About the Book: Alternative Standpoints: A Tribute to Kalidas Bhattacharyya
The anthology Alternative Standpoints: A Tribute to Kalidas Bhattacharyya is a
tribute to Prof. Kalidas Bhattacharyya, the eminent thinker of twentieth-century
India, on his birth centenary by his students. A distinguished philosopher and
an academician, Prof. Bhattacharyya presented philosophy in an original way with
scientific spirit. He was essentially a metaphysician and his metaphysics was
deeply rooted in the traditions of Advaita Vedanta and Shaivism. His ultimate
concern was to present a theory of freedom and a theory of the possibility of
realizing that freedom. In this collection eminent scholars have written on
different aspects of his philosophy.