Publisher's Synopsis
This text explores some major ethical and political dilemmas of modern India in the belief that they are important not only to India but to the world at large. India provides a laboratory for working out some deep problems - of the role of violence in the modern state, of feminism and tradition, or the relations between religion and political institutions, of nationalism, of environmentalism and the basis of human rights. Ninian Smart is the author of "Doctrine and Argument in Indian Philosophy", "The Religious Experience" and "Worldviews".
