This book is one what has come to be known as Indian philosophy. The term 'Indian philosophy', and for that matter any other term of a similar nature, has a ring of vagueness about it. Whatever be the essential elements of the meaning of the term, what I have done in this book will perhaps justify the claim I am making. Plainly speaking, I am an Indian teaching or 'doing' philosophy in an Indian university, and I have reacted here in this book to some of the views of the past masters of my land. Again, negatively speaking, if what has been done in this book can be called philosophy, it is certainly not Western, Greek, Chinese, Japanese or Islamic philosophy. Experts in such philosophies may find it hard to follow the trend of arguments of the book, not because these are faulty or unworthy or unphilosophical, but because they are not familiar with such a brand of philosophy and so may lack interest in it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sukharanjan Saha
Sukharanjan Saha studied Advaita Vedanta with Professor Gopinath Bhattacharya for his Ph.D. degree of Calcutta University, and studied Nyaya with Pandit Visvabandhu Bhattacharya at Calcutta Sanskrit College for his Tarkatirtha degree of Bangiya Samskrita Siksa Parisat. He joined the Department of Philosophy of Jadavpur University in 1970 and retired in 2003 as Professor of Indian Philosophy. He also worked as Visiting Faculty at Burdwan University, Calcutta University and Indian Academy of Philosophy. Apart from publishing articles in different journals and anthologies he authored Advaita Theory of Illusion (1982), Perspectives on Nyaya Logic and Epistemology (1987), Meaning, Truth and Predication (1991) and Epistemology in Pracina and Navya Nyaya (2003). He also edited The Sabdakhanda of Tattvacintamani along with Rucidatta's commentary Prakasa in a companion volume (1991), Essays in Indian Philosophy (1997), Rashvihary Das on Advaitism (2003) and Religions of the People of India (2003).
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