Saturday, June 27, 2015

Transnational history of democracy

American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and ...

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With these words, Philip Goldberg begins his monumental work, American Veda, a fascinating look at India’s remarkable impact on Western culture.

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Rajiv Malhotra - 2014 - ‎Preview

Originating in the Atharva Veda, the concept of Indra’s Net is a powerful metaphor for interconnectedness.

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The work is now marked by both critical acclaim and cross-cultural controversy. In a substantial new Preface to this second edition, Kripal answers his critics and addresses the controversy.

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Patrick Hayden, ‎Chamsy El-Ojeili - 2009 - ‎Snippet view

In these ways, the Indian philosopher-yogi Sri Aurobindo suggests, the practice of newness (as inducement for spiritual ... and inclusive future affectivity as commencing with the foundational eccentricity of re-imagining the heart Leela Gandhi 69.

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Andrews, C.F., Mahatma Gandhi's Ideas, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1929. Appadorai, A. Indian ... Aurobindo, Sri, The Secret of the Veda, Pondicherry : Sri. Aurobindo Ashram ... Balakrishnan V. and R. Leela devi, (ed.), Sri Matsya  ...

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Davis, R. P., 'Griffith and Gandhi: A Study in Non-violent Resistance', Threshold, 3.2 (1959). Davitt ... Dijk, A. M. G. van, 'Europese Invloeden op het Denken van SriAurobindo', unpublished Ph.D. thesis (Utrecht: Rijksuniversiteit te ... Gandhi,Leela,Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1998).

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This project paved the way for the work of later Hindu reformers, such as Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, and Gandhi, whose teachings promoted the notion that all world religions belong to a single spiritual unity.

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Rita Sherma, ‎Arvind Sharma - 2008 - ‎Preview

Aurobindo, Sri (1984) (1915) Swami Dayananda, Pondicherry: All India Books. Carman, John and Narayanan, ... GandhiLeela (1998) Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. King, Richard (1999 ) ...

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Leela Gandhi - 2014 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions

Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first ...

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Shruti Kapila, ‎Faisal Devji - 2013 - ‎Preview

(a title bestowed on her by Aurobindo), gradually assume the leadership of the increasingly international Aurobindo ... 9446; and Leela Gandhi, Afirective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, FinedeeS'iecle Radicalism, and the Politics of  ...

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Debashish Banerji - 2015 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions

Instead, they may be better visible in terms of transnational “affective communities” that Leela Gandhi postulated. I would suggest that certain Indian nationalists like Tagore and Sri Aurobindo and to a lesser extent Gandhi, also belong to this  ...

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Peter Heehs - 2013 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions

Special thanks to the late Jayantilal Parekh of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives and to Michael Murphy ofthe ... Francis Bertaud, Anuradha Bhattacharya, Liviu Bordas, Ratan Lal Chakraborty, A. K. Dutta, P.L. Dutta, Leela Gandhi, Aloka  ...

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Leela Gandhi - 2006 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions

Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of FriendshipLeela Gandhi. 13 See A. B. Purani, Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, 2d edn ( Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Society, 1995), 52 -53. The meeting between Devdas ...

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This book provides biographical profiles of the following female gurus plus sensitive scholarly analysis of their spiritual paths: Ammachi, Anandamayi Ma, Gauri Ma, Gurumayi, Jayashri Ma, Karunamayi Ma, Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, Mother Meera, ...

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12 s WESTERN HOLY MOTHERS AS SOUL MATES OF INDIAN GURUS Let me tell you frankly that I am now cominced that you have a great future in the work torIndia. What was wanted was no man, but a woman; a real lioness, to work for  ...

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Jeffery Paine - 1998 - ‎Snippet view - ‎More editions

A collection of short biographies bears witness to the influence of India on the lives, thought, and desires of such twentieth-century Western writers and thinkers as E. M. Forster, Carl Jung, W. B. Yeats, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice: Rights and Wrongs

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Not only does this book reflect the clarity and acuity of thought that characterize Wolterstorff's work, it also reflects the humane sensibilities of someone who has thought and felt deeply about these matters for a long time.

Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

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Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann - 2010 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
In doing so, this volume captures the state of the art in a field that historians have only recently begun to explore.

The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore - Page ix

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i.1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Bharat Mata (abanindranath Tagore, 1905) Krishna Lila—Bhabollasa (abanindranath Tagore, 1897) abhisarika (abanindranath Tagore, 1897) Krishna Lila—Nau ...

Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan ... - Page 265

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—John Lennon, “Instant Karma” WHILE THIS STUDY SKETCHES some historical and literary instances of Guru English in multiple contexts and investigates a number of ancillary phenomena under the rubric, it is neither a full- fledged survey ...