Dharma, the categorial imperative / (Record no. 72898)
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| fixed length control field | 02873cam a2200337 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 8124602700 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 294.548 As36 D |
| Item number | 21193 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ashok Vohra |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Dharma, the categorial imperative / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by Ashok Vohra, Arvind Sharma, Mrinal Miri. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication | New Delhi : |
| Name of publisher | D.K. Printworld, |
| Date of publication | 2005. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 466 |
| Accompanying material | 22 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | 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 dharma is the balancing force. Religion and ideology are literally treated as synonymous with the Sanskrit word dharma. But dharma differs from religion in not being exclusive, and from ideology in possessing a transcendental dimension. The papers in this volume acknowledge that neither the word religion nor dharma 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 dhàrmic reality? Given India's historical and the present existential situation these papers explore the question: Is an alterative understanding of Indian civilization possible, independent of Western presuppositions? The articles in the book present an in-depth study of the concept of dharma and its relation to the other purusharthas artha, kama and moksha, as well as with society, science, religion, Ayurveda and secularism. Relying mainly on the Vedas, epics, Manusmriti and the writings of Plato, Vivekananda, Gandhi et al., these papers explore some contemporary issues relating to women (stri-dharma) and the dilemmas faced by the Indian diaspora, especially in the UK and the US. These discussions have an appeal for a general reader as well as for scholars of Philosophy, Religion, Women's Studies, Modern India and Sociology. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 'Religion' or 'dharma' : meaning and motivation primarily in Indian context / R.S. Bhatnagar -- Philosophy, religion, and secularism : the Indian context / Srinivasa Rao -- Dharma, its normative base and orthopraxeic frame : concept of dharma and its implications in dharmaśāstras / Godabarisha Mishra -- Semantics of dharma / V. Kutumba Sastry -- Dharma and mokṣa : conflict, continuity, and identity / Mahesh M. Mehta -- Mahatma Gandhi's notion of dharma : an explication / Pushparaj Jain -- India, Europe, and modernity / Saranindranath Tagore -- Imperial identities : the construction of Britain and India in children's literature / Kathyryn Castle -- The goals of medicine : setting new priorities : a Hindu perspective / Cromwell Crawford -- The spiritual self and psychopathology : theoretical reflections and clinical observations / Alan Roland -- Recontextualizing Indian history : a hermenutic of Saṃskr̥tikaraṇa / Shrinivas Tilak -- Secularism vs. Hindu nationalism : interrogating the terms of the debate / Makarand Pranjape -- Hindu dharma and Indian funk / K. Dad Prithipaul -- Vedic mythology : an archetypal delineation of the Hindu world-view / B. Rambilass -- Modern philosophical fragmentation versus Vedānta and Plato / Bart Gruzalski -- The dharmic journey of Svami Vivekananda : from the apostle of Hinduism universalism to Hinduism as the religion eternal / George M. Williams -- Stri dharma--wife's duties : a Hindu textual and contextual analysis among the educated and professional women in contemporary Indian society and the diaspora in UK and USA / Annapurna Devi Pandey -- Women in the East and women in the West / Ashima Khasnabish. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Contributed papers presented at an international conference held during July 16-22, 1997 in Shimla. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Dharma |
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| Topical Term | Hinduism |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Hindu philosophy |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ashok Vohra |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Arvind Sharma |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mrinal Miri |
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