12.30.07
Role of the Bhagavad Gita in Indian History
Here is a rare and little known work on Indian religious history, with data below:Library of Congress page for Role of the Bhagavad Gita in Indian History
In light of the previous post by James this is a work that will clarify matters considerably, if you can ever catch up with it! Written by a leftist determined to expose the stifled history here it depicts the saga in terms of a Buddhist revolution emerging from the Axial Age, attempting to reform the legacy of Vedic sacerdotalism and Brahmin caste, confronting the neo-Brahmin reaction in the period ca. the time of Christianity, and the subsequent emergence of the Gita as reactionary counterrevolutionary propaganda, with the triumph over Buddhism and its destruction proceeding apace into the medieval period.
The book is quirkly, yet solid, but deserves some amplification from conventional scholarship, if only someone thereto associated determines to speak the truth of that history.
It is important to see that the New Age Indian religion we see now with its gurus and ashrams is silent about this history, and no student should get lost in this world without information about what it is really about, so sanitized for liberal westerners.
LC Control No.: 75904001
Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal Name: Bazaz, Prem Nath.
Main Title: The role of Bhagavad Gita in Indian history / Prem Nath Bazaz.
Edition Information: 1st ed.
Published/Created: New Delhi : Sterling Publishers, 1975.
Description: xii, 747 p. ; 23 cm.
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CALL NUMBER: DS423 .B34
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