India is the home of philosophy, religion and spirituality. Every age, she provides the world with her armies of spiritual masters. She uses every means to reach the people of various parts of the world to enlighten them to the grand avenues of a meaningful life. Encyclopaedia of Indian philosophy contains various school of Indian philosophy. Though many of the chapters deal with problems in metaphysics and epistemology, some are in the field of ethics, social philosophy and philosophy of religion. Between them, the papers cover almost all the major schools of philosophy although not with equal weightage on each school. The reader will be able to get an authentic idea about the current trends in Indian philosophy. The book concludes with a survey of European perceptions as well as misconceptions of India from earliest times to the late nineteenth century. It documents and analyses the intellectual heritage, which conditioned colonial perceptions of India, as also modern conceptualizations of ‘Hinduism.
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