# The Meaning of India

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- Authors: [Raja Rao](https://www.bookquiver.com/raja-rao)
- Language: en_IN
- Published: 2020-08-01

## Description

First published in 1996 when he was eighty-eight years old, this selection of nearly six decades of Raja Rao’s non-fiction is an audacious contemplation on the deeper significance of India. A combination of fables, journeys, discussions and meditations, The Meaning of India advances the view that India is not just a geographical entity, or even a civilization-state. India is, above all, a metaphysic, a way of being and regarding the self and the world. Drawing on a wide range of sources-including the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Gita, the Buddha, Sankara, Bhartrihari, Kalidasa, Dostoevsky, Valéry, Rilke, Mann and Mallarmé-as also meetings with Gandhi, Nehru, Forster and Malraux, Rao teases out the implications of Advaita or non-dualism, which he regards as India’s unique contribution to the world.

## Editions

### The Meaning of India

- Publisher: india_penguin_modern_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4344-860-0
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2020-08-01
- Language: en_IN