Indian philosophy is wrongly taken to be idealistic in nature. Book on contemporary Indian philosophy also display the same bias. They deal with philosophers belonging to only the theistic or absolutistic tradition. Generally we find in them philosophers like Aurobindo, Ramakrishna, Vivekanand, Dayanand, Ram Teertha, Raman Maharshi, Gandhi, Tagore, Radhakrishnan and K.C. Bhattacharya. Such a treatment according to me, presents a lop-sided picture of contemporary Indian philosophy. The purpose of this book is to eliminate this defect by presenting the contemporary Indian humanist tradition. |
