Swimming upstream : Laxmanshastri Joshi and the evolution of modern India / Arundhati C. Khandkar and Ashok C. Khandkar.
2019
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Title
Swimming upstream : Laxmanshastri Joshi and the evolution of modern India / Arundhati C. Khandkar and Ashok C. Khandkar.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780199098279 (electronic book)
Published
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number
DS481
Dewey Decimal Classification
954.035092
Summary
Laxmanshastri Joshi was a brahmin scholar and a passionate champion for religious and social reform. Unlike most brahmins, he went against the grain, helping Gandhi overcome the powerful upper caste Indians and helped bringing Dalits into the Indian mainstream. With courage and civility, he spoke out against Hindu orthodoxy, pointing to the heterodoxy and polemical debate in the immense sweep of Hindu religion. Like Tagore, he was one of India's renaissance men. 'Swimming Upstream' traces Laxmanshastri's life of scholarship, courage, his steadfast humanity, and his role in the making of a free, secular, modern, and democratic India.
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Laxmanshastri Joshi was a brahmin scholar and a passionate champion for religious and social reform. Unlike most brahmins, he went against the grain, helping Gandhi overcome the powerful upper caste Indians and helped bringing Dalits into the Indian mainstream. With courage and civility, he spoke out against Hindu orthodoxy, pointing to the heterodoxy and polemical debate in the immense sweep of Hindu religion. Like Tagore, he was one of India's renaissance men. 'Swimming Upstream' traces Laxmanshastri's life of scholarship, courage, his steadfast humanity, and his role in the making of a free, secular, modern, and democratic India.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2019).
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Khandkar, Ashok C., author.
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780199495153
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