About the Book: Indras Net
It is fashionable among intellectuals to assert that dharma traditions lacked
any semblance of unity before the British period, and that the contours of
contemporary Hinduism were bequeathed to us by our colonial masters. Such
arguments routinely target Swami Vivekananda, a key interlocutor who shattered
many deeply rooted prejudices against Indian civilization. They accuse him of
having camouflaged various alleged contradictions within traditional Hinduism,
and charge him with having appropriated the principles of Western religion to
manufacture a unified world view and a set of practices known today as Hinduism.
Rajiv Malhotra offers a systematic rejoinder to such views and articulates the
holographic understanding