\/i\u003eBut \u003ci\u003edharma \u003c\/i\u003ediffers from religion is not being exclusive, and from ideology in possessing a transcendental dimension.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The papers in this volume acknowledge that neither the word religion nor \u003ci\u003edharma\u003c\/i\u003e can be discarded while looking at the Indian reality. They address themselves to the question: To what extent does the continued use of the concept of religion in the Indian context reflect reality, and to what extent does it distort or misrepresent its dharmic reality? Given India's historical and the present existential situation these papers explore the question: \"Is an alternative understanding of Indian civilization possible, independent of Western presuppositions?\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The articles in the book present an in-depth study of the concept of \u003ci\u003edharma \u003c\/i\u003eand its relation to the other \u003ci\u003epurusarthas - artha, kama and moksa, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as with society, science, religion, Ayurveda and secularism. Relying mainly on the \u003ca href=\"\/sa\/article\/understanding-vedas\"\u003eVedas\u003c\/a\u003e, epics \u003ci\u003eManusmrti \u003c\/i\u003eand the writing of Plato, Vivekananda, Gandhi \u003ci\u003eet al., \u003c\/i\u003ethese papers explore some contemporary issues relating to women (\u003ci\u003estri-dharma\u003c\/i\u003e) and the dilemmas faced by the Indian diaspora, especially in the UK and the US.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e These discussions have an appeal for a general reader as well as for scholars of Philosophy, Religion, WOmen's Studies, Modern India and Sociology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eMrinal Miri\u003c\/i\u003e is currently Vicechancellor of Northeastern Hill University. He has taught philosophy in Delhi University and Northeastern Hill University. His philosophical publications include several books and many articles in professional journals both in India and abroad. Prior to his present assignment he was, for six year, Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eArvind Sharma, \u003c\/i\u003eformerly of the I.A.S., is Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has published extensively in the fields of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion and is currently engaged in promoting the adoption of a Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World's Religion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAshok Vohra\u003c\/i\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delhi. He was the Member Secretary of Indian council of Philosophical Research during 1995-98. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein's Philosophy of Mind, \u003c\/i\u003e(Croom-Helm, London, Sydney); co-author of \u003ci\u003eRadhakrishnan: HIs Life and Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e (State University of New York Press, New York) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of K. Satchidanada Murty \u003c\/i\u003e(ICPR, New Delhi). He has translated \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations; On Certainty;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCulture and Value\u003c\/i\u003e into Hindi. In addition he has published more than seventy articles and research papers in Indian and foreign journals. He has been writing columns on Indian philosophy and religion in leading national dailies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ctable border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\"\u003e \u003ctbody\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd width=\"100%\"\u003e \u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 1\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 1.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 'Religion' or 'Dharma' - Meaning and Motivation: Primarily in Indian Context\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003e R.S. Bhatnagar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 6\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 2.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e Philosophy, Religion, and Secularism: The Indian Context\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003e Srinivasa Rao\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 23\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 3.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e Dharma - Its Normative Base and Orthopraxeic Frame: Concept of Dharma and its Implications in Dharmasastras\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003e Godabarisha Mishra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 52\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 4.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e Semantics of Dharma\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eV. Kutumba Sastry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 74\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 5.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e Dharma and Moksa: Conflict, Continuity, and Identity\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eMahesh M. Mehta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 88\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 6.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e Mahatma Gandhi's Notion of Dharma: An Explication\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003ePushraj Jain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 103\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 7.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e India, Europe, and Modernity\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eSaranindranath Tagore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 113\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 8.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e Imperial Identities: The Construction of Britain and India in Children's Literature\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eKathryn Castle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 131\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 9.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e The Goals of Medicine - Setting New Priorities: A Hindu Prespective\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eCromwell Crawford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 165\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 10.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e The Spiritual Self and Psychopathology: Theoretical Reflections and Clinical Observations\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eAlan Roland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 192\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 11.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e Recontextualizing Indian History: A Hermenutic of Samskrtikarana\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eShrinivas Tilak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 215\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 12.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e Secularism vs. Hindu Nationalism: Interrogating the Terms of the Debate\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eMakrand Pranjape\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 262\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 13.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e Hindu Dharma and Indian Funk\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eK. Dad Prithipaul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 276\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 14.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e Vedic Mythology: An Archetypal Delineation of the Hindu World-View\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eB. Rambilass\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 327\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 15.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e Modern Philosophical Fragmentation versus Vedanta and Plato\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eBart Gruzalski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 349\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 16.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e The Dharmic Journey of Svami Vivekananda: From The Apostle of Hinduism Universalism to Hinduism as the Religion Eternal\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eGeorge M. Williams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 363\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 17.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e Stri Dharma - Wife's Duties: A Hindu Textual and Contextual Analysis among the Educated and Professional Women in Cotemporary Indian Society and the Diaspora in UK and USA\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eAnnapurna Devi Pandey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 400\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 18.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e Women in the East and Women in the West\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eAshima Khasnabish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 422\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe 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