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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Vedanta for the Western World is a collection of sixty-eight articles appeared in a magazine having the same title during 1938-45 by eminent scholars of international repute such as Aldous Huxley, Allan Hunter, Gerald Heard and Swami Prabhavananda reflecting on the varied aspects and universal reflections of Vedanta, with an Introduction by Christopher Isherwood. Vedanta, the Vedic philosophy per se, and not time-specific, focuses on three fundamental propositions that man's real nature is divine; aim of human life is to realize this divine nature; and all religions are essentially in agreement as far as this divine concept is concerned. The essays featured in this volume imbibe and exude the same philosophy being best suited to the understanding of new generation audience, especially the one that belongs to the Western world. This unique volume stands out in its genera of works due to a wide gamut of topics featured in it under the umbrella banner Vedanta. It enables every student of Vedanta know the essence of the Vedic philosophies from the perspectives of both Indian and Western scholars and men of merit.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Introduction: concepts and issues. 2. Emergence of NDFB: organisation and leadership. 3. Major demands, strategies and role of NDFB. 4. Support base of NDFB and its relationship with other Bodo organizations. 5. BTC, Union and State Government's responses to demands raised by the NDFB. Annexures. Bibliography. Acknowledgements. Index. The Bodo, an ancient ethnic group of Northeast India, is resorting to a movement for autonomy. A section of the Bodo educated youth being thoroughly disillusioned with constitutional safeguards, like autonomy arrangements, joined a secessionist struggle, which has not only radically transformed the character and substance of the Bodo assertion from autonomy to secession in terms of goals, but also the methods of achieving it, by showing preference to violence. Tracing historical background of the Bodos, this book seeks to analyse the emergence of the NDFB, its support base, and its major demands and strategies to achieve them. It also examines the factors that persuaded the NDFB to adopt extremist methods for achieving its goals, the nature and extent of support for the NDFB's demand for a Sovereign Bodoland, the relationship of NDFB with the other Bodo organizations and responses of the BTC, as well as Union and State Governments to the demands of the NDFB.…

°°° FIRST EDITION, HARDCOVER ORIGINAL. - A very good copy. isbn 0870553208.