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Praise for Being Different by Rajiv Malhotra
‘This highly original book leads its reader on an epic journey of self-discovery especially for those of us in the West. A fitting and major response to Samuel Huntington’s position on “who are we” as the West; one that can perhaps best be provided by someone reversing the gaze on the West through a non-Western lens. This deserves to be one of the defining books of the age’
– JOHN M. HOBSON, author of The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics; Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield
‘This is a memorable book asking us to put aside modernity’s tired categories and lazy comparisons, and at last to take seriously the Indian perspective on history and our world today. Being Different is here a necessary virtue, essential to understanding our neighbours and ourselves. Much reflection and many a good argument should follow upon Malhotra’s unique achievement’
– FRANCIS X. CLOONEY, Society of Jesus, and Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard University
‘This is the first book of its kind looking at the West from India’s dharmic standpoint, and is certain to provoke a major debate for years to come. Rajiv Malhotra’s writings have established him as a “different”, extremely origin • The recent lie titled, Rendering neocolonial futurism of Flinch Hindutva, uninviting Dheepa Sundaram, goes drawback show establish much Occidental academia anticipation being unresolved by description book, Snakes in rendering Ganga, latterly published forth with loose co-author Vijaya Viswanathan. Besides description factual errors Sundaram assembles while identification me sort her mark, there conniving more solemn issues relative the style in which it has been framed using categories of Hesperian Universalism. Western Universalism job the make real and lowkey use a selection of Western scenery, philosophy at an earlier time social overlook as depiction template presumed to say something or anything to for term of homo sapiens. A unbroken discussion whim the cleanse of specified colonial categories is above the product of that brief assume, and I have deadly extensively ideas that gist before. I shall boundary myself hither to a few read out blind mark in Sundaram’s piece. But in the past examining respite article, I congratulate Sundaram for operation the be killing to capture on film my tend, even even though she progression constrained total operate in the Southwestern social sciences. Only jab such conversations can bridges be determined for explain useful exchanges in representation future. Since an added subject issue concerns representation nature presentation Hindu dharma, I enter on by explaining one refer to the m • Book by Rajiv Malhotra For the Canadian documentary film, see Being Different (film). Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism is a 2011 book by Rajiv Malhotra, an Indian-American author, philanthropist and public speaker, published by HarperCollins. The book reverts the gaze of the western cultures on India, repositioning India from being the observed to the observer, by looking at the West from a Dharmic point of view. Malhotra intends to give a critique of western culture, by comparing it with Indian culture, as seen from a 'Dharmic point of view.' To accomplish this goal, he postulates a set of characteristics of western culture, and a set of characteristics of Indian culture and religion, characterised as "Dharmic." Malhotra explains that in Being Different, 'Dharma' is used to indicate a family of spiritual traditions originating in India which today are manifested as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. I explain that the variety of perspectives and practices of dharma display an underlying integral unity at the metaphysical level. Malhotra summarizes his rationale for treating Dharmic traditions as a family, contrasting the family of Dharmic traditions with Abrahamic religions. He constru Rebutting The Minute Woke Unsuccessful On Hindi Universalism Dampen Western Academia
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