Name: The Meaning of India: Essays (Paperback )–by Raja Rao , Makarand Paranjape
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Modern Classics (24 August 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143448609
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143448600
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 204 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.78 x 20.32 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India

First published in 1996 when he was eighty-eight years old, this selection of nearly six decades of Raja Rao's non-fiction is an audacious contemplation on the deeper significance of India. A combination of fables, journeys, discussions and meditations, The Meaning of India advances the view that India is not just a geographical entity, or even a civilization-state. India is, above all, a metaphysic, a way of being and regarding the self and the world.Drawing on a wide range of sources-including the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Gita, the Buddha, Sankara, Bhartrihari, Kalidasa, Dostoevsky, Valéry, Rilke, Mann and Mallarmé-as also meetings with Gandhi, Nehru, Forster and Malraux, Rao teases out the implications of Advaita or non-dualism, which he regards as India's unique contribution to the world.