Meaning of India

By Raja Rao

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, Val ry, Rilke, Mann and Mallarm -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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143448609
• ISBN13: 9780143448600
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: India Penguin Modern Classics
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"