Hegel’s India presents, collected together in one volume, all of Hegel’s writings on and about India. It is remarkable how much effort Hegel expended on what he ultimately characterized merely as fantastic, subjective, wild, dreamy, frenzied, absurd, and repetitive. Hegel also presented a scathing social critique of the caste-order a theme reiterated in all his works. The central provocative issue is: if Indian art, religion and philosophy are so ...