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Introduction
The Cultural Heritage of India, sponsored by the Ramakrishna Mission Institute
of Culture, is at once a symbol of the renaissance of Hindu thought and ideals
and a treasure-house of ancient lore. The whole range of Indian civilization and
the variegated products of Hindu culture have been reviewed in its several
volumes dealing with the religions, philosophies, literature, and the arts and
sciences of India from the twilight past to the present day.
The admitted achievements of India in the directions of assimilation,
adaptation, and synthesis of diverse, and even conflicting, points of view, will
be illustrated by the movements recorded in these volumes. The religious,
artistic,