The Vedic Heritage : State, Nationalism and Environment
Contents: 1. Religious and Moral Education in India/Ramaranjan Mukherji. 2. Sanskrit Studies in Bengal/ Ramaranjan Mukherji. 3. Swami Vivekananda-Exponent of Indian Nationalism in Modern Context/Sushri Nivedita. 4. Indian Nationalilsm, Internationalism and Globalization/A.M. Bhattacharjee. 5. India-A Nation or A Civilization?MGS Narayanan. 6. Sri Aurobindo: Indian Nationalism inaction and Principle/Michel Danino. 7. Contemporary Discourse on Nationallism and Sri Aurobindo/Chandrakala Padia. 8. The Swadharma of Bharat’s Nationhood: Some Thoughts on Self-Education/S.K. Chakraborty. 9. Concept of Nationalism in Bankim Chandra’s Novels/Debranjan Mukhopadhyay. 10. Indian Nationalism: A Desideratum for World-peace/Dhyanesh Narayan Chakrabarti. 11. Concept of Rta, Satya, Dharma in Samkara’s Philosophy of Monism/Dipak Ghosh. 12. Apropos of Treatment of Environment in the Saduktikarnamrta/Karunasindhu Das. 13. Ecological Balance as reflected in the works of Kalildasa/Rita Chattopadhyay. 14. Sri Aurobindo : Soul, Force and Action of Indian Nationalism/Anjali Jaipuria. 15. National Agenda for Education/Kireet Joshi. 16. Philosophy of Indian Nationalism/Kireet Joshi. 17. Statecraft in the Buddhist Literature/Suniti Kumar Pathak. 18. Atharvaveda as the Source of Medical Science/S.P. Singh. 19. Rtam, Satyam and Dharma/Samiran Chandra Chakrabarti. 20. The Vedas, the Oriental Culture and T.S. Eliot/Subhas Sarkar. 21. Vedic Culture and its Impact on World Civilisation/Sachindra Kumar Maity. 22. Vedas and Asian Culture/Radharaman Chakraborti. 23. Atharvaveda and Ayurveda/Debabrata Sen Sharma. 24. Modern Scientific Concepts embedded in Vedic and Early Sanskrit Literature/Sunil Sen Sarma. 25. Rg Vedic Rts, Buddhists’ Sacca- A Comparative Approach/Asoke Chatterjee.
The present volume is a collection of stimulating papers by distinguished scholars on the idea of nationalism as one finds in the thoughts of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo. Articles on Classical Indian appreciation of environment and the Vedic concept of rta have found able handling in the present collection. This book will be a valuable contribution to Indological studies and research. (Jacket)
