Sarkar, Anil Kumar. Dynamic Facets of Indian Thought, 4 vols. New Delhi: Manohar, 1980-1988.

Abstract

This work, projected in four volumes, presents Indian thought in development from an inter-cultural perspective. The writer suggests that Indian thought is never a single or simple idea but a complex frame of reference. It is not the deliberative processes of a series of thinkers in sequence as in the case of Western thought since the Greeks, but is a complex exchange of insightful and disciplined experience of Aryans who migrated into India with a culture of their own with indigenous people of India who were equally civilized. Indian thought has thus developed against the background of a continuous process of three currents of thought - (1) of Vedic-Aryan immigrants, (2) of the indigenous tradition of Jainas, (3) of the Buddhists who emerged after the Buddha's protest against the deliberations of Upanishadic thinkers. This work is therefore not a work of an exclusive cultural process which is Indian but an attempt to integrate the goals of the entire thinking community.