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The Hindu Nation : A Reconciliation with Modernity by M. K Raghavendra is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Hindu Nation : A Reconciliation with Modernity about?
The book begins with an introduction examining ‘nationhood’ in India and then traces the political conflict to Nehruvian cultural policy after 1947. In today’s world, no religion can claim to be superior to any other. But in pursuing ‘modernity’ and inculcating the ‘scientific’ and ‘secular’ outlook, Nehruvian rationalism created an elite liberal class that was sceptical about the majority religion, but this was not extended to other religions because of a misunderstanding of ‘secularism’. In promoting Westernised education, the preserving of local knowledge was neglected and Hinduism lost respect among the educated elite born into it. The elite class became the intermediary with the West, which now dominates academic study of India. Further, prompted by the sceptical attitude of liberal Indians, Western academics and intellectuals accord Hinduism less respect than to other religions and treat it as ‘superstition’. Traditional Indians who revere Hinduism but are products of the same lop-sided system respond by attributing false value to India’s prehistory and its past. Hinduism is not a religion but a collection of practices associated with the space now called India. Author M.K. R
Who reads The Hindu Nation : A Reconciliation with Modernity?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- M. K Raghavendra
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789390358380
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Political Science, Philosophy