India: what can it teach us?
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TextPublication details: New Delhi Rupa 1934Description: xiii, 229 pISBN: 9788171679201Subject(s): Sanskrit literatureDDC classification: 954 Summary: This collection of lectures of Max Muller portrays India, specially the Vedic India, as an epitome of a virtuosity and morality.
A collection of the lectures of Max Muller, India: What it Can Teach Us portrays India, especially Vedic India, as an epitome of virtue and morality, whose glory is equal to classical Greek and Roman thought. Muller, in these essays, urges the West to abandon their superior colonial mind-set to adopt the multi-dimensional efficacy that is inherent to Indian culture.
About the Author: Friedrich Max Muller
Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) was a great linguist and scholar born in Germany. His publications include a Sanskrit translation of Kalidas's Meghaduta, History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, and Introduction to the Science of Religion. Before his death in 1900 at Oxford, he was crowned with most honours and awards a scholar could aspire for.
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This collection of lectures of Max Muller portrays India, specially the Vedic India, as an epitome of a virtuosity and morality.
A collection of the lectures of Max Muller, India: What it Can Teach Us portrays India, especially Vedic India, as an epitome of virtue and morality, whose glory is equal to classical Greek and Roman thought. Muller, in these essays, urges the West to abandon their superior colonial mind-set to adopt the multi-dimensional efficacy that is inherent to Indian culture.
About the Author: Friedrich Max Muller
Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) was a great linguist and scholar born in Germany. His publications include a Sanskrit translation of Kalidas's Meghaduta, History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, and Introduction to the Science of Religion. Before his death in 1900 at Oxford, he was crowned with most honours and awards a scholar could aspire for.
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