Swimming upstream : Laxmanshastri Joshi and the evolution of modern India / Arundhati C. Khandkar and Ashok C. Khandkar.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199098279 (ebook) :Subject(s): Joâsåi, Lakshmaònaâsåastråi | Statesmen -- India -- Biography | Brahmans -- Biography | India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947
| India -- Politics and government -- 1947-Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199495153DDC classification: 954.035092 LOC classification: DS481Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Laxmanshastri Joshi was a brahmin scholar and a passionate champion for religious and social reform. Unlike most brahmins, he went against the grain, helping Gandhi overcome the powerful upper caste Indians and helped bringing Dalits into the Indian mainstream. With courage and civility, he spoke out against Hindu orthodoxy, pointing to the heterodoxy and polemical debate in the immense sweep of Hindu religion. Like Tagore, he was one of India's renaissance men. 'Swimming Upstream' traces Laxmanshastri's life of scholarship, courage, his steadfast humanity, and his role in the making of a free, secular, modern, and democratic India.
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This edition also issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Laxmanshastri Joshi was a brahmin scholar and a passionate champion for religious and social reform. Unlike most brahmins, he went against the grain, helping Gandhi overcome the powerful upper caste Indians and helped bringing Dalits into the Indian mainstream. With courage and civility, he spoke out against Hindu orthodoxy, pointing to the heterodoxy and polemical debate in the immense sweep of Hindu religion. Like Tagore, he was one of India's renaissance men. 'Swimming Upstream' traces Laxmanshastri's life of scholarship, courage, his steadfast humanity, and his role in the making of a free, secular, modern, and democratic India.
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