This volume situates Indians in the contemporary world and
profiles the major facets of their thought and behaviour; then goes
back to trace their roots to ancient thought to see how the past
predisposes and the present guides Indians in their everyday life.
The volume begins with a conceptual framework showing how the
Indian worldview has encompassed and enveloped a variety of ideas
and influences from divergent sources. As a result, Indians are
both collectivists and individualists, hierarchically oriented
while respecting merit and quality, religious as well as secular
and sexually indulgent, spiritual as well as materialists,
excessively dependent but remarkably entrepreneurial, non-violent
in principle but violent in practice and comfortable in shifting
between analytical, synthetic as well as intuitive approaches to
reality. Such a coexistence of opposites often causes inaction,
hesitation and perfunctory action, but also equips Indians to be
innovative by continuously aligning their thought and behaviour to
the demands of a milieu. The milieu has an inner layer consisting
of "desh" (place), "kaal" (time) and "paatra" (person), which are
embedded in the larger societal contexts of castes and classes,
poverty, corruption, fragmenting politics, conflicts and violence
and unfolding global opportunities and challenges. Cultural
heritage permeates in all these. Indians function in this tiered,
multifactorial, dynamic space.
This volume draws evidence from ancient texts and the latest
national and international research, many of which were conducted
by the author and his associates. It does not, however, hesitate to
indulge in anecdotal evidence, cases and speculative ideas in order
to complete the picture. The author takes an in-depth view of the
Indian mindset without getting the reader lost in either the
intricacies of ancient philosophical abyss or the trivialities of
present-day non-events."
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