SynopsisDharma: Hinduism and Religions in India' by Chaturvedi Badrinath, who authored the bestselling book Swami Vivekananda: The Living Vedanta.
Besides, he wrote The Mahabharata : An Inquiry in the Human Condition and The Women of Mahabharata :The Question of Truth among other books. Badrinath's central argument is that Indian civilization had been a 'Dharmic' civilization as it is founded in the principle of dharma, which is neither 'Hindu' nor 'religious' in the Semitic sense of the word 'religion'. In his negotiations with the question 'what is Hinduism?' in these essays, he says that it impossible to offer a concrete definition/answer as he suggests that there is no such thing as 'Hinduism', there is only 'Dharma'.
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About the author
Chaturvedi Badrinath was born in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh. A philosopher, he was a member of the Indian Administrative Service, 1957-89, and served in Tamil Nadu for thirty-one years (1958-89). He was a Homi Bhabha Fellow from 1971 to 1973. As a Visiting Professor at Heidelberg University, 1971, he gave a series of four seminars on Dharma and its application to modern times. Invited by a Swiss foundation, Inter-Cultural Cooperation, he spent a year in Europe in 1985-86. In 1985 he was a main speaker at the European Forum, Alpbach, Austria, and at a conference of scientists at Cortona, Italy. From 1989 onwards, for four years, the Times of India published his articles on Dharma and human freedom every fortnight. He was a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, during 1990-92. He was one of the two main speakers at Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace conference, 1994, Seoul, South Korea. In 1999, at Weimar, he gave a talk on Goethe and the Indian Philosophy of Nature; and contributed to an inter-religious conference at Jerusalem with the Dalai Lama. He was one of the two main speakers at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation symposium on 'civilizational dialogue', Tokyo, 2002. Chaturvedi Badrinath's other published books are Dharma, India and the World Order: Twenty-one Essays (1993), Introduction to the Kama Sutra (1999), Finding Jesus in Dharma: Christianity in India (2000), and The Mahabharata-An Inquiry into the Human Condition (2006). He lives in Pondicherry and can be reached at [email protected].
