Download e-book for kindle: India: A Civilization of Differences: The Ancient Tradition by Alain Daniélou

By Alain Daniélou

ISBN-10: 1594770484

ISBN-13: 9781594770487

a set of Daniélou's writings that builds a daring and cogent protection of India's caste system

• appears on the Hindu caste process no longer as racist inequality yet as a common ordering of diversity

• unearths the stereotypes of Indian society invented to justify colonialism

• contains never-before-published articles by means of the across the world well-known Hindu student and translator of The entire Kama Sutra (200,000 copies sold)

In classical India social ethics are in keeping with every one individual's useful position in society. those ethics range in accordance with caste so as to maximize the individual's effectiveness within the social context. this is often the definition of caste ethics.

The Indian caste process isn't really a hierarchy with a few who're privileged and others who're despised; it's a average ordering, an organizing precept, of a society in which variations are embraced instead of overlooked. within the caste process it truly is as much as the person to accomplish perfection within the nation to which she or he is born, given that to a definite volume that kingdom additionally kinds a part of a person's nature. everyone needs to accomplish their person religious destinies whereas, as individuals of a social team, making sure the continuity of the crowd and participating in making a favorable framework for all human life--thereby gratifying the collective future of the gang. The inspiration of transmigration presents an equalizing impact in this prescribed process in that state-of-the-art prince should be reborn as a woodcutter and the Brahman as a shoemaker.

In India: A Civilization of Differences, Daniélou explores this seldom-heard aspect of the caste debate and argues successfully in its want. This infrequent selection of the past due author's writings comprises numerous never-before-published articles and provides an in-depth examine the constitution of Indian society ahead of and after Western colonialism.

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