Who wrote the bhagavadgita?: a secular inquiry into a sacred text (Record no. 179876)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789351361657 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 294.5924 DES |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | "Desai, Meghnan" |
| 9 (RLIN) | 5445 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Who wrote the bhagavadgita?: a secular inquiry into a sacred text |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Noida |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | HarperCollinds |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2014 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | "xiii, 192" |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | A humanist critique of the Gita, 'the most influential work in Indian thought' The Gita is an evolving response which deals with the conflicts between Veda and Vedanta and then with the challenge posed to Vedanta by Buddhism. Its shift to Bhakti is the climax of the battle between Brahmanism and Buddhism. There are probably multiple authors of the Gita as shown by stylistic changes and the frequent shift of subject matter. For Meghnad Desai, Gita is a secular text, a result of human creation over several centuries. He also contends that some themes in the Gita reinforce social inequality and lack of concern for the other and to that extent he finds Gita to be toxic. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | "Bhagavadgita - Criticism, Interpretation, etc." |
| 9 (RLIN) | 5446 |
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| Not Missing | Dewey Decimal Classification | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2020-02-08 | 1 | 294.5924 DES | 160680 | 2025-09-05 | 2024-09-02 | 2024-09-02 | 2020-02-08 | Books |