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The essence of modernity lies in a paradox: while it represents an unceasing search for virtue, the elements that constitute the fundamental attributes of modernity make this search utterly futile. This paradox is, needless to say, at the root of modern problematique. Efforts to overcome it flounder the hard rock of yet another paradox: these efforts are inspired by, grounded in, and informed by different components that, in their interaction, have conspired to engender this paradox in the first place. It, therefore, becomes necessary to go beyond the framework of the world-view that is the unquestioned source of this paradox. Politics and Beyond underlines this necessity and offers three different but organically linked paradigms—Gandhian thought, Swadhyaya, and, the source of these two, the Vedic perspective—which promise to overcome the ills mankind is contemporaneously suffering today as a result of his cupidity. Central to all these perspectives is their insistence on the need to establish a conscious and living relationship between the finite existence of man and the absolute that constitutes the primal source of meaning and order. It is this relationship that is the theme of Politics and Beyond. It is, again, this relationship that installs order in man’s interior and the external world, particularly socio-political universe.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ramashray Roy

Prof. Ramashray Roy is an eminent political philosopher who has, through his numerous writing, opened new vistas not only in different areas of social sciences but also in Vedic studies. Prof. Roy worked as a Senior Fellow as well as Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, Director of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi as well as its National Fellow and Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advance Study, Shimla. He is currently the Fellow of the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. He has published more than two dozen books and over fifty articles in Journals in India and outside. His publications include Dalit, Development and Democracy; Politics and Society; Politics and Beyond; Sanskaras in India Tradition and Culture (SHIPRA).

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Politics and Beyond
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Edition
1st. ed.
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8175410973
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xvi+244p.
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