@article{889792,
      recid = {889792},
      author = {Malhotra, Rajiv.},
      title = {Being different : an Indian challenge to western  universalism /},
      pages = {vii, 474 pages ;},
      note = {Originally published in 2011.},
      abstract = {"India is more than a nation state. It is also a unique  civilization with philosophies and cosmologies that are  markedly distinct from the dominant culture of our times --  the West. India's spiritual traditions spring from dharma  which has no exact equivalent in Western frameworks ...  Rajiv Malhotra addresses the challenge of a direct and  honest engagement on differences, by reversing the gaze,  repositioning India from being the observed to the observer  and looking at the West from the dharmic point of view. In  doing so, he challenges many hiterto unexamined beliefs  that both sides hold about themselves and each other. He  highlights that while unique historical revelations are the  basis for Wester religions, dharma emphasizes  self-realization in the body here and now. He also points  out the integral unity that underpins dharma's metaphysics  and contrasts this with Western thought and history as  synthetic unity."--Jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/889792},
}